The No-Cry Sleep Solution

Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

By: Elizabeth Pantley

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out", or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving audiobook The No-Cry Sleep Solution.

Pantley's successful solution has been tested and proven effective by scores of mothers and their babies from across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Based on her research, Pantley's guide provides you with effective strategies to overcoming nap-time and nighttime problems. The No-Cry Sleep Solution offers clearly explained, step-by-step ideas that steer your little ones toward a good night's sleep - all with no crying.

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Critic reviews

"Speaks to the uniqueness of each child in a loving and knowledgeable way." (James McKenna PhD, Mother-Baby Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame)

Útil, porém sem novidades

o livro organiza informações que são facilmente encontradas na Internet e orienta a fazer diários e planejamento para manter consistência.
É focado mais no aleitamento materno e cama compartilhada.
Gasta muito tempo falando mal dos métodos que envolvem choro e daqueles que os escolhem. além de minutos consolando o ouvinte para não ser sentir culpado.
Enfim, acho que vale ouvir, mas o título é um tanto pretensioso, está mais para orientação do que solução.
narração num tom teatral.

Bookmark the parts you need!

Lots of very good advice in a well structured, understandable guide for struggling, sleep-deprived parents.

Perfect for responsive breastfeeding families

Great listening to it even in my sleep deprived state. The best book about sleep I listened to so far. I haven't started implementing the plan so I don't know if it works but regardless of the results I love this book.

Good

The book has good ideas in it and great alternatives to the CIO method. However, it didn't work with my baby boy (8 months old) who is high needs. (Look that term up if not familiar please)

Somewhat helpful

There are some good tips in here, but the author doesn't bring much new or original material here and it's not very functional as an audiobook. That being said, one of the tips has been really helpful to me, so it's worth checking out.

I'm a believer!

Tried the first tip early in the book and got my baby to nap when 1/2 asleep and NO TEARS!!! Cant wait to finish up the book!

In written form a 5*, audio only 4

This book has a large number of charts and frequent box outs of testimonials from moms. Unfortunately, the context is lost when the physical format of the book is simply read in sequence by the othetwise very capable and well done narration.
Get this book in physical form for sure, it’s otherwise very helpful taken all together with a relatively small amount of useless testimonial, self praise for the method, or condemnation of other methods that I found from other authors.

helpful book

I'm an Infant Sleep Trainer, and I found the info in this book to be consistent with most of the current sleep research. With my own daughter, I did cry-it-out and accomplished in 3 nights what it will take Pantley's followers several (sleepless, anxious) weeks to accomplish...and yes, my daughter and I have a close nurturing relationship. But, with my clients who want to avoid all crying, I employ her solid methods.

if you breastfeed and co-sleep there are good tips

there are few good tips that I found useful. only a few days in and some changes have already happened at my house. I appreciated that older babies were mentioned and also experienced some degrees of success. This is really just a bunch of tips and the reminder that keeping a log gives insight and makes small and large improvements noticeable. If you are not breastfeeding or cosleeping I think that you may find the promotion of breastfeeding and co-sleeping to be condescending for those who are not. since we're doing both this book was not annoying in that way for me. but I can see that it would be for others. this does not offer any short-term, Quick Fix solution. I am seeing small results already though.

This book has transformed nighttime in my house.

Over the course of the summer, my 9 mo has gone from waking at least every two hours and sleep nursing throughout the night, to sleeping 8 hours at a time in his crib and another few with me. He is even able to self soothe throughout the night, and it all happened without crying! My partner and I sleep better, there's no guilt involved, and it's all thanks to this book. We still have work to do, but every time I listen to this book, we make sleep progress. Thank you for saving my sanity!