Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
by Richard Ferber

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
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Author: Richard Ferber
Edition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1986-04-17
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Fireside

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Book Review: Works well if the baby is old enough
Summary: 4 Stars

I almost wrote a review several months ago when we tried this with our 4-month old. It didn't work at all and after a week of crying all night, I gave up. I tried again just last week when my son was 9 months old and it worked beautifully after only three nights. He went from waking every 2-3 hours to sleeping from anywhere from 10 to 12 hours depending on the night. I have three kids and have tried the more moderate approaches before (Pantley, Sears). The other approaches are more appealing to me as a mom, but I have to say that I don't think they're as effective. Ferber makes two points that are particularly relevant: a) habits are important. If a baby is used to being nursed to sleep, a baby will want to be nursed to sleep all the time. Imagine having your pillow taken away and you realize the issue. It would take awhile to recalibrate. b) eating during the night when the digestive system is shut down is not good for sleep. I tend to think this makes sense and saw the results when my son would wake around 2:30-3. He would then nurse every hour or two until 8 am. I think this is because he wasn't sleeping as soundly with his digestive system cranking away. All this is to say that I think Ferber is really the way to go. If you try it for 3 or 4 days and it's not working, consider the age of the child and try again when the baby is older. I can't say how grateful I am to finally have 8 hours of sleep. Wish I had tried again sooner!

Summary of Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems

You've tried everything. Warm milk. Bedtime stories. Sharing your bed. But your child still has problems falling asleep. Dr. Richard Ferber can help. Director of the Sleep Laboratory and Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Ferber is widely recognized as the nation's leading authority on children's sleep problems.

Practical and easy to understand, Solve Your Childs' Sleep Problems tells you how to handle these situations in children aged one to six:

* Refusing to go to bed
* Colic and other medical problems
* Restlessness and insomnia
* Night terrors
* Bedwetting
* Headbanging and body rocking

And other problems that keep you and your child awake in the night.

Based on six years of intensive research in a top medical facility, Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems is packed with tips, suggestions, sample problems and solutions, and a bibliography of children's "go-to-sleep" books.


When your child isn't sleeping, chances are that you aren't either. Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems--a tired parent's essential for more than 10 years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on Ferber's research as the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. Detailed case histories on night waking, difficulty sleeping, and more serious disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking help illustrate a wide variety of problems and their solutions. New parents will benefit from Ferber's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first place. You'll also find a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming, as well as a list of helpful organizations. Here's a book that is sure to put you and your whole family to sleep--in this case, that's a good thing.

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