Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: Revised Edition: New, Revised, and Expanded Edition Kindle Edition

First of all: Ferber is not a monster who lets babies cry themselves to sleep. If you give this book a chance you will see that. Since being born and after 12 months of dealing with our baby waking up every 1 to 2 hours and not knowing how to fall back asleep on their own, we tried the techniques in this book and saw results from the very first night to the tune of our baby sleeping for 10 hours straight for the first time since he was born! And the results just kept getting better and the crying almost completely went away. For those on the fence about Ferber, there are however several keys to successfully implementing his techniques. The first and most important is both husband and wife need to be on board for keeping discipline to practice the techniques in the book. If one or the other can't take baby crying as they adjust to new sleeping conditions that do not require help from Mom or Dad, this book won't be of any help and will be the source of heated arguments putting unnecessary pressure on your marriage. The second key is consistency. If you do this for a few weeks and think your baby's sleep troubles are solved, it's likely your baby will regress back to the "easier" conditions that baby formerly preferred to sleep under (i.e. conditions where someone needs to wake up whenever baby wakes up to satisfy whatever condition(s) baby has been trained to think they need to fall back asleep). This will lead to no one in the house being happy. The final key which combines both the above keys is maintaining the same schedule every day to the best of everyone's ability. It's easy to fall out any routine, but if you slip on baby's routine, this will directly affect their ability to sleep. I'm sorry to say while my wife and I maintained discipline for the first 3 weeks on this book and our baby was sleeping through the night for 9 to 10 hours without our help, after 3 weeks my wife who had been struggling with how quickly our baby showed he did not need anyone's help reverted to going in at the sound of any whimper and after 3 or 4 days of this she's back to sleeping on the floor every night with our baby who again is waking up every hour or two and needing her to cuddle him back to sleep. While this is the exact type of sleeping arrangement I thought we were trying to avoid, this is proof to me that while the techniques in this book work, if both Mom & Dad are not on board your baby will revert back to whatever conditions they formerly fell asleep under and you'll have to start all over again. I hope my advice can be of help to others. Good luck!

I'll just sit here and wait for you to write your 5 star review after reading the book. Go ahead. I'll wait.Yup, as a first time mom, I thought "She'll sleep through the night at 3 months. Ok 4 months. OK SIX MONTHS. OMG PLEASE SLEEP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MOMMY NEEDS HER SLEEP." So after trying solids and routines and blah blah blah, I finally gave in and read the book and did everything Ferber suggested. And 4 days later, BOOM. Sleep training complete. 9.5 hours of pure blissful uninterrupted SLEEP.A few things. Babies can sleep through the night around 3 months, but do what feels right. 6 months felt right for us.When you have a child that sits up in the crib and cries, and you want them to go back to sleep, do not pick them up to lay them down! Just rub their back and walk out.If their diaper is soaked and waking them up: feed them liquids earlier and spread it out. I nurse my daughter a little an hour before bed, then solids, then nurse a little more right before bed. Then I change her before she gets in the crib (this wakes her up but she's still drowsy). I also switched to overnight diapers. This solved a lot of our problems.Last, this is an easy read. And very relatable to every persons situation.

My gynecologist actually recommended this book to me after me complaining about the lack of sleep I was getting from our 4 month old. Being a working mom and having to be to work at 6AM everyday was taking a tole on me. I bought the book and didn’t read it for a few weeks until one night my son had woken up 8 times in the middle of the night. I decided that was it and I wasn’t going to push off reading this book any further, so I started reading it. Got through the 2nd chapter where it talks about sleep and different sleep cases. We followed the chart on page 74 and it literally only took us 2-3 days and our soon to be 5 month old (who is breastfed) was sleeping through the night- NO ISSUES! It was a miracle! I thought for awhile it was a fluke and that he would return to waking up several times, but he’s 7 months old now and our life has changed. To be honest, I never finished the book, maybe one day I will? Anyways- I HIGHLY recommend this book if you’re experiencing sleep trouble with your little one.

I can't give it more than a star because this method is so not for me or my baby. I tried it for 45 minutes and I couldn't allow my baby to get distressed even more. Afterwards, I read the part about how some babies even vomit because they're so distraught by what's happening and I couldn't believe that anyone would go beyond the point that I went. My baby girl was shaking and breathing so abnormally I had to quit even though I'm advised I should continue and that it's normal for her to be in such a condition. How is it a good method of sleep training to allow your beloved child to think that you're not coming back, to eventually quit calling for help, and to shut down. Read about how Ferber came up with this method and what the psychology is behind this method. It's inhumane.

Book was in good condition, as stated by the seller.The book itself worked extremely well for our 1 year old. She slept in her own cot in her own room for the first time ever from day 1 of training. This isn't a miracle fix, you have to work at it and commit. The information and explanations helped ease our anxiety too as you can understand why and how these methods help.

Brilliant value. Arrived in record time. Content is very clear and provides the necessary level of detail to explain the reasons behind the sleeping issues. Would highly recommend this to any parent that is experiencing sleeping problems with their child.

Perfect. I recommend

My wife and I were surprised to find out how polarized this question is. The sleep training approach is largely misunderstood from the outside, especially when presented from the perspective of attachment theory, which wrongly portrays it as cruel and ineffective. In our experience, attachment theory (e.g. Sears) gave terrible advice for sleeping: just keep intervening more and more to "reinforce the bond" - but the interventions were just getting more frequent and ineffective. We read the Ferber book and it completely changed out perspective. Ferber explains the physiology of children's sleep (sleep cycles during day and night; phases of sleep, etc.), which is indispensable for understanding what's going on, planning naps, etc.. He also explains the psychology of how babies fall asleep using certain associations, which is the key to his approach: since they are quick learners, these associations can be changed from ones involving parental interventions (e.g. bottle, rocking, patting back, etc.) to ones that the child has control over (e.g. alone in crib with lovey and blanket). Like a friend of ours put it: teaching - or rather allowing your children to learn - how to fall asleep on their own is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. No question in my mind that sleep training our twins was the right choice. Not only was the 3-4 night process itself nowhere near as bad as we had feared, but the results speak for themselves: our girls are now calm and secure when we put them in their crib, they sleep peacefully through the night, and thanks to the better rest the whole family is in much better spirits. In summary, even if you have not yet decided to try the Ferber method, you should certainly read the book in order to make an informed decision, and at the very least you are sure to learn valuable scientific information about babies'/children's sleeping about along the way.

After many nights of bad sleeping and many other conversations with wife, I conviced her to follow the method described in the book. She gave me 3 nights... if after the 3 nights our baby was crying, we were going to cancel everything.Well.... first night, our baby went to sleep after 45 minutes. Wife wanted to go a pick up the LO but I make her resist. Second night, LO slept in 25 minutes... third night 10 minutes... Today, our baby not only sleeps all night since he was 6 months old but, he doesn't cry at all when we put him to bed.Mom is happier, baby is happier and therefore, I'm happier.The method is not for everyone, and Ferber actually mentions it. The method has more chances of working if you stick to it, as painful as it is for the first nights.I recommend this book to any parent with babies over 4 months.