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Title: The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears ISBN: 0-07-138139-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (218 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I LOVE the no-crying approach!
Comment: FINALLY, a book that makes sense to sleep-deprived people! I always thought there were only three options when it came to sleeping with a baby in the house: 1) You just get lucky and have a natural-born sleeper; 2) You can let them cry it out; or 3) You can just deal with the constant night waking.
Thanks to Elizabeth Pantley, I realized there is a gentle, loving way to teach my daughter to sleep without a single tear! After a few nights of following our sleep plan, my daughter started sleeping through the night. This was accomplished without ONE single tear!!!!
Unlike in other books, there is no strict format to follow. You can adapt the ideas to fit your child and at your own pace. No more feeling guilty for not just letting her cry it out and being tired all the time. No more guilt about not following the very rigid programs in some other "sleep books."
Thanks for all the sweet dreams, Elizabeth!
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good book, but can require alot of patience
Comment: This is a very helpful book which includes some of the more useful information included in Wiesbluth and Ferber. I believe her approach can work for most parents with time and patience, though some babies may require months of committed effort.
Let me preface the rest of this review by stating up front that I personally don't think it's permanently harmful if there are some tears shed (by either Moms or babies :-) in the process of helping babies learn how to sleep through the night... That said, even though that's my perspective I loved Elizabeth Pantley's inclusive, compassionate, unjudgemental tone.
I really wish this book had been available when my first daughter was a baby. By the time she was 7 months old and still waking up every hour, I was nearly incapacitated with sleep deprivation. My husband was that one who said that things had to change and that we needed to cry it out. I begged for a few weeks to do some research and ended up reading several sleep books including both Weisbluth's Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child and Ferber's book. I thought both books were very well written and contained some excellent information about babies and sleep. Given what I had learned from these books, I put together my own sleep program that was similar to much of Pantleys except that I let my daughter do some crying when she was first put down to sleep for the night. It took about two weeks but she dropped to 2 wakings a night and started being able to nap on her own. But the best was that either my husband or I could put her to bed with a brief routine and she'd drift off to sleep with a smile on her face and wake up the same way. All in all I considered it a success, except that I just hated that two week period when she would cry when she was put down.
So when I had my second daughter I was determined to use what I had learned the first time around to avoid some of the bad habits I had practiced with my oldest and get her to sleep with no crying. Things were much better, she was a great napper, but I was still having trouble getting her to sleep without having a nipple in her mouth, and she was getting up every two hours at night. So I bought Elizabeth's Pantley's book.
As I said earlier, I wish it had been around with my first daughter. I think she culled some of the best information about sleep from some of the other books and I loved her organized approach to finding out what works best for your child. I really wanted to get to the point that we had with our eldest where we could just put her in bed and she would drift off peacefully on her own.
I faithfully followed the program for a month and I was seeing some progress. However the progress was very slow I found it challenging to work the program with a toddler who was already feeling somewhat abandoned. She has a phased approach to getting a child to sleep on their own where you comfort the baby until they are almost asleep, put them in bed, if they get upset comfort some more and repeat the cycle until they are asleep. At least with my daughter, it was taking a huge amount of time to get her down for naps and bed. Time that my toddler had to be quiet in order to not get the baby worked up. I think I could have stuck it out if I hadn't had a toddler who also needed me, but after a month I threw in the towel. I went back to letting her cry to learn how to get to sleep. The difference between this time and three years ago though was that this time it only took a fairly easy three nights. I think the difference was probably due to the month I had been working the Pantley method.
In conclusion, there's great information in here for everyone. If you have the time and patience, I believe the program can work. But I found it difficult to work the whole program while simultaneously tending to a toddler.
Happy sleeping everyone! I wish all of you sleep deprived mommies and daddies who might be reading this sweet dreams and know that whatever you decide to do, take care of yourself, things do get better.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally...a gentle approach to helping a child sleep
Comment: There are very few books on the market that will help a parent with their children's sleep habits in gentle way. This book is one of the few books that really focuses on a gentle approach to sleep issues.
Parents need to understand that by following a gentle approach to help their child sleep...that it may take more time then some other methods which are hard on the child.
The No Cry Sleep Solution addresses many of the issues that parents are faced with when trying to get their child to sleep. The main difference is that Elizabeth Pantley understands the importance of the parents role during nighttime hours. The author does not expect children to learn to sleep on their own through tough love but instead through a variety of calm and gentle steps. Through this approach a child is helped to fall asleep on their own and to sleep through the night...but can still feel they are able to rely on the parent to be there to meet any needs they have.
The approach outlined in the book probably will not have your child sleeping through the night in their own crib within a day or so...but at the same time your child will not be crying and screaming as suggested by authors of other night sleeping books.
This is the perfect book for a parent who would like help dealing with their child's sleep issues but is not willing to abandon their child during the night hours, for a parent who will not and does not want their child to cry themselves to sleep, a parent who is willing to be patient with the progress of their child, and a parent who is willing to be patient with their child as they learn to sleep better.
This is an excellent book!
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Title: Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth ISBN: 0449004023 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) by William and Martha Sears ISBN: 0316778001 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Happiest Baby on the Block : The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by M.D. Harvey Karp ISBN: 0553381466 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten by William and Martha Sears ISBN: 0316779032 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 15 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber ISBN: 0671620991 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 17 April, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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