This book seems to divide parents and if you followed all her suggestions and routines exactly I can see why. Not only would you have no life but you could quite possibly do your head in. That said as a first time mum I found this book informative and I used it to help create a routine that works for me and my bub. I really liked the questions at the end of the chapters and I have found it great to refer to when I have questions about bubs sleeping. Like everything use your mother intuition however this book can also help you out.
This book is a detailed step by step instruction manual in how to get your newborn into a sleep routine. I will be a first time mum in June so I will be putting this book to the test. Fingers crossed it will work ;)
I did not find this book helpful at all. It is way too rigid. I don't believe you can just have a "once size fits all" approach to managing sleep in infants. Creating a near-impossible routine sets many first time parents up for failure in an already, emotionally vulnerable time.
The author is an unqualified, self proclaimed sleep expert. Not one sleep association in the world is willing to associate themselves with her. All the advice she gives is against that of sleep experts. Some advice is actually putting your baby at risk and against any professional medical advice. I still can’t figure out how she managed to publish a book. It’s a bloody joke
Great information, not just sleep help but overall baby health information. Being a first time mum this book was so helpful, I haven't followed everything to the letter but I have taken the routine advise and fitted it into a routine happy for me and my baby.
Advocates leaving babies to cry to the point that they vomit in distress and even then cleaning them up without making eye contact or soothing them in any way.
A friend gave this book to me, I have read parts and to be honest a lot of it we were already doing anyway. A lot is common sense, as with all of these books. The routines here are a little bit to rigid to follow fully though, however the feeding schedules are a good guide
This book works as an example of how an infant sleep schedule could go. Also, all of the information is based on case studies and observations rather than empirical data. That said, she tells you this up front and encourages readers to take what information is helpful to them leave the rest. So, I did just that.