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The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night (Pantley)

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Author: Elizabeth Pantley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

88 reviews
Sales Rank: 602

Media: Paperback
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Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 254
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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: April 1, 2002
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4 out of 5 stars

routine without tears before bedtime July 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Elizabeth Pantley's book is especially great for those parents co-sleeping and breastfeeding. It fills in the gaps where the Sears Attachment Parenting and Baby Sleep books fail on this angle. It mentions the co-dependancy of daytime naps and night-time sleeping.

BUT having specifically mentioned two mothers with lap-napping babies that were cured of this sleeping preference, guidance on how to achieve success was not supplied. Another mother was cured of taking bedtime with her baby due to separation issues but again this was frustratingly not addressed.

A major factor in Elizabeth's advice is the emphasis on placing your baby down to sleep when still awake but without satisfactory guidance on how to manage non-conformity. Placing baby down when 'almost asleep' is not detail enough for me. Information on how to achieve a self-settled baby (without rocking, feeding, singing etc) and avoid any upset followed by missed nap/overtiredness etc is lacking.

However, Elizabeth's book helped cure my baby of hourly night waking with very simple advice on limiting daytime naps to two hours long - common sense when one thinks about it!

This book would probably more suit parents who need routine out of necessity rather than desire. We found it more stressful attempting to structure our daytime to add any benefit, so remain fluid on how each day progresses. My baby is breastfed and benefits from nightfeeding, so I would not wish for her to sleep through the night which this book helped me appreciate. Still, a much kinder method to that of the Tracy Hogg, Faber or Gina Ford's of this world.

5 out of 5 stars

yes it works but it takes ages July 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

we started reading this book when our baby was 1 month old. We have been trying and trying the one step forward take a step back if she gets upset approach and at 8 months she is finally going for naps and bed fully awake and staying in her cot all night with the occasional brief visit by dad. it takes loads of patience and faith but it does work.

4 out of 5 stars

Supportive & encouraging... July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

is how this book is written, as commented below it's not written by an 'expert' (but I would suggest that a mother of 4 IS an expert!) however, the research done by the author to write the book includes sourcing other books-as we all probably do and talking to / testing her ideas with other mums - as we all probably do. Being an exhausted mother of a now 5 month old who only wants to sleep in her Mum's arms I love this book because:
- its easy to read (essential when you're pooped)
- the ideas are easy to follow with cues for reviewing your progress & yes this is helpful when you're so tired.
It enables you to hold onto your patience and keep going whilst realising it's gonna take a while!

4 out of 5 stars

No miracle answers - but a good range of options for when you don't want to "cry it out" July 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I came to this book in desperation when my second child was 9 months old. He was not a good sleeper. He (and consequently I) had never slept for more than 4 hours at a time (and that was on a good night!). We tried the "cry it out" approach, but it didn't work - my son just cried longer each night and I felt very uncomfortable with it all. At that point I was feeling quite despondent, wondering what other options I had or whether it was a case of enduring what was rapidly breaking me.

The title of this book ("The No-Cry Sleep Solution") is misleading in that there is no one solution presented. It's more like a smorgasbord of suggestions and you determine the combination that works for you. I must say, when you are exhausted this doesn't feel like the answer that you have been waiting for. But I was very encouraged by Pantley's emphatic assurance that with trial and error, almost everyone finds something that works for them.

My son's sleep did improve, though it was a gradual improvement over a couple of months. There are no overnight solutions here. Nevertheless, I liked the book. It's written in a gentle and helpful style and some of the suggestions are definitely worthwhile.

1 out of 5 stars

barbaric July 13, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful

Babies are meant to breastfeed through the night not starve/sleep- it amounts to the same effect - dehydration and discomfort