Product Description One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems
Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that
- Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child - Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more - Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally - Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed - Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers - Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule -
Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems
Dr. Weissbluth is the best November 20, 2008 Dr. Weissbluth saved my life! After 9 months of my son not sleeping, I thought I was going to lose my mind. Dr. Weissbluth's advice got him sleeping through the night almost immediately and pretty painlessly. I had tried everything else, and had read every sleep book, but nothing else worked. It's the combination of things that Dr. Weissbluth suggests that works. I highly recommend this book!
AMAZING November 19, 2008 I felt compelled to write a review about this book...It literally changed the way that I think about sleep. My son was always a good sleeper, and we were very blessed that he started sleeping through the night (9 hours or more!) at just over 2 months of age. That lasted until about 3 months, when he started waking up again. Around that time, he also started fighting taking naps. I would nurse him until he fell asleep, sneak him into his crib, and tiptoe out of the room. If he woke up, all hell broke loose and we started the process over again...It was exhausting, and my poor baby was hardly getting any sleep during the day, unless he slept in my arms. We bought this book when he was 3.5 months old. After ONE night of following the plan exactly as he describes, the bebe is back to sleeping through the night, but now its between 11-12 hours STRAIGHT. He also takes three solid naps a day. I put him in his crib awake, he smiles, finds his thumb, and goes to sleep on his own. It is truly amazing and adorable. He wakes up from naps and bedtime happy and alert, and he actually tells me when he's ready to nap. I've learned how to read his cues, and we can plan the day around his nap needs. Whenever someone tells me that they are shocked at how much he sleeps, I just think to myself that that is how much babies NEED to sleep, it's just that most babies/kids are overly tired. I highly recommend this book. It gives a lot of detail about why sleep is so important, and it gives information for how to handle the older child who starts waking up again. The first night was hard, we both cried, but after that, things changed for the better. IMMEDIATELY. My 5 month old can even sleep away from home, so it's not like we're attached to his crib. Sorry for the long review, but I hope it is helpful for someone else. And good luck!
Great reference for tired parents! November 19, 2008 I read this book when my first son was 4 months old and found it an invaluable tool for training him to take good naps, sleep through the night, and follow a schedule suited to his needs. Now I'm re-reading it to help with my newborn and his sleep needs. I felt like the stress level in our home went down dramatically when we started implementing the ideas in this book. It is amazing!
I especially like how the author focuses on getting the child in rhythm with his natural sleep patterns. It makes a lot of sense. I felt a lot more comfortable letting my older son "cry it out" when I knew I was following his natural pattern for sleep. Now he sleeps great at night and takes 2-hour naps every day. My newborn is still napping throughout the day, but I feel like I have a much better grasp on when he's tired and when to lay him down. I wish I had owned this book when my first son was a newborn. It would have made life a lot less stressful and eliminated the constant "What's wrong with him?" question!
Must have for all parents November 17, 2008 This is the best book that I could recommend for anyone looking to have a happy rested child. The concepts are precise and easy to follow. The book is divided into easy to read chapters and can be used as a great resource for many years. I can not recommend it enough or give it enough praise. This is a MUST have.
Great help! November 11, 2008 I have found this book to be extremely helpful. There are lots of stories to help relate the advice and there are little bits of advice off to the side of pages that help for quick reading/skimming. The absolute best advice was not keeping your infant awake for more than 2 hours at a time. This has worked wonders for us as well as realizing how important an early bed time is. This book gives practical advice and has proven to be correct in many instances with my first born. I also loved the charts to show bedtimes and amount of sleep for different ages and stages. I am not a fan of the "let cry" bedtime solution. I would probably use it if I had exhausted every other avenue. This book discusses "no cry," "maybe cry," and "let cry." It does not condemn any of these in particular. It gives important advice and lets you choose which is best for your family. The whole book has that tone for me, it gives scientific evidence and advice then helps you choose what is right for your family. I am using it now for my 2nd child and the habits we formed for our 3 year old previously are still in place.
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