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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:  681 reviews
Sales Rank: 325
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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Product Description
A breakthrough approach that offers hope to exhausted parents looking for gentle ways to help their baby sleep without the heart-wrenching tears. Until now the only two ways to deal with sleepless nights were to let your baby cry herself to sleep or to become a sleep-deprived martyr and tough it out from dusk until dawn. The No-Cry Sleep Solution will show you how it is entirely possible and within your grasp to help your baby fall asleep peacefully--and stay asleep all night long.
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 I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! October 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At first when I read this book it seemed too involved and I was a tad bit turned off by what seemed like a lot of work. I set the book aside and admittedly didn't follow it to the T. I did however implement some of the basic ideas, no nursing/sucking to sleep and gradually assisting to sleep less and less etc and what I have now is a baby that puts himself to sleep without ever having to let him cry it out. I did try the cry it out method, I tried it after reading this book thinking that this book was too involved but I just couldn't do it and I don't think my son had the personality for it too. So back to the book I went. To my total shock I started noticing I was doing less and less to assist him to sleep until I just started trying to put him down awake (sleepy of course and after a good dose of cuddling too) and he would just roll over and go to sleep. I am truly impressed I really didn't think there was ever any possibility that a baby would eventually be able to put himself to sleep without some form of crying it out. Not my little man, we did it!! He is six months, I read this book when he was less then three months old and just started implementing the suggestions prior to any habits forming. I think that is vital, to start this BEFORE you develop any bad sleep habits. Also I am pretty sure had I followed this book with more dedication he would have been putting himself to sleep a lot sooner but hey, I did what was comfortable for me and my family and it worked out all without having to leave him to cry it out in a hysterical fit of sadness and frustration. I am a happy mama!!!
 Some good info October 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pluses:
*Invaluable explanation of how baby sleep cycles work. Specifically, a baby starts out in a very light form of sleep and is easily awoken. After 20 minutes s/he cycles into a deeper sleep mode and remains that way for about 40 minutes before starting the cycle all over again. What this means for parents: If you're holding or wearing a sleeping baby, you need to wait 20 minutes after s/he falls asleep before placing him/her in a crib - otherwise s/he'll probably wake up.
*An acknowledgment that many "sleep solutions" won't work for babies under 4 months. Honestly, when it comes to sleep in the first insane 3+ months, it's whatever works works. I liked the fact that Pantley listed a number of different activities to try in getting a newborn to sleep. I appreciated not being chided for failing to get my 2 week old asleep by putting him in his crib while still awake (the holy grail of all sleep advice!).
*The safety guidelines for co-sleeping are thorough and excellent.
Minus:
*The writing style is a little...amateurish. The friend who gave me this book said, "You'll discover some useful info in here, but you'll probably find yourself disliking the author." She was right. Pantley is obviously very proud of her parenting skills and as a result, sometimes comes off as rather smug. A lot of the "research" from this book is pasted together from other sources. And on the whole, this book could have benefited from another round of editing (someone needed to tell the author not to share that she's used the bathroom wearing a child!)
Excellent!! October 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For anyone who is looking for someone to tell them "DO THIS! IT WILL WORK IMMEDIATELY!" This book is not for you!
Pantley reminds you several times in her text that her ideas are gentle and are "designed" to work over time, not overnight. Although she does admit that if you stick with it and are as disciplined in your administration of her ideas as you wish your child to be when it comes to bedtime that you can see results faster. Pantley presents TONS of ideas and helpful hints on how to help your child get a better nights sleep with out traumatizing them or you! She presents her ideas in a well organized easy to read and understand manner. Her sleep logs are very helpful for turning a possibly chaotic problem into an extremely manageable one. This book is for everyone, from the parent looking to help their good sleeper sleep better AAAALL the way to the parent who hasn't had a single good nights sleep since day one. Her section on how babies sleep & their "normal" sleeping pattern was very informative and is key to helping you understand the hows, whens and whys of a child's sleep. This book is a wise purchase!
Saved my life October 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was almost crazy when by chance or destiny I found this book on Amazon. I knew in my heart I could not let my baby cry-it-out. Yet, I was finding no alternatives and was really frustrated not being able to sleep at all. This book showed me the way to greatly improve my child's sleep while making her feel safe and loved. I am very thankful to Elizabeth Pantley for taking the time to share this so important knowledge. If you don't beleive in letting your baby cry - this book is essential for you.
 Not the most realistic. October 10, 2008
I was hopeful that this approach was going to work for our little one. She had colic for the first 3.5 months and cried a lot. Therefore i was looking for a sleep approach that didn't require additional crying. We didn't start any real sleep "training" until 4 months. And bottomline... we have come to the conclusion, some crying must occur. I know that ALL babies are different, but this approach was not the one for us.
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