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

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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

Customer Review

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.

It's not magic, but it can help - Maggie - Toronto, Canada
Some tips worked for us, some didn't. In the end, it's a laundry list of different things to try.

Pick the techniques you want to try, and give it a shot. If you're buying this book, you're likely sleep deprived and desperate for anything that can help. Will this solve your child's sleep issues like magic in a day or two? No. Will it make things an little easier and have some tips that you can use? Yes.

It's working, and nobody is crying! - L. Winchester -
After reading several different sleep-method books that left both my baby and me in tears, "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" sounded good to me. I have only been using Pantley's methods for a few days, and I can already see some small but important improvements in my 4-month old daughter's sleeping behaviors. (Waking up fewer times during the night, sleeping in later, taking longer naps, and letting Daddy put her to bed). Oh, and the best part--NO CRYING for me or baby.
My daughter still will not let me but her in her crib "sleepy, but still awake," like most methods recommend, but what I like about Pantley's book is that she actually explains how to get my baby to do this, by gradually working toward this goal one little baby step at a time.
Most importantly, Pantley's advice to "give yourself permission to stop the process for the night any time it's not working," has freed me from the frustration, guilt, and anxiety other authors have caused me to feel if I do end up cuddling my baby to sleep some nights. Pantley emphasizes that "you will still see improvement over time," and if the past few days are any indication, I am sure that we will.
I am so glad I found this book before I spent any more nights in frustration with screaming baby and crying Mom trying to implement other methods that just weren't working for us.

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