Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: A Step-By-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success

by Suzy Giordano and Lisa Abidin

Book Overview

There is no bigger issue for healthy infants than sleeping through the night. In this simple, straightforward book, Suzy Giordano presents her amazingly effective "Limited-Crying Solution" that will get any baby to sleep for twelve hours at night--and three hours in the day--by the age of twelve weeks old.

Giordano is the mother of five children and one of the most sought-after baby sleep specialists in the country. The Washington...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525949593
• ISBN13: 9780525949596
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Tarcherperigee
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Cliff notes version - FANTASTIC

I have read babywise and several other books regarding breastfeeding and getting your baby to sleep through the night. My aunt gave me this book, which I loving refer to as the 'cliff notes' to all sleeping through the night books. I found it very informative and helpful to get my baby to sleep through the night. My baby is 12 weeks old today and I had her sleeping through the night by 8 weeks with the help of this book. It is an easy read and has some good tips that I found work well, especially the 'exceptions to the rule' and 'extreme circumstances'. Each baby is different but this book really encompasses all baby types.

This book saved my life.

Before we bought this book, we just assumed babies woke up several times per night for months. Wrong. We started the training from this book when our baby was 5 weeks old. We followed the steps rigorously, and by 12 weeks old he was sleeping from 8:30pm to 8am without waking up in between. Another 3 weeks later he was on a daytime nap schedule of 1hr in the morning and 2hrs at night, with feedings like clockwork at 8, 12, 4, and 8. He is now 11 months old and still perfectly on schedule. When we put him down at night, he goes to sleep without crying. On the infrequent occasion that he does wake up and cry, he goes back to sleep by himself in 5-10 minutes without any soothing. I've now bought this book for six friends who have recently had babies. I can't recommend it enough- it's simple, it's straitforward, it's humane (no letting them cry all night), and the toughest part only lasted about 2-3 weeks (spacing out the night feedings by 15 minutes per feed over a couple of weeks). Oh, and unlike some of the other enormous baby manuals, this one can be read completely in about 2 hours. Raise you baby however you want, but if you want to sleep through the night EVERY night, buy this book!

Great book!

I read this book when my son was 7 weeks old. A friend at work suggested it so I figured I'd give it a shot! We were doing well in the sleep department but not sleeping through the night. We started pumping (per the books recommendation [br]) and ensuring that he was getting his total ounces during the day (another br). We were sleeping from 9pm-7am by 9 weeks!! I liked the books other tips for helping the baby fall asleep on his own, etc.

After reading 3 other sleep books this one finally worked!

I bought this book because my husband and I were up all night with our 7 month old baby who has only slept through the night (7-8 hours at most) a handful of times since he was born. He also had to be bounced over and over and over to get him to go to sleep or be breastfed. He only took 30 minute naps during the day, and he took 4-5 naps a day!!! I also have a 2 year old to chase around so I have been a walking zombie for the past 7 months!! I already tried Weisbluth, Pantley and another sleep book and none of them worked. I read your book and thought that I would at least try putting him on the eating every 4 hour schedule and not letting him fall asleep and then slowly try (maybe) to work on naps and then maybe on the letting him put himself to sleep part. I wasn't at all expecting to be sitting here 4 days later at 8:00 pm with my baby sound asleep (who also put himself to sleep ) typing on the computer! I thought that there was no way that my very needy baby would ever be able to put himself to sleep , to tell you the truth I really wasn't even considering trying! The first day that I put him on the every 4 hour schedule he ate every 4 hours and took 2 naps at about 2 hours each and them slept for 11 hours only waking once but putting himself back to sleep. Every night since I have crossed my fingers and he has slept 11 to 12 hours straight through. My life feels so much different than it did last week!! He is a new baby and I am a new mom! Just wish I would have read this book earlier! It is short and easy to read, unlike the other books I read that go on & on for 300+ pages.

I Tell Everyone I Meet About This Book

My wife and I have Triplets. When they were about 9 weeks old and we were incredibly sleep deprived, we ran across this book and bought it out of desperation. However I have come to suspect devine intervention because it has been one the BEST resources we have ever had. By 12-weeks ALL THREE of our babies were sleeping through the night, and except for when they are sick, we all enjoy a full-nights sleep every single night. They are now 11-months old and it's awesome! Most parents we speak with are amazed at how we pulled it off, and we give Suzy all the credit. I can't recommend this more! I only wish I made a commission because not only do we recommend this to everyone we can, we have bought several of them as baby shower gifts too.