Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

Product Description:
One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems

Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that

- Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child
- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more
- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally
- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed
- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers
- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule
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Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Research-based info by a researcher himself
As a professional who reviews and uses research to guide treatment of my patients with language and cognitive deficits, I found Dr. Weissbluth's book to be the most straightforward, data-based resource on sleep hygiene.I only wish I had read this book BEFORE I had my baby!It would have saved me from six months of being a zombie.
Rating: - the book to get on sleeping
this book guided me through the very challenging process of sleep training. research based and very helpful as long as you stick to its advice!
Rating: - An invaluable resource
I recommend reading this book before your baby is born. With our first daughter, we were only following "The Baby Book" by Dr. Sears, and while that's a lovely book, it did not offer sleep solutions that worked for us when the family bed stopped working and everyone was sleep-deprived and miserable. We ended up using 3 nights of cry-it-out in order to remove her from our bed; she's been a brilliant sleeper ever since.

With our second daughter, we resolved to use the family bed in the ... Read More
Rating: - Didn't work for us
For a book targeted to sleep-deprived parents, this book may do more harm than good.

My first complaint is that it could be half as long.

I was initially excited by the lengthy, clear, and well organized table of contents, but the pages referenced in the table of contents often don't correspond to the expected subject matter.

Weissbluth often contradicts himself, and primarily on a central and controversial core message of the book, when to use "cry-it-out." ... Read More
Rating: - Saved my Sanity!!
A friend gave me this book after my husband and I returned home from Colombia with our newly adopted five month old son.In the weeks before I had the book, life was very difficult.I couldn't get our baby to sleep at all.He wouldn't nap for more than 20 minutes at a time, and he was so overstimulated.

By reading Dr. Weissbluth's book, I began to understand how important sleep was, and that a lack of sleep can compound itself to make for one cranky baby.I began to learn that if you ... Read More