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: From co-sleeping to the crib in 4 nights
Summary: 5 Stars
What critics fail to understand (or fail to read in the book), is that Dr. Weissbluth reveres the bond between children and parents, and teaches you to be in tune with your baby's needs, not to ignore them. If you follow his techniques from the beginning, you may never have any crying at all. Crying is what happens when parents miss their babies' sleep cues and let them become overtired.
We follow Dr. Weissbluth's advice about naps and bedtimes religiously, and our daughter is the happiest, most well rested baby around. She co-slept with us for 11 months (something Dr. Weissbluth addresses and supports), but she moved to her crib when it began interfering with her ability to fall, and stay, asleep. There was a lot of crying, from her and us, but after 4 nights, she was sleeping a solid 12 hours in her crib, with at most a few minutes of fussing (not crying).
There is a lot to learn, but Dr. Weissbluth explains everything very well, and answers many common questions. For people who think this book just advocates dumping your child in the crib and closing the door: It took us 3-4 months to learn to pick up on our daughter's sleep cues. Now, we are so in tune with her sleep needs, we can predict what time she will need to sleep, and for how long, by observing her for 30 seconds. Thanks to this book, we have become more effective parents, and our daughter has learned how to get the sleep she needs to get the most enjoyment out of every day. How is that lazy or cruel parenting?
Book Review: Informative but I wasn't completely sold on the cry-it-out techniques
Summary: 3 Stars
This book was really helpful in learning to recognize when my baby is ready for sleep. It also explained the vitality of sleep for infants very thoroughly, however I was very turned off with the section that talks about letting the baby cry-it-out. Particularly the part where the author says to let the baby scream as long as needed and even if he/she vomits on themselves, don't pick them up, just clean up the vomit and leave the room. A little too heartless and cruel for my taste.Book Review: Great Informative and Realistic book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book provides a scientific guide to helping your child sleeps. I like it because if offers guidelines, solutions, and a practical outline of what the average child needs.
I have read some books that make you feel terrible if your child cries at all. This book says you need to do whatever you feel is best for both the parent and child.
1st this book helped me when my daughter was 5 months old and wouldn't sleep while on vacation. Now, 9 mo. old, it is helping me determine the amount of sleep she needs at night and during naps. Since we let her cry through a night feeding, she is sleeping though the night again, taking good daytime naps again, and much happier all around.
The bottom line of the book is that your child needs sleep. This book helped me and my daughter become happy and well rested again.
PS. The no cry sleep solution made me cry instead of helping me.
Book Review: A Must Have for New Parents!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book brought us hours of sleep with both our children. Weissbluth is a genius. His monthly guides that help you as a parent understand your child's sleep patterns are essential. When I was ready to have my children learn to sleep on their own, his book was filled with anecdotes that I could use to guide me. Both of my children (3 and 4) sleep 10-12 hrs at night and 1-3 hrs in the afternoon thanks to his book. They were sleeping through the night at 3 mths (even while nursing), and they had daily nap schedules as little as 3 mths too. This book is by far the best investment we made as a family! Book Review: Highly recommend
Summary: 5 Stars
Out of all the books I read for learning about child care this was one of the most helpful. It has a lot of science behind it which I liked ( I am a medical professional) and I think many books out there are just someone elses opinion. I would include it with my top 3 favorite books, the others were the "Baby Whisperer Solves all your Problems" and "12 Hours Sleep in 12 weeks".