| | |  | Meal Time | Home » » » The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night | | | | | | | Description: | | 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
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• ISBN13: 9780071381390
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Elizabeth Pantley | | Paperback:
| 254 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill | | Publication Date:
| March 28, 2002 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0071381392 | | Package Length:
| 8.03 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.43 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.79 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.71 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 790 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 EXCELLENT and extremely helpful for sleepy parents!!Mar 09, 2010
I am the proud mommy of a nine month old baby boy Zachary. At around 8 months old we decided it was time to try to get Zachary to sleep in his crib. I purchased this book the No-Cry Sleep Solution and honestly read it in 2 sittings (with baby on my lap!!) I absolutely loved it...I knew I could not let him "cry it out"...my heart wouldn't allow it..I never even wanted to try. This book was fantastic and SO helpful...I loved the quotes from other moms, and the true stories/memories that the author wrote about from her own personal experiences...it made me feel like I wasn't alone in this journey! It was easy to read and well organized with the logs to keep track of everything. I absolutely loved it and I always recommend it to new parents! Now...only a month later my baby boy is sleeping in his crib through the night, with 1 or maybe 2 night awakenings, which are so brief...neither one of us loses sleep! We are still on this journey...but I am getting sleep, and my baby boy is feeling at home and snug as a bug in his crib!! This is a GREAT book and truly helpful for all of you sleepy moms and dads! Thanks Elizabeth!! :)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great advice!Mar 08, 2010
When my daughter hit 4.5 months she stopped falling asleep wherever whenever she pleased. The bliss of a sleepy newborn was gone. She had been sleeping through the night starting at 2 months old (I was lucky!) but suddenly daytime crankiness combined with her developmental changes resulted in a child that screamed at every bedtime and every nap. I was trying to move her out of my bedroom and she HATED her crib. By 6 months I was fed up and decided to sleep train her, so I read Ferber, Weissbluth, West and Pantley.
First we tried crying it out. Both Ferber and Weissbluth promote that. West does a gentler (in the room) version. What a bust that was! My child is very very stubborn and would just escalate to the point of hysterics if we tried to let her cry. When we did go in to comfort her it just made her more furious! Finally, after a long time, I would have to break down and go in to rock her to asleep with her sobbing on my shoulder. Getting her to sleep that way took at least an hour because she just wouldn't give in and would end up more alert than when I put her down. We tried this for a week and her crying times never got shorter, always stayed the same.
Pantley was our winner because she gave some common sense approaches that work with a stubborn child's tendencies for sleep. I bought the No Cry Sleep Solution and also bought the The No-Cry Nap Solution: Guaranteed Gentle Ways to Solve All Your Naptime Problems (Pantley) at the same time. I highly recommend reading them together because they complement each other and naps definately affect bedtimes.
My daughter was NOT giving off sleep signals easily, so I was uncertain when to put her down for bed or naps. By the time I saw rubbing eyes and crankiness, it was too late. Important tidbit from this book was that we needed to start a sleep routine about every two hours for her age. I did this irregardless of sleep signals and something positive started to happen, she started sleeping. Because she was tired (not overtired!) she didn't care if we put her in the crib either. We also had issues with pacifiers which was addressed in the book. For a few months I had a wonderful sleeper, she was napping 3x a day and sleeping 11 hours overnight. Then it all changed again...
She started fighting sleep again around 8 months. We fought with her for a little over a week and then it dawned on me to review my books. Well, she were working with an "expired" nap and bedtime routine. It was in the book, she got older, and the amount of sleep she needed was changing. We moved her nap and bedtimes around a little and now she's right back to sleeping well! She now naps 2x daily, sleeps 11 hours at night and uses a lovey to soothe instead of a pacifier.
I want to make clear, these aren't stereo instructions. No one is going to write a book telling you exactly what to do and expect your baby to sweetly drift off to la-la land. But this is great information about HOW children sleep and what are the common problems children face with sleeping. It's up to you to apply it to your unique situation and baby. I couldn't be happier with our results.
0 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 RIDICULOUSFeb 28, 2010
I just couldn't finish reading the book that's how hilarious it got. So, if you are on the look out for that kind of a genre, then here you go, you can have it for only 10 bucks.
What I really hate in all baby books is when they try to make a general rule for all babies and they really believe that that method will work for all babies.
BABIES ARE DIFFERENT!!!
To write in a book that that sleeping method is a guarantee for the baby to sleep, then that's something wrong with the author!!! It could work but a GUARANTEE!!! Jeez!!! No way!!!
I didn't find it helpful in any way.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
empowered mamaFeb 27, 2010
I am the very proud mother of a sweet 15 month old boy. He has not slept through the night ever...with the exception of one miraculous night when he was 4 months old. I bought Elizabeth Pantley's book "The No-cry Sleep Solution" about 3 months ago, cried through the first two chapters (especially reading your sleep log with your baby Coleton...it so exactly our pattern) because I thought, "THANK GOD, somebody gets it! I was getting so frustrated with looking for help and only finding the two extremes of "just live with it" or "let him cry". I couldn't just put him in a crib and let him cry, or continue nursing all night long indefinitely.
I devoured the book right away, then was just too tired to do sleep logs, but I hit a wall last weekend and decided it was time for action! I finally started my plan 7 days ago, and although he is still waking about 7-8 times a night, bedtime is so much easier and more fun, and he is already sleeping longer stretches and having much better naps. The very best thing is that I feel so empowered to have a plan, and I know that it will take some time, but I feel like, thanks to Elizabeth and her book, that I have the tools l need to help my baby learn to sleep better.
I have been recommending the book to everyone I know...new parents and parents to be, and I'm looking forward to reading Elizabeth Pantley's other books!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 great for parents with lots of time, infinite patience, and cooperative childrenFeb 26, 2010
Alas, i'm none of those.
Three stars because i know several people who've used this book successfully. It clearly CAN work. A lot of the book is simple behavioral psychology, and pretty solid.
Here's why it didn't for me:
1) This book is long on high-level suggestions, but short on details. For example, it harps on making a nap-time and bed-time schedule, but gives no advice whatsoever on HOW to do this when your child resists. My son, for example, can go from eyes-almost-closed, nearly-asleep to, in a split second, wide awake and chasing the cat. If i've, somehow, gotten him to hold still long enough to read him a story as part of this routine, but then he squirms out of my lap and crawls away, what then? Do i start over? Do i read the book to the empty room? All i know is that i should have a routine and stick to it.
2) More than a few conflicting recommendations. Your routine should be followed exactly, every time... but have room for flexibility. You should never have toys in the crib, except when getting the kid started (i'm sure kids are really calm about you taking away their toys after they've finally gotten used to the crib). Those two examples really stuck in my head because each suggestion and its conflicting partner were within two paragraphs of each other.
3) My kid is a terrible sleeper, even when held, and a very light sleeper all the time. Many suggestions include such things as 'rock the baby to sleep, then place them in the crib.' In my 14 months of mothering, i've successfully transferred my baby from arms to anything else twice without waking him. I can't habituate him to crib sleep using the transfer method because, well, he's awake before he hits the mattress, no matter how smoothly, how slowly, how carefully i do it, and no matter how deeply he's sleeping when i try it.
4) Another whole raft of suggestions involve doing something right before your baby falls asleep. For example, when trying to get your baby out of the habit of nursing to sleep, you nurse until they're almost asleep, then unlatch them. As with most of the rest of the suggestions in this book, it just doesn't work for us. My son would nurse, wide awake, then suddenly be asleep. No matter how carefully i watched, there were no warning signs, no clues. Just awake, then asleep. So, if your child is a sudden-sleeper, you're out of luck.
So, this book may work for you. If it does, you'll be one of the thousands of adoring fans who can't understand why some people go the hard way, or the cruel way, or any way other than Pantley's, to get their baby to sleep. If you're one of the unlucky folks whose kid has better things to do than give a darn about your attempts to maintain a schedule and routines for nap time, this book will leave you frustrated, possibly enraged, and more than a bit annoyed with the author for acting like it's so simple to set a routine or move a sleeping baby.
You'll probably never know until you try it, though.
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