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Summary: good nights ..the happy parents guide to the family bed
Review: The book was very unrealistic and did not give an accurate view of the problems that family bedding can cause. Marriages don't seem to have any priority. I didn tlike the rosey view the book gave. Its a good read for fiction, but I wouldnt recommend it as a guide for any family
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Summary: Extremely Helpful!!!!!
Review: This book is a great introduction to the family bed. It includes guidelines for safe co-sleeping, scientific and medical reasons why cosleeping is so good for baby, enjoying a great sex life even during the famiy bed years, and a section on 'trouble shooting' that includes a great explanation of why "crying it out" is a terrible thing to do to babies. It also covers transitioning a baby/child to their own bed and a great section on dealing with criticism from others. It is very "breastfeeding positive" and approaches breastfeeding as the "normal" way to feed babies/toddlers. Some folks have raised a concern over the chapter on helping an older baby/child sleep through the night. This book did include Dr. Jay's "10 nights" plan to get a baby/child over 12 months of age to sleep through the night [for 7 hours]. It is *extremely* well done and the authors make it very clear that they would prefer you just leave the child to his/her own time table and relax about the whole thing. They state clearly that they are only offering this as an alternative for families that are seriously considering 'cry it out' out of desperation and they give a great explanation of why this method is FAR preferable to the Cry It Out stuff. The plan is VERY gentle - the baby/child is never left alone, parents maintain physical and voice contact with baby [first by nursing, after 3 nights cut out nursing but use holding/cuddling, on 7th night don't pick up but touch and rub back while talking soothingly to child, etc]. I think this plan is very in keeping with what is reasonable for a child over 12 months - and very gentle and Attachment Parenting oriented. "Good Nights" is VERY clear that family bed, breastfeeding and constant physical contact for babies are extremely beneficial and desirable and "sleep training" of any kind is strongly discouraged for all children but absolutely discouraged for a baby under 1 year of age. The book also recognizes that children have different temperaments and that parents MUST be able to work with their child's temperament and that this plan might not work for all children and should be _immediately_ abandoned if it seems to be having a detrimental effect on a child. This book is absolutely great and extremely AP. I know several families that have used Dr. Jay's sleep plan with their children and it has worked very, very well for them and for their children. I think it is a very gentle way to encourage less night waking for families who truly are desperate with frequent night waking toddlers. I am extremely reluctant to use any kind of sleep training with my night waking children [I doubt I ever will], but if I did, I would feel good as an AP parent using Dr. Jay's steps. This book is perfect for any family considering Co-Sleeping and would also be wonderful for any family who is rethinking a decision to solitary sleep and/or "cry it out".
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Summary: Amazing Book - Highly Recommend!
Review: This book is a great resource for anyone who is looking for easier nights with a baby/toddler. I wasn't crazy about co-sleeping until the first night we brought the baby home. It was wonderful. This book gives lots of great ideas to make it work better for you. We are happily co-sleeping and I bought the book anyway and read it practically straight through. It has lots of research behind it and makes me feel great about our decision. It also has a lot of information on the transition from co-sleeping to solitary sleeping. Highly recommend!
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Summary: Amazing Book - Highly Recommend!
Review: This book is a great resource for anyone who is looking for easier nights with a baby/toddler. I wasn't crazy about co-sleeping until the first night we brought the baby home. It was wonderful. This book gives lots of great ideas to make it work better for you. We are happily co-sleeping and I bought the book anyway and read it practically straight through. It has lots of research behind it and makes me feel great about our decision. It also has a lot of information on the transition from co-sleeping to solitary sleeping. Highly recommend!
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Summary: A gift from the sleep gods!
Review: This book is just what I've been looking for since our second little fellow decided that life is much better with Mommy and Daddy than alone in his bassinett. I saw one of the authors quoted in Time Magazine a few weeks ago about how children who share a bed with their parents turn out really secure and independent, and I knew this book was for us. I now have the confidence to continue to do what we're doing because the book's combined scientific and commonsense approach has made me realize all the benefits of bedsharing. My husband is happy because he gave a copy to his mother who is now admitting that she let him and his brother share her bed for a couple years when they were born! The pressure is off! It was a fun book to read too, and the drawings are cute. A couple of the tips the authors gave have helped us have a very safe family bed and get a better nights sleep as well. This is a perfect book for any new parent who has any questions about a very nice alternative to the crib.
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Summary: Not much new for co-sleepers
Review: This chatty, cheerleading book on co-sleeping might be great for those contemplating jumping into a "family bed." It doesn't have much to offer to those who are already co-sleeping.
There are two useful sections:
1. a de-bunking of the CPSC report on the dangers of co-sleeping (send to your nervous relatives and critical friends)
2. a step-by-step process for nightweaning a baby who's older than one year old...
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Summary: So helpful
Review: Until I read this book, I was very unconfident in our family's co-sleeping situation. It seemed like everyone in the world except us had babies sleeping through the night in cribs from very early on. I'd read The Family Bed, but it didn't quite do it for me. I even read The No Cry Sleep Solution, but it wasn't right for us either. Since reading Good Nights I've found two other moms who have a family bed, and we have an informal mom's club now! I loaned one the book,and she is almost done, and loves it as much as I did. Mom 3 has ordered her own copy based on what she knows of the book. I can't wait to get mine back! I have been so nourished and bolstered by this book. It contains more excellent information than I ever dreamed was out there. We made our bed safer using the chapter on safety guidelines. After reading the chapter on all the new scientific findings about hte family bed, I'm much more confident that we're doing the right thing. Even naps are getting much easier thanks to this book! I loved the style of the author. Kind of like a wise and funny friend. Some of the anecdotes were a riot. The advice was sage and sound. Everything was very gentle, the book was very easy to get through, even though there were lots of scientific paper citations. I didn't even notice them until the end! I highly reccomend this book to any parent whose baby spends nights in their bed. It seems to have something for every "level" of co-sleeper.
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