The better your baby sleeps, the better you sleep -- nobody knows this more than bleary-eyed new parents. Here's a welcome thought: you can actually teach your baby to sleep through the night, the same way you show a baby how to smile or respond to your voice. This revolutionary program is based on a simple idea: There comes a time when a baby is ready to sleep through the night, which this expert calls "the core night". By properly leading up to the core night, and by learning to identify that time in the baby's sleep life, both you and your baby will be able to enjoy restful nights. Find out what to do during pregnancy to prepare the baby for proper sleep rhythms. Become aware of things you might be doing that keep your baby from sleeping well, and what to do when the baby is awake that helps sleep come early and long enough. Learn some unusual answers to the age-old question of whether to pick up a baby that awakens in the night. Perhaps most valuable is the list of "Twelve Golden Rules", a trouble-shooting reference for helping any child sleep well through the first three years of life.
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A practical, common-sense approach that REALLY DOES WORK!!!,
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This review is from: Sleep: The Secret of Problem-Free Nights (Positive Parenting Series) (Paperback)
In this text Beatrice Hollyer and Lucy Smith outline a very simple, easy to follow approach to help your child sleep through the night. A parent, though well intentioned, can easily promote habits that prevent a child from sleeping. This book tells you what to avoid doing, and what you should do to assist your child in finding their natural sleep patterns. Compared to other sleep books which do not focus on the ability to naturally promote sleep from the earliest days, this book helps you as a parent to recognize cues from your child that he or she is ready to sleep for longer periods. The cues come from the child and as a parent you look for evidence of their first 'core night' - a block of sleep when the child sleeps longer than in the past. The focus of the book is on sleep, but its advice spills into many aspects of infant care including feeding. For example, the author's illustrate how important it is to recognize an infant's hunger cry and to stop night feeds when they are no longer required. On a personal note, my husband and I purchased this book while I was pregnant and read it long before my due date. Our baby slept through the night for the first time when he was 28 days old. Following the book's recommendations was difficult at first and I strayed from their advice exactly five times over the next month - each time realizing that the author's were correct. It is important that both parents be using the same approach to ensure the child is not receiving mixed signals at this time - which was difficult for me only initially. By the end of two months every night was a good night. Our son is an excellent sleeper and he is happy and content during the day. We could have done several things to thwart what he was naturally ready to do, but happily we had read this book and helped him instead. This is a great approach to helping your baby sleep that (most importantly to me) does not require crying. Both my husband and I cannot recommend this book enough. I am buying it for my sister and her new baby because I refuse to let my copy out of the house!
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This is for parents of NEWBORNS, not older babies or toddlers,
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This review is from: Sleep: The Secret of Problem-Free Nights (Positive Parenting Series) (Paperback)
I was under the mistaken impression that this book could help me with the sleep issues faced by my 12-month-old. WRONG.
This is a book for expectant parents or parents of infants under six months of age. All the advice applies to young infants and is of no use whatsoever once the child has passed that stage. If you need sleep advice for an older baby or toddler, I recommend Elizabeth Pantley's "No-Cry Sleep Solution." That said, I do think the advice in this book is both practical and humane. The rules are simple and everything is communicated in a clear and practical way. And the method in this book does not involve leaving a baby to cry it out alone, even plainly acknowledges how traumatic this practice is for both babies and parents. I have even recommended this book to friends who are trying to conceive. I think that armed with the information in the book, they will be in a much better position to create a healthy and positive sleep cycle for themselves and their future children.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing- it works, works, works!!!,
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This review is from: Sleep: The Secret of Problem-Free Nights (Positive Parenting Series) (Paperback)
After our 5 month old kept waking up every 2 hours- I lost it. I ordered the book and after 3 nights he was sleeping 12+ hours at night. Of course I was still up every two hours to see if he was alive. We used it for my daughter at one month and it WORKED. Now we have a 1 and 5 year old with awesome sleeping habits and lots of Mommy Daddy time after 8:30pm- :)
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