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| The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears
Brand: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  685 reviews
Sales Rank: 317
Media: Paperback
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Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 254
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0071381392
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928498
UPC: 639785400233
EAN: 9780071381390
ASIN: 0071381392
Publication Date: March 28, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Perfect for an AP mother September 26, 2002
51 out of 53 found this review helpful
I practice attachment parenting: I breastfeed and my baby sleeps with me. I am very happy with my choice to parent her this way - I know it is the best way. One side affect though has been that she still was waking up many times during the night. Everyone has advice for you and most of it is that you caused it yourself and if you would just put her in a crib and let her cry everything would be fine. Well that wouldn't be fine with me! I would have rather continued with night waking for a year than make my baby cry. Happily, I discovered The No Cry Sleep Solution. I find that the ideas speak right to my heart. They are gentle and loving and allow me to work on our sleeping one step at a time. We've already cut our number waking up by half and I am very happy. If you are a tired AP mother, then this book will be perfect for you.
This author understands October 22, 2002
51 out of 52 found this review helpful
If people think you are foolish because you won't let your baby cry to sleep. If they make you feel like it's your own fault that your baby isn't sleeping. Then this is the book for you. This author gives you a written hug and reassurance that its perfectly ok to love your baby so much that you can't make him cry. She gives you so many gentle ideas for encouraging sleep that don't go against what you believe. People like us are willing to take a little more time to teach our babies to sleep. We don't need or want a 3 day miracle if it means letting our babies cry to the point of hysterics. I truly love this book as much for the solutions as for the reassuring tone and compassion.
changed my life immediately March 28, 2003
50 out of 50 found this review helpful
I just wanted to report that this book changed my life immediately.
This is a very practical, sensitive book written by a mom who wanted to find a sleep solution that didn't involve varying degrees and timing of crying. I couldn't bare my baby's crying and was getting up 4-5 times a night for 3.5 months. When it occurred to me that I couldn't go back to work like this, desperate, I read web sites and then this book. In 24 hours (yes, one day!) my baby learned to sleep 5-6 hours and then again 2-4 hours. I am dreaming again and have less back pain too. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK for expecting and new parents (and grandparents nagging at you to let the little ones 'cry it out'). Here are a few highlights: 1. keeping babies up later so they get worn out won't lead to longer sleep... it will mean shorter stints since they get tensed up and can't relax well enough to go deep
2. calm down your home at night (sadly and for a little while at least, no more happy baby time for us with visitors and block meetings, baby brigade, etc.)
3. infant babies need 2-3 at least one hour naps per day (my baby slept periodically 30 minutes whenever)
4. babies need very regular schedules (oops, every day was different at our house as I was playing and erranding alot for this break without being at my office)
5. they need absolute darkness to sleep at night (we nixed the night light and noticed our neighbor's porch light came right into the nursery)
6. they don't necessarily need to feed if they awaken and can be patted to sleep (no wonder my kid's in the 90th percentile for weight) Anyhow, we follow the tricks in the book exactly, all of them but putting a 'lovey' in my bra (good grief), and the method immediately worked for us. Of course it won't work for everyone and all babies are unique. But, if you're going crazy like I was, I recommend it.
 This is no Sleep Solution January 26, 2004
47 out of 63 found this review helpful
This book promises a new look at the problem of getting your child to sleep through the night - without crying. However, there's nothing new here. All you get with this book is the same old "follow a routine, put your child down for regular naps" deal. There are no guidelines for HOW to put your child down for regular naps - you're just supposed to do it. Somehow your child just isn't going to cry. You know, I'm sure this argument holds water: if your child sleeps well during the day, she'll sleep better at night. I'm not arguing with that, it's just that I've heard it before. This book is a waste of money, and promises solutions that it just doesn't deliver. Here, let me save you $10: follow a regular schedule, ease your child into naptime and bedtime by reading to her, or taking her for a walk, or anything to get her sleepy and used to the idea that it's almost time to sleep. There. Feel better?
Read the excerpts and decide for yourself September 26, 2002
46 out of 48 found this review helpful
If you press on the book cover and read the Intro pages excerpts you can read the authors story and get a good feel for the book. When I read it I cried - it was like she was talking to me. I have found the book to be a good fit for us. It hasn't helped my baby 'sleep through the night' just yet - but we are doing much better and it gives the only solutions I am comfortable with. Sleep isn't the most important thing to me - my baby's health and well being is. Ten years from now it won't matter that I'm a little tired today, what will matter is what kind of person I raise my baby to be. This book fits my beliefs perfectly. Not a quick-fix but a compassionate approach to a temporary problem.
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