I waxed philosophic, contemplated writing a baby
sleep book to share my wisdom.
Martha and Dr. Bill are best known for their Sears Parenting Library published by Little, Brown and Company: The Healthy Pregnancy Book, The Birth Book, The Baby Book, The Attachment Parenting Book, The Discipline Book, The Breastfeeding Book, The Fussy Baby Book, The Family Nutrition Book, The Premature Baby Book, The Baby
Sleep Book, The A.D.D. Book, and The Healthiest Kid In The Neighborhood.
Even Ferber (I have read
ALL the sleep books in an attempt to help our situation) acknowledges that some kids get worse with CIO instead of better.
There are many other ideas in books like the No Cry
Sleep books by Elizabeth Pantley too.
If you keep looking for that «quick - fix» or just read another Baby
Sleep book, I've got to tell you something... You're not gonna get anywhere, love!
The most ardent and vocal opponent of the «cry it out» method, Dr. William Sears, has just come out with «The Baby
Sleep Book,» written with one of his two pediatrician sons, Dr. Robert Sears, in which they urge parents to rescue their infants from crying jags.
In the tome «The Baby
Sleep Book: The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family,» Dr. Sears recommends checking your little one's PJ's if he isn't sleeping well at night.
The Baby
Sleep Book: The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family; William Sears, Robert Sears, James Sears, Martha Sears
Where appropriate, I will refute mainstream parenting myths (e.g. that you must teach a baby to sleep or they will never learn to sleep) or demonstrate where some mainstream approaches could be dangerous (e.g. my recent post highlighting Macall Gordon's work comparing CIO recommendations in infant
sleep books with actual research on CIO).
If you think that babies sleep a certain way, based either on culture or past experience or something you read in a book (please PLEASE either read
no sleep books or all of them) or what your mother - in - law says about how your partner slept as a baby or whatever, then if your child doesn't sleep that way, it may take you a long time to be able to identify cues from your child about what s / he needs because you'll be fighting with your expectations.
Most
sleep books (and I've unfortunately had to read a lot) recommend that you have a sleep routine and designated sleep spot in place by around 4 months for nighttime sleep and most naps.
The last thing I wanted to do was flip through the pages of baby
sleep books that all seemed to say different things!
Get a free copy of the Loved to Sleep «Fill - in Sleep Plan» when you sign - up for updates on the Loved to
Sleep book.
My husband, Josh, read a bunch of
sleep books while I was pregnant, I didn't read any.
On the first Wednesday of every month I run a free Sleep Q&A session on my Facebook Page for «The Gentle
Sleep Book».
This is the one
sleep book you need to read.
``... but the «baby whisperer»
sleep book worked amazingly well for my friend!
The entire contents of these baby
sleep books teach women how to «train» their babies to sleep through the night.
The baby / child
sleep books would have you think differently.
There are dozens of parenting
sleep books about kids and sleep problems, from Dr. Ferber's «Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems» book to Elizabeth Pantley's «No - Cry Sleep Solution».
At last a kids»
sleep book that is NOT about babies / toddlers nor blaming & shaming parents!
The Baby
Sleep Book by pediatrician Dr. William Sears is a great guide for this method.
For extra help getting your baby to sleep through the night, consider reading one or more of these parenting
sleep books, such as:
That's the central tenet to Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth, arguably the most popular baby
sleep book of all time.
Parenting and
sleep books are all ridiculously dogmatic: «Do this or your child will be ruined.
So, doctors here a quote in his the baby
sleep book.
# 3 Your baby's sleep «issue» is most likely not an issue at all but simply normal... so stop believing all of those baby
sleep books you are reading!
Every other
sleep book out there is about «sleep training.»
As a lactation counselor, postpartum doula and overnight nanny, I read
every sleep book and practiced any sleep training method my families asked for.
Most
sleep books offer some sort of a detailed plan or program with defined steps to follow.
previous poster: Note above under «BOOKS» it is mentioned that, «A collection of useful baby
sleep books, as well as those that specifically pertain to sleep sharing can be found here» and includes a link back to books such as «The Family Bed» (great book!)
for those of you who might be interested in reading more about AP friendly
sleep the books that i found helpful (especially when the bean was younger) were No Cry Sleep Solution and The Sleep Book from the Sears Library.
No more bossy
sleep books with impossible rules.
I read 5
sleep books in a month (I'll share the titles in this post), several advocating for sleep training methods that I wasn't comfortable with.
It's designed to help sleepless moms and dads who are absolutely exhausted, are tired of reading all of
the sleep books, and who are simply at a loss as to how to help their baby to sleep when they have tried everything.
Taking Deb's advice to heart, I reviewed all of
the sleep books that I had on hand and then leveraged my various certifications to help my little guy become an amazing sleeper in no time.
We love your gentle
sleeping book and very much try to follow a similar philosophy but find it hard when the entirety of society is pressuring you back to work.
Everything they told me was already painstakingly described in
my sleep books.
William and Martha are best known for their Sears Parenting Library published by Little Brown: The Pregnancy Book, The Birth Book, The Baby Book, The Discipline Book, The Breastfeeding Book, The Fussy Baby Book, The A.D.D. Book, The Family Nutrition Book, The Premature Baby Book, The Baby
Sleep Book, and The Healthiest Kid In The Neighborhood.
Best - selling author of The Gentle
Sleep book and parenting expert, Sarah Ockwell - Smith, shares her tips
We read loads of
sleep books and talked with several other coaches and experts — over the phone, via email, and in person — and we tried nearly every method.
It's great if you have time to read all of
the sleep books as I have.
The Baby
Sleep Book: The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family.
I read every baby book and
sleep book I could find and in time, I had a child that was sleeping on his own for naps and sleeping 12 hours at night every night.
«We researched
ALL the sleep books and decided on this one.
Where as the The gentle
Sleep Book, was both informative and reassuring.
I see if I can borrow the Gentle
Sleep book from somewhere.
While there's nothing wrong with a mobile over the crib (although several
sleep books I've read lately discourage it), I strongly recommend you get one for over baby's play spot as well.
My experience learning how to help him sleep all night was the incentive for me to write my first no - cry
sleep book.
There are many
sleep books and methods that can help you get your kids to sleep better and fix their sleep problems, but the Ferber method is definitely one that you should consider.