Healthy Living Books Books

Rating: - Prove the Cry-It-Out method people wrong!!!
My husband and I both work full time. Our son is overall a well rounded baby (personality not body shape). Yes he's fussy, demanding, extremely active (and I do mean extremely), but he's also happy; laughing and smiling all the time. Right now, he wants to be held all the time and some days he's clingy and some days he's not. Bedtime was such a battle. He was fussy, squirmy and pretty much fought his sleep each time I put him down. It would take about an hour to get him to sleep just to wake up again 2 hours later.

1-2 weeks after reading the book, my 8 mos old, who sleep-shared with my husband and I since he was born, started to learn to fall asleep on his own without needing a bottle or to be nursed. The bedtime routine we established (that didn't work before) is now working through the help of the No Cry Sleep Solution book. It was wonderful to put him down still awake and watch him fall asleep without a fight.

3-4 weeks after reading the book, I was able to wean the night feedings.

5-6 weeks after reading the book, I worked on getting him to sleep in his crib. Doing what the book recommended, I set up his environment to what he was used to in our bed. I put him in....and to my surprise, HE DID NOT FIGHT ME. I watched him fall asleep (which was all of 2 minutes) and he stayed asleep all through the night. On weekends, he would wake up in the morning and just sit in his crib and play with his toys. I know because I can hear him playing and the toy jingling through the monitor. Sure he wakes up sometime during the night, but with only a short whimper and he's back asleep even before I walk out of my bedroom (and I am a snap to it mommy...I don't spare a second to go to my baby when he cries).

So many people around us thought for sure we were going to have a hard time getting him to sleep in his crib. We have been finger-wagged so many times from friends and family and kept telling us how we should let him cry it out. When my mother-in-law babysat for us a few nights after my son started sleeping in his crib, she couldn't believe how he went to sleep without a fuss and without a peep. She said she put him in and he was so wide awake and just kept looking around she just kissed him goodnight and walked away. She checked up on him 3 minutes later because she didn't hear a peep from him, and she found that he was already asleep.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. Mostly because it made sense from the first page to the last, and also because it gave me assurance that me not letting my baby cry himself to sleep is better than the cold cry it out method. Also, sleep-sharing had more rewards short and long term than putting a baby in his own cold crib at 3 months.

I am so proud of my son, husband and myself for PROVING EVERYONE WRONG!

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Rating: - the best book on sleep by far.
This book was my best friend when my first daughter wouldn't sleep. Now my second has had sleep problems after illness and after a week of using the ideas in this book she is sleeping well again. Elizabeth Pantley's approach is that of attachment parenting, but unlike many writers on the subject she understands that every family is different, and that a baby can still be 'attached' if mum is bottle feeding or baby is in his/her own room rather than co-sleeping. There are gentle ways of helping your baby to sleep whatever your circumstances, with NO tears or leaving your baby in distress, and lost of advice for mum and dad. If you know someone who is having a baby, buy them this book!

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Rating: - Your babies would definitely recommend it!
Above all this book shows you how to setup the right environment and good long-term habits to help you baby sleep. This is done by describing how your baby works, and what works for babies from practical experience of other mums. Some things will work to you but others will not, and many ideas are commonsense. Hence this is not a recipe for instant success unless you've been doing something very wrong! The approach shows great empathy to babies, but hammers on too much about the drawbacks of "cry-it out solutions.

So why only four starts? After several months of trying everything, our baby had to cry it out for a few nights to give up her dummy - which we always saw coming. Only then did she sleep through the night. But without the rest of the ideas in this book I'm sure giving up her dummy would not have been so easy for her. This book should be mandatory for all new parents.

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Rating: - Absolutely worth the purchase
I decided to purchase this book after my health visitor advised me to use the 'cry it out' method, which i think is the cruelest way to get your child to sleep. The NO cry sleep solution was what me and my partner were looking for. After one night of following the outline the book sets out, our baby slept a full thirteen hours, yep you read it right!!!! We still have some night wakenings but they are around once a night and not many a month. The book is easy to read and understand and keeps you interested throughout. The charts in the book are very useful and easy to fill out and understand. The book gives a full explanation of sleep patterns from adulthood to babies and help you understand why children have different sleep patterns to an adult. The book also helps to establish nap time routines.

It was a help to me and my family and i would recommend it to anyone.

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Rating: - This book can change your life.
I highly recommend this book. As a mother of two, soon to be three, who was walking around in a fog for 17 months after 2nd child's birth, this book is nothing short of a God-send. When we filled out the log that the author recommended, he awoke 8 times, one of which was a 3-hour nursing session. By the third day, he woke up only once after 10 hours of sleep. I was practically dancing all day - so excited about getting sleep. I've read so many books that promise to change your life, but this one actually delivers. The author has been where we are and her advice is thoughtful, practical, ingenious, well tested, do-able, and sympathetic. This book really has changed my life. We thought we would cave when baby #3 came along, but now that we can sleep and have skills to help all our children sleep, we have hope and confidence - crucial assets for any mother.