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Summary: Excellent ideas!
Review: My three-month old baby had a "hiccup" in his good sleep habits when we went on vacation, which is why I bought this book. Even for those who aren't having tons of trouble, it's an awesome book, filled with new ideas and solutions. We've been able to use some ideas to help our baby nap better. The best part is, unlike many parenting books, it's not condescending to those who aren't breastfeeding or co-sleeping! I recommend this to all my friends with babies. It's a great book with ideas to help EVERYONE, even if your baby is sleeping good.
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Summary: The best sleep book written.
Review: I wish I would have bought this [sleep book] first. As the author explains in her introduction, and as it obvious to those of us who have studied the topic, she read every sleep book out there and spent countless hours visiting parenting web sites, chat lines and boards dedicated to sleep issues. She culled out the most important things to know and summarized them in this book. Then she gathered all the gentle sleep ideas (those that don't include crying) that she could find and organized them in a way that allows you to pick the ones that best suit your family. Co-sleeeping? Crib sleeping? Bottle-feeding? Breastfeeding? Only child? Many children? The author covers all these categories with concrete ideas without dictating or judging what your family does. She guides you through the process with logs and charts and encouraging words and helps you identify the things that are standing in your way of better sleep. I've talked to people who see results in a week, and some who take several months to get to a full night's sleep - but they all seem very happy with their own personal results, since every baby is different and parents have different approaches too. Read the excerpts given on this site and those on the author's web site and you'll get a good overview of the ideas presented in the book. An excellent book on the topic of babies and sleep!
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Summary: Our baby is sleeping and so are we!
Review: After a year of being up all night with our baby and trying to be patient and wait for her to start to sleep all on her own we gave up and decided we need to do something. I bought several books about sleep and this is the one that made the most sense and helped us to get our baby to sleep all night and nap better too. We don't believe in letting babies cry it out so we had no interest in any book that recommended it. Most of the others that don't recommend crying don't have any solutions except to be patient but we were patient for long enough. I found this book easy to read and easy to understand. It has so many different ideas that I think every family can find solutions to their own sleep issues. It has ideas for newborns and ideas for older children too. It's worth every penny we paid for it and we plan to use it as a guide for our next baby right from the beginning.
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Summary: The No-Sleep Cry Solution
Review: Thats what my husband started calling it. I was a dedicated follower of attachment parenting from the birth of my baby until she was 6 months. When my baby was five months old, someone at an attachment parenting meeting recommended this book. After following Pantley's method for one month, my baby was sleeping for 30 minute stretches and waking up screaming. This just didn't work for us. Also, it's badly written and has that opening chapter of emotion guilt-garbage. How can you subject a sleep deprived parent to pages of circular and self-referencial emotional arguments? Now that's cruelty. I do feel that the emphesis on scheduling might be enough to help a great number of people. It's no miracle, however. I found attachment parenting to be beautiful and natural, I found attachment parents to be overly focused on their self-definition. Do what works for you, what feels right. Integrate different wisdom for many sources. And don't be afraid to change your parenting style mid-stream.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: A welcome alternative to the awful 'parent directed' technique. This book does not offer a quick fix, and thank goodness, they don't last! This is a sound guide to finding the path that is right for each baby and specific situations.
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Summary: Terrific Book!
Review: This book is SUPER!! I am a physician assistant, retired assistant professor of pediatrics, and a certified HypnoBirthing® childbirth educator and have spent my entire career working with parents and children. I am very much a proponent of gentle, natural, attachment parenting, and this book is very complimentary to that parenting style. It is an excellent resource, and I heartily recommend it to all parents.
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Summary: If you want sleep without tears - read this book!
Review: I have a fantastic baby boy - but he refused to sleep! He was up every couple of hours breastfeeding through the night. The only suggestions I ever got was to let him cry it out. I couldn't & wouldn't do it. Then I chanced on this book. What a life saver. There are no overnight solutions but now he goes down to bed at 7pm - we have an hours pre bedtime routine and then I put him into his bed and he goes off to sleep on his own. He is up once now in the middle of the night - and just for ten minutes. What a huge difference this has made to me. And all with no tears. I loved this book so much as it didn't dictate or make judgements over sleep arrangments. It just gave lots of ideas and helped me develop a plan that got my wee boy - and me - sleeping. It shows that you really can teach a child good sleep habits without letting him suffering. A great lessons for all parenting!!
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Summary: It works!!!
Review: After nursing and co-sleeping with our Baby from birth to 12 wks, transitioning to a crib was NOT going well. He would wake every hour OR LESS looking for the comfort of Mommy. My husband and I refused to let our son "cry it out". I read this book in one sitting and decided something had to be better than what we were doing. Although I did NOT take the time to log everything the author suggests, I did make mental notes to myself and kept track of our progress. After only a few days, our son started sleeping from 8pm-5am with two 15 min awake period for feeding. Now, after only 3.5 weeks of putting to use the suggestions in this book, he sleeps from 6:30pm to 6:30am with only ONE awakening for food....that's 12 hours with only ONE time up in the night! Our Baby is happy, healthy, and "sleeps like a Baby"...so does Mommy and Daddy!! AND...most importantly...all of this was accomplished without a single tear thanks to "The No-Cry Sleep Solution"!!
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Summary: Sleeping 12 hours, need I say more?
Review: My baby was waking up 6 to 8 times a night. Everyone told me to use controlled crying but I couldn't do it. This book taught me everything I needed to know to teach my baby how to sleep WITHOUT ANY CRYING. I was a skeptic, but a desperate skeptic, so I got the book and followed the plan. I love the step by step instructions and that it gives you just enough information to put together your own plan for sleep. It took us 3 months to get to 12 hours of sleep, but my friends baby is still waking 6 to 8 times a night and her baby is much older than mine. What's 3 months if it means a full nights sleep for everyone without any crying involved. I'm a believer!
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Summary: It works when you follow the ideas
Review: A bunch of us from my support group got this book and tried it. We talked about it alot. Those of us who had the best success actually did the logs and wrote out our sleep plan like the book tells you too. The people who had the most problems didn't do it. They just read the book and used some of the ideas. I think that you should follow the book just like its written because thats when it works. It takes some work at first but when your baby is sleeping 10 hours at night you'll see that its worth every minute you put into it.
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