The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
Book Review: If you want sleep without tears - read this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a fantastic baby boy - but he refused to sleep! He was up every couple of hours breastfeeding through the night. The only suggestions I ever got was to let him cry it out. I couldn't & wouldn't do it. Then I chanced on this book. What a life saver. There are no overnight solutions but now he goes down to bed at 7pm - we have an hours pre bedtime routine and then I put him into his bed and he goes off to sleep on his own. He is up once now in the middle of the night - and just for ten minutes. What a huge difference this has made to me. And all with no tears. I loved this book so much as it didn't dictate or make judgements over sleep arrangments. It just gave lots of ideas and helped me develop a plan that got my wee boy - and me - sleeping. It shows that you really can teach a child good sleep habits without letting him suffering. A great lessons for all parenting!!Book Review: A hearty thankyou
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd like to send a hearty thankyou to Elizabeth Pantley for her great, no-nonsense book. It really works! With a bit of patience and some common sense advice we have been able to turn around our 6 month old son's dreadful sleep patterns with 6-8 wakings a night to just 2 quick awakwnings. All this with no tears. It is great to have an approach which is baby-centric but which also works for parents. I love that Elizabeth's approach encourages you to find what works best for your baby and your family circumstances. A book that is long overdue and one which should be read by all new parents. No baby should be subjected to crying it out in order to learn to sleep. No parent should be either. Now parents have a real alternative. Thanks for restoring some sanity to our household. This book has been a life saver.Book Review: The best sleep book written.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are like me, you have a baby who is keeping you awake all night and not napping well either. You're tired and you're frustrated. Everyone is questioning your sanity because you refuse to put your baby in a crib and let him or her cry to sleep as you sit in another room with earplugs in your ears. You're probably sick and tired of hearing everyone else's sleep advice, but you're also just plain tired. I spent too much money on sleep books, I have a whole stack of them. I wish I would have bought this one first. As the author explains in her introduction, and as it obvious to those of us who have studied the topic, she read every sleep book out there and spent countless hours visiting parenting web sites, chat lines and boards dedicated to sleep issues. She culled out the most important things to know and summarized them in this book. Then she gathered all the gentle sleep ideas (those that don't include crying) that she could find and organized them in a way that allows you to pick the ones that best suit your family. Co-sleeeping? Crib sleeping? Bottle-feeding? Breastfeeding? Only child? Many children? The author covers all these categories with concrete ideas without dictating or judging what your family does. She guides you through the process with logs and charts and encouraging words and helps you identify the things that are standing in your way of better sleep. I've talked to people who see results in a week, and some who take several months to get to a full night's sleep - but they all seem very happy with their own personal results, since every baby is different and parents have different approaches too. Read the excerpts given on this site and those on the author's web site and you'll get a good overview of the ideas presented in the book. An excellent book on the topic of babies and sleep!Book Review: The best sleep book I have ever read!
Summary: 5 Stars
And I've read them all! I have three boys; age 6, 4 1/2 and 13 months. I could never let any of them cry it out and I spent many hours worrying over whether or not I was "ruining" them by not "making them learn to sleep on their own". This book is one of the very few (Dr. Sears books are the other ones) that helped me to feel validated in my longing to just be a mom 24 hours a day/7 days a week, not just when it was convenient for me or "time" to be. The fact that Mrs. Pantley has done some work with Dr. Sears helped me to know that "the no-cry sleep solution" book was going to be one filled with loving, gentle advice. And, boy was it ever! I really can't recommend it highly enough!
I AM a little tired, and my 13 month old is not the best sleeper, so I am trying some of the solutions in this book. I am glad, however, that I am not feeling the pressure to let my baby cry it out that I felt when I read several other books on the subject. Not many of them applaud the philosophies of co-sleeping or nursing long term. I know in my heart that co-sleeping and nursing is not a "bad habit" but society dumps that pressure on moms not to do it. This book is very encouraging for moms who DO nurse during the night and let their babies sleep with them. What a breath of fresh air!
This is the only book I have read so far that offers useful but gentle advice and gives the parent "permission" to not let their child cry it out all night.
Not only books I have read, but grandparents, other Christian friends, even my pediatrician's office staff, all seem to give me the "guilts" when I admit I am not physically able to let my kids cry it out. It literally makes me sick to my stomach. And I know that "this too shall pass" and I will miss those magical middle of the night hours when I can just breathe in his baby smells and watch him nurse in his sleep. This book also helped me to put that into perspective.
I especially loved the comparison to Mrs. Pantley's sweet son and the other baby at the ballpark. I will treasure that anecdote always because it puts into words so eloquently what I have felt in my heart when I see a "well-behaved" baby who's parents are practicing "detachment parenting" and I feel compelled to compare how our children act.
I will be reading all of Elizabeth Pantley's books to help me be a better mommy to my precious children.
Book Review: A realistic no cry approach
Summary: 5 Stars
A great book for both preventing sleep problems, and finding realistic solutions to existing ones. The book has one section for newborn babies, birth to four-months, and one for older children....the book begins with a section devoted to safety including the dangers of pillows, blankets and many other things.The author is sensitive both to parents who co-sleep, and those who use a crib in a non-judgemental way. She gives good advice for both without being preachy. The book is written in a very honest compassionate way, from the authors own sleepless experience, and that of many others she has helped. She has conducted much personal research prior to writing this book, including a test group of sixty families with sleepless children. As the title states, this is NOT a book about letting a child "Cry it Out". It is not a specific program but a collection of sound advice and ideas which are sure to help. Parents are also taught to have realistic expectations for the childs age, and how to determine if there is a problem or not.
I'm sure there are more indepth books on sleep available, but this one was concise and suited our situation nicely.