Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
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Book Reviews of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Book Review: A book that changed my family
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this book because of the recommendation from a friend. I was skeptical about how this book could help us at first because I have a 19 monthes old who had been sleeping with us since his birth. We had failed to sleep train him at 6 month and 9 month - continuously crying for more than 3 hours! We were desperate because he rolled and turned in the bed while sleeping and we just could not get any sleep. He started waking up at night and demanded to be rocked or walked as well. We were exhausted and sleep-deprived. The concept and ideas presented in the book have simply changed our view about our son's sleeping shedule and habits. Less than a week after I read the book, I took the recommendations and adjusted his sleep schedule - an extra early bedtime - and set up his own crib in his room. The ideas in the book really works! My son has been sleeping in his own crib and happily to be so. He falls asleep on his own as well. The concepts in the book are also important because they'll change your perspective about your child's sleep needs as well as your own! I highly recommend this book if you are looking for sleep solution for your family.
Book Review: Saved my marriage and my sanity! BUY IT NOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a 28 week premie that came home perfectly trained by the NICU nurses to wake up and feed every 3 hrs. As the months went by we had gone to the "he'll sleep when he's tired" mode my mom recommended. Like so many, the "stimulate him so he'll be smart" approach messed him up. He was inconsolable, "colicky" (sleep deprived) fought sleep (at 8 months old!) and finally fell asleep with a spoon in his mouth while feeding at 2pm. I knew then something was wrong. My neighbor recommended this book. By the 4th night, he was sleeping for 12 hrs straight thru. I put him to bed at 6pm because he really never could do 2 naps. If I put him to bed later, he woke up earlier hyper and cranky. He is 6 now and is well behaved a joy to be around and he falls asleep promptly at 730pm wakes up betw 630 and 7 always cheerful. He would've been diagnosed as autistic, ODD or "spoiled rotten" had we not read this book. I bless my neighbor and Dr Weisbluth DAILY. I feel so sorry for families who drag their kids around shopping or to restaurants at 8pm. Rarely do we deviate from the schedule and when we do we are sorry. I GET NOTHING BUT COMPLIMENTS ABOUT HIS CHARACTER.Book Review: The book that finally helped us
Summary: 5 Stars
My 10 month old baby was waking up every 2,3 hours at night, and it was driving me insane!! After reading many books including the no-cry sleep solution for babies, I was desperate for a solution to our sleep problem. I got this book and read the chapters that interested me and decided I needed to give it a try. I hated the idea of letting my baby cry, but I was desperate for a good night of sleep. I tried the first night and my baby cried and screamed for about half hour, and he took about another half hour to go back to sleep on his own. He woke up another time, but he only cried for about 15 min. I couldn't believe it!!! The second night he woke up once and cried for about 15 min. and went back to sleep. Since then he's been sleeping through the night, sometimes he wakes up, cries for 2 min. and goes back to sleep. I am back to my old self again, happy and enjoying life as a mom. When he was waking up many times at night I was very upset, tired, depressed. I thought it was going to be horrible letting my baby cry but it wasn't bad at all. I would recomend this book to other parents, it changed my perspective about letting a baby cry.Book Review: Read and reread this book for three children
Summary: 5 Stars
I was having trouble figuring out the sleep thing with my first child, 10 years ago. I checked out six books from the library and read them all when he was 3 months old. I liked this one best and (mostly) stuck with it. I reread it when my second child came along and then re-reread it with the latest addition who is 7 months old and I think I'm getting better and better at implementing the measures that Dr. Weissbluth recommends. The material is as relevant now as it was 10 years ago and I LOVE this book. I read it cover to cover in the first two weeks after the last one was born and every few weeks I find myself referring to different sections and reviewing them as things change. Other reviewers thought the material was a bit dry but I appreciated the scientific approach that Dr. Weissbluth has taken and found it gave me the best understanding of what was possible. You DO NOT have to be sleep deprived for the first year of life with a new baby.
I recommend this book to everyone I know that is having a baby and hope that it will help them to get a great night's sleep and raise a child that is also a great sleeper.
Book Review: if no-cry isn't working, you need this book
Summary: 5 Stars
It's obvious to me that the no-cry trend is a backlash to the way many of us were raised, and rightly so. But it seems that in many parents' thinking there is the right way of "attachment parenting", and the wrong way of everything else.
That said, if attachment parenting and no-cry methods are working and your child and you are happy and well-rested, then that's GREAT! But if that's not the case, as it wasn't with us, something more disciplined might be necessary. The first sentence in the book is about a helthy rested FAMILY. I learned that it is more important for my son to sleep than to never cry. He was crying from exhaustion anyway! I had a willful 11-month-old who wouldn't nap and was still waking every two hours at night!
This book saved me, my marriage, and my child. It helped me through my guilt about the Sears methods not working, and got us on a program to deal with my child's refusal to sleep. Its biological explanations, real stories, and statistics were extremely helpful to me. As Weissbluth says, only 9% of babies are so difficult. And if you have one of them, you need this book.