Could baby sleep guru Gina Ford, whose 議論の的になる 90s 調書をとる／予約する 勧めるd parents to let newborns 'cry it out' - and made her a fortune - be making a 復帰 with millennials?

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In the late nineties and 早期に noughties, millions of new parents 世界的な swore that に引き続いて her uncompromising advice had won them the good night's sleep they'd been craving - but just as many others branded baby sleep guru Gina Ford's approach 'cruel' for 示唆するing babies should be left to 'cry it out' for up to 12 minutes.

Now, にもかかわらず 現在の NHS advice 否定するing many of her '会社／堅い-but-fair' methods for helping newborns to learn how to sleep through the night, her techniques are 明らかに making a 復帰, with a fresh 世代 discussing her approach.??

The techniques - 含むing not looking at your baby after 10pm - first caught the UK's attention in 1999, when the Scottish former 私的な maternity nurse dubbed the 'Queen of 決まりきった仕事' 解放（する）d The Contented Little Baby 調書をとる／予約する.

She 支持するd a 厳密に timed 決まりきった仕事 of sleeping and feeding, and, after her techniques spread like wildfire by word-of-mouth, Ford went on to sell millions of copies, and, if 見積（る）s are true, make millions of 続けざまに猛撃するs.

Queen of 決まりきった仕事: Gina Ford's The Contented Little Baby 調書をとる／予約する became a word-of-mouth 攻撃する，衝突する after its 解放（する） in 1999, and while her strict tips are 大部分は 否定するd by 現在の NHS advice, the Scottish ex maternity nurse still has plenty of fans

More 調書をとる／予約するs followed in the 早期に noughties, 焦点（を合わせる）ing on everything from pregnancy to potty training.?

Kate Winslet?and Jamie Oliver's wife Jools were once の中で her celebrity fans, and plenty of parents will still tell you that they raised 'Gina babies', who 栄えるd on 決まりきった仕事.?

Others though, （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 政権 only worked if 'babies are robots' and 示唆するd it was against natural maternal/paternal instinct to not soothe your newborn when they're crying.??

Indeed, former 副 総理大臣 Nick Clegg famously said in 2012, evoking the wrath of Ford, that he 辞退するd to use The Contented Little Baby 調書をとる／予約する after trying it with his eldest son Antonio.

He?述べるd how, on one fraught night, he and wife Miriam finally lost patience, 説:?'I will never forget - in the middle of the night Antonio woke up. Miriam said to me, "What does the 調書をとる／予約する say?" I remember 説 to her, "Okay, we have got to stop this. I have subcontracted my parental instincts to this 調書をとる／予約する".'

Ford's first 調書をとる／予約する?The Contented Little Baby 調書をとる／予約する was a word-of-mouth 攻撃する，衝突する and sold millions of copies. 権利: The author said her method could encourage newborns to sleep through the night from eight weeks' old

Ford 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する, telling the Sunday Times later that week:?'Clegg may think that his comments are funny - and indeed they are, as he has just 侮辱d the parenting choice of more than two million 投票者s.'

Now 64, Ford, who?doesn't have children, grew up in the Scottish 国境s and moved to Edinburgh to 熟考する／考慮する Hotel and Catering before working as a 私的な maternity nurse.?During her 12 years in the 職業, Ford looked after 300 babies.?

In 最近の years, she appears to be happy 堅固に under the レーダ, having not 解放（する）d a new 調書をとる／予約する since 2012, although 全世界の 見解／翻訳／版s of The Contented Little Baby 調書をとる／予約する - 含むing in Chinese, Turkish and French - appear to have been republished in 2021 and 2022.?

Nick Clegg said in 2012 he 辞退するd to use Ford's best-selling The Contented Little Baby 調書をとる／予約する because it felt like he'd 'subcontracted my parental instincts' - 誘発するing fury from Ford

Parents of five, Jamie and Jools Oliver, were once fans of Ford's approach, as was Kate Winslet, 権利

An Instagram account that （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to be the 公式の／役人 Gina Ford point of 接触する, but has just over 6,000 信奉者s, 答える／応じるd to an 初期の email from MailOnline but didn't 答える／応じる to a その上の request for an interview.?

However, in spite of no new 調書をとる／予約するs, it seems there's still an enthusiastic に引き続いて amongst millennial parents, who are, like the 世代s before them, desperate to get their children to sleep from eight weeks' old, as Ford's techniques （人命などを）奪う，主張する is possible.?

What 正確に／まさに is her advice? Essentially, the 調書をとる／予約する 支持するs for hard-and-急速な／放蕩な 支配するs, with tips 含むing 確実にするing babies are fed to a strict 時刻表／予定表, not letting them 落ちる asleep while feeding, putting them to sleep in a very dark, 静かな room on their own and waking them before 7am.?

It's in stark contrast to the tips 申し込む／申し出d by the NHS today, which tells new parents to 'carry on feeding until you think your baby has finished or until they're fully asleep. This is a good 適切な時期 to try to get a bit of 残り／休憩（する） yourself.'

どこかよそで, the NHS says not to 'worry about keeping the house silent while they sleep. It's good to get your baby used to sleeping through a 確かな 量 of noise.'

Ford also 示唆するd in her first 調書をとる／予約する that babies should be in their own rooms 'from day one'. The NHS says babies should sleep in the same room as their parents for the first six months of their life to 減ずる the 危険 of SIDS (sudden 幼児 death syndrome).?

In August 2006, parenting website Mumsnet started a discussion 会議 on Ford's methods, with many 高度に 批判的な of her 調書をとる／予約する's advice.??

Ford subsequently took the website to 法廷，裁判所, telling The Mail on Sunday in 2007: 'This had g one on for years on that website and I got fed up with it.'

There were 恐れるs that the 場所／位置 would have to の近くに because it could not afford a 高くつく／犠牲の大きい 法廷，裁判所 戦う／戦い. The two parties reached a 解決／入植地 in 2007.?

So what are modern Mumsnetters 説 about Ford? A 地位，任命する last year, in which a parent asked: 'Does anyone use her 決まりきった仕事s/sleep approach anymore?' 誘発するd mixed 返答s, but there were certainly many fans amongst them.?

One 答える／応じるd: 'GF saved my sanity! I had a good sleeping and feeding 決まりきった仕事 in place by 6 weeks. My DC now teens and appear 井戸／弁護士席 adjusted...so assume not 害（を与える）d by it! Have 示唆するd to younger friends struggling with sleeping to try it.'

Another wrote: 'I know やめる a few parents who were destroyed by the 調書をとる／予約する. It was too prescriptive and those who struggled felt like they failed 完全に because it didn’t work for them.'?