The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley

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A breakthrough approach that offers hope to exhausted parents looking for gentle ways to help their baby sleep without the heart-wrenching tears. Until now the only two ways to deal with sleepless nights were to let your baby cry herself to sleep or to become a sleep-deprived martyr and tough it out from dusk until dawn. The No-Cry Sleep Solution will show you how it is entirely possible and within your grasp to help your baby fall asleep peacefully--and stay asleep all night long.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #281 in Books
Brand: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Published on: 2002-03-28
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
208 pages
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"A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tears There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby ""cry it out,"" or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving book The No-Cry Sleep Solution. Pantley's successful solution has been tested and proven effective by scores of mothers and their babies from across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Based on her research, Pantley's guide provides you with effective strategies to overcoming naptime and nighttime problems. The No-Cry Sleep Solution offers clearly explained, step-by-step ideas that steer your little ones toward a good night's sleep--all with no crying. Tips from The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Uncover the stumbling blocks that prevent baby from sleeping through the night Determine--and work with--baby's biological sleep rhythms Create a customized, step-by-step plan to get baby to sleep through the night Use the Persistent Gentle Removal System to teach baby to fall asleep without breast-feeding, bottlefeeding, or using a pacifier "

From the Back Cover

"At long last, I've found a book that I can hand to weary parents with the confidence that they can learn to help their baby sleep through the night--without the baby crying it out."
--William Sears, M.D., Author of The Baby Book

"When I followed the steps in this book, it only took a few nights to see a HUGE improvement. Now every night I'm getting more sleep than I've gotten in years! The best part is, there has been NO crying!"
--Becky, mother of 13-month-old Melissa

A breakthrough approach that offers hope to exhausted parents looking for gentle ways to help their baby sleep without the heart-wrenching tears

Are you suffering through sleepless nights and having to fend off a barrage of heartless advice about letting your baby "cry it out"? The No-Cry Sleep Solution will show you how it is entirely possible and within your grasp to help your baby fall asleep peacefully--and stay asleep all night long.

Until now the only two ways to deal with sleepless nights were to let your baby cry herself to sleep or to become a sleep-deprived martyr and tough it out from dusk until dawn. At last, there is a practical and effective third way, thanks to Elizabeth Pantley, a parent educator and mother of four. Pantley is like a best friend who's been there and is full of caring advice to help you and your baby get a good night's sleep. Her ten-step will lead you through the process one day at a time by:
Shedding new light on your baby's sleep patterns and helping you set realistic goals
Showing you how to analyze, assess, and improve your baby's sleep patterns using sleep logs
Offering a variety of sleep solutions that fit every parenting style, whether you cosleep with your baby or she sleeps in a crib or whether you breastfeed or bottlefeed
Creating a tear-free customized sleep plan that works for both you and your baby

Don't let sleep deprivation keep you from enjoying your baby. The No-Cry Sleep Solution is full of reassuring advice and words of wisdom from other parents who have had success with the program. It will give you the tools you need to effectively and gently reach your goal--a good night's sleep for everyone.

About the Author

Elizabeth Pantley, author and parent educator, is frequently quoted in numerous magazines including Parents and Parenting. She and her husband live in Washington state with their four children--and all sleep through the night.
Customer Reviews

THE BIBLE OF EVERY SLEEPLESS PARENT!
I wish they gave a copy of this valuable book at the clinic with every birth!

Made our situation much worse!
I really wanted this book to work! I had looked at others but didn't want to have to get to the point of letting our baby cry. I tried the methods from the book for 10 days, going to him and not letting him cry, soothing him back to sleep, putting him down with my arms around him still and letting him fall alseep and then releasing him, not nursing to sleep. Let me tell you, after ten days I was way more exhausted and our 4 month old son was sleeping WAY worse than before I started these methods. For us, these methods just taught him that all he had to do was cry and I would come in to save him. Before I could at least put him down to sleep some of the time, after these methods he would cringe every time he felt me start putting him down and wake himself up. It was so miserable that by the end I couldn't stop crying. At his worst, he was waking up in 23 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour and on a very good night 2 hours. I finally bought "Health Sleep Habits, Happy Child" which I had been debating about getting prior to this purchase. I poured over it one afternoon and started Dr. Weisbluth's methods that night. For us, the only solution was to cry it out. It wasn't nearly as bad as I had anticipated and our baby now sleeps from 6:00 pm to 7:15 am. He wakes up twice to nurse and goes right back to sleep without any fuss. He goes down easy at night too. That after one not so rough night of not responding everytime he cried. Let me tell you, as miserable as it seems to let them cry, it was the best and only option for us. One night of hardship has made a world of difference! Save your sanity and get "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" which will explain sleep habits and help you understand what your baby needs proven by factual research. He gives three methods, not just cry it out so you can make up your own mind. Good luck to you all!

Love it!
This is the best book on sleep I have ever read. She is very very thorough in her explanations on sleep and the methods of helping your baby get to sleep, and she knows what works through her own experiences and the experiences of her own clients. This is a great book for helping learn the skills to help our children sleep and to have positive experiences going to sleep (w/ bedtime routines and so forth). She explains why crying it out is not a desirable method of helping your child sleep. And again, she knows what she's talking about! She knows the sleep is important, but she also realizes each child is different. And that is so comforting! I have tried her methods and they work. I don't believe any method is full-proof or perfect or that anything works every time for every child, but I've had overall good experience w/ the methods in this book. And I believe if you follow the suggestions, you can see great success in your child's sleep habits (and be on your way to a good night's rest yourself!)