 [Larger view] | The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
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| I LOVE the no-crying approach! | |
| 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! | |
| This book may have saved my life | |
| My baby was waking up every hour or MORE all night long and wouldn't nap for more than 30 minutes. I was so sleep-deprived that I fell asleep driving! Luckily, it was a minor accident, but it scared me (my baby was in the car, too!) It made me realize how critical it was that I get more sleep. I did an intense internet search on babies and sleep and discovered this author's web site. After reading all the excerpts and interviews with parents who had used these ideas I ordered the book. It's been only 3 weeks but my baby is now sleeping up to 5 hour stretches and napping 2 hours. I am feeling so much better now I can really enjoy my baby. I loved that this author isn't judgemental nor preachy. She's a mother and shares her knowledge in a kind and helpful way. There are tons of ideas and you choose from them to make up your own sleep plan. The forms and charts in the book are helpful. I am going to buy this for every one of my pregnant friends and know that they won't have to suffer the way that I did. (And now that I'm sleeping at night I'm ready to try for number two!) If you want to sleep, and don't want to make your baby cry, this is the only book with the answers. | |
| Highly recommended | |
| This book deserves to be a huge bestseller, much moreso than some of those other 'baby manuals' written by 'experts'.Elizabeth Pantley writes with compassion and authority without ever seeming overbearing or autocratic.As the mother of four children, two of whom slept well, and two of whom didn't, she is infinitely qualified, in my view, to advise and support other parents. If, like me, you are reaching the end of your tether with a baby or toddler who just doesn't seem to understand that daytime is for feeding and nighttime is for sleeping I strongly urge you to read this book. The most important aspect of this book is that it is written with the utmost respect for parents who desperately need some sleep,but who cannot bear the idea of making their baby 'cry it out'.If you feel there has to be another way, a gentler way to ease your baby and yourself to a more restful night, you have found it. Equally, the author, as far as I can judge, has succeeded in speaking to each parent individually by carefully considering as many different styles of parenting as there are parents. So whether you breastfeed or bottlefeed, co-sleep, cot sleep or nursery sleep, Elizabeth Pantley has useful, workable, supportive solutions to severe sleep-deprivation. There is even a really encouraging section for parents like me, whose baby doesn't immediately start to sleep through. I found this really helpful, because it gave me the necessary encouragement to carry on trying the different suggestions and find one that suited us. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. |
