When Poppy is on the breast or feeding from the bottle she has the tendency to fall asleep whilst doing so, presumably due to the soothing feeling of being against mums warm skin and from having something teat-like in her mouth. That way we could keep our entire day on track and not have it adjusted according to how his night went. Fully updated and with helpful input from clients, readers and mothers who simply love her routines, “The New Contented Little Baby Book” gives reassuring and practical advice to new parents that works from one of the UK’s most respected and most talked about maternity nurses.

The book might be 50 pages shorter if the author cut out all of the sentences which contain the phrase, "if people followed my routines properly. She is one scary woman-- she advocates running a newborn baby's routine like the way you would run the military or boot camp. This book is the reason I have three children you all sleep pretty well and certainly better than most children I know. While I was in hospital midwives advised giving water in a bottle to baby so he would not become dehydrated and it was the midwives that gave him his first bottle of formula because he wouldn’t breastfeed.

it was a great relief to flick through at 3am when you were trying to remind yourself what you had to do next. When my first child was born he started crying and cried for 4 weeks until someone gave me this book and I started following Gina’s routine. I have a 4 month old baby boy, and I am constantly receiving compliments about how happy, contented and well behaved he is. Mention this book to a parent or family member and you can almost guarantee they will have an opinion, whether they have read it or not. One other thought about this: books that sell in the millions have often been bought by a significant number of people who really hate them.

I look back on my BGE (Before Gina Era) and think of how many of my babies has cried and cried as I ever more desperately struggled to get them to sleep.

What I can say about the above regime and from my own very limited experience is that within reason you can pick and choose the bits that work for you. The other big plus for parents following my routines is that they have free time in the evening to relax and enjoy each other’s company.