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Title: Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber ISBN: 0-671-62099-1 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 17 April, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (226 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Trusting others with your child
Comment: We have a nine month old who is up three times a night. My husband and I are exhausted and trade off nights getting up so that one of us will at least be functional the next day. We called our pediatrician to get his advice on the situation. This is a man that we trust with our child's life and he is the father of three. He recommended getting Ferber's book and following the steps that he outlined. We are sleeping through the night and our baby has happy, alert parents who don't dread bedtime. There have been other reviews that we are hurting our children by doing this. I can tell you that parents hurt children when they are sleep deprived, short tempered, and angry. If my child has to cry for three days out of what will be a 75+ year life expectancy so that we all sleep better, then more power to the Ferber method....We're better parents now and our son is happier than ever because we ALL have energy at this very special time in his life ! Happy reading and sleeping!
Rating: 5
Summary: exhausted mother
Comment: THIS BOOK WORKS! I didn't believe it could work but it did. My husband and I have been using the book now for ten days. Before we began following Ferber's suggestions, our five month old awoke crying every hour. Now she sleeps from 8 pm to 7am, and only wakes up once to drink a bit of formula. She has also learned how to nap--we simply put her, awake, in her crib when she seems tired and she falls asleep. Some babies need to be taught how to sleep, and if you follow this book, your baby will learn how to sleep, and how to comfort herself back to sleep. Yes there will be some crying, but I feel it is better for my daughter to cry for a week on and off at nights, then have months of crankiness because she isn't getting enough sleep. When you realize that this method is actually best for the baby, harder at first then giving in and letting your child sleep with you, that she will learn good sleep habits for her entire life, it makes it all worth it. It has totally tranformed our family.
Rating: 5
Summary: First understand your child's needs
Comment: The book should be read entirely to understand what is the child's sleep problem before you decide to implement a "crying to sleep" plan, which is not what the book suggests. The book itself is very well organized, and you can find the "categories" of sleep problems separated per chapters.
Here are two case studies on the implementation of the book. I admit that these are incredibly successful cases, but they are the ones that I lived.
Case 1:
I have a very sensitive daughter (19 months), who is VERY attached to her mommy. She was used to be rocked for 15 - 45 mins prior to be put in bed and slept from 7:30pm to 7:00 am. At 14 months, because of family health problems, we were staying a lot with family in other towns, or family members stayed at our home. Suddenly, she needed more time rocking her, and started to get up in the middle of the night. This got to a point where she only slept when she was with us in our bed. The family situation was over and she would still sleep with us. At night, she slept holding our arms and neck to make sure that we did not leave her alone or even moved her, but slept her naps without problems at her daycare.
A couple of months passed, and there was no sign of change in her sleep patterns. It was obvious to us that her sleep problems occurred because of the month we suffered a lot of emotional instability, but we did not know how to address the problem since she would literally grab on to us. We searched for information on sleep problems and a lot of people suggested this book. We thought that letting a child cry was definitively torture for her and us, but after reading the book we understood better the training technique and saw our child's problem photographed in the content.
At 18 months we started what we called "sleep training". Following the suggestions in the book, the first night passed just as the cases in the book. The total time from setting her to sound asleep was 35 mins and she woke up the next day refreshed and happy. The second night was terrible. She jumped from her crib, she defecated twice so we would change her, she kept trying to jump from the bed, she requested milk, juice, rice, cookies, water, ice and every other word she knew. All this time we would follow the suggestions of the book, entering the room at separated intervals but not picking her up, letting her know that we were there for her and making sure that she was safe but saying that it was time to sleep in her own bed. It was hard for her and us, the second night was what we called "bad crying", but the total time from setting her to sound asleep was 45 mins and she woke up the next day refreshed and happy. The third night we told her it was sleeping time and she complained for a minute and went to sleep. Since then she would not even complain when we told her it was time to sleep. She is still VERY attached to her mommy, and still loves to heaven her daddy.
Case 2:
After successfully implementing the sleep training, my sister tried to implement it. Her daughter was 13 months. She was used to sleep by being rocked with a milk bottle, and woke up every day at 4:00am to drink some more milk (not even an ounce). Because her parents had odd working hours, she was put to sleep at different times but mostly after 10:00pm and would wake up after 11:00am. She did not nap during the day. After reading the book, my sister understood that her daughters sleep problems were actually because she did not have a sleep schedule, and was relating "sucking" the bottle with sleeping. Following the suggestions on the book, a sleep time and a naptime were set. The next step was implementing the schedule. The first night the total time from setting her to sound asleep was 35 mins and she woke up the next day refreshed and happy (did not request bottle at night). In the first nap she complained for 5 minutes, but she slept 2hrs during the day. The second night the total time from setting her to sound asleep was 5 mins and she woke up the next day refreshed and happy (did not request bottle at night). The second day she was put to nap, but she did not sleep (she stayed in her crib). The third day and since she has slept and napped without problems. My sister thanks me every day for suggesting her reading the 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 No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears ISBN: 0071381392 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sleeping Through the Night : How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep by Jodi A. Mindell ISBN: 0062734091 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 07 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby by MELINDA BLAU, TRACY HOGG ISBN: 0345440900 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron ISBN: 0965260313 Publisher: F J Roberts Pub Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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