Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I had high hopes for this book after seeing it recommended but I found it poorly written with contradictory advice - eg on 1 pageit says 'never wake a sleeping child' and a couple of pages later it says 'you may have to wake your child in the morning to keep them on schedule'. If you are sleep deprived at all you will find it incredibly hard to make any sense out of it which is especially frustrating as the first few chapters are taken up with persuading you how good it is to get decent sleep (don't we all know it!) Weissbluth only seems to consider the cry it out/controlled crying or attachment parenting (and seems to favour the former) and doesn't mention an alternative. We found the Baby Whisperer technique of getting our baby to sleep worked wonders, took the same amount of time as CIO and was much less traumatic for everyone.Book Review: A lifesaver
Summary: 5 Stars
A well-written, comprehensive "manual" of how best to get (and keep) your baby to sleep through the night. Weissbluth covers the first five years of the child's life, and the book includes excellent chapters on all sorts of events, including teething, illness, periods away from home, and even jetlag. I found it invaluable.Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I had hopes that this book was going to be less formolaeic than others I looked at, and found some useful information in it about the necessity to sleep and what kind of natural sleep patterns should be encouraged. Having received information about the necessity of naps in preschoolers however, I felt guilty about my 3 yr old not napping any more (since the birth of her sister 6 months ago), and found the advise to reestablish naps by 'sleeping with the child, cuddling and reading stories' completely unworkable with a baby in the house. In general there seems to be no good advise for parents of more than one child. The most surprising bit of advise I then stumbled across, was the suggestion that it was ok to leave a 4 months old baby to 'cry for one hour' without soothing her. Given that even health visitors tells us that babies under the age of 8 months do not possess 'object-constance' i.e. they just don't know that you will come back if you leave them, to advise a parent to inflict that sort of trauma on the child (and every one else who has to listen to the poor creature scream for their dear life) is just cruel. So over all I found the book over-technical, repetitive, too long to read in the short stolen time slots that my baby and pre-schooler give me, and simply not practical.Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I had hopes that this book was going to be less formolaeic than others I looked at, and found some useful information in it about the necessity to sleep and what kind of natural sleep patterns should be encouraged. Having received information about the necessity of naps in preschoolers however, I felt guilty about my 3 yr old not napping any more (since the birth of her sister 6 months ago), and found the advise to reestablish naps by 'sleeping with the child, cuddling and reading stories' completely unworkable with a baby in the house. In general there seems to be no good advise for parents of more than one child. The most surprising bit of advise I then stumbled across, was the suggestion that it was ok to leave a 4 months old baby to 'cry for one hour' without soothing her. Given that even health visitors tells us that babies under the age of 8 months do not possess 'object-constance' i.e. they just don't know that you will come back if you leave them, to advise a parent to inflict that sort of trauma on the child (and every one else who has to listen to the poor creature scream for their dear life) is just cruel. So over all I found the book over-technical, repetitive, too long to read in the short stolen time slots that my baby and pre-schooler give me, and simply not practical.Book Review: A God Send
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book when my daughter was 8 1/2 months old. She was never really a napper, even from the beginning. Even though most of the time she did sleep through the night (but we had to rock or nurse her to sleep) I thought that something was missing...Do you really have to rock your 8 month old every night and it is weird that she doesn't nap I thought. I tried Dr W's method from the first night I bought the book and I couldn't believe the difference, in just one night!! Granted she did cry for 45 minutes the first night but the next day nap 1 wasn't even a battle, nap 2 she cried for 20 minutes and bedtime that night she barely cried!! Thank You Dr Weissbluth!!!