Raising a baby is easy thanks to this super hot method

Lam Giang has applied the EASY cycle, which means Eat - Play - Sleep - Mom relaxes, since Meo was only 5 weeks old.

Phan Nu Lam Giang, a mother born in 1991 in Hanoi, has successfully applied the famous EASY method in Western countries and is "making waves" on many parenting forums. However, Lam Giang said that at first she was quite passive when she was pregnant with her first daughter. She thought that anyway, both sides of the family were close and had the means to help, and if any problems arose, the two mothers would help solve them. It was not until Meo was born that the young mother truly understood the suffering of mothers. After giving birth, her weak body, her fussy baby, and irregular activities made Giang suffer from insomnia, stress, and fatigue. She herself also realized that the traditional way of raising children by mothers had many problems that were not really reasonable and scientific. Therefore, Giang began to learn many different methods to create a routine for her baby.

Giang finds the EASY Tracy Hogg method shared on many forums quite suitable and easy to apply. EASY is an abbreviation for the words: Eat - Activity - Sleep - Your time, which means Eat - Play - Sleep - Mom relaxes. EASY is simply understood as a cycle of activities that repeats over a short period of time from waking up early in the morning until the end of the day of a newborn baby from birth. A baby's day will be a series of repeated EASY cycles. The baby will be fed when he wakes up (E-eat), then the mother lets him play (A-activity), the mother puts the baby down to sleep (S-sleep) and the mother has time to relax (Y-your time). When the baby wakes up, he will continue to enter a new EASY cycle. This repeats over and over again until the baby goes to sleep at night, ending a day for mother and baby.

When playing, Lam Giang often tells stories and sings to her children. In particular, she does not let her children come into contact with electronic devices such as TVs, iPads, and phones.

Giang started training Meo since she was 5 weeks old. According to her, mothers who want to practice the EASY method should start as early as possible, because the older the child, the harder it is to change their habits. First, Giang taught her child to distinguish between day and night. At 7am, she woke her up and took her out to sunbathe. After that, all activities took place in a room with light. At 7pm, she turned off the lights or left the night light dim to help her fall asleep easily. During the first two weeks of practicing EASY, Meo only woke up once for a nighttime meal, whereas before, she woke up three times a night. By the time Meo was 7 weeks old, she slept straight through until 7am the next morning and never woke up for a nighttime meal.

Giang explains: "Each baby, when born, if reaching a weight of 2.7 kg, is completely capable of storing energy to eat every three hours. As the baby gets older, the stomach's capacity also increases, and the mother can feed the baby every four hours. Normally, a 2-month-old baby will follow the EASY 3 regimen, which means every 3 hours a cycle of Eat - Play - Exercise - Mom relaxes is repeated. As the baby gets older, the mother should recognize the signs of change in the baby and adjust accordingly according to the EASY 4, EASY 2-3-4, EASY 5-6 regimens."

Baby Meo is 20 weeks old, weighs 7kg and is 67.3cm tall.

Currently, Meo lives on the EASY 2-3-4 regimen with the following specific schedule:

- 7am: Wake up, after cleaning, have breakfast immediately.
- 7:30-9:00: After eating, the child is allowed to sunbathe and play with his mother.
- 9:00-10:30: Tired from playing, the baby sleeps.
- 10:30: Lunch, play.
- 13:00: Wipe the baby's body.
- 13:30: Sleep for two hours.
- 15:30: Dinner.
- 16:00-17:30: Play.
- 17:30: Mom gently massages the baby.
- 18:30: Take a bath and play before going to bed.
- 19:00: Dinner.
- 19:30: Baby goes to sleep until morning.

Children who apply EASY early can recognize what comes next, because the sequence of all activities never changes, this creates a biological rhythm for the child in the beginning of life. The child feels proactive and confident because he knows that after waking up he can eat, after eating he can play and when tired he can go to sleep.

When mother and child follow EASY, mother does not confuse the signals that the child "sends". Then, mother will know how to respond to each different need of the child. Mother understands the child and the child's needs are respected, both avoid feeding the child intermittently all day because mother is afraid that the child is hungry or wants the child to stop crying. This is also the way that mother can avoid having to force the child to eat.

Lam Giang said that with EASY, she fully felt the joy of motherhood. Her body was not tired and stressed like many other mothers. In particular, if she successfully trained her child with EASY, the child would be obedient at home playing with grandparents, and mothers could confidently return to work.

According to ngoisao.net