Sleep: The Easy Way to Peaceful Nights

by Lucy Smith and Beatrice Hollyer

Book Overview

A baby who sleeps well is no accident. Parents hold the key, and this title shows how to unlock your child's natural ability to sleep through the night from the first weeks of life. It sets out a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841881856
• ISBN13: 9781841881850
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cassell
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Baby sleeping 8-9 hours a night

This book was a life-saver. Our 4 month old is sleeping 8-9 hour stretches. We are all much happier getting our rest. I thought it was a great book and have bought it for many friends.

Really Good Book

Hi,at 6 weeks my baby is sleeping 6 1/2 hours a night uninterrupted thanks to this book! I'm trying to work her up to 8 hours, which I know will come. She goes to bed like a dream and settles herself back down if she does wake up - all tips I learned with the book.

Excellent

After reading many books to help me get through the first few months of parenthood, I was given this book . I wish I'd read it while still pregnant, this book is excellent, a great resource, very practical and gives you good suggestions on how to extend your baby's night sleep. I borrowed it from a friend whose baby was sleeping 10 hours a night at 6 weeks old, if it worked for her I thought it was worth a shot and i really think its helping. i highly recommend it.

Good - But leaves me with one question

I like this book because it's simple to read, and most of all - it makes sense! It's purpose is to make parents take their cues from the children by watching out for the "Core Night" This is when baby sleeps for a block of time longer than he ever has before at night. My son was two months old when he had his first "Core Night" which confirmed what the authurs said. However, it doesn't clearly address the issue of what to do when baby wakes and seems to REALLY want to be fed during his "Core Night.

A practical, common-sense approach that REALLY DOES WORK!!!

In this text Beatrice Hollyer and Lucy Smith outline a very simple, easy to follow approach to help your child sleep through the night. A parent, though well intentioned, can easily promote habits that prevent a child from sleeping. This book tells you what to avoid doing, and what you should do to assist your child in finding their natural sleep patterns. Compared to other sleep books which do not focus on the ability to naturally promote sleep from the earliest days, this book helps you as a parent to recognize cues from your child that he or she is ready to sleep for longer periods. The cues come from the child and as a parent you look for evidence of their first 'core night' - a block of sleep when the child sleeps longer than in the past. The focus of the book is on sleep, but its advice spills into many aspects of infant care including feeding. For example, the author's illustrate how important it is to recognize an infant's hunger cry and to stop night feeds when they are no longer required. On a personal note, my husband and I purchased this book while I was pregnant and read it long before my due date. Our baby slept through the night for the first time when he was 28 days old. Following the book's recommendations was difficult at first and I strayed from their advice exactly five times over the next month - each time realizing that the author's were correct. It is important that both parents be using the same approach to ensure the child is not receiving mixed signals at this time - which was difficult for me only initially. By the end of two months every night was a good night. Our son is an excellent sleeper and he is happy and content during the day. We could have done several things to thwart what he was naturally ready to do, but happily we had read this book and helped him instead. This is a great approach to helping your baby sleep that (most importantly to me) does not require crying. Both my husband and I cannot recommend this book enough. I am buying it for my sister and her new baby because I refuse to let my copy out of the house!