Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
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Book Reviews of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Book Review: A must read for all parents !!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is amazing. It explained very clearly to me the way sleep works in babies. When I read the book for the first time my baby was already 6 months old and I was sometimes spending 45 minutes to an hour trying to get her to sleep in the night. she used to sleep quickly but than as soon as I put her in the crib she would wake up and than I had to start the process all over again. Once I read this book we decided to go cold turkey on her. The 1st night she cried for 45 minutes and than slept. When we checked on her we saw that she had puked. We cleaned the sheets and she was still sleeping. The second night it was the same thing again. The 3rd day she cried for 10 minutes and again puked. My daughter always pukes when she cries really hard. But from the 4th day onwards she stopped crying and now she is 3 years old and everyday when we tuck her in and kiss her goodnight we are grateful that we stuck by our decision and did not give in to her crying.
Now with m second baby I started early. he is now 2 months old and I look out for his sleep cues and do not let him go awake for more than 2 hrs. The moment I feel he is ready to go down I rock him a little and when his eyes start to get heavy I swaddle him and put him in the crib. he happily goes to sleep. If he wakes up in 20-30 minutes I let him cry for a few minutes and he usually just goes back to sleep.
This book has helped me a lot and gave us back our evenings :-)
Book Review: Healthy Sleep Habits made my children Happy!~
Summary: 5 Stars
We tried Secrets of the Baby Whisperer first and it just didn't work for us so I tried Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. At first I found it hard to believe Weissbluth's assertion that babies cannot comfortably stay awake for more than 90 minutes at a time until I tried it. What I found was, with all three of my children, they reached a fussy, irritable state around 90 minutes and I had responding to them as though they were hungry so I would nurse them. That meant that I was feeding the baby every 90 minutes, not knowing that milk takes 90 minutes to digest and that they weren't hungry they were sleepy. I was feeding them when I should have been napping them. Once I got on board with the philosophy that a "well rested baby sleeps better" we were golden. We saw a happier baby the same day that we started applying the practical advice offered in the book. Aside from the solid guidance on how to get your baby to sleep better, on their own and without any intervention (swings, rocking, noise makers, car rides etc) I appreciated the advice on how to avoid bad habits. "Do as you intend to keep doing" was the best advice I was given and it is the only baby advice I pass along to expectant moms.
I have a 4-year old and 16 mo old twins and all of my children are in bed by 7pm and sleep until 7am. Giving my husband and I plenty of time to do what we want/need in the evening. We owe it to Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.
Book Review: Saved my Sanity!!
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend gave me this book after my husband and I returned home from Colombia with our newly adopted five month old son. In the weeks before I had the book, life was very difficult. I couldn't get our baby to sleep at all. He wouldn't nap for more than 20 minutes at a time, and he was so overstimulated.
By reading Dr. Weissbluth's book, I began to understand how important sleep was, and that a lack of sleep can compound itself to make for one cranky baby. I began to learn that if you miss the window of opportunity to put a baby down when they first get tired, than you may have a very overstimulated, difficult to calm child on your hands.
After a few weeks of reading this book, my son was sleeping better. He became a different baby. After a couple of months, he was in a very good schedule. Now, he's 7 and 1/2 years old and still needs his sleep or he gets overstimulated. He sleeps really, really well though thanks to this book and the lessons/techniques I learned from it.
This book was my "bible" with my son, and then my daughter, adopted at 10 weeks old from Colombia.
Now, we're awaiting a third child, this time from Taiwan and no matter where I look I cannot find my copy of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child (must've loaned it out to a friend) so I'm back on Amazon to order another copy. It's a MUST read and I have recommended it to friends countless times.
Book Review: Best sleep book
Summary: 5 Stars
Weissbluth has a reasonable approach to sleep care. He is not an extremist, either by asking kids to cry forever, or for parents to overly coddle. The book can be read straight through, or see age-appropriate chapters when needed. Weissbluth was our pediatrician for 2 of our three children. He is a dream doctor, and a father himself. Our kids all sleep more than anybody elses, and they are happier, healthier, and more manageable too. Weissbluth is focused on the kid in this book. When asked questions like "but my husband/wife doesn't get home until 8:00. (s)he'd never see the baby if he goes to bed at 6 p.m.", Weissbluth basically says don't punish the child because of your schedule. You, the adult, work around it. He doesn't have a lot of suggestions for how adults handle this, but our family found it worth working around the kids' sleep schedules. Have the parent who arrives home late take night duty--changing diapers or feedings in the middle of the night--or focus on the family having breakfast together, if dinner isn't possible. Bonding at 6 a.m. is more valuable than trying to bond with an over-tired kid at 8 p.m. Soon enough the child's bed time will approach the adult work schedule.
Kids need around 13 hours of sleep in 24 hours, depending on the age. If your child or a child you know isn't getting that much, try the book soon you'll have a much more pleasant child.
Book Review: Not "just" a cry-it-out book... he gives different options to suit various parenting styles AND unbeatable info on HEALTHY sleep
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fabulous reference that helps parents to understand and advocate a healthy sleep schedule for their child. I hesitate to use the word "schedule" because it's not strict in the sense of adhering to the clock regardless of the child's behavior. It explains how to read your child's cues to determine his optimum sleep times, and then how to help get him to sleep. I appreciate that it explains the various different options and how they work... meaning that if crying-it-out is necessary and you're willing to try it, then he explains how to get through it. If, however, you wish to employ no-cry methods, he explains how to best use those, as well as a few in-between options. Basically, he tells what works best and how to do it, but if you're uncomfortable with a particular method, he gives alternate options that you can use as well so you're sure to find one that not only works, but is something you're comfortable doing, regardless of your parenting style.
Not only is this a great help when your infant is learning to sleep through the night, but it educates parents of the health impacts of healthy and unhealthy sleep patterns for children of all ages. It helps you to understand how much sleep your child needs at any given age, and how that child's health, attention, and even learning capacity is affected when he doesn't receive healthy sleep. This is a great resource!!!