Editorial Review:Product Description:Suzy Giordano, affectionately known as 'The Baby Coach,' shares her highly effective sleep-training method in this step-by-step guide to let both baby and parent enjoy long, peaceful nights. Full of common sense and specific tips, the Baby Coach's plan offers time- and family-tested techniques to help any baby up to the age of 18 months who has trouble sleeping through the night.
Originally developed for newborn multiples, this sleep-training method worked so well with twins and triplets that families with singletons and older babies began asking Suzy to share her recipe for success, resulting in: regular feeding times; 12 hours' sleep at night; three hours' sleep during the day; peace of mind for parent and baby; and less strain on parents-and their marriage. This edition includes a new chapter on implementing the program with babies up to 18 months.
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An excellent sleep solution for the whole family
My husband and I were grad students when we had our first baby and needed to have time to work and study every night. This book and sleep method worked perfectly, without making us feel like bad parents. The baby slept next to us for the first 3 months of life and we never had a cry-it-out episode that lasted more than 5 minutes once we started the training. We were able to travel and stay with family and friends with ease by sticking close to the sleep cycle the baby was used to. We ended up having an excellent first year with our well-rested and cheerful baby and now that she's a toddler she has excellent self-soothing and sleep habits and going to bed is a pleasurable time for the whole family-- not a battle.
We just had our second baby and we'll help her learn to sleep and be part of our family the same way.
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AMAZING book; mother of triplets; recommend it highly
We heard about this book when our triplets were 11 weeks old (born 6 weeks early). We followed this book word-for-word, and it had all three of our children sleeping 12 hours a night within 2 weeks. We think this is a great book for people who like structure and schedules and who are willing to let their children cry for 3-5 minutes before going in to check on them. This book helped us get our children on a great sleep schedule early on, and helped us get some sleep too so we were rested enough to enjoy our children even more!
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This totally worked for us! She's slept 12 hours since 10wks old--by her choice!!
I read a LOT of baby books (way too many) while pregnant. After giving birth, I found that there were TWO which were actually worth the money I paid for them: Baby 411, and THIS BOOK.
This book is a great middle ground between two extremes of baby sleep training methods: the 'cry it out' approach recommended by some baby sleep experts which I felt was harsh, and the 'no cry' approach which I think would have driven us nuts with no sleep for several weeks.
This book is SHORT, practical, not preachy, and its method totally works! At least, it did for our daughter, and it claims to work for any child. Our baby took to this immediately -- she skipped over some of the 'steps' herself and adopted the schedule on her own much less gradually than we had planned or intended -- and is doing wonderfully. My pediatrician is amazed that she is sleeping 12 hours every night and even wrote down the name of the book to recommend to other parents. So that's my testimony!
When I had a question, I posted it on the author's website forum, and also e-mailed her. She wrote back and told me to call her so we could talk on the phone, and we did. She is now my 'baby hero.'
ADDED NOTE: After reading the 1 star reviews, I'd like to clear up some apparent misconceptions about this book.
1) The schedule in this book is meant to be worked toward VERY GRADUALLY and gently, over a period of at least 6 weeks. The author does NOT condone or expect making a baby suddenly switch to this routine.
2) Starting moving a baby gradually toward the schedule laid out in this book is not meant be started until a baby is SIX WEEKS OLD or older.
3) This book does not condone or recommend ignoring a baby's needs at any time. Yes, our baby usually sleeps a straight 12 hours now, but if she does wake up, we attend to her immediately. In fact, we are more attentive to her because we know that since it's unusual for her to be awake, it is likely something legitimately wrong that needs fixing (i.e. no 'crying wolf' syndrome).
4) The author does not condone or recommend that a baby under 3 months old sleep for 12 hours. When our baby started doing so at 10 weeks old is when I spoke with the author on the phone and she told me that was a bit young and we should still try to give her night feedings. But our baby just didn't wake up for them!
5) This routine can be introduced to children older than 3 months... and even to kids as old as 5 years.
6) I would not have followed the advice in this book if my pediatrician had not given it the green light.
7) Some reviewers have cautioned that babies on this routine would develop 'failure to thrive'... but the testimonies of real parents have shown that this is not the case.
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Breastfeeding Mom gives this a thumbs up!
I read all of the reviews on this book and despite numerous warnings that it "wasn't for a breastfed baby", I purchased it.
By 10 weeks he was sleeping through the night with only a diaper change around 1am. We have since learned to change his diaper at 11:00pm right after my last pump and he sleeps till 6:30am. It is common sense, adults learn that they are going to get all of their food during the day so essentially that is what you are teaching your baby. There is no starving! My son gets 28oz of breast milk a day, the difference is that instead of him "snacking" every 2-3 hours, he eats once every 4 hours, 4x a day.
My son is now 3 months old, exclusively breastfed and he sleeps through the night. I love this book. It is straight forward, uses common sense and most of all, possible!
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Good guide for improving sleep length and discipline of the parents
This is our first child and we have been very lucky in many respects like ease of feeding and cooperation of the baby. My wife was apprehensive about what to do next when the baby was crying, sleeping, eating etc. This book helped to give her a path to success. Some of the information was not used by my wife and over all the book is very practicle. Here's what we took from the book and how it worked out for us.
We followed the method of having a schedule and we do watch the clock. The baby follows our schedule, we don't follow hers. She eats when we tell her to eat and don't feed on demand. We wake her up at 6:00 am, change the diaper and feed 2-4 ounces of mixed breast milk and similac advanced 50/50 mix. The volume of the bottle increased to 4 ounces and now she is at 4-6 ounces per feeding. After the baby was content and had burped, we put the baby down for tummy time for an hour or maybe longer, then we moved the baby to her bassinette or crib for 90 minutes of sleep.
We feed every three hours on a 6-9-12-3 schedule with a last feeding at 6 and 9 with hopes that she will stay down. We bathe her weekly and after the second time she seemed to like it, plus it helps to get her routine stabilized. My scheduled changed for the month of september and we went on a 5-8-11-2 schedule, any of these are good enough. If you get off the schedule by 30-60 minutes, it's no big deal, just get back on track for the next feeding time.
One last thing, we don't keep quiet or dim the lights. If she has gas and gets fussy we try to help her get it out by walking her around the house in the shoulder burp position and patting. sometimes it helps when we put her in tummy time and rotate her hips to the side when on her back. You have to resist the urge and maternal instinct to pick up the baby when she is crying, just wait 2-3 minutes maybe 5 and see if the crying stops. Diapers excluded, she went right into 5 hours straight during the night then 8 and now she is at 11-12 hours. Good luck.
