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| The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears
Brand: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  662 reviews
Sales Rank: 345
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0071381392
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928498
UPC: 639785400233
EAN: 9780071381390
ASIN: 0071381392
Publication Date: March 28, 2002
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Condition: Light shelf wear
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| Customer Reviews:
 We're all sleeping through the night! June 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter was not one of those babies who just magically started sleeping through the night at a couple months old, but when she was 10 months old she started sleeping for eleven hours a night without needing us to go to her, and we never made her "cry it out." In addition, she takes two, one-and-a-half hour naps each day. How did we get from our sleepless nights to where we are today? We used Elizabeth Pantley's book, The No Cry Sleep Solution. We were never comfortable leaving our daughter alone to cry herself to sleep, and we found this book to be a great, loving alternative to the sleep training methods out there. My daughter is breastfed and did spend time co-sleeping with us, but she now sleeps the entire night in her room without waking to nurse.
Pantley's book is well-organized, and in addition to her supportive, encouraging tone, she offers solutions that you can start trying right away. Her book is not a quick fix, but rather it provides the tools necessary to nighttime parent your child with love. You *can* start seeing results right away.
I know that my daughter will not be a baby forever, and she will not always need us to make her feel loved and secure. Right now, however, she does need us, and we wanted to offer her comfort and reassurance while still teaching her to sleep on her own. Our family is now rested, and my husband and I are proud that we were responsive to our daughter's needs. Buy this book; you are sure to find solutions that will apply to your baby's sleep problems. We will be purchasing Pantley's other books because we believe in her methods!
 Don't buy the Kindle Edition! May 29, 2008
This review is for the Kindle Edition ONLY. I can't tell you how we like the book as we are stuck on the second chapter trying to piece together the figures and re-make the charts we need to fill in.
They totally screwed up the Kindle version. All spacing for diagrams and charts is off rendering them next to unreadable. In some books this wouldn't matter, but in this one they are a key part of the book. There are worksheets you are supposed to photocopy and fill out. I don't know if a Kindle will print out forms from a book or not; it's not in the user's manual and I'm not that computer savvy. Even if I did know how to, again, the spacing on these is all messed up so it wouldn't help anyway. So I have been sitting at my computer trying to guess what these things are supposed to look like so that I can recreate them on in my word processing program and it's been a lot more work than I wanted to sign on for. I think I will check my local library to see if they have a hard copy I can check out and photocopy, which makes me wonder, "Why did I bother buying it on my Kindle then?"
Again, do NOT get it in Kindle version! If you are going to buy it, get a paper copy.
 This approach sounds nice but you may regain your sanity quicker if you try a cry-it-out method first May 27, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I recommend trying cry-it-out before buying this book. You just may find that you solve your baby's sleep problem without spending any money or using precious time to read this book.
I have a 6-month-old son and a couple of weeks ago I was nearing my wit's end when it came to putting him down to sleep. In order to get him to sleep, my husband or I had to hold him while bouncing on an exercise ball. Once he fell asleep in our arms, we had to carefully lower him into the crib without waking him up. If he woke up, we had to pick him up and repeat the process of bouncing and getting him into the crib. We tried the cry-it-out method at 3 months and 4 months but it didn't work. He cried for upwards of 90 minutes and never fell asleep.
I bought this book the day he turned 6 months thinking I might be able to pick up a couple of tips I hadn't seen online. I did not read the book cover to cover - just flipped through and read things that caught my eye. It turns out that we were already doing many of the things suggested in the book: we had a bedtime routine, we played music, he had an early bedtime. It just didn't seem that we were making any progress at getting him to go to sleep on his own. Even if I had read the book cover-to-cover and implemented every suggestion, I don't think it would have helped us get away from the bouncing and holding him until he fell asleep. Fortunately for us, my son had his 6 month check up with the pediatrician just 2 days after I bought the book. We brought up the sleep issue with her and she said to get rid of the ball and just put him in the crib and let him cry (with us checking in frequently, of course). We implemented the new sleep process that day and he's been going to sleep on his own for about 10 days now. I'm so glad that we tried the cry-it-out method and solved the sleep problem in days, rather than trying suggestions from this book and dragging it out for months if not longer. And now that I think about it...we were already doing a no-cry method of getting him to sleep - it just involved us holding and bouncing him. What incentive did he have to start going to sleep on his own?
I'm so thankful for this book!!! May 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a great solution to sleepless nights. I luckily found it when my baby girl was only 3 weeks old, so getting her into a routine was a bit easier, but I've stuck with it for the past month and she is only waking up 2 times a night and just to be fed and happily goes back to sleep in her crib! Its wonderful! I think every parent (new or otherwise) should at least try these techniques! I also used the techniques with "heartbeat" rhythm music when she first goes to sleep at night, but only when she isn't going to sleep as easy. Hope this helps all the exhausted parents out there!
self-proclaimed parenting expert May 18, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
the suggestions are nothing new, by the time you turn to this book you know about routines and bad sleep associations. She starts out with unfounded assumptions of what CIO does to babies, it's her personal opinion, nothing more. Having routines and working on breaking set sleep associations does not make a baby sleep well automatically, they are a start but not the finish for many babies that don't sleep well enough (not just the 4 she had). What I find most bizarre is how she doesn't see how irresponsible and harmful it was for her youngest baby to not get enough sleep for over a year, a year where so much development happens and therefore good sleep habits are critical. So instead of letting him CIO for 3 days so he can get the sleep he needed she let him wake up every hour for 1 year (and sleep in her bed until then, surely not the way to improve anyone's sleep). Sadly, this author exploits parent's desperation and guilt to sell her books and pad herself on the back for being the perfect mother with perfect children and a perfect husband (he's so perfect one of his e-mails is quoted, he must be another expert).
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