50 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
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Good advice that works, August 7, 2007
This review is from: The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours aNight (Paperback)
Don't worry so much about pumping and measuring. This can work if you're breastfeeding. Trust your baby to tell you when they're full and when they're hungry. The important part is that you start to stretch out the time between feeding to give your child enough time to get hungry and eat a full meal.
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59 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant, May 29, 2007
This review is from: The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours aNight (Paperback)
My daughter never slept. No naps. Tough nights. She was a miserable infant. I read many sleep books with minimal success...until this one. I started right at 3 months and within 10 days my baby was sleeping 12 hours. Her days were better, her nights were silent and now at a 1 1/2 years she is the best sleeper I've ever seen. My second baby just turned 3 months yesterday and slept 12 hours last night without a peep. This book is brilliant. Two things: 1) you have to have the discipline to follow through, or don't bother. 2) I don't recommend doing this with breastfeeding. I tried, and it didn't work at all. As soon as I switched to formula, it worked like a charm.
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52 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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Not impressed, March 1, 2009
This review is from: The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours aNight (Paperback)
We started putting the theories in this book into practice when my son was twelve weeks old. It actually made things worse for us. Here's how: We began scheduling out my son's daytime feedings and pushing him to every four hours as the book suggests. Now he no longer goes to sleep when needed because he's hungry and uncomfortable. When feeding time comes he nurses just long enough to get comfortable (not full) and he totally crashses. He then sleeps for about an hour, wakes up and realizes he's hungry and is miserable. We put him off until time to eat and again he takes in just enough to get comfortable and again crashes. This continues all night and all day.
Before we started following the book my son was up two to three times per night and was a very happy, easy going baby who was able to put himself to sleep when laid down drowsy, yet awake. Now he's up four to five times per night and is in a perpetual overtired, cranky state, and is totally dependent on me and nursing to go to sleep. I'm going back to feeding on demand so we can again put him to bed while drowsy, but awake and he can learn again to put himself to sleep without depending on me.
The author's theories seem sound when you read this book, but when put into practice for us they've caused total chaos and unrest. Not recommended.
P.S. - My son is now 4 months and 3 weeks old and is sleeping from 7 pm until 7 a.m. every night, without forcing his feedings to every four hours as this book suggests is a necessity. This has come about by letting him feed on demand (about every three hours) and watching for his sleep signals to lay him down when he's awake, yet drowsy. He's learned to put himself to sleep and now when he wakes up at night he just "talks" himself back to sleep within just a few minutes - no tears, and no stress. This was a much better option for us and I honestly feel this book did nothing but delay his ability to sleep through the night.
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