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Summary: Let's begin healthy sleep habits in our babies.
Review: I am pleased to announce that amazon.com will carry my new book Sweet Baby How To Soothe Your Newborn and a new CD, Sweet Baby Lullabies To Soothe Your Newborn. This new book focuses on the first several months and discusses soothing techniques to calm fussy babies and how to establish a foundation for healthy sleep habits. The CD is a collection of selected lullabies that will calm babies and older siblings(and parents!). According to parents who have received the CD as a gift before the baby was born, the songs were calming even then.
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Summary: Worked wonders
Review: This book will be tough for some people to use: it takes a firm stand on putting your child down to sleep when sleep is needed, even if your child doesn't want to sleep. IF YOU CAN GET OVER THIS, THE BOOK WILL DO WONDERS FOR YOU! You, and your baby, will sleep at night, and your baby will wake up rested and happy.We see friends who's babies are grumpy all the time and need constant high energy entertainment. The parents say, "We would never let our baby cry itself to sleep." What they don't see is that their baby is so grumpy and sad due to sleep deprivation discomfort. The entertainment their baby seems to need so badly is *distraction* from its discomfort. Why wouldn't the baby just go to sleep then if sleep is what it needs they ask. Answer: 1) Connecting sleepyness and sleeping is a learned response. 2) Baby needs to sleep, but wants to visit. Baby doesn't know her discomfort is FROM visiting (and hence not sleeping). Sorry if this has been rambling. Bottom line: Buy or borrow this book, and follow its advice. It has helped my family immesurably.
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Summary: Baby sleeps, you sleep and the entire family is happy!
Review: A friend gave us this book and we set it aside as Dr. W. believes that until a child is four months old, natural sleep rythms guide napping and nighttime sleep. We picked it up when our daughter was three months old and have followed his advice to the letter. Our daughter, at nearly 8 months, takes two, 2-3 hour naps, goes to bed at 7:30 and sleeps until 6 or 6:30. She rarely awakens in the night, and if she does we can link it back to poor napping. Dr. W's advice that young infants need to nap every 2-3 hours works so well that our daycare provider borrowed the book to deal with a child whose parents said he didn't need naps at eight months old. (This little boy demanded to be held all day and fussed even while being held.) Now the little boys naps along with our daughter. And our daycare provider has become the consultant to other daycare providers in the area. She's bought her own copy of the book and believes it works. So do we. We are so thankful someone gave us this gift. Otherwise we would have done as so many couples do and just hauled our daughter around with us as we lived our actives lives, allowing her to catnap in the car or stroller when she had a chance. Every few months we pull the book out to see what stage we are likely to face next and what Dr. W. recommends. He hasn't been wrong yet. Plus, since our baby sleeps so much, her immunities remain strong and she has only had two colds since beginning full-time daycare in September. Now this is our gift of choice for our friends. It is our gift to their baby and to them. Well rested parents make for happy parents!
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Summary: A must for every new parent
Review: I read the first version 11 years ago when our son was born. I have given it to every new parent since. Most helpful to me was the explanation of how babies learn to sleep and what we as parents can do to assist that process. Dr. Weissbluth makes some interesting distinctions about different kinds of sleep - in the crib vs. the car seat or stroller for instance. The text is highly readable; you can pick it up in 5 minute increments or read it straight through.
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Summary: A fantastic resource
Review: I was extremely skeptical when a friend recommended this book and set it aside, at first, with some derision; but when my daughter turned 3 months and began to become more aware of the world, I noticed that she seemed to be fighting sleep. At the same time, I noticed that she was getting extremely crabby, particularly around dinner time, and thought that her changed attitude might be related to her recent sleeplessness. I flipped through the book to see if Dr. Weissbluth had any advice and found a chapter on formerly easy babies that turned cranky at 3 months. From that point, I was hooked - I'd found someone who described my daughter exactly and clearly understood what she was going through. And though I generally buy-in to the current philosophy of empowering our children, I agreed that with regard to sleep, my daughter needed to learn to do what was best for her, not necessarily what she wanted. All it took was 2 days of letting my daughter cry herself to sleep at naptime (generally for less than half an hour)and soon she herself began to sleep through the night. She has been a great sleeper and a wonderful, happy baby (at all hours of the day) ever since. In no way do I think Dr. Weissbluth's methods are cruel. In fact, his book has forced me as a mother to become more in tune with my baby's needs - since I watch her, not a clock, to determine when she needs a nap - and to structure my schedule around her need to be in a quiet crib two to three times per day. It has also taught me the valuable lesson that firmly and lovingly setting limits can be the best gift you can ever give to your baby. I strongly recommend this book to all new parents - it has been our greatest discovery to date.
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Summary: Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child-Really Happy Parents!
Review: After 8 weeks of getting up twice a night and seldom napping, our son was sleeping through the night and taking regular naps within a week. Dr. Weissbluth's research and suggestions are 100% on target. Our son is now 18 months old and tells us with a simple "Night-Night" when he wants to take a nap or go to bed. He loves being in his crib and enjoys going to sleep. Those that criticize the book either didn't read it thoroughly or gave up before the end of the magical "3 days". Letting our son learn to put himself to sleep was not easy, (does ANYONE like to hear a baby crying?) but it is probably one of the wisest things we have done. And it certainly is easier than many of the things we will have to teach him over the next several years. While Dr. Weissbluth's advice was tremendously helpful, it is sometimes difficult to discern exactly what recommendation he makes for which age group.
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Summary: The Greatest Blueprint to a Happy Life
Review: Dr. Weissbluth has been our pediatrician for both are children starting 10 years ago. As young, first-time parents, his experience and guidance was a gift from above. Both our children were tremendous sleepers within days of following Dr. Weissbluth's "Prescription" of sleep/naps. He is a caring and loving Dr. that loves our kids and all his patients as if they were his own children. To imply that he hates children is laughable! I always have a supply of 4-6 of this book on hand and give it as a gift to friends having children. This book will change your life if you have a child that does not sleep well. God Bless Dr. Weissbluth!
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Summary: This amounts to child cruelty!
Review: We were desperate to get our 18-month-old daughter to sleep better, so against our instincts (she is strong and doesn't give up easily) we tried Dr. Weissbluth's method. It was HORRIBLE. Absoulte hell on earth for everyone, especially our child. At the end of three hours of her screaming and crying and begging for us to help her "mama, daddy, help! Peeze!!!!!" my husband and I loathed ourselves for abandoning our child to this doctor's cruel methods. I was very nearly sick to my stomach, as was our sweet, trusting child. For weeks after this horrid night, she was extremely clingy day and night. She wasn't about to let us abandon her to hell again. We have since learned of much kinder, more natural ways to help a baby sleep. (See works by Dr. William Sears)..She has returned to our family bed, and she wakes up once or twice a night to snuggle or nurse. We've come to learn that this is the way it's been done through history. Through history, and in most other cultures, it's the rare baby who sleeps thru the night. Babies are not cut out to go through the kind of torture the author recommends. Parents: Think of your babies, not just yourselves. You may not see the damage of this kind of terrible abandonment now, but this kind of cruelty must get embedded in the subconscious somewhere. I rue the day we bought this book.
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Summary: Ignores baby's other needs
Review: This book was recommended to me by a neighbor who thought it was strange that my four month old son didn't take naps every day. According to Dr. W., my son should have been taking two or three long naps every single day, and if he didn't, then I was being a bad parent by depriving him of one of his most basic needs. (He seemed healthy and happy to me, but I'm not the sleep expert.) Now, eight months and two "unsuccessful" attempts at this method later, I fully understand that MY baby never needed all those naps that Dr. W. says babies need. I spent so much time worrying and trying to get him to fall asleep when he wasn't tired, because I believed that Dr. W. must know what's best for my baby. Of course that is wrong. He doesn't know my baby and apparently has never met one like him. I agree with Dr. W. that sleep is important, and that parents should not deprive their children of needed sleep just because naptime may be an inconvenience for the parents. But babies also need to play, explore, eat, and cuddle...and parents need to follow their hearts to give their babies a customized blend of all of those things.
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Summary: Great for some people maybe, but not all parents!
Review: The scientific studies are interesting, but any book which doesn't consider the individual child should be read with caution. Dr. Weissbluth seems to think that there is one way to work with a child around sleeping habits. At first, I actually tried his recommendations and only ended up crying and frustrated. I actually almost burned the book, but am against book burning. I was much more relaxed when I realized that books can never tell you how to work with a child. You must use parental instinct. My daughter still does not sleep through the night at 6 months old, and yes, I'm exhausted, but I am going to keep trying to figure out her own needs and patterns and not be binded by one book's strict recommendations.
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