The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5 by Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5
Book Review: A Godsend!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book 2 weeks ago .. After planning my bedtime routine and waiting for a good night to begin when I would be available for consecutive evenings, I put my plan into motion. After only a few days my 11 month old daughter soothes herself to sleep after being put down awake and sleeps soundly through the night for 11 hours. Before, bedtime was a dreaded time where she would fall asleep in my arms, but awake screaming once I put her down in her crib. She would also wake up like clock work at midnight looking for help back to sleep. This book has given us our evenings and sleep back! An easy read with a REAL plan that parents can use for teaching their kids how to sleep.Book Review: I AM AMAZED
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never written a review but MUST for this book. I don't know either author - I was just an over exhausted mom of 6 month old Jack and was at my wits end LAST WEEK. I am now the mom of 6 month old Jack that is almost sleeping through the night!!! I am very against parents who have babies and let them cry it out during the first month after they are born - I know people who have done that w/i the first couple of months and am appalled. If you want a baby, expect not to sleep! But after a certain weight and month, doctors do say your baby can and should sleep for long stretches - 5 hours is considered "through the night" and my baby was awake every 1.5 - 2 hours. After I went back to work, I gave up holding him to sleep and then holding my breath as I put him in his crib hoping he wouldn't wake up, then I started a horrible habit of bringing him into bed with us! I condemned all women who did this before I had my baby and now I was doing it! I was teaching my son that he needed me to sleep. Anytime he stirred, he would cry and wouldn't go back to sleep until he nursed - up to 6 times a night!!! Not a good thing to teach your baby.
This book absolutely isn't a crying it out book. My husband and I refuse to do that to our precious son. From birth, we picked him up for every cry so he could trust us. I was told by my friends that I hold him too much and I disagree. My son is bright and very attached to his parents as he should be. BUT he was miserable when it came to sleeping. By trying to console him all the time by touching him - ie rubbing his back, picking him up, etc, we made the situation so much worse. He would grab on for dear life to our arms, hair, faces when we would lean into the crib to console him. I tried everything else and this is the only thing that has worked. Going in every 5, then 10 then 15 minutes and praising your child and encouraging him and telling him you'll be back to check is so loving. My son put himself to sleep the first night in less than a half hour - tonight - night 4 NO CRYING OR WHIMPERING! He knows that if he needs me I'll come back. And if you aren't comfortable with waiting 15 minutes, then you can come back earlier. This book isn't telling you to say see ya! and not come back! It's a wonderful book that is sympathetic to the child as well as the parent. The best gifts we can give our children are consistency, love, praise, independence and sleep - all of which this book teaches.
It is an easy read and makes a lot of sense unlike other sleep books. I have tried Pantley's No Cry Method and it really didn't work for my son - after trying this method, I know why. Pantley had less talk and more touching and my son couldn't do that. Touching = picking up and unless we did that we would get screaming.
I highly recommend this book and want to thank the authors sooooo much for their thoughtful book - they have done a lot of research and none of these reviews says that it didn't work for them - and no one abandoned their child for hours of crying. I did this for my baby first, then my husband and me. We wouldn't do anything for us if it meant something negative or harmful to our baby.
MUST READ!
Book Review: Great system with Little crying!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This system worked amazing for my daughter. She was not sleeping well at all and you could see it in her demeanor. I completely understand the fear behind the "cry it out" methods. I hated the idea. However, after doing research and lots of it I realized how bad it really is for a child to not get the sleep they need. For all the critics out there you are entitled to your opinions but this is certainly not a way to abandon your children. There is nothing lazy about sucking up your own sadness and teaching your child to lead a better life. Because sleeping through the night and self soothing are indeed a learned skill.
I waited until my little girl was 6 months and well over the right weight for sleeping through the night. She was waking out of habit not hunger. She got plenty of nutrition during the day. This method taught my daughter to sleep well in less then a few days. The only day I had real crying was day one. Even that was minimal. On night 3 she slept through the night. She is napping on her own, which she never did before without me holding her the entire time. And she is going down awake and on night 2 falling asleep with no crying at all. Her night time wakings which last night was down to 1 lasted for maybe 5 minutes of drowsy whining with her putting herself back to sleep.
No one is suggesting that you allow your child to continually cry night after night. That isn't what this is about. It is about teaching your child a new skill. Like riding a bike. There will be some frustration. However the reward is worth it. First and foremost for the child. The idea that a baby or child ISN'T SUPPOSE to sleep well is absurd. They need it more than any of us with their rate of growth and learning development. I promise you that you aren't exhausting them to sleep. The crying is out of frustration and the point is to eliminate the crying. This method does that. No more crying for my happy girl. And on night 2!
The authors of this book are sympathetic to the fears and sadness that the parent will face. They are realistic and honest. Not only that but they are extremely helpful. I had sent several emails to them on their website with questions. I got a response both times within the day. Of all the methods I researched this is the best. It is a middle ground and it works!
Book Review: It's a miracle
Summary: 5 Stars
Our five-and-a-half month old son has been a terrible sleeper from birth, and was getting to the point where the entire night was nothing more than a series of 45-minute naps that left my husband and I bleary-eyed and at our wits' end. We tried swaddling, rocking, shushing, pacifying, swinging, and cosleeping - nothing was helping our baby get the sleep he needed. By the third night of implementing this program, he went to bed with only 5 minutes of crying and slept from 7:30 pm until we woke him at 7:30 the next morning! We feel like we have a new baby and a new outlook on life. I was so distressed because he was not sleeping through the night and not on a schedule for naps, and I had no idea how to change this!
If you think this is just another cry-it-out book you're wrong. It broke my heart when our baby would cry, even when I was holding and rocking him, for up to an hour straight sometimes! He was overtired and fighting sleep, and I didn't know what to do to fix it. With this program, he has never cried for an hour - not even close - even in his crib with no pacifier. This is significantly less crying that what we were experiencing when we were trying to hold, rock, and pat him back to sleep all night long.
We are so glad we discovered this program. We watched the DVD and put it to the test that same night! Today is day six and he took two 2-hour naps and went to sleep tonight without a peep! It's a miracle!
Book Review: Just another book telling us how to abandon our children...
Summary: 1 Stars
I read this book at our library. How parents can continue to search for books that justify lazy parenting is beyond me. It is a another book out there to make parents feel less guilty about leaving their kid to cry so they only have to parent during the day. The authors don't point out that babies are designed to wake and eat throughout the night and learn to trust by responsive parents. My guess is most parents looking for this book are already formula feeding because a breastfed baby can't go through the night without nursing. Find a better book that teaches you how to respond and bond with your baby.