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5 Days to a Perfect Night's Sleep for Your Child: The Secrets to Making Bedtime a Dream

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eduard estivill is a spanish pediatrician, very famous in europe for his dedication to parents' good night sleep. this book really does work! don't be afraid and give it a try for 1 week; it might be hard but magically after few nights you will realize how golden these advices are.
my son slept through the night from he was 6-week-old and he never ever had any sleep problem ever since (he's 4 and a half now).

This book provided simple and easy instructions. SOme of which are easy to follow, some more difficult. I would recomend this book to others with an open mind.

With my wife and I back in work, we were coming to the end of our tether with our kid waking every 1hr. We were getting little to no sleep and it was impacting our day and our relationship. Our natural instinct was to try to feed him (he is awake cause he is hungry - right??) This book really helped us understand why he is really waking up and to curtail our reactions to his crying. Our son - on the 3rd night - starting sleeping for 11 hours a night (note - he normally sleeps 11-12 hours a night now).
Things we did.
1) Move him to his own room
2) Created a bed time ritual. (shower, story, song then to bed)
3) Followed this book
4) We also downloaded the IPAD app too which helped with keeping the time

The book helped train us and our kid to allow all of us to have a good nights sleep.

This book is now doing it's rounds in my wife's mother group and 3 other parents say it helped their kids too.

As per an earlier comment, this book is great as it is very short. i read through it in 30 mins.

Quick and simple advise. Points out that sleeping is a "LEARNED" skill. My second child was not falling asleep or staying asleep. This book gave me the tools and confidence I needed to train her. It also helped my husband get on the same page with sleep training.

i was recommended this book. while its a fast read with great pointers, i never had problems with my baby sleeping, i have them with my toddler once he started jumping out of his crib. there's not much on here that helped me but it could be good for children under 2.

5 days? more like one night.
It took me less than an hour to read this book, and was the first thing that worked for us after months of trying LITERALLY everything and reading every single book out there!
Just try it... my husband, baby, and I owe our new-found sleep all to this book :)

As a parent of a post-colic, breast-fed, 5 month old boy, I welcomed this inexpensive, easy read with a simple plan. The approach was oversimplified and did not help our family. Perhaps it is better suited for a younger infant who may be more easily reconditioned. I would recommend reading Suzy Giardino's or Dr. Weissbluth's books instead. Good luck.