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1. Very young babies should never be awake longer than two hours at a time. When your baby wakes up, note the time. Then be sure to put the baby down about 90 minutes later. This worked like a charm and helped me organize and plan my day when my daughter was very young.
2. Sleep begets sleep! This is the most important lesson in the book. The theory is that when a baby is waking during the night or early in the morning, it indicates the baby needs MORE sleep, not less. My sister's daughter was waking up around 5:30 am. She kept trying to move her bedtime later and later, but the wake up time stayed the same. She was just too scared to try the suggestion in the book to put her daughter down earlier. She was sure she'd wake up at 3:00 am. When she finally did try, to her amazement, it worked. She has gradually moved bedtime to 7:00 pm (it had been 9pm) and her daughter now sleeps until about 6:45.
My daughter is now two years old and sleeps from 7:00 pm until 7:45 am. She also takes a nap from 12:30 pm until 3:00 pm. Although I know I am just one anecdotal example, I really do credit the ideas in this book with her amazing sleep habits. For tired parents, it is certainly worth a try!
I do have to add some things I did not like about this book...I think the suggestions on how long to let baby cry were too long. I simply skimmed over these suggestions. I may be a weakling, but I never, ever let my daughter "cry it out". I truly think that a discriminating reader can easily tailor this program to fit ANY style of parenting, from Ferber to Sears. (I myself lie somewhere in the middle...) Also, this book was not organized well, although I have an older version, and this one seems to have been updated. But I have to say that the information in the book is so good that it is worth the minor hunt to get to it! Good luck whatever you try!
As a parent of a baby who had colic, I was able to better understand why my child wasn't sleeping during the day and how to improve the quality of her sleep at night (no more sleep fragmentation). I also read specific chapters to my sister who had a 3 year old son who constantly got out of his bed during the night. After implementing Marc Weissbluth's advice, her "Jack in the Box" was going to bed within in fifteen minutes rather than the nightly two hour battle and remained in bed throughout the night.
This book also discusses night terrors, sleep walking, temper tantrums and special issues that may challenge even an experienced parent.
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