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

The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5 | Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack | Great middle ground method

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	The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5 Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack HCI, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 114 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Two experts who are helping Hollywood's A-list babies get their zzz's share the no-fail, family-friendly method that has helped thousands of sleep-deprived moms and dads.

Even Hollywood's biggest stars face the same dilemma as other parents do: "How do I get my child to sleep?" As parents in the know are finding, whether they're on the red carpet or the soccer field, the answer is the same: The Sleepeasy Solution.

Psychotherapists and sleep specialists Jennifer and Jill, the dynamic "girlfriends" all of Hollywood calls on to solve Junior's sleep problems, have perfected their sleep technique that will get any child snoozing in no time?most often in fewer than three nights. The key to their method? It addresses the emotional needs of both the parent and child (yes, how to handle the crying!)?a critical component of why most other sleep methods fail.

In this much-needed, family-friendly guide, weary parents will learn to define their own individual sleep goals, those that work for their family?s schedule and style. They'll create a customized "sleep planner" to ensure consistency with both parents as well as extended caregivers. (As an added bonus, they'll even improve the readers' relationships with their spouses with the "marriage-saver" section.) With comprehensive sections devoted to each stage of Baby's and Toddler's development, plus solutions to special circumstances like traveling, daylight saving's time, moving to a "big kid bed" and multiples, The Sleepeasy Solution is a dream come true!

"This approach was truly amazing in helping our family to thrive. . . . We are eternally grateful!"
?Ben Stiller and wife, Christine Taylor, actors

"With their gentle approach, Sleepeasy gave us the tools we needed to solve our daughter's sleep problems."
?Conan O'Brien, host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien

"Sleepeasy gave us all the tools we needed to get our baby sleeping through the night. Now when we say good night to our daughter, we know it really will be a good night."
?Greg Kinnear, actor

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©2007. Jennifer Waldburger, LCSW, and Jill Spivak, LMSW. All rights reserved. Reprinted from The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street , Deerfield Beach , FL 33442.

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Good product and promptly mailed

This is a good book with good insight. It is a cry it out method. Unfortunately I haven't done the steps yet because my baby has been going through some transitions and growth spurts. Basically, it's a system that gets baby to sleep through the night gradually weaning off his nighttime feedings and feeding him more during the day. I think it's a good book with a good theory as long as you DO IT!!! I guess that's the only way for any baby, just let them cry and always have a good routine for them. I was kinda hoping for something that wouldn't involve so much crying. Oh well!

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Great middle ground method

I felt this was the only book to recognize parent's fear of crying, as well as having a healthy time expectation of not training before 4-5 months, when babies should still be getting nighttime feeds. It also offered lots of good ideas on how to get ready to train, to minimize crying, and reasonable advice. Such as not going cold turkey with crying it out or dropping all of their sleep-associations such as swaddling and pacifiers, all at once. This allowed us to gradually get our daughter used to falling asleep without her pacifier, THEN we worked on getting her out of her swaddle (which she was SO ready for and happier out of---but she was just used to it).
Some hardcore attachment parenting types may get indignant at the thought of their child crying, but my daughter now cries LESS, now that she knows how to soothe herself. I hear her cooing as she gets put down to sleep and she wakes up LAUGHING. (no lie) she is SUCH a happier baby now! And she never had to cry for more than 7 minutes, from the very start of her training. now she rarely cries for 1-2 minutes, if she wakes in the night, and then zonks right back out and the whole family is happier! You do your child no favors by denying them the skills to make themselves happy.

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The only sleep book you need

This book is fantastic (and I've read ALL of them out there). The suggestions are great and work like a charm. We are finally getting some sleep!

Some great ideas!

I ordered this book out of pure desperation over my 4 month old would not sleep and had to be constantly held, rocked, nursed (we did it all!) to fall asleep. What I have taken from this book: My son now takes 3-4 naps a day that last about an hour. The length should improve as he gets older. The first night was the hardest but after crying for 30 minutes (with several check ins) he fell asleep. Ever since he has been able to fall asleep when I put him down with very little fuss or none at all. It's been less than two weeks since I started the program but I have seen great improvement! I now also have
a set schedule of bathing, pjs and nursing before I put my baby down at 7pm every night. It's wonderful because it really frees up my evening.

Unfortunately my baby still wakes up 3-4 times a night and doesn't sleep longer than 3 hours straight. The book recommends weaning night feedings by eliminating the length of the feeding by two minutes each night. I tried it for a few days but was too exhausted (and couldn't stand hearing my baby cry!) so I stopped. I will make an attempt to wean one feed at a time in a few months when I feel my baby is able to go through the night without eating. Honestly, I would be happy with at least 6 hours of straight sleep, let alone 12!

It is the first baby book that I purchased and I'm glad I did. It is still a CIO method though but I have adjusted that to our needs and feel comfortable with letting my baby "fuss" when I want him to go back to sleep or fall asleep.

I will update soon with progress. Good luck sleepy parents!

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