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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Catalog: Book
Release date: 1999-04-12
Media: Paperback
Number of pages: 345
Ean: 9780449004029
Book Isbn: 0449004023
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Author:
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Professional Review:
One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems

Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that

- Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child
- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more
- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally
- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed
- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers
- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule
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Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems

User Reviews:
 Rating 5   Written on April 21, 2008
   Summary: This book is GREAT!
This book is wonderful and saved my life more than once. If you have trouble getting your baby to sleep - read this book! The first half is a little tedious, but there is a lot of great info there. The second part tells specifically what to do for each age range. READ IT!

 Rating 4   Written on April 20, 2008
   Summary: Referred by good sources
Many good friends and professionals referred this book to us. Not just the friends that have no babies ;) but Mom and Dads that have had sleep concerns.


 Rating 5   Written on April 17, 2008
   Summary: Great book. It's OK to let kids cry. If you the parent have a problem with this, maybe there are deeper issues...?
In response to the review by By Maria C. Bernhardt, I think the story she mentions IS a success story because it allowed for the child in question to develop better sleep habits and the parents to finally get some well deserved rest. There is nothing wrong with letting your child cry a little...or a lot if need be. In the story she refers to, the child had a history of terrible sleep habits and his parents were suffering. Yes, as a parent you need to put your child and his needs first. Sacrifice is not simply an added boon...it is a requirement of this role. At the same time, you as a parent have biological needs for sleep. And allowing your child to act as family tyrant simply because s/he has not developed healthy sleep habits is not playing the role of loving parent...it is allowing your child to become sleep deprived (leading to all the short and long-term problems that the author mentions in his book) and yourself to step down from the role as parent and become a spineless bystander. Does this mean that all parents must cruelly leave their children unattended, crying and alone to fend for themselves? Certainly not. What it does mean is that parents shouldn't be afraid to allow their children to cry if that crying will lead to a lifelong pattern of healthy sleep and a happy child. Not all children will or need to "cry it out" (a point which the author reiterates again and again throughout his work), but some will. And there's nothing wrong with that. If you can't allow your child to learn to soothe himself to sleep at this point, I firmly believe that you need to examine yourself and why you have so many issues with this. The issues and problems involving babies never disappear...they simply morph into more complex and difficult issues like peer pressure, what college your child will attend (if at all), sex, drugs, schoolwork...the list goes on and on. If you can't say no now for his or her present and future benefit, will you be able to later on when your child has a stronger will and the mobility and freedom to defy you if s/he truly wants to?

 Rating 5   Written on April 15, 2008
   Summary: This book worked for us, guided us, and is the primary reason for our happy baby!
We followed this book's advice and used the graduated extinction method, and he started sleeping through the night. Now he's 5 1/2 months old and wakes up once at 5 a.m. to eat--no big deal for me considering what could have happened when I read about other parents' ordeals on blogs, in books, and from what other parents tell me. He is happy, I always get comments on how much he smiles--he's a very smiley baby--and he loves to look around and observe and analyze things. This book is awesome--thank you Dr. Weissbluth!!!

 Rating 4   Written on April 14, 2008
   Summary: It helped us!
After our 4 month well check with our baby girl. WE were told to read the book by our pediatrician. Our child did not nap routinely and was still sleeping in our room (in a bassinet). I was waking constantly through the night and every rustle. I purchased the book and did some serious speed reading. Within a week of implementing the methods, our daughter was sleeping in her room, taking 2-3 naps (the book recommends 3-4 for her age) and only waking once at night for a feeding.

We have now had the methods in place for 2 months, and I am more in tune with her sleepy cues. We still need to implement a earlier bedtime, but everyone is getting more rest. I have known a few people that hhave read and used the methods. Everyone interprets them differently and may use other method in conjunction (EASY by the Baby Whisperer, Ferber etc...) depending on their comfort level. But the methods work and give you insight on the baby's sleep needs. The great thing re: the book is that it has sections for sleep problems and also is split into section re: age up until children are teens.

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Release date1999-04-122002-03-282003-05-272006-05-232005-07-261998-06
MediaPaperbackPaperbackPaperbackPaperbackMass Market PaperbackPaperback
Number of pages345208288464352608
Ean978044900402997800713813909780553381467978074320163697803454790999780965260312
Book Isbn044900402300713813920553381466074320163903454790920965260313
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