The No-Cry Sleep Solution – Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

12 reviews for The No-Cry Sleep Solution – Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

1. Lcool

   Rated 4 out of 5

   June 16, 2012

   I like this book, still waiting to see if it works

   I have to say of all the sleep books I have read (4 now, along with a million sleep blogs) I like this one the best. Every other book I have read come...More

   I have to say of all the sleep books I have read (4 now, along with a million sleep blogs) I like this one the best. Every other book I have read comes with a heaping pile of guilt and fear. I love that Elizabeth Pantley emphasizes finding a sleep situation that works for you and your family and not worrying about what others say. I agree this book is clearly written and easy to follow. I also LOVE that she gives you permission to ditch the plan when you or your baby become frustrated. I cannot tell you how many nap/nighttimes I have spent bawling my eyes out in frustration trying yet another sleep technique that either doesn't work or leaves me feeling emotionally destroyed. My baby, now 16 weeks, has reflux and for the first 12 weeks of his life would only sleep on our chest upright. Great for him, but not so good for us. Horribly sleep deprived we went to see a doctor who specialized in sleep. She encouraged us to cry it out. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do (felt sick to my stomach and was literally going crazy every time he cried) but it was working for the first week and a half. Then we hit a couple of warm nights and he didn't seem to be able to settle himself. We went in and helped him to sleep for two nights and when we tried to go back the third night he cried for 1 hour and 45 minutes. I do regret letting him cry that long but we finally decided enough is enough. We started trying to use the techniques in this book but it is almost impossible for us to be consistent when it is 3 am and he has already been up 10 times that night. We are trying to get him to sleep in his crib, I do think the techniques would be a lot easier for co-sleeping babies. I feel like he is depending more and more on us to go to sleep although we do see subtle changes like sometimes we can shoosh and pat him back to sleep where this never seemed to work before. I am desperately hopeful that eventually these techniques will work (although I admit I am skeptical), I just can't go back to cry-it-out. I am sure that in the long term my baby would be psychologically fine, but I am not so sure about me. If nothing else this book afforded me the sanity that it is OK help your baby back to sleep and that SOMEDAY (God I hope so) your baby will sleep through the night no matter what you do.

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