Sleeping Through the Night, Revised Edition: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep
by Jodi A. Mindell
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Author: Jodi A. MindellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-15
ISBN: 0060742569
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Book Reviews of Sleeping Through the Night, Revised Edition: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep
Book Review: Use what works for you - think of this as one of many options
Summary: 4 Stars
My disclaimer: This book worked for us - but it wasn't the first we tried - and it wouldn't have been the last if I hadn't figured out which of the recommendations I needed to switch up to make it work for us. Everyone's different - don't let anyone (except your pediatrician) tell you what you choose to do is wrong. It truly is and should be a family decision so that during the roughest moments you have the support you need to hold firm to your plans. 4am is a tough moment to try to be strong - but with a plan, a resource and support it's easier. In the end this too shall pass - how many adults do you know that don't sleep through the night?
So I spent the majority of my daughters first months of life convinced CIO was not in the cards for me. This lead to almost 10 solid months of sleeping with her in a recliner because i was too afraid to sleep with her in our bed because my husband is such a sound sleeper (and he was afraid of having her in bed too). By the end of 10 months I was getting tired because she was more active at nigth, we were still nursing periodically through the night for minutes or less at a time, and I was realizing I needed to do something else for when we travelled because I sure couldn't fit my recliner on a plane.
We started with the Sears Healthy Sleep book - but for many reasons decided that approach didn't fully work with our philosophy or lifestyle. I went looking for a kinder gentler CIO method because I could tell I wasn't having any success at anything else that didn't result in me falling asleep in "our" chair. A parent at daycare recommended this and the more I read it the more it made sense.
We were lucky the first time we tried this it worked like a charm - our timeframes were longer than stated but by the 4th night she was falling asleep on her own. After a few short weeks, the baby got sick, we had to go on a trip and she was starting to hit some significant milestones all of which Mindell indicates will disrupt the pattern. So I after we got over the cold, had returned home and were past the milestones we started trying again - from the beginning. Then another interruption - started all over from teh beginning. You get the picture.
Here's what I liked - I liked the philosophy but only parts of it worked for us. We live a fairly busy lifestyle - travelling (Amanda's come with me on business trips) on the go on weekends, etc. She's in daycare and picks up colds. And as a 10-12 month old is hitting lots of milestones - teething, learning to walk etc. It didn't work for me to start back at the beginning every time there was an interruption to her schedule. I discovered after a solid month of establishing the habit when she got sick she would still put herself to sleep.
At first I only did CIO to get her to learn to fall asleep at night - when she woke in the middle of the night I went to her and we cliimbed into our chair so the family could sleep. Overtime though I realized this wasn't the perfect solution either and started going in and just laying her back down in her crib (she was pulling herself up and crying at the crib rail) instead of nursing her. I would pat her belly or rub her side and shush her (ala Karp's white noise) and eventually within a week or two she was putting herself back to sleep in the middle of the night.
Two months later we've only had 2 middle of the night wakings where I just laid her back down and within minutes (>5) she was sound asleep.
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Summary of Sleeping Through the Night, Revised Edition: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep
Right after "Is it a boy or a girl?" and "What's his/her name?," the next question people invariably ask new parents is "Are you getting any sleep?" Unfortunately, the answer is usually "Not much." In fact, studies show that approximately 25% of young children experience some type of sleep problem and, as any bleary-eyed parent will attest, it is one of the most difficult challenges of parenting.
Drawing on her ten years of experience in the assessment and treatment of common sleep problems in children, Dr. Jodi A. Mindell now provides tips and techniques, the answers to commonly asked questions, and case studies and quotes from parents who have successfully solved their children's sleep problems.
Unlike other books on the subject, Dr. Mindell also offers practical tips on bedtime, rather than middle-of-the-night-sleep training, and shows how all members of the family can cope with the stresses associated with teaching a child to sleep.
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