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The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night: Foreword by William Sears, M.D.: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep ... Foreword by William Sears, M.D. (Pantley) | 
| Author: Elizabeth Pantley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 1621
Media: Paperback
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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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 Do not buy this book if you are looking for any constructive advice October 16, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is really not what it's cracked up to be. The title is completely misleading as it does not provide any solutions. I bought it when I read some of the reviews recommending it as a must have and I really would love to know what possessed people to think it was of any use. The author provides no definative advice and says things like 'if you think you can't do it just give up' (the problems here are that she does not provide you with anything to give up on as she tells you nothing....) and this is not what a parent in dire straits (hence buying her book in the first place) needs to here. Really I cannot put too fine a point on it...you really can live WITHOUT this book.
 In praise of a relaxed approach!! October 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this book extremely useful. I thought I was a "routine person", and based on my first child's behaviour, thought every baby-related problem could be solved with a pithy abbreviation and some steely resolve.
Not so with my second child!! First time round I was a devotee of the Baby Whisperer. This time round, E.A.S.Y. was not a word I would have associated with our lives.....
Firstly she cried alot more than I ever remember my son crying.Secondly she seemd a lot more "clingy" that he did. (Seems daft to describe a baby as clingy when their main job is to stay close to their mummies). Thirdly, I was completely frazzled and unable to cope with the noise, disruption and downright cheek - how dare she not comply and do things by the book?!
I tried Gina, re-visited the Baby Whisperer, we even resorted to full-on attachement parenting for a while until I realised my constant dull back pain was due to carrying her around all day for fear of another burst of hysterics.
Finally we found this book and there was hope...we focussed on the bits that were working and we stopped panicking about the bits that weren't. She relaxed, we all relaxed. I stopped worrying about what I "should" be doing, and started doing whatever worked for all of us - me included.
This book helped me look at her with new, more compassionate eyes and gave me a gentle plan for eliminating some of the aspects of the so-called routine that either weren't working for her, or for the rest of the household.
She is 6 months old now, goes to bed easily, sleeps twice in the day, doesn't need to be breast fed to drop off and is a much happier baby. If you had asked me if I would have beleived this possible before we bought this book , I would have laughed at you (and then cried at the same time, due to being nutty with sleep deprivation)
Its a brilliant book if you need some help and nothing else seems to be working as the main message is one of reassurance - you'll never regret giving it a try.
Brilliant book September 10, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The No-cry Sleep Solution is a brilliant buy. Even if you don't follow her advice it is superbly reassuring and makes you realise that there are millions of parents with night-time feeders and wakeful children. I have huge issues with 'crying down' and it is something I would not advise or 'sign-up' to with my baby. However, this book will give lots of tips for sleeping, give you as a parent a deeper understanding of sleep patterns and will utlitmately shed some light on all those unanswered questions about 'why does my baby wake up every 40 minutes?'
 Lovely in theory but doesn't have a solution for every baby September 4, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a parent I've always been firmly in the Sears camp rather than the Gina camp, and this book seems to be considered as a sacred text by practically everyone I know with similar parenting styles. My 9 month old has been a poor sleeper from the start and so naturally I got hold of a copy. I do love the style of the book and it is indeed initially very reassuring. Unfortunately, it does seem very much geared to fixing specific sleep problems that relate to babies that are unable to fall asleep by themselves and hence need to be nursed or rocked again every time they wake. Unfortunately this doesn't apply to my baby, who wakes frequently despite being perfectly able to put himself to sleep quickly and easily initially. It also doesn't cover 'tension releasing' crying vs 'tension increasing' crying. After much agony I have discovered that my baby actually NEEDS to have a short cry in order to fall asleep. Now I understand that he actually needs to be put down awake to cry, he will be asleep in a few minutes, whereas previously with all of my 'loving' nursing, rocking and singing he would still be sobbing in exhaustion and hour later. If I'm honest I think I might have found this out sooner if I hadn't been brainwashed by all the attachment parenting books that letting your child cry practically was akin to abuse.
So, if you have a baby with the 'right' kind of problem, this might be the book for you. But as always, you need to remember that no one has written a book about YOUR baby yet.
 routine without tears before bedtime July 27, 2008
3 out of 4 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.
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