After setting the plan in motion, she naps during the day like a champ, has a set bedtime, bedtime routine and goes to sleep like a charm (though I must admit that occasionally she cries for up to 15 mins. before falling asleep) Unfortunately, I cannot report that her learning to fall asleep on her own at naptime and bedtime has resulted in her sleeping through the night.

My daughter sleeps through the night about 3x a week on average (meaning she goes to bed at 8 pm and wakes at 7am) The rest of the time she wakes between 2 and 4 am screaming - sometimes incolsolably. I've never been able to figure out why, and it is often very difficult to get her back to sleep. At our wits end, we have let her cry it out (which is very difficult). She has cried it out in the wee hours for more than an hour for 2 weeks straight - never seeming to relent in the length of time it takes her to stop crying. Obviously, she does fall asleep eventually (probably from exhaustion). We are exhausted too!

Unfortunately, Dr. Mindell's book does not address what to do when your child has an iron will and is still waking in the middle of the night despite following the plan. (She seems too young for it to be night terrors). If you have a particularly strong-willed child, this book may not provide enough information to cure the sleep problem. All that being said, this book is well written, extremely informative, and logical. I found it very helpful in theory, but the plan did not transform my baby into a "sleep through the nighter." My baby must have fallen into the 20% that does not learn to fall back to sleep in the middle of the night despite using Dr. Mindell's method.