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Summary: The BEST [money] I ever spent!
Review: I highly recommend this book to all sleep deprived parents. My daughter slept through the entire night in less than a week!
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Summary: Ferber teaches parents to be selfish and cruel
Review: Dr. Ferber uses sensible sounding language to convince parents it's actually healthy to ignore their instincts and their child. A doctor in his position should know better. After following his advice to a T, it took two weeks for my infant daughter to allow me out of her sight for fear I would not return when she needed me. Babies communicate through crying and are otherwise helpless to explain their needs. As parents it is our job to listen, even when we are exhausted, even when it is inconvenient.Dr. William Sears is a much more compassionate source of effective solutions to the same problems. He gathered his information through both first hand experience (he's the father of six children) and by listening to parents whose children he treated. He is also Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. Dr. Sears' methodology is this, to quote him, "A child who feels right acts right and is a joy to parent. I want you as parents to enjoy your child." Dr. Ferber is from the "children should be seen and not heard" school of thought. Should these two doctors ever debate their ideas and their results, Dr. Sears will come out on top. Mothers I know who swear by Dr. Sears have happier babies than those who use Dr. Ferber. Their behavior reflects it: They are self confident, respectful, and laugh easily. Dr. Ferber, I had a child to love her, not ignore her.
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Summary: Highly recommend this book
Review: My son who is 9 months old was wakeing every 2 hours and his naps were every 3 hours for 45 minutes each during the day. He was miserable and so was I. We are 4 days into it and he is sleeping through the night and takeing 2 2 hours naps and he is a much happier baby and iam a much happier mom. This isnt for everyone or every baby. I wasnt going to do the "cry it out" method but after reading this book and understanding why my son needs sleep iam happy we did do it! Alot of people against it feel you are emotionally hurting your child but i beleave if my son is happier getting more sleep how am i hurting him? I wont lie it isnt an easy thing to listen to them cry thinking all they are saying is i want my mommy/daddy,but when he wakes up happy with that big smile for me i know im doing something right! Always follow your instincts and if this isnt right for you then dont do it YOU know what is best for your baby no doctor/author knows what is best for YOUR baby.
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Summary: Ferber is God!!!
Review: We adopted a child from Korea two months ago. Even at the age of 7 months, he was waking 4 to 5 times a night and would only go back to sleep with intensive soothing and a bottle. "Sleep deprived" does not adequately describe our state. We felt defeated and out of control. Our pediatrician gave us Ferber's book and in 3 days our son was sleeping through the night and even began taking regular naps. _Solve Your Child's Sleep Problem_ has had more impact on my life than any other book I have ever read including the one I wrote! If I met Ferber, I would kneel down before him and shout, "I'm not worthy!"
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Summary: Ferber: Read, and Believe, and Thou Shalt Be Saved.
Review: As a mother of three children, all of whom come from a family that, by nature, sleeps lightly and little, I had my work cut out for me. But thank heaven for Dr. Ferber, whose intelligence, scientific diligence and plain old common sense gave us the deeper understanding of the sleep process we needed to make it all work. This book is worth more than all other parental advice books put together. We couldn't have survived without it. I pity those parents who lived in the Dark Ages B.F. (before Ferber).
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Summary: Having read numerous books on the subject, this one is best.
Review: After 9 months of allowing our daughter to sleep with us in our bed, my husband and I decided it was time to transition her to her own crib/room. We were apprehensive about doing this, since past tries when she was younger had produced no results. Dr. Ferber's book provided us with the information and confidence we needed. He provides excellent examples of other parents and children who have struggled with this scenario and includes specific and detailed approaches to teach you to teach your child how to fall asleep and stay asleep on his/her own. He also discusses strategies for day-time naps and the importance of developing good sleep patterns. I purchased several books on the subject and found Dr. Ferber's to be the most informative and well-written. His methods are by no means cruel or insensitive, in fact, we were able to stay sane while implementing them and found they worked wonders for our situation. A must-read if you are having the same troubles.
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Summary: This book was a sanity saver!
Review: We bought this book when our child was 3.5 months old. He had slept through the night once so we knew he was capable. However, we couldn't get him to sleep without rocking him and then sneaking him into his crib. Dr. Ferber's book explained why what we were doing was wrong and how it was effecting our son and what we could do to correct it. He now goes down on his own without a paci and minimal fuss.
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Summary: This is an excellent resource for sleep deprived parents!
Review: Ferber's How to Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems is an excellent resource for parents in need of a good night's sleep. The text is well written and is a quick read, which is key when you're trying to solve a problem. He describes important basic information about sleep and how it affects all humans and then quickly gets into specific scenarios that will help you understand your own child's sleep problems. The scenarios in the book are especially helpful. He does such a good job of describing so many different examples that I felt confident after reading the book that I had discovered which one applied to my daughter. He also gives specific and clear step by step directions on how he recommends to solve the problem. This book was recommended to me by several mother's that had suffered through similar sleepless nights. I had also heard many negative things about the author's approach, specifically that it was too extreme. I disagree with that perspective whole heartedly after reading the text from cover to cover and following the doctor's suggestions. Regardless of opinions, the book is a good research tool if you are trying to understand this important part of your child's early development.
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Summary: My children cried less when I followed Dr. Ferber's method!
Review: As a mother of twins, I had to let 2 babies sleep through the night at the same time. After reading pertinent chapters thouroughly, and checking my instincts, I followed Dr. Ferber's method very closely. In no time at all they were crying less, sleeping more, and I had more energy to love and play with them. They sleep as I write this review. A book to be kept as a reference for years of parenting. Bravo Dr. Ferber.
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Summary: Just what we were looking for!
Review: My doctor recommended this book after my son had been diagnosed by another pediatrician with colic. This book helped my son learn to eliminate feeding during the night gradually and with little crying. Listening to the baby cry was very hard for my husband and I, but it has never taken more than 5-10 minutes for my son to fall asleep. Now at 5 months he sleeps through the night with no crying when he is put in his crib. I would highly recommend this book to parents before they give birth, thus eliminating the mistakes we make as parents to cause sleep problems in our children.
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