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| View Larger Image | The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5
by Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack
| | List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $10.17 | | You Save: | $4.78 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 6658 | | Studio: | HCI | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 256 | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2007 | | Publisher: | HCI |
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Product Description
Two experts who are helping Hollywood's A-list babies get their zzz's share the no-fail, family-friendly method that has helped thousands of sleep-deprived moms and dads. 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 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 readers' 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 saving's time, moving to a "big kid bed" and multiples, The Sleepeasy Solution is a dream come true! "This approach was truly amazing in helping our family to thrive. . . . We are eternally grateful!"
—Ben Stiller and wife, Christine Taylor, actors "With their gentle approach, Sleepeasy gave us the tools we needed to solve our daughter's sleep problems."
—Conan O'Brien, host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien "Sleepeasy gave us all the tools we needed to get our baby sleeping through the night. Now when we say good night to our daughter, we know it really will be a good night."
—Greg Kinnear, actor --- ©2007. Jennifer Waldburger, LCSW, and Jill Spivak, LMSW. All rights reserved. Reprinted from The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street , Deerfield Beach , FL 33442. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 109 reviews)
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If you stop and think about, it all makes sense! 
My 3 month old has never napped by himself, since day one he would wake up if you put him down. So this was a vicious cycle that just continued on for months, getting worse. He would only nap if he rocked, and then he would only sometimes stay asleep for 30 minutes. This book is the "gentle" cry it out method. Simple as that. There are a few basic ideas that they set you up with (darkening the room, white noise machine), but the program consists of putting your child down for sleep, if he/she fusses check in on them in 5 minutes, talk to them (don't touch them) and then leave the room. If they are still fussing within 10 minutes, do the same thing. THIS PROGRAM IS VERY DO-ABLE! I struggled emotionally with letting my son cry, but I know, after 6 days, he is falling asleep on his own within 10 minutes and sleeping for at least 40 minutes at the minimum.
September 03, 2008 | |
Sleep Problems Solved! 
This book solved our 5 month old baby's napping problems. Until we read this book, we could not get our baby to take naps of more than 20 to 30 minutes. She slept fairly well at night with one feeding at around 3 a.m., but she simply was not getting enough total sleep. This book helped tremendously by teaching us WHEN to put the baby down for sleep. It did take some crying, but I truly believe it was okay, because the baby now likes going in for naps and going to bed. She goes to bed at night without a peep, and she only mildly protests for a few mintues before her naps. Her naps now last 1-2 hours and she takes at least 2 per day. Sometimes she even goes down for naps without so much as a whimper. She is now getting all the sleep she needs -- 11 hours per night with no breaks, and 2-3 hours per day of napping. What a relief! The doctor will be happy and we are definitely happy at home. The baby is peacefully napping as I write this review.
August 07, 2008 | |
This book changed our lives!
At about nine months of age my daughter was still waking up crying 2-3 times during the night. My husband would go upstairs and "binky" her, and she would fall back to sleep. Not the worst of scenarios, but our sleep (as well as hers) was disrupted. After reading this book we learned a few things that we weren't doing, such as having a bedtime routine (in the room where she would be sleeping) and putting our daughter in her crib awake. It took us a couple of nights of a tiny bit of crying, but she hasn't needed to be "binky'd" since! She is able to fall asleep on her own, soothe herself back to sleep during the night, and has been sleeping 11-12 hours straight ever since. She will be two next month! I also recommend "The Happiest Baby on the Block" for babies 0-3 months.
July 22, 2008 | |
The BEST of the sleep "training" books!!
I've read SIX other recommended books on sleep training and this one is hands down the best!!!! It covers many, many topics that the others don't and addresses the emotions that both parents and children experience in the process. In so many of the other books, there are several missing pieces of the puzzle but THIS book covers all, and I do mean ALL of them! There hasn't been a question yet that I didn't find answered in this book. The chapter on naps has saved my sanity!
Yes, this is a CIO method, but even if you are philosophically opposed to it, the book does present some alternative techniques, in addition to co-sleeping tips. There are too many great tips in this book to overlook it simply because it is mainly a CIO method.
The methods can be easily adapted with lots of detailed instruction to any child from 4 months to age 5. It does a great job of explaining why babies younger than 4 months are incapable of soothing themselves to sleep. I used a lot of the advice in the book to prepare my baby for full-on sleep training while waiting for him to turn 4 months old, like easing away from some of the sleep associations he had developed.
My first child was 18 months before I finally learned to help her soothe herself to sleep, but I was able to train my second child at four months very quickly by following this book very closely.
The only thing I would change about the book is the way the information is organized. I had several pages in several different chapters earmarked and I had to keep flipping back and forth to get the full picture of how to put everything together. I do appreciate that the authors don't go overboard with sleep science explanations and graphs that are just distracting. They give just enough information to demonstrate their knowledge of sleep research.
I am recommending this book to all my Mommy friends!!
July 20, 2008 | |
A solution that works!!!
My son had never slept through the night. He would sleep for 3-4 hours and be up for another 3-4 hours. My husband and I were exhausted and willing to try most anything. We weren't comfortable with a full-on cry it out method so, through a suggestion from Askville, we found the Sleep Easy Solution. It takes some time to read through the book (especially if you are sleep deprived), but SO worth it. We tried the methods suggested in the book and within 10 days, our son was sleeping through the night and taking regular naps.
Unlike many of the other books we read on the subject, this method works birth to 5, just as the title suggests. Our son was 15 months old when we tried the method and it worked like a charm. I would recommend to any parent whose child is struggling with sleeping through the night!!!
What a life saver!!!
July 11, 2008 | |
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