Getting Your Child to Sleep and Back to Sleep: Tips for Parents of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers

by Vicki Lansky

Sleep can be as sweet as this precious new cover. Mr. Moon in his nightcap, adorns this peaceful design with stars in blues and purples, surrounded by a soft yellow border. This 6.5 x 6.5 trade paperback has 136 pages detailed with floating stars and moons. There is a table of contents and an index to quickly reference any specific topic. There are 10 chapters including: sleeping patterns, bedtime routines, why babies cry, colic, sleep walking, allowing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931863059
• ISBN13: 9781931863056
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Book Peddlers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Great resource book

My midwife first recommended this book after our first child was born. Like the other review mentioned, it is wonderful simply because it is simple. Just looking at it: it is not a big, thick book. No intimidation there! Then when you open it, you see short chapters, short paragraphs. So this is a great book for people who aren't great readers - which describes those of us with little kids who aren't sleeping. I think the best quality of this book is that it has so many ideas. She doesn't pound one method or philosophy. This not only broadens the audience that will find something helpful (something for everyone), but it also gives one family many options to try. One method may work beautifully, and your baby sleeps consistently...until becoming a toddler! Then you might have to try a different method for that same child, who is now a toddler. Or the tried-and-true way you did things for child #1 somehow doesn't work for child #2 or #3 (!!) -- but Lansky can help you find something that works for each of your unique children. This book will supply the ideas and creativity you need when your brain is fried. I had forgotten that Lansky refers to Hogg's "Secrets of a Baby Whisperer" until reading the previous review. Funny that these are the two books that I recommend to other parents. I find them both to be very practical resources.

An Easy-to-read Book with a lot of Helpful Suggestions

Getting Your Child to Sleep - and Back to Sleep is an easy to read little book that is full of all kinds of suggestions for helping a child sleep through the night. It begins by explaining the sleep patterns that can be expected for the first six months of a child's life. It goes through some of the problems that could be encountered and offers a variety of solutions to try. Other topics that are discussed include naptime, bad dreams (solutions for these are quite good), colic, crying, and tips for the parent who is trying to deal with fatigue. Getting Your Child to Sleep... is set up in such a way that exhausted caregivers can turn to a topic of interrest and read bullet-point solutions quickly, without being lulled to sleep by legnthy paragraphs. I personally found that to be quite helpful. I think that other busy, sleep-deprived caregivers would agree. There are also quotes from other caregivers sharing tips and other personal experiences that they had with their children. There were only a couple of things that I didn't agree with. The first was a tip for eliminating night feedings. Ms. Lansky suggested having a child suck on an empty bottle. I thought that would make a child's tummy gassy, and therefore make the child uncomfortable and unable to go back to sleep. The second was her belief that the way to "change the deal" for an older child not sleeping through the night was to ultimately let him or her cry. She suggested, if that wasn't working, to check the child every fifteen minutes until the child fell asleep. (a variation on the Ferber Method). Even Ms. Lansky acknowledged that there would be those who wouldn't agree with that, and she suggested taking a look at Tracy Hogg's, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, for other solutions. I liked this little book, and I would recommend it to caregivers who are searching for solutions for a child's sleep problems and trying to cope with the exhaustion that comes from being awakened all through the night.