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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child |  | Author: Marc Weissbluth
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0345486455
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928498
EAN: 9780345486455
ASIN: 0345486455
Publication Date: October 4, 2005
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Product Description
One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems
Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that
- Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child
- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more
- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally
- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed
- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers
- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule
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Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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 Lifeline for sleepy parents November 24, 2009
Delia Bouwers Bianchin (Pittsburgh, PA)
Great book with invaluable advice for new moms or even second time moms who need a reminder on how to help their child sleep through the night without feeling like you are abandoning him.
 Works for some children, but not all... November 23, 2009
Lillian35 (United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book when my 2nd daughter was a baby. I was desperate because her sleep was so irratic. This book worked wonders for her. I was able to get her onto the 2-naps-a-day schedule at the same time every day. She would go to bed at night at the same time and wake up at the same time every morning. It was great!
Then I had my 3rd daughter and this book did not work at all. I was never able to get her on a schedule. When she was 2-5-months-old she could only stand to be awake for an hour at a time, so she would sleep for 45 minutes to an hour, be awake for an hour and then go back to sleep again and she would do that throughout the day. It wasn't until she was 6-months-old that she got on a more normal nap schedule. She's 18 months now and still has no consistent schedule though. She goes to bed at the same time every night, but her wake-up times vary from day to day by hours sometimes. This morning she woke up at 5:45 a.m. and yesterday it was 6:30 a.m. and then day before that was 7:30 a.m. Because of the different wake-up times, her nap times are different. Some days she'll take 1 nap and some days she needs 2. It all depends on when she woke up in the morning. And her nap length has never been consistent. Yesterday she took one 2-hour nap, and today she took one 1-hour nap. We had to learn to go with the flow with her sleep.
I think that the research is good and the principles are good, but I realize that this will not work for every child. I also don't agree with the author's list of things that don't cause night waking, because I KNOW FOR A FACT that teething, reflux and pin worms all cause night waking.
I'm not saying don't buy this, because I think for the vast majority of children this would work, but it doesn't for all children.
Changed my life! I like being a parent now! November 17, 2009
H. Galen
with my first child I absolutely didn't believe in sleep training. I co-slept with him, responded to every cry, and believed that I was parenting in the best and natural way. This worked well for the first 6 months, but after that he started to wake up a lot! By 9 months he was waking over 10 times a night. I read 5 "no-cry" style sleep books and followed them carefully to no avail. Finally around 2 I got him sleeping in his own bed at 2 years, but still at 4 years old he doesn't consistently sleep through the night. With my second child I vowed to do things differently seeing as the co-sleeping had not promoted bonding, but only resentment and over-tired grouchiness in both of us. I purchased this book and followed the recommended plan and let my baby cry it out at 6 months using the methods described in this book. I can honestly say I have a happy child with healthy sleep habits thanks to this book! He goes to sleep without a peep and even seems to look forward to his naps and bedtime. He sleeps through the night and wakes up refreshed and ready for play. There are many aspects of the attachment parenting style that worked great for me such as babywearing and extended breastfeeding, but I'm a much happier mom with a much happier family for ditching the co-sleeping and following this book instead. I can't recommend it enough.
Holds true November 16, 2009
L. Hibbard-Fraley
I bought this book shortly after my oldest daughter was born and we were exhausted. Dr. Weissenbluth really does a great job at explaining the sleep habit of infants and toddlers and certainly helped me become more calm about letting my baby sleep. Some things need to be taken with a grain of salt but other than that he really nailed it on alot of points. I now have 3 children, youngest who is 6 months, and I still refer to this book.
Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child November 12, 2009
More than enough sleep
I borrowed this book from my brother and found it to be so helpful that I wanted my own copy for future reference as my daughter grows older. I noticed a difference within the first day of following the suggestions in the book. My daughter started sleeping 12 hours at night with 3 daily naps by the time she was 10 weeks old. Throughout her growth the naps have adjusted accordingly just as the book says and now that she is almost two she is still sleeping 12 hours at night with one 1.5 hour nap during the day. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend and have done so already.
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