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| The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night (Pantley) | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Pantley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 541
Media: Paperback
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 254
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0071381392
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928498
UPC: 639785400233
EAN: 9780071381390
ASIN: 0071381392
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Condition: Ships from the USA - please expect 7 - 21 business days for delivery.
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 Brilliant book September 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The No-cry Sleep Solution is a brilliant buy. Even if you don't follow her advice it is superbly reassuring and makes you realise that there are millions of parents with night-time feeders and wakeful children. I have huge issues with 'crying down' and it is something I would not advise or 'sign-up' to with my baby. However, this book will give lots of tips for sleeping, give you as a parent a deeper understanding of sleep patterns and will utlitmately shed some light on all those unanswered questions about 'why does my baby wake up every 40 minutes?'
 Lovely in theory but doesn't have a solution for every baby September 4, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a parent I've always been firmly in the Sears camp rather than the Gina camp, and this book seems to be considered as a sacred text by practically everyone I know with similar parenting styles. My 9 month old has been a poor sleeper from the start and so naturally I got hold of a copy. I do love the style of the book and it is indeed initially very reassuring. Unfortunately, it does seem very much geared to fixing specific sleep problems that relate to babies that are unable to fall asleep by themselves and hence need to be nursed or rocked again every time they wake. Unfortunately this doesn't apply to my baby, who wakes frequently despite being perfectly able to put himself to sleep quickly and easily initially. It also doesn't cover 'tension releasing' crying vs 'tension increasing' crying. After much agony I have discovered that my baby actually NEEDS to have a short cry in order to fall asleep. Now I understand that he actually needs to be put down awake to cry, he will be asleep in a few minutes, whereas previously with all of my 'loving' nursing, rocking and singing he would still be sobbing in exhaustion and hour later. If I'm honest I think I might have found this out sooner if I hadn't been brainwashed by all the attachment parenting books that letting your child cry practically was akin to abuse.
So, if you have a baby with the 'right' kind of problem, this might be the book for you. But as always, you need to remember that no one has written a book about YOUR baby yet.
 routine without tears before bedtime July 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Elizabeth Pantley's book is especially great for those parents co-sleeping and breastfeeding. It fills in the gaps where the Sears Attachment Parenting and Baby Sleep books fail on this angle. It mentions the co-dependancy of daytime naps and night-time sleeping.
BUT having specifically mentioned two mothers with lap-napping babies that were cured of this sleeping preference, guidance on how to achieve success was not supplied. Another mother was cured of taking bedtime with her baby due to separation issues but again this was frustratingly not addressed.
A major factor in Elizabeth's advice is the emphasis on placing your baby down to sleep when still awake but without satisfactory guidance on how to manage non-conformity. Placing baby down when 'almost asleep' is not detail enough for me. Information on how to achieve a self-settled baby (without rocking, feeding, singing etc) and avoid any upset followed by missed nap/overtiredness etc is lacking.
However, Elizabeth's book helped cure my baby of hourly night waking with very simple advice on limiting daytime naps to two hours long - common sense when one thinks about it!
This book would probably more suit parents who need routine out of necessity rather than desire. We found it more stressful attempting to structure our daytime to add any benefit, so remain fluid on how each day progresses. My baby is breastfed and benefits from nightfeeding, so I would not wish for her to sleep through the night which this book helped me appreciate. Still, a much kinder method to that of the Tracy Hogg, Faber or Gina Ford's of this world.
yes it works but it takes ages July 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
we started reading this book when our baby was 1 month old. We have been trying and trying the one step forward take a step back if she gets upset approach and at 8 months she is finally going for naps and bed fully awake and staying in her cot all night with the occasional brief visit by dad. it takes loads of patience and faith but it does work.
Supportive & encouraging... July 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
is how this book is written, as commented below it's not written by an 'expert' (but I would suggest that a mother of 4 IS an expert!) however, the research done by the author to write the book includes sourcing other books-as we all probably do and talking to / testing her ideas with other mums - as we all probably do. Being an exhausted mother of a now 5 month old who only wants to sleep in her Mum's arms I love this book because:
- its easy to read (essential when you're pooped)
- the ideas are easy to follow with cues for reviewing your progress & yes this is helpful when you're so tired.
It enables you to hold onto your patience and keep going whilst realising it's gonna take a while!
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