Sleep

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A must for new parents - Rated
We bought the book on recommendation from a friend. It uses a baby led approach to learning to sleep through the night. The core night chapter in particular is very useful. One of the biggest hints that it gave to us though is to trust your baby to be able to sleep. Taking that advice on board stopped us running to pick both our girls up at the first noise and waiting to see if they would settle by themself first. As a result our eldest slept through 10pm-7am from 7 weeks and the youngest by 8 weeks old. It is not a cry it out approach at all - I personally am not for that sort of parenting.

still sleepless - Rated
I so wanted to help my wakeful baby get a good night's sleep and this book looked promising with it's gentle approach. The 'core-night' method seemed worth a go but, despite our best efforts we are no further on. It is well-meaning and may help some but it is far from a universal solution.

how to sort out a basic skill for your baby - Rated
Sleep will be important throughout your child's life - I'd say sleep, food and people are the three biggies - so giving your child a secure and comfortable relationship with sleep is a huge gift.

Enter your fairy godmothers, Smith & Hollyer - and actually, they'll get your baby well started on sleep, and food, and people, and how to know which one you need at any given moment, which isn't as straightforward as it should be.

If you're worried that leaving your child to get to sleep alone is unkind, but equally worried that you're going to crack and do something dreadful if they spend three more hours asleep on your shoulder, and then shoot awake as you put them in the cot - read this!

And if you're too blood-shot to think about it, get your midwife/ health visitor/ Mum/ Mum-in-law to read it to you.

Happy parenting - remember, if you're not happy, they won't be either.

Priceless! - Rated
A priceless read for any would be parents. We were so thrilled by the results we acheived after implementing the suggestions in this book that we now by it as a gift for everyone we know who is expecting a baby. These women are common sense geniuses!

very quick to read - very good advice - Rated
It doesn't take long to read this book at all. From the moment I finished it I felt more confident about parenting. I also felt confident that it would be possible to get our daughter to sleep - so I was feeling much better before I'd even put anything into practice.
We tried sticking to the methods in the book and we had results in days. Our baby was sleeping for a long time and so were we. Everyone was much happier. It was from this point that I really enjoyed being a parent.

This book gives very concise information, and I believe it would be useful for a child of any age. You may find it useful to complement it with another book with more specific details of things you can try like bedtime routines.