Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition

Very Happy

As a new mother of Twins, I found this book extremely helpful. I strongly disagree with reviewers who say his tone is condescending or judgmental, as I personally found him very tolerant of all parenting choices while still providing the facts that disprove them. I also don't see how people say he doesn't give options other than crying it out as he has offered a range of other options, though not in as much detail. My problem with this book is actually not the content as much as the organization and redundancy. A lot of the information is repeated throughout the book that you can easily find yourself wondering if you are relistening to a part that you have already finished. Funnily enough, this repetition is not utilized when most needed in age-specific chapters. Moreover, and this is not the author's problem but rather audible's format, you can't tell where to find the information you need because there's no chapter titles or subtitles, and the book chapters are further divided into two chapters in audio form. Tip for people who are in a hurry, listen to chapters 4, 7, and your baby's age specific chapter.

12 of 12 people found this review helpful

It worked for my baby!

This is a comprehensive sleep book, I was reluctant to sleep train my baby, who at 6 months slept in my arms. I listened to the entire book, applied the techniques and now my baby sleeps 12 hours in his crib. We are still working on good naps.

6 of 6 people found this review helpful

Cruel context and disjointed writing

This Dr arrogantly knocks off an older equally as cruel sleep training method but in a highly disorganized fashion. The book is unnecessarily long, disjointed and offers no new information nor sheds new light. I’m baffled by its popularity.

The Sleep Easy Solution is a more empathetic approach that yields the same results. Though we’re sticking with the family bed for now, a practice this Dr belittles and shames for a good 20 pages. Our baby can stay a baby for now. When he’s not, we’ll start treating him a little differently. On his own time. The question to ask yourself is “do you believe and for how long that a baby’s needs and wants are the same thing?”. I do. So this book and its pontificating bag of wind has no place in my library.

So much learning and improvement!!!!!

Oh God I wish I could had gotten this book earlier. Just 3 days listening to it and my baby is already sleeping so so so much better. Got it through Amazon. I was doing everything wrong with my baby sleeping habits. She is 4 1/2 months. Now I can see improvement since the first day started following steps on this book.
God Bless the author!!!!!!

This is a need to "bookmark" kind of audible!

This is a must have book for new and veteran moms and dads. I drive quite a bit for my job so reading the actual book would have taken a lot longer. I will however need to go back with the paper back or with a notebook and write some notes. I bookmarked like crazy for easier referencing.

The book had a lot of repetition with some of the statistics which as a physician I could appreciate, but only added a little bit of value to the overall theme, IMO. I did skip through some of that after I felt I had learned what I needed to.

I think it will be extremely beneficial to have heard/read this before my first child and recommend it to all new moms. I'd also recommend it to anyone else who just became a mom or families with young children.

The development of the brain is fascinating to me and I connected with the analogy of starving your child from food is the same as starving your child from sleep.

I hope this sheds some light on the challenges I will have when my baby is born. There are so many examples from Mom's who wished they had read the book sooner... I'm having my husband listen to the book as well because being on the same page, and more importantly him knowing Why I'm doing something, will help the cohesiveness of our family and help raise a bright well rested little girl.

Waste of time

This book will put you to sleep. There are some good concepts but the entire book is so redundant and goes in circles. Too much science and published research, just tell me how to get my baby to sleep better! Buy any other sleep training book.

Rescued me.. educated me..

This book has real scientific meaning. Beautifully explains the importance of baby sleep and how to get it and protect it. Babies sleep and all they need is a little love. What we as parents need is education and knowledge about how, when etc to get the baby to sleep. the book explains various stages in detail.... go ahead parents, educate yourselves and help your babies learn the art of restful sleeping.

A Lot of Information

This book has been empowering in some aspects but overwhelming in others. It contains A LOT of information, studies, experiences, and advice, which makes it useful for a lot of people. For the way my wife and I want to raise our kids it has some useful tips and some not-so-useful. The trick we've decided is starting very early to train your children to sleep. So, the best time to read it is right as you are getting ready for that little one to come. All in all, it is a good read and can help most people in at least a small way.

Great info, yet repetitive

Wish could have had this book in a summary. Great info and good ideas, but it’s way too long and repetitive. Felt like I had to listen until the end to make sure I wasn’t going to miss new information. Good principles to put into practices.

good information but repetitive

Did not work well as an audiobook due to very repeated points that would have been better skimmed, along with charts that don't translate well