Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child | Marc Weissbluth | Great Informative and Realistic book

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child | Marc Weissbluth | Highly recommend

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	Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child Marc Weissbluth Ballantine Books, 2003 - 345 pages average customer review:based on 1129 reviews view larger image
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Great Informative and Realistic book

This book provides a scientific guide to helping your child sleeps. I like it because if offers guidelines, solutions, and a practical outline of what the average child needs.
I have read some books that make you feel terrible if your child cries at all. This book says you need to do whatever you feel is best for both the parent and child.
1st this book helped me when my daughter was 5 months old and wouldn't sleep while on vacation. Now, 9 mo. old, it is helping me determine the amount of sleep she needs at night and during naps. Since we let her cry through a night feeding, she is sleeping though the night again, taking good daytime naps again, and much happier all around.

The bottom line of the book is that your child needs sleep. This book helped me and my daughter become happy and well rested again.

PS. The no cry sleep solution made me cry instead of helping me.

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Highly recommend

Out of all the books I read for learning about child care this was one of the most helpful. It has a lot of science behind it which I liked ( I am a medical professional) and I think many books out there are just someone elses opinion. I would include it with my top 3 favorite books, the others were the "Baby Whisperer Solves all your Problems" and "12 Hours Sleep in 12 weeks".

A Must Have for New Parents!

This book brought us hours of sleep with both our children. Weissbluth is a genius. His monthly guides that help you as a parent understand your child's sleep patterns are essential. When I was ready to have my children learn to sleep on their own, his book was filled with anecdotes that I could use to guide me. Both of my children (3 and 4) sleep 10-12 hrs at night and 1-3 hrs in the afternoon thanks to his book. They were sleeping through the night at 3 mths (even while nursing), and they had daily nap schedules as little as 3 mths too. This book is by far the best investment we made as a family!

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life saver

This book saved my life, and I love it. The background info about sleep is interesting. It gives good tips for getting your baby to sleep and it really works. Not for the "no-cry" crowd, he advocates cry it out, of ferber method.

Good foundational concepts but overcomplicated and confusing

I started reading this book near the end of my pregnancy and continued after I was discharged from the hospital but baby had to stay there in the NICU. I wanted to start off with some great sleep habits from the moment baby arrived home.

I initially was very fascinated by the foundations the book set forth in regards to how important sleep is to an infant/child's development, and feel that Weissbluth definitely knows his stuff when it comes to sleep's affect on a child's development. These first few chapters provided great foundational concepts -- that sleep, like food, is essential to healthy growth and has different qualities (not all types of sleep are created equal).

BUT... as the book moved on, I found the practical application sections extremely confusing, complicated, and sometimes contradictory, sometimes redundant. Maybe it was just that I was reading this half sleep-deprived myself (although when else are parents likely to be reading this?), but I found it very poorly organized and confusing. I was pretty much left confused as to how to simply begin a good sleep program--what were my first steps?

Along these lines, there are also so many "warnings" along the way (scattered about in a haphazard manner) that you end up feeling paranoid that whatever you do is going to mess up your baby's sleep schedule.

Although I very much appreciated the first few chapters for their foundational concepts (and I will always take these with me -- thus the 3 stars), I found this book pretty unhelpful for practical application. For practical application, I will use the No Cry Sleep Solution by Pantley, which is much more clear and concise.

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