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Summary: This was the most useful baby book I used!
Review: My little girl began sleeping through the night on her own at about 2 and one half months of age. She then became ill and was up at night getting medication and such. When she recovered from her illness (3 months later), my husband and I were dismayed to learn she had forgotten how to sleep through the night! We were also adamantly opposed to the idea of our first born child crying herself to sleep. This wonderful book allowed us to see the benefits of healthy sleep habits and reminded us that we were not ignoring our child by letting her cry but teaching her important self-soothing skills. We know the difference in cries from when they are trying to get our attention vs. when something's wrong. The first night we tried the book's advice on "extinction" she only fussed and cried for 45 minutes and ever since she has gone to bed at 7:30pm with no tears and we don't hear from her until 7:30 am. This is 12 hours of sleep on her own! WHAT A MIRACLE! I wanted to personally thank Dr. Weisbluth. I've had to buy this book twice because I keep loaning out my copy.
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Summary: The most important book a new parent can own.
Review: In our house, we simply call this "The book"; it's my standard present to everyone I know who becomes a parent. As a new parent, it's all too easy to assume that when your baby or toddler is tired, they'll sleep, and that the more tired they are, the better they'll sleep. It may seem counter-intuitive, but this is dead wrong. I found this book when my first child was eight months old and had recently undergone a change of personality; my sweet, easy baby who could play by himself for long stretches had become demanding, needing to be constantly amused and diverted. He matched Dr Weissbluth's description of a chronically sleep-deprived child perfectly. I gritted my teeth and tried Weissbluth's advice, and magically had my easy baby back again. We've followed the advice of "the book" with each of our three children now, and by 8:00 every night they are all peacefully asleep, with not a peep out of them until the next morning. I've read many books related to childcare. This is the only one I believe in 100 percent. Throw out what everyone else has to say about sleep (even Dr. William Sears, whose approach I otherwise whole-heartedly endorse) and buy this book and follow its advice. You'll be grateful you did for years to come.
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Summary: I LOVE this book- it works!
Review: If you buy just one book it should be this one. The suggestions are easy to implement and really work. I thought my baby had "colic" and didn't know what to do so I tried everything. I read this book in one sitting, got up, put her to bed per the good Doctor's instructions, and like magic, no more "colic"! The poor kid was just plain exhausted. Every time I let someone pooh pooh me into letting her miss "just one little nap" she and I pay dearly. I also like the fact that the author backs up his ideas with lots of data.
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Summary: Our Favorite Book Thus Far
Review: I know that everybody wants to throw advise onto new parents. But, we *happened* upon this book and it was wonderful for our family. Weisbluth explains the biology of sleep first, which then helps you understand the necessity of a child *learning* to fall asleep. Our three- month old child is doing so well now. And is SO incredible happy in the mornings! We race to her at 7:00am to see her smiles! I know that a lot of parents think that it is cruel to leave your baby to cry to go to sleep. Our baby cried 40 minutes the first night and it nearly made me crazy. The second night, she cried for 5 minutes. Then, since, she rarely cries at all. You are not a bad person if you let your baby cry because he or she is tired. You are helping to teach the child how to fall asleep on his/her own. Good luck to all of you! And, pleasant dreams!
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Summary: What every parent should read!
Review: This book helped me to provide quality sleep for my child
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Summary: This book changed my life as a parent!!
Review: I highly recommend this book for parents who are exhausted from trying to get their kids to sleep! I have used Dr. Weissbluth's method with my 3-month old son, and he goes to sleep SO much easier than my first child ever did. The book also helped me to reverse the bad sleep habits that my 2 1/2 year old had gotten into. I now can put my two children to bed early and enjoy a relaxing evening, knowing that they are getting the rest they need. If you're afraid or feel terrible letting your child cry (as I did), please read this book. It's not all about crying. This book is so helpful. It has changed my entire thinking about sleep, and my children's needs regarding sleep. We're all much happier and well-rested thanks to Dr. Weissbluth!
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Summary: You have to read this if you're not sleeping at night!!!!
Review: This book is a "must-read" for anyone having problems with their child's sleeping. I never knew that my baby was so overtired that it was keeping him awake at night until I read Dr. Weissbluth's book. I found the book to be clearly written and gave me enough explanation to get me started on finding a "cure" for the sleeplessness my son had. I will be forever grateful that my doctor recommended it!!
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Summary: Change YOUR behavior: let the baby cope. NO EXCUSES!
Review: "Just Do It." This book is for parents finding confusing, competing messages on sleep habits from various news sources or the parent who wonders where sleep fits in with today's multiple priorities pulling the family in too many directions. "Just Do It" - organize your life around the baby's sleep schedule, put him/her to sleep on time all the time, trust your baby's ability to adapt and DO NOT reinforce any negative sleep behaviors are the messages you get. For the parent who puts his/her priorities first, read this: the Doc says YOU need to adjust YOUR life to the baby's sleep rhythm. YOU need to put the baby to sleep on time all the time and stick with it. YOU need to stop reinforcing the bad time standoffs. YOU need to make things SIMPLER. Just put that baby to bed often. If you can't you are your child's worst enemy because you can't set priorities, you are encouraging many indirectly related behavioral problems and stunting his IQ. Sleep is prerequesite for a smart, bubbly child. Why is the book 200+ pages? Because Dr. Weissbluth has to break down the competing messages and through our stubborness. We parents hear only what we want to hear, rationalize away our own responsibility and ignore simple clear messages from medical science. Dr. Weissbluth's book is the bullhorn and loudspeaker through the fog of mini-articles in your newspaper and home magazines. "Put that baby to bed and let that baby learn how to put him/herself to sleep! NOW!" he bellows in a soft, scientific and articulate way. The book's structure of winding three themes running together is not the best. But the three themes work together: 1. research backing up the "put her to bed and walk away" method, 2. blowing out some of the common nonsense floating about and 3. touchy feely anecdotal stories proving he has seen it all and the prescpription is the same: put that baby to sleep now trust your baby's ability to cope. STOP encouraging bad behavior using non-emotional and non-confrontative responses. For those who don't believe numbers, the anecdotal stories from patients who become converts strike home. Each stories is backed by research to strike home with his hammer: you are the parent, you are responsible to make sure the baby way too much sleep ON TIME every time. Excuses like Dads working late, family visitors and other "important" events are shot dead with his silver bullet: research showing your baby can and will sleep if YOU can just get your behavior in order. Goodnight, sleep tight.
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Summary: Great resource and information when used appropriately.
Review: We used the family bed and other very soft methods of getting our daughter to sleep (Sears) until she started to wake much more frequently to nurse (every 1-2 hours at 8-10months). I knew this was too often. When I read the data in the book about total numbers of sleep hours required (she had also had many colds in a row), I knew we had to try something. At 11 months we set up a night vision video camera in her room and did what the book said. It was a tough several days, and it probably took another month or two to get the nap routine really down (inconsistent caregiver techniques), but almost immediately she was sleeping from 8-6. It's been 5 months, and except for minor teething and illness waking, its been great. I don't regret the family bed. It was a special time for us. But when things didn't work, this book really helped us out. She's been well rested and healthy for months now. If it's time for a change from the family bed, I reccomend this technique. Our night vision camera (and the older age of our daughter) made it obvious to us what was going on in her mind. She did learn to sleep and now will often smile at me and even kiss me through the bars of the crib before I leave the room. She's happy and she knows I will see her in the morning. Good luck!
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Summary: Very helpful to the new parent
Review: As new parents, our first child had colic, which is very tough. This book helped us tremendously. First, it helped us to understand what was going on with our child and not to feel like failures because we could not solve it. Second, the book gave us very practical and very loving guidelines as to how to each our little girl to sleep. Of course we adapted what we read, but the book gave us a very important structure on a topic that is very tough for the new parent.
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