Healthy Living Books Books

Rating: - The gentle way to sleep
If you are a sleep-deprived parent who desperately wants your baby to sleep better but can't face leaving them to "cry it out", then this book is for you. Our son at four months would fight sleep all evening, crash at 10pm, wake hourly during the night to feed, wouldn't nap in the day and was fussy and grizzly. We were at our wits' end. Then we found this book. This was two short months ago. He now has two naps a day in his cot and goes to bed at 7pm. He still sleeps with us in the night, but accepts his cot in the day and in the evenings. No tears have been shed by him or us! The author never claims to have "THE answer", just a list of ideas to help different parenting styles - co-sleepers, cot sleepers, breast-fed, bottle-fed. I could never leave him to cry, but couldn't face the thought of the situation going on endlessly - and here at last is a middle way, gentle ways to help your baby learn for himself how go to sleep on his own and stay asleep all night. And written in simple language for the sleep-starved who have no time to pore over weighty theories! A must-have for sleepless parents.

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Rating: - Highly recommended
This book deserves to be a huge bestseller, much moreso than some of those other 'baby manuals' written by 'experts'.Elizabeth Pantley writes with compassion and authority without ever seeming overbearing or autocratic.As the mother of four children, two of whom slept well, and two of whom didn't, she is infinitely qualified, in my view, to advise and support other parents. If, like me, you are reaching the end of your tether with a baby or toddler who just doesn't seem to understand that daytime is for feeding and nighttime is for sleeping I strongly urge you to read this book.
The most important aspect of this book is that it is written with the utmost respect for parents who desperately need some sleep,but who cannot bear the idea of making their baby 'cry it out'.If you feel there has to be another way, a gentler way to ease your baby and yourself to a more restful night, you have found it.
Equally, the author, as far as I can judge, has succeeded in speaking to each parent individually by carefully considering as many different styles of parenting as there are parents. So whether you breastfeed or bottlefeed, co-sleep, cot sleep or nursery sleep, Elizabeth Pantley has useful, workable, supportive solutions to severe sleep-deprivation. There is even a really encouraging section for parents like me, whose baby doesn't immediately start to sleep through. I found this really helpful, because it gave me the necessary encouragement to carry on trying the different suggestions and find one that suited us.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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Rating: - What a godsend
For those of us who parent with our minds, our guts, our intuition and our hearts, this book is an abosolute blessing. I have read almost every book available on parenting a baby or young toddler to sleep and have not found any as balanced as this one. Most attachment parenting books reccommend a martyr sort of parenting which includes spending many sleepless months in the care of a toddler or infant. On the other side of the spectrum are those who heartlessly suggest we allow our babies to cry it out. Elizabeth Pantley's book neither makes us "martyr mothers" nor heartless parents. Her sensitive and thoughtful treatment of gentle sleep solutions for babies and their mothers makes her a pioneer in the field. I am truly grateful for Pantley's sensitivity to both mother and child.

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Rating: - No cry sleep solution
After reading this book I was moved to e-mail my personal thanks to the Author, something I had never before felt moved to do. As a first time Mum I was not coping with the sleep deprivation at all well but was amazed by the results obtained from following the simple guidelines and suggestion Elizabeth Pantley had to offer.
The book is written with such kindness that I wept many times whilst reading, even the simple language used is gentle on the sleep deprived brain!
To know that someone really cared & wanted to help others, not just jump on the “self-help” band wagon to make a quick buck really touched me and my son is now regularly sleeping from 7:30 pm until 6:30am.
It has also given my husband & I time in the evenings for each other which was vitally needed.
I can't recomend this book enough if you do not want to go down the "let them cry it out" path

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Rating: - Every Parent Needs This Book
Please don't let your baby cry another night. Elizabeth has finally given parents options. Her book is so full of solutions something is bound to work for you. My baby slept 9 hours on the second night of our plan. You and your baby will both be happier and more rested. I will be giving this book to anyone I know who has a baby.