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The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5

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This book has a lot of common sense ideas that many of us find out the hard way. Better to start off on the right foot.
I would recommend the advice in this book for infants 3 months and up.

We co-slept with our son until he was 4 1/2 months old and had trouble getting him to sleep all night in his crib. He would wake up 7 or 8 times a night and our sleep suffered for it and he wasn't getting enough sleep. This program has gone so far to helping everyone in our house get the sleep we require. After only 5 nights my son was sleeping through the night with me waking him for his night feeding. Now he goes down at 8:30 and wakes up at 7:30. It is so fantastic! There have been no bad effects from letting him cry a little and he is a happy easy going baby during the day. Thank goodness for the Sleep Easy Solution!

The book is simply written and very reassuring which is great. I ordered this and the Ferber method- what I can say is that this book is a total rip off of the Ferber method. They have taken a well researched and time tested method and repackaged it for those who believe all the negative rhetoric. Don't buy both books as they are the same thing, if you are more into research and an academic approach go for Ferber, if you want an easy, straightforward simple book- go for this one!

Like Healthy Sleep Habits, but actually tells you how to achieve the same goals- written very succinctly. WORKS!!

Very helpfull information, we have told all of our friends to buy it! But you need to follow what the book says and it really works

A little background, before I write my review. My son is now almost 5 months old, and he actually started sleeping through the night (STTN) when he was 8 weeks old. If he wasn't STTN, he was only waking up once. Then he turned 3 months old, and all his good sleep habits went down the drain. After 5+ weeks of waking up and nursing my son every 1.5 - 3 hours during the night...I'd had enough! A friend recommended this book to me, and I'll be forever grateful to her that she did! I had to wait until my son was about 4 months and 1 week old to start this as he was just shy of 14 lbs and was learning to roll over.

We started his sleep learning and the first night wasn't too bad. He only woke up twice and settled himself in 18 minutes the first time, and 50 minutes the second time. We started teaching him how to nap better the next day, as the book recommends, and he went down without a fuss all day. The second night was HORRIBLE. I would be prepared to have at least one horrible night within the first 1-5 nights of sleep learning. He screamed and cried for an hour twice. :( BUT, I had my book handy and kept repeating to myself in my head "consistency is the key - stick with it! What you were doing before wasn't working!!" I'm really glad that I did, because by night #5 my son was STTN again!

I really like how the authors explain how development and hitting milestones can affect their sleep. My son was in the process of learning how to roll over - and he was trying to practice it in his sleep. I gave him a good 10 days once he learned his new skill and then started the process. Unfortunately, my son got a bit of a head cold a week into our sleep learning, so we had to put it on hiatus. It was really nice to have a plan to FALL BACK ON, so I started SleepEasy full-swing again when he was better, and the first night was another HORRIBLE night of two sessions of 50 minutes of crying in the night. But, the second night he STTN again! I truly believe in this process. It is undeniably VERY hard to let and hear your baby cry...but it so vitally essential for them to learn how to self-soothe. Just remember - nothing you've done has been working - so why not give it a shot?

My son is more happy, well rested, and I had proclaimed him the "King of the 45 minute Nap"...now he is having two 2 hour naps and one 45 minute nap a day because he is more well rested from the night. He doesn't "hold a grudge" at me during the day for letting him fuss or cry at night. He puts himself to sleep without a fuss or a sound every time now.

I did modify a few things, which I recommend for you to do too (if necessary), if you're leary of some of the suggestions in the book. For example, at the beginning of this, I let my son fall asleep with a pacifier, as I didn't want to change EVERYTHING - but I did not reinsert it if he woke up. He has always been a thumb sucker and now I don't need to put him to sleep with a pacifier anymore, he wants his thumb and the sleep learning has reinforced that. Since he was an inconsistent waker and I couldn't really time his dreamfeeds, I've instead modified it to increase the length of time between his dreamfeeds. For instance, the first night I set my alarm to feed him every 2 hours as that's what he was used to. Now I'm dreamfeeding every 6 hours, only once per night and I will eventually wean him from this one feed.

This book is also very user friendly, easy to read for the sleep-deprived parent, great indexes and tips!

My biggest piece of advice if you are going to do SleepEasy: "SHORT TERM PAIN FOR LONG TERM GAIN!"

This book s definately worth reading. Even if you don't follow the whole thing, there is some really good information. It got my daughter sleeping through the night with minimal tears. (unlike some other sleep solution books which I will not name). I would highly recommend it.

I've a ten month old who was waking through the night, increasingly getting worse (waking sometimes every hour and a half). I used the plan in this book and she was sleeping through the night, eleven hours straight, after three days. We couldn't believe how quickly it worked - our reality changed from being sleep-deprived and frustrated to getting the sleep we all needed all within days! The book has an easy-to-follow and specific plan formulated by two experts that has been tried and tested by countless parents. It also does a good job of explaining the fundamentals of sleep and why it's important for your baby to learn how to sleep on his/her own. My advice is if you want one sleep book, this is the one to get.

I cannot say enough about this absolutely fantastic book. After only two nights our 5 month old son went down without crying at all. I'm only in the beginning stages but so far so good! The way this book is written is very reader-friendly and you really feel as though the authors truly understand how exhausted parents feel. I love how there are tips for when you are travelling or for time changes, and that they cover from 4 months to age 5. This is a must have for any parent. Buy it for everyone you know.