The last thing I wanted to do was flip through the pages of
baby sleep books that all seemed to say different things!
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.
My experience learning how to help him sleep all night was the incentive for me to write my first no -
cry sleep book.
Most sleep books offer some sort of a detailed plan or program with defined steps to follow.
The entire contents of these baby
sleep books teach women how to «train» their babies to sleep through the night.
Remember that reading a
baby sleep book doesn't mean that you have to follow any or all of its recommendations.
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.
The Baby
Sleep Book by pediatrician Dr. William Sears is a great guide for this method.
Hi Sarah, ive read your
gentle sleep book and now gentle parenting so im a huge fan and your words really resonate with me.
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).
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».
My husband, Josh, read a bunch of
sleep books while I was pregnant, I didn't read any.
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.
«Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems» by Dr. Richard Ferber, M.D. was one of the
first sleep books to help parents get their kids to sleep through the night.
The Gentle
Sleep Book offers gentle, no tears, sleep solutions for exhausted parents of new - borns to five year olds.
WIth # 2 I am reading her
newborn sleep book BEFORE baby arrives, because honestly who can even process all that info while sleep deprived?
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
previous sleep book, and the predecessor to this one, is The No - Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night.
There are many other ideas in books like the No Cry
Sleep books by Elizabeth Pantley too.
For extra help, in addition to advice from your pediatrician, you can often work to fix your baby's sleep problems by reading a
parenting sleep book, 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.
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.
On the first Wednesday of every month I run a free Sleep Q&A session on my Facebook Page for «The
Gentle Sleep Book».
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.
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.
Elizabeth Pantley is a parent educator, mother of four, and the author of the now - classic baby
sleep book, The No - Cry Sleep Solution, as well as six other books in the series, including The No - Cry Separation Anxiety Solution, The No - Cry Potty Training Solution, The No - Cry Discipline Solution, The No - Cry Picky Eater Solution, plus other successful parenting books.
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.
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
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.
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.
I set upon a quest to read
every sleep book I could get my hands on.
As a postpartum doula and overnight nanny, I read
every sleep book and practiced Cry - It - Out for any families that asked.
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