Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
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Book Reviews of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Book Review: This book is GREAT!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is wonderful and saved my life more than once. If you have trouble getting your baby to sleep - read this book! The first half is a little tedious, but there is a lot of great info there. The second part tells specifically what to do for each age range. READ IT!Book Review: Referred by good sources
Summary: 4 Stars
Many good friends and professionals referred this book to us. Not just the friends that have no babies ;) but Mom and Dads that have had sleep concerns.
Book Review: Great book. It's OK to let kids cry. If you the parent have a problem with this, maybe there are deeper issues...?
Summary: 5 Stars
In response to the review by By Maria C. Bernhardt, I think the story she mentions IS a success story because it allowed for the child in question to develop better sleep habits and the parents to finally get some well deserved rest. There is nothing wrong with letting your child cry a little...or a lot if need be. In the story she refers to, the child had a history of terrible sleep habits and his parents were suffering. Yes, as a parent you need to put your child and his needs first. Sacrifice is not simply an added boon...it is a requirement of this role. At the same time, you as a parent have biological needs for sleep. And allowing your child to act as family tyrant simply because s/he has not developed healthy sleep habits is not playing the role of loving parent...it is allowing your child to become sleep deprived (leading to all the short and long-term problems that the author mentions in his book) and yourself to step down from the role as parent and become a spineless bystander. Does this mean that all parents must cruelly leave their children unattended, crying and alone to fend for themselves? Certainly not. What it does mean is that parents shouldn't be afraid to allow their children to cry if that crying will lead to a lifelong pattern of healthy sleep and a happy child. Not all children will or need to "cry it out" (a point which the author reiterates again and again throughout his work), but some will. And there's nothing wrong with that. If you can't allow your child to learn to soothe himself to sleep at this point, I firmly believe that you need to examine yourself and why you have so many issues with this. The issues and problems involving babies never disappear...they simply morph into more complex and difficult issues like peer pressure, what college your child will attend (if at all), sex, drugs, schoolwork...the list goes on and on. If you can't say no now for his or her present and future benefit, will you be able to later on when your child has a stronger will and the mobility and freedom to defy you if s/he truly wants to?Book Review: This book worked for us, guided us, and is the primary reason for our happy baby!
Summary: 5 Stars
We followed this book's advice and used the graduated extinction method, and he started sleeping through the night. Now he's 5 1/2 months old and wakes up once at 5 a.m. to eat--no big deal for me considering what could have happened when I read about other parents' ordeals on blogs, in books, and from what other parents tell me. He is happy, I always get comments on how much he smiles--he's a very smiley baby--and he loves to look around and observe and analyze things. This book is awesome--thank you Dr. Weissbluth!!!Book Review: It helped us!
Summary: 4 Stars
After our 4 month well check with our baby girl. WE were told to read the book by our pediatrician. Our child did not nap routinely and was still sleeping in our room (in a bassinet). I was waking constantly through the night and every rustle. I purchased the book and did some serious speed reading. Within a week of implementing the methods, our daughter was sleeping in her room, taking 2-3 naps (the book recommends 3-4 for her age) and only waking once at night for a feeding.
We have now had the methods in place for 2 months, and I am more in tune with her sleepy cues. We still need to implement a earlier bedtime, but everyone is getting more rest. I have known a few people that hhave read and used the methods. Everyone interprets them differently and may use other method in conjunction (EASY by the Baby Whisperer, Ferber etc...) depending on their comfort level. But the methods work and give you insight on the baby's sleep needs. The great thing re: the book is that it has sections for sleep problems and also is split into section re: age up until children are teens.