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

• Have difficulty falling asleep?
• Wake in the middle of the night?
• Suffer sleep terrors, sleepwalking, or nighttime fears?
• Have difficulty waking for school or staying awake in class?
• Snore, wet the bed, or head bang?

In the first major revision of his bestselling, groundbreaking classic since it was published twenty years ago, Dr. Richard Ferber, the nation's foremost authority on children's sleep problems, delivers safe, sound ideas for helping your child fall and stay asleep at night and perform well during the day.

Incorporating new research, Dr. Ferber provides important basic information that all parents should know regarding the nature of sleep and the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood. He discusses the causes of most sleep problems from birth to adolescence and recommends an array of proven solutions for each so that parents can choose the strategy that works best for them. Topics covered in detail include:

• Bedtime difficulties and nighttime wakings
• Effective strategies for naps
• Sleep schedule abnormalities
• A balanced look at co-sleeping
• New insights into the nature of sleep terrors and sleepwalking
• Problems in setting limits
• Sleep apnea, narcolepsy, bed-wetting, and head banging

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems offers priceless advice and concrete help for a whole new generation of anxious, frustrated, and overtired parents.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928498
EAN: 9780743201636
ISBN: 0743201639
Label: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2006-05-23
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: I am a believer now!
Comment: My son just turned 6 months and had not slept more than 3 hours straight in his entire life. It would take me sometimes over an hour of rocking, breastfeeding, walking, breastfeeding, etc to get him to fall asleep. We would have to put him first in his bouncer and later move him into his crib when he was in a deeper sleep. Half the time he would wake and I would have to breastfeed him back to sleep. Naps were just as bad, if not worse. I was frustrated and hating the night time.

I decided to commit to 3 nights and if there was no improvement than I would drop it. The first night, my son cried in his crib for 25 minutes until he fell asleep. He then woke 3 times. I got up and fed him 2 of those times. Each of the three wakings, he cried for a very short time (maybe 10 minutes max). The second night, he cried for 12 minutes, woke 2 and fed him twice, but he went back down with virtually no fussing. The third night was our worst. He screamed for 26 minutes (I was in hysterics), and then he cried off and on from 11pm to 2am. I was out of my mind and ready to give up, but my husband reminded me of our purpose. The fourth night, my son went to bed without a single tear or fussing, woke up 1, fed once and went right back to sleep. We are on our 7th night and he still goes down without a tear and sleeps virtually through the night. I am waiting a bit to stop the last feeding - I know he doesn't need to eat. AND, to top it all off, my son has begun teething in the middle of all of this!

Naps are still a bit harder, but he is now taking his naps in his crib and usually only takes a few minutes of crying to go down.

I never thought that my son would sleep. I thought he was just a poor sleeper and needy. I believe in this book and its possibilities.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I am amazed. Never thought this would work, but it did.
Comment: I felt pretty desperate as my five month old son was only sleeping for at most an hour at a time and as little as 10 minutes. We had tried everything and nothing worked. I felt that this was my last resort. We had two nights of crying for about half an hour. I would go and check on him during the designated times. This was definitely hard, but I knew that we had no other choice. The crying quickly shortened. By the third night, he felt asleep on his own with no crying and slept for 7 hours. He awoke, was fed and went back to sleep on his own in a drowsy but awake state. I heard him talking to himself for about 5 minutes and then he put himself to sleep on his own. I am amazed. He does not appear traumatized or upset. He is happier during the day, less fussy and more playful.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Maybe I'll Try Again Later
Comment: We tried this method for a few nights and a few naps when our daughter turned three months old, but it just didn't work for us. Perhaps we didn't give it enough time, but we just couldn't take it. The first night we started at 8:45, and she cried until 3:30 in the morning--she threw up twice during the process and snubbed for hours after we gave up. The next night after four hours, I gave up again, knowing that she was stubborn and would go until 3:30 again if we'd allow it. At four months old we started the No Cry Sleep Solution with better results. After only a week she began sleeping for six hours before waking for a short nursing period, and she is napping in bed for up to two hours each time. She is being put down while asleep now, so maybe we'll try the Ferber method when we start putting her down awake. My friends rave about Ferber, I just didn't have the stomach to make her cry for hours on end.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I don't know if its just me and my baby, or if this method doesn't work
Comment: It is difficult to implement this. And, when babies teethe or are sick (which, unfortunately happens a lot between 6-12 months), it is challenging to implement. I'm breastfeeding and husband and I are both working outside of the home, so I read the book, tried implementation, and I'm getting more sleep, but baby is far from sleeping through...maybe it's just us...

Customer Rating:
Summary: Changed our lives
Comment: We tried Ferber's method when our daughter was 7 or 8 months old and still waking up several times during the night and demanding attention, because the sleep deprivation was even harder on the adults. After the first night, she was sleeping from 8pm until 7am, and it changed our lives! It probably saved our marriage. We had evenings together as a couple, and our daughter, now 13 years old, was sleeping beautifully. When our son was born we "Ferberized" him at the earliest recommended age. He is now 11, and both kids are good sleepers and doing great. Don't let the nay-sayers scare you. Our now middle-school-age kids are wonderful, well-adjusted, smart and funny, and have never, from then to now, shown any sign of the "trauma" some parents worry about. This method can be difficult to live through, but so are many other things you must do for the sake of your children and family. In our case, it was a breeze. I recommend this book to every new parent I meet, even strangers on an elevator!

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