The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep---from Birth to Age 5

Written by Jill Spivack and Jennifer Waldburger

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin

Even Hollywood's biggest stars face the same dilemma as other parents do: "How do I get my child to sleep?" As parents in the know are finding, whether they're on the red carpet or the soccer field, the answer is the same: The Sleepeasy Solution.

Psychotherapists and sleep specialists Jennifer and Jill, the dynamic "girlfriends" all of Hollywood calls on to solve Junior's sleep problems, have perfected their sleep technique that will get any child snoozing in no time-most often in fewer than three nights. The key to their method? It addresses the emotional needs of both the parent and the child (yes, how to handle the crying!)-a critical component of why most other sleep methods fail.

In this much-needed, family-friendly guide, weary parents will learn to define their own individual sleep goals, those that work for their family's schedule and style. They'll create a customized "sleep planner" to ensure consistency with both parents as well as extended caregivers. (As an added bonus, they'll even improve the listeners' relationships with their spouses with the "marriage-saver" section.) With comprehensive sections devoted to each stage of Baby's and Toddler's development, plus solutions to special circumstances like traveling, daylight savings time, moving to a "big kid bed," and multiples, The Sleepeasy Solution is a dream come true!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Aug 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452673981

Reviews for The Sleepeasy Solution

[wosret · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Bottom line: this is a Cry It Out (CIO) method, even though they try to sell it as a gentle approach. If you're not comfortable with letting your child cry themselves to sleep, this isn't the book for you.I think the biggest advantage of a book like this is that it offers advice to parents who may not have any peers to help them out, or who haven't had a experience with babies before. It gives you a framework which can be extremely helpful if you have no idea that most babies nap at least twice a day, and sleep roughly twelve hours at night.That being said, this book told us we should reintroduce naps for our toddler. We had thought she was ready to give them up, but have found that she's much more cheerful and sleeps better at night now that she's napping in the afternoon again. It was very helpful for nap times.It didn't work for us for bed time. She fell asleep eventually, but I personally am not comfortable with my baby screaming her head off for an hour every night for weeks on end, especially when there are other methods out there that are more gentle. I was at my wit's end though and was willing to give CIO a try, followed the instructions to the letter, and got a traumatized baby out of the deal, who would start crying as soon as we started to even mention bed time. After a couple of weeks, it wasn't getting better, so we switched our method to a more gentle approach and that's worked great ever since.I think some babies are more suited to this method than others, just as some parents will be more comfortable with this method than others. If it doesn't work for you and your baby, try something else. I'd even suggest trying a more gentle approach to start with and using this as a last resort. Why start with the stick when the carrot could work just fine?