in thinking that "the no-cry sleep solution"

[emmymama]

should be on tape or something, not a blooming book.... my baby doesnt sleep! thats why i bought it, when the hell am i supposed to find time to read a book??

Bought it last week having searched audible for it and agree 100%.. still haven't managed much more than a chapter or two and can't remember those!

Yanbu!

I've not managed to read it either

oh is the no cry sleep solution about how to stop them crying?

i assumed it was about getting them to sleep longer/through

that's a few quid saved then

It does have solutions! It has tips to help your DCs get to sleep and to re-settle themselves if and when they wake up, such as getting hem attached to a teddy bear, setting up sleep cues, that kind of thing. It worked really well for us (read it while feeding DD).

I didn't find the book useful on a practical level as my baby was too far along the 'fed-to-sleep and fed 12 times a day' spectrum for anything like that to work.

But it's main use was making me feel better about feeding to sleep, having her in bed and generally feeding through the night.

I made my DH read it and he liked its tone. She's a nice woman (unlike some of the twits who write baby books)

But no, it didn't work and we're still were we are at 17 months but I'm a) used to it and b) confident I'm doing the right thing.

That said, on a bad night I've wanted to burn it out of frustration. Instead I tear DH a new one.

Controlled Crying.
Saved. My. Life.

I call it the No-Sleep Cry Solution. But it is still a nice book to read while your baby just does what it would have done anyway

I'm with doris bonkers. I think if you are worried about your lo not sleeping and are starting to think 'i must be doing something wrong because everyone else's baby is sleeping x number of hours' it reassures you that you are doing the right thing by listening to them and that all babies are different and will sleep through/settle themselves when they are ready. It's a nice book to read and is definitely a much better option than the 'ignore your baby for x minutes until they give up' alternatives.

it worked for me!

doris
have a look at jay gordon

worked a treat for dd

I also wasted some money on this book, its OK, but there is NO SOLUTION . So we are back to co-sleeping when he wakes as cant be arsed with 3 am controlled crying!

It is a touchy feely book. My dd was not having any of it though.

Time is the best solution.

It didn't work very well for DS because the problem wasn't that he wouldn't sleep long enough and I wasn't trying to wean him or move him out of my bed. The book kept going on about "get them to sleep in the normal way" - there was no "normal way" - he wouldn't go to sleep at all.

However I did go through the sleep log/plan/thing and did a proper daytime routine and restricted his naps and it did help. Ended up doing a sort of sleep-training-eqsue thing though of just half sitting, half lying next to him and keeping lying him down every time he tried to get up, when he/I got really frustrated I'd end up pinning him to the bed just until he calmed down (2 hours of this tonight - it's usually 10 minutes or less admittedly) and it does seem to have made a difference and it was just having the patience to keep something going long enough to see the effects.

Lol stick with it but as others have said they sort out the whole sleep thing when THEY are good and ready not when GF says they should.

Mrs Badger I'm aiming to try Jay Gordon in a few months time and she's been teething. Wish me luck...