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Books : The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night: Foreword by William Sears, M.D. (Pantley) .
Rating: 
- A great alternative for parents who don't wnat to leave a baby to cry
My health visitor and everyone around me kept telling me to use "controlled crying" to get my daughter to sleep - but this felt so wrong. My baby was crying and I was crying because she was crying - it felt so wrong. Then I found this book, and finally I felt like I could make a plan to improve my babies sleeping habits without having to resort to leaving her to cry. Thsi advice helped me to get a good night sleep - well worth every penny.
Rating: - FINALLY - A Book with all the Answers!
What a fantastic book this is! I have read 2 other baby sleep books but this is the one. Many books just talk about theories and vague ideas. Elizabeth Pantley actually gives you practical advice that you can use and alter to your own needs! I was about at my wits end with our 15 month old son when I came across the NO CRY METHOD. I was so worn down and was always worrying about how long it would take to put him down at night. Elizabeth gives some wonderful advice on how to get through that while working through the METHOD. She gives a step by step process that you can try for getting your baby to sleep on his/her own and sleeping through the night. I even emailed Elizabeth and kindly returned my email with more wonderful advice or insight. My son isn't a perfect sleeper yet, but he's close! Thanks Elizabeth.
Rating: - This book saved my sanity!
I am so glad I bought this book with my first child when he was nowhere near sleeping through the night, and I was desperate! All the advice (and there was plenty of it) that I had been given or read previously was to let him cry it out, and that went against all my maternal instincts/ hormones... for various reasons I wasn't happy or able to do that to him or me. After trawling through Amazon I found this book (a few years ago when it wasn't so well known) and when I read it I was so relieved! The author is great at making you feel like someone's in it with you - that she understands - and there are plenty of tips for various different situations and ages (although it's mostly for babies & preschoolers)
The main thing is, it worked with my first, and then my second son.
Although Pantley has no obvious qualifications, she did a lot of her own research - as this was ground-breaking when it was written, there was hardly any previous material or studies for her to draw from, and so she was effectively starting from scratch.
I would be amazed if this book didn't work for you. It can't be to everyone's taste (what is?) but if you have a child who won't sleep through the night, I'd say you're really missing out if you don't read this!
Rating:
- Not much content of any real value
This is a pleasant read and very reassuring and has some common sense tips you'd easily work out for yourself if you weren't so sleep deprived. I was recommended it by a friend and initially found it charming and supportive. On the other hand, it does a good line in making one feel tremendously guilty if one's child cries at all, although this judgment is not research based and the author has no relevant qualifications. Ultimately, I found it unhelpful, ill-researched and patronising and I ditched it pretty quickly: I was not interested in how well the author's and her friend's children slept, or in what she personally thinks a crying baby is feeling, I wanted sound, well-researched advice (i.e. based on a group of children larger than the author's social circle) from a someone with reliable qualifications and experience. Why else would you pay for advice?
Dr Marc Weissbluth's book, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, was more useful to us in all respects and covers all stages of a child's sleep development, through to teenage years.
Rating: - There's one book I recommend, and its not this.
I bought this book thinking it might solve our son's erratic sleeping habit but I was quite dissapointed. On the plus side, the layout of information is accessible, but it is written from a viewpoint that I consider too subjective. None of the research cited is referenced, which leads me too doubt its value. Many of the ideas are common sense, and don't really add much to what is already known about infant sleep.
I have read about 10 books about sleep, and the *only* one I would recommend is Marc Weissbluth, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child - an excellent, detailed read from an expert in this field.
- A great alternative for parents who don't wnat to leave a baby to cryMy health visitor and everyone around me kept telling me to use "controlled crying" to get my daughter to sleep - but this felt so wrong. My baby was crying and I was crying because she was crying - it felt so wrong. Then I found this book, and finally I felt like I could make a plan to improve my babies sleeping habits without having to resort to leaving her to cry. Thsi advice helped me to get a good night sleep - well worth every penny.
Rating:
- FINALLY - A Book with all the Answers!What a fantastic book this is! I have read 2 other baby sleep books but this is the one. Many books just talk about theories and vague ideas. Elizabeth Pantley actually gives you practical advice that you can use and alter to your own needs! I was about at my wits end with our 15 month old son when I came across the NO CRY METHOD. I was so worn down and was always worrying about how long it would take to put him down at night. Elizabeth gives some wonderful advice on how to get through that while working through the METHOD. She gives a step by step process that you can try for getting your baby to sleep on his/her own and sleeping through the night. I even emailed Elizabeth and kindly returned my email with more wonderful advice or insight. My son isn't a perfect sleeper yet, but he's close! Thanks Elizabeth.
Rating:
- This book saved my sanity!I am so glad I bought this book with my first child when he was nowhere near sleeping through the night, and I was desperate! All the advice (and there was plenty of it) that I had been given or read previously was to let him cry it out, and that went against all my maternal instincts/ hormones... for various reasons I wasn't happy or able to do that to him or me. After trawling through Amazon I found this book (a few years ago when it wasn't so well known) and when I read it I was so relieved! The author is great at making you feel like someone's in it with you - that she understands - and there are plenty of tips for various different situations and ages (although it's mostly for babies & preschoolers)
The main thing is, it worked with my first, and then my second son.
Although Pantley has no obvious qualifications, she did a lot of her own research - as this was ground-breaking when it was written, there was hardly any previous material or studies for her to draw from, and so she was effectively starting from scratch.
I would be amazed if this book didn't work for you. It can't be to everyone's taste (what is?) but if you have a child who won't sleep through the night, I'd say you're really missing out if you don't read this!
Rating:
- Not much content of any real valueThis is a pleasant read and very reassuring and has some common sense tips you'd easily work out for yourself if you weren't so sleep deprived. I was recommended it by a friend and initially found it charming and supportive. On the other hand, it does a good line in making one feel tremendously guilty if one's child cries at all, although this judgment is not research based and the author has no relevant qualifications. Ultimately, I found it unhelpful, ill-researched and patronising and I ditched it pretty quickly: I was not interested in how well the author's and her friend's children slept, or in what she personally thinks a crying baby is feeling, I wanted sound, well-researched advice (i.e. based on a group of children larger than the author's social circle) from a someone with reliable qualifications and experience. Why else would you pay for advice?
Dr Marc Weissbluth's book, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, was more useful to us in all respects and covers all stages of a child's sleep development, through to teenage years.
Rating:
- There's one book I recommend, and its not this.I bought this book thinking it might solve our son's erratic sleeping habit but I was quite dissapointed. On the plus side, the layout of information is accessible, but it is written from a viewpoint that I consider too subjective. None of the research cited is referenced, which leads me too doubt its value. Many of the ideas are common sense, and don't really add much to what is already known about infant sleep.
I have read about 10 books about sleep, and the *only* one I would recommend is Marc Weissbluth, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child - an excellent, detailed read from an expert in this field.
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