Baby Sleep: The Secret to Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night

by Marc Lewis, Isabela Granic

Why when is more important than how

Teaching your baby or toddler to sleep through the night can be a bewildering and frustrating experience. Should you let your child "cry it out" or follow a "no-cry" solution? Are you tired of endless hours of rocking your baby to sleep? Why won't your baby stay asleep? And why is last month's no-fail bedtime routine suddenly useless?

The key to sleep success is not which approach you take; what really matters is when you use it. Because your baby is changing and developing, your sleep strategy should change too. Timing is everything. For example, the Ferber method may work well for a 6-month-old baby, but it is potentially disastrous for a 9-month-old. Baby Sleep walks you through the stages of child development, from birth to 4 years, and looks at their implications for changing bedtime habits, including:

Proven strategies for helping your child sleep through the night
Why popular techniques fail when used at the wrong time
How to use the top five sleep-training methods most effectively
How to solve sleep setbacks and set nap schedules
Authoritative, sensible and packed with informative case studies, Baby Sleep is the essential companion for all parents.

106 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2012

About the author

Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology, recently at the University of Toronto, where he taught and conducted research from 1989 to 2010, and presently at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He is the author or co-author of over 50 journal publications in psychology and neuroscience, editor of an academic book on developmental psychology, and co-author of a book for parents. More recently he has written two books concerning addiction.

Reviews

[Gabrielle Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice overview of different sleep training methods. Really liked how it talked about different development ages and what to expect during different months. A great book to start out with as you research different sleep methods

[Rhonda D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has an overview of the various methods of sleep training and would help you find books that could be helpful to learning strategies (mainly The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems and Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child). The most useful aspect of this book is the discussion of the developmental stages and WHEN it might be good to embark on sleep training. It wouldn't be good as a stand alone guide, but does add some insight to the discussion. Also published as Bedtiming: The Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep at Just the Right Age

[Naomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good summary of the most common sleep training options and the research that says they all work. The author's unique contribution to the plethora of reading out there on sleep is to outline windows where sleep training is likely to be more effective based on baby's development.

[Lauren Simmons · Rating 2 out of 5]

a little Piaget-heavy.