The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tears There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving book The… Product details and pricing info |
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684 Customer Reviews Posted
- I'm so thankful for this book!!!
- This book is a great solution to sleepless nights. I luckily found it when my baby girl was only 3 weeks old, so getting her into a routine was a bit easier, but I've stuck with it for the past month and she is only waking up 2 times a night and just to be fed and happily goes back to sleep in her crib! Its wonderful! I think every parent (new or otherwise) should at least try these techniques! I also used the techniques with "heartbeat" rhythm music when she first goes to sleep at night, but only when she isn't going to sleep as easy. Hope this helps all the exhausted parents out there!
- 2008-05-24, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- self-proclaimed parenting expert
- the suggestions are nothing new, by the time you turn to this book you know about routines and bad sleep associations. She starts out with unfounded assumptions of what CIO does to babies, it's her personal opinion, nothing more. Having routines and working on breaking set sleep associations does not make a baby sleep well automatically, they are a start but not the finish for many babies that don't sleep well enough (not just the 4 she had). What I find most bizarre is how she doesn't see how irresponsible and harmful it was for her youngest baby to not get enough sleep for over a year, a year where so much development happens and therefore good sleep habits are critical. So instead of letting him CIO for 3 days so he can get the sleep he needed she let him wake up every hour for 1 year (and sleep in her bed until then, surely not the way to improve anyone's sleep). Sadly, this author exploits parent's desperation and guilt to sell her books and pad herself on the back for being the perfect mother with perfect children and a perfect husband (he's so perfect one of his e-mails is quoted, he must be another expert).
- 2008-05-18, 3 of 14 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great book!
- This book gave me some great suggestions and reinforced some things I was already doing. Personally, I find the cry it out method to be mean, so I was looking for another solution. If you feel the same way, get this book. It will help and has many suggestions depending on what's right for your family.
- 2008-05-15, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- good book
- Has good information but is like all the other sleep books for babies. Must have though :)
- 2008-05-10, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Help for sleep deprived mommies!
- This book has many useful ideas for helping your child to sleep better. It is broken down into ideas for 0-4 months, and 4-months plus. It's an easy read. The author is adamantly opposed to letting your baby "cry it out." Her methods may take longer than the "cry it out" approach, but you can achieve success with them. The book includes logs so that you can really see what your baby is currently doing with his sleeping, and then you can log what happens after a period of time using the author's ideas. I've been working with her suggestions for about 3 weeks and my baby now has a much smoother bedtime routine and naps (with resistance) in his crib when he never would nap there before. So we're still working on it, but I'd say this book has definitely helped!
- 2008-05-06, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
