No cry sleep solution. Does it work???

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Hi, Has anyone read the no cry sleep solution??? If so, did it help???

Yes it is brilliant and saved my sanity, well what's left of it.
You do have to be patient though and see the small baby steps forward, writing it down really, really helps.

Excellent! I will order it now. Thanx

I haven't what is it?

I haven't what is it?

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Did not work for my nightwaking, bfed-to-sleep dd. Not surprising because nothing works on dd. But I like the idea and would give it a go first, over cc.

what age does it work until? what does it basically entail?

There's a book for babies and a separate book for toddlers.

The basic approach is that (a) you decide what you think is a sleep problem. If you are happy nursing or rocking your child to sleep then it's not a problem for you (b) identifying specific things that you do see as a problem and suggesting strategies for gradual improvement without resorting to letting the child cry.

It's more of a cookbook of ideas than an overall strategy. But the general philosophy is from a very AP, cosleeping kind of approach -- you don't need to be parenting that way yourself, but if you think it's loopy then this is not the book for you.

One big weakness with the baby book is that it divides into sections on the newborn (preventing bad habits forming) and the over-4-month baby (getting out of existing bad habits). If you had a 2- or 3-month old who already had the bad habits then neither section really seemed to apply.

I did find some of the individual tips very useful, although for me it wasn't a life-changing experience. I liked the baby book enough to buy the toddler book, although mostly that's served to confirm my suspicion that DS wakes up horribly early because he's just one of those people who wakes up horribly early.

nope,

Its worth a read. Basically if you have a strongwilled clingy baby/toddler and you aren't happy to co-sleep and be woken up 3-4 times in the night you may need to consider GW or CC.

GW?

(Can only think of George Dubya, and I'm almost sure that's not right...)

sorry!

GW Gradual withdrawal - we managed to cut down night wakings using this then we've had to move onto CC as if we are in the room he giggles at us!

Hi do you think it would help with toddler who has been co-sleeping for about 7 months now?

Tried and failed CC but would love to get dd back into own cot for full night.

Never heard of book before but might be worth a try if its well recommended.

I liked the fact that she questioned what a sleep problem was - e.g. does it really matter if your 1 year old wakes once in the night. Also, while she looks at things very much from an AP point of view, she admits that feeding a baby every half hour through the night might not be the most restful thing for the mother.

However as far as the title goes, I think that a 'no cry' at all sleep solution is about as realistic as a no tantrum toddler.

This sounds great I have a 18 month old who throws up as soon as I even try and leave her at night, its a really bad problem and I'm getting very worried about her sleep what is the actual name of the book and who wrote it?

Elizabeth Pantley -- The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers

(baby book, same author, is The No-Cry Sleep Solution)

Thanks LeahE I think I'm going to get that and give it a read, I will try anything.

It's a great book. Ds1 didn't sleep through until 14 months (by which time ds2 had arrived) and a friend recommended the book to me. I was sick and tired of people (i.e the health visitor and a couple of yummy mummies I used to know) making out that I was a bad mother because ds1 hadn't slept through at 6 months etc etc. The most important thing about the book for me was that it helped restore my faith in me. If your baby's waking isn't a problem for him/her or for you then it's not a problem. If you want to deal with it then take things a day at a time. Also, concentrate on getting the day time sleep sorted and the night time sleep will follow.