Sleeping Through the Night, Revised Edition: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night’s Sleep
- ISBN13: 9780060742560
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Right after “Is it a boy or a girl?” and “What’s his/her name?,” the next question people invariably ask new parents is “Are you getting any sleep?” Unfortunately, the answer is usually “Not much.” In fact, studies show that approximately 25% of young children experience some type of sleep problem and, as any bleary-eyed parent will attest, it is one of the most difficult challenges of parenting. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the assessment and treatment of common sleep problems in children, Dr. Jodi A. Mindell now provides tips and techniques, the answers to commonly asked questions, and case studies and quotes from parents who have successfully solved their children’s sleep problems. Unlike o… More >>
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The methods prescribed in this book are CHILD ABUSE – plain and simple. If you are desparate and tired – try reading a book that will help you UNDERSTAND infant developmental appropriateness – Dr. Sears and Elizabeth Pantley are good.
If you have to harden your heart to let your baby cry until they vomit – you are ignoring nature’s gift to you “Mother’s Instinct”.
Ask yourself how YOU would want to be treated? Humanely and with respect.
All the posters who say it “worked like a charm” are fooling themselves about the long-term effects of this type of program. Parenting is a long road – a quick solution may not be the answer!
Rating: 1 / 5
As I am a complete research fiend, I got every book on sleep when trying to figure out how to get my baby to sleep through the night. It seems that most of them are contradictory with each other — you could never use all the theories, so you have to pick and choose what works for you. I could never do the “let the baby cry it out” thing… I didn’t particularly agree with the methods outlined in this book…
Rating: 3 / 5
I was horrified to find out that letting your baby cry out till s/he vomits is an acceptable method of parenting in this day and age. How can this be considered a gentle and compassionate way?
Even pet-owners are prosecuted for this type of stuff, so how can a supposedly liberal culture accept such an atrocious method! All the people who rave this book must be selfish, and totally cold people that they can think that a it is ok to do this to a child.
Here are some basics that are universally accepted, EXCEPT it seems in the America that accepts Ferber/Mindell CRAP:
a. Parenting comes with sacrifices; it is not easy, but most of us think that the rewards are worth it. A good choice to not being completely fatigued is to have the baby’s crib in your bedroom or have the baby sleep in bed with you. That is a natural and healthy thing to do. Just because we are living in a modern technological world does not mean that our bodies have evolved to match this. We are still (biologically) the same pre-historic creatures that need comfort, warmth, soothing and mothers milk when we are vulnurable little babies. So whats a temporary sacrifice!
2. Babies DO NOT know manipulation. They want soothing and comfort from you because they TRUST you and see you as their main source of security. PLEASE pick up that crying child and wipe its tears.
3. Letting a baby cry till is vomits and falls asleep defeated and exhausted is akin to whipping a baby animal to train it for a circus — no difference. So those of us who think it is OK to torture animals for a 15 minutes of human jolly will obviously think it is “normal” to let baby cry that long. After all once babies will is broken, it has GIVEN UP on trusting you (with the deep sub-conscious sense of security) as its main source of nurture.
I just do not understand how a culture can produce emotionally well adjusted and happy adults when they are tortured as children. Maybe that is why violence is such a wide-spread occurence in this country! Maybe that is why the divorce rate is so high and so many people need to see psychiatrists.
The Mindell/Ferber methods are great to keep psychiatrists in business!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is written in a meandering style that tells a lot of random stories but offers few solutions. The solution described is actually the Feberizing method which lets the child cry themselves to sleep, but I haven’t seen the name mentioned …. copyright infringment? At any rate this book is not only a waste of time and money the advice it gives you is in my estimation very hard to even gleen and even then it is third rate at best. A much better book which offers ten times the information in one chapter is “Secrets of the Baby Whisperer” by Tracy Hogg.
Rating: 1 / 5
My husband and I have spent the last two weeks walking our daughter to her bed for 2 to 2 1/2 hours every night. The ideas in this book are good if your child is in a crib and cannot get out. This theory became a game that kept our daughter awake instead of sleeping.
Rating: 1 / 5
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