The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours aNight Kindle Edition

It worked for me with some tweaks. I started my son’s sleep training boot camp at 2 1/2 months and it took about 3 weeks for him to sleep the 12 hrs (sometimes 13hrs!). He’s 4months old now and I haven’t had any issues since we finished training.My tweaks:I’m breastfeeding and have a fussy baby, so the 4hr stretch didn’t work. It was possible to accomplish, but I didn’t find it worth continuing when my baby was grumpy all the time. So I feed him every 3hrs. When he dropped his night feedings, I started giving him a bottle of breast milk for his last feeding to ensure he goes to sleep with a full tummy (the author recommends pumping).Room environment: turn up the white noise and room must be completely dark! For so many weeks he would wake up at the crack of dawn, as soon as ANY light came into the room at 6:30AM, he was ready for the day. When I put in room darkening shades, literally the next day he slept until 8AM.Naps: I was lost in this area. The author’s nap schedule only works for older babies. Newborns sleep a lot during the day! You got to get the naps straightened out if you want your baby sleeping 12 hours. Babies can only sleep so much, so if the baby is sleeping too much during the day then 12hrs at night is too much to expect. On the other hand, an overtired baby does not equal 12hrs of sleep at night either. There needs to be a good balance depending on the age. Babysleepscience.com was my BEST resource for naps, for free!Limited Crying: Author suggests 3-5mins of crying before soothing the baby. This never worked for me until I pushed it to 10minutes. Once I soothe him after 10minutes, he’s done for sure and goes to sleep. Most of the time, he will stop around 7minutes on his own. But never before 5minutes. You have to know your baby, but make sure you have a plan and stick to it. Don’t just randomly decide for one crying session run in after 3 minutes and then the next one wait 15 minutes. You have to be fair to the baby. Give the baby a chance to learn how to self-soothe with a consistent limited crying time. Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman really helped me understand the significance of “pausing”, or allowing the baby to learn how to self-soothe.Dropping the feedings: When training started, my son had two night feedings to drop. The author has a GREAT strategy to drop the feedings. Basically reduce the amount of feeding time (if you’re breastfeeding) every three days until the baby is ready to drop the feeding. And at the same time, every time the baby sleeps past the feeding time, that time always becomes the new feeding time.I LOVED this gentle but forward-moving strategy. However, I didn’t have the patience to do this for two feedings lol. I honestly wanted faster results. So I used the author’s strategy for one feeding and I used my pediatrician’s advice for the other. You’re supposed to work on the second night feeding first, and then work on the first feeding last. My son’s feedings were 2AM and 5AM. For the 5AM feed, I did what my Ped said, which was to just stop giving it to him. Every time he cried, I waited 5mins and then soothed him with the pacifier. It only took 3 nights for him to stop asking for it, exactly what my ped said. I felt bad but I needed to speed it up. Then for the 2AM feed, I did exactly what the author suggests, and it only took 2 weeks for my son to drop the feeding.Bad habits (or sleep associations, sleep crutches): I went against some of the authors advice and developed a few bad sleep habits. I understood that eventually I would need to break them and it would extend sleep training but it seemed worth it for my sanity. For example, before sleep training boot camp, you’re supposed to put the baby down to sleep while he’s sleepy but not fully asleep (FYI, for real sleep training boot camp, you put them in the crib fully awake). Some weeks were so difficult having a newborn, so I needed my break in the evening. I rocked him to sleep and called it a night. Eventually I had to stop this but I did it during an easier phase of his newborn life.I think those were all my major tweaks to the training. You must think outside the box and remember you’re not receiving an individual sleep training service. This book is written to a general population, so adjust to your baby’s needs.I truly believe any sleep training program will work, as long as your consistent. If you’re comfortable with letting your baby cry for a limited time, then this training can work if you do your part.

Many exclusively breastfed babies will not take a bottle before four months old, which was the case for us. We are still working on it, but the bottle and the pacifier are still strange objects that she will play with in her mouth, but not latch on to. This program really requires you to be able to measure the milk you are giving your baby in order to slowly diminish night time feedings and to make sure your baby is getting the 24 ounces she/he needs during the day. If your baby doesn't take a bottle yet, this is very difficult and you may find yourself worrying that you are not giving your child enough, as I did. Also, spreading your feedings out to every four hours will diminish your milk supply unless you pump in between. I quickly learned this the hard way. This plan did seem to go against my motherly instincts a lot of the time and when I consulted a lactation specialist, it definitely went against her recommendations as well. I found it incredibly stressful and upsetting to have to distract my hungry baby from eating for even the shortest of stretches. We ended up ditching this plan and consulting a sleep specialist who told me that it is best to feed more often during the day so that the baby gets more calories during the day and will therefore eventually need less at night. Now this makes sense to me! We have been working with person for less than a week and already my daughter has dropped a night feed and is going to sleep on her own at night with no crying. This approach not only made sense to me as a breast feeding mother, but it worked. I think it's really hard to follow a book like this at any rate. Maybe I'm more insecure than most parents, but I found myself second guessing decisions and wondering if I was being too harsh. Consulting a sleep specialist took all that away. Some people hire a doula to help them give birth, which gets you through the difficult hours of birth. I say hire a sleep consultant instead because she will help you transform the difficult weeks, months, and years ahead into restful nights for you and your baby. And nothing is sweeter than seeing that well rested smile of a happy baby in the morning.

Amazing book seriously stop stalking all the reviews nervous (like I did) and just buy. I started implementing some of the healthy sleeping tips at 3.5 weeks. My baby met all the requirements by 4 weeks but I didn't really begin until 6 weeks. She is now 10 weeks and sleeps from 730pm to 715am. Lifesaver people r in awe when I tell them how long she sleeps every night just don't give up it legit takes about 4 consistent weeks to really see amazing results. We place her in the crib awake every night and for naps and she puts herself to sleep.. No tearsI was always a wimp and did not allow her to cry longer than 2mins however I saw my best results when I did just let her cry for those two minutes and allow her to put herself to sleep. Good luck I will recommend this book to All my friendsLastly Yes this does work for breastfed babies however in the beginning (first 2 weeks) u will need to pump to measure the milk once ur boobs adjust now I breastfeed her at every feeding.For those that are against the cry it out method like myself seriously it's not that deep just pick your baby up after a min. They've cried for longer than a min when ur changing there diaper right? Same difference like I said I'm a softy and this method worked for me without letting her sit n the crib and cry. Her cry it out method is optional and it does work if u choose not to use that. May take a lil bit longer but it will work.

An easy read but I don’t agree with the training method of withholding feedings from infants to put them on a schedule so this book wasn’t for me and I wouldn’t recommend it. Babies need to eat when they are hungry.

When I finally got to the part in the book (probably 3 pages in total which were useful) where the theory was I have since followed religiously.... still waiting for this guaranteed 12 hours sleep !!

Brilliant book i would recommend it to anyone that has the discipline to follow it through, you feel like a new person and your child feels happy and in routine. brilliant book

Worked for our baby. You don't have to follow the book exactly to get good results, however it gives you good knowledge of what not to do and how not to encourage your baby to develop bad sleep habits. Baby slept through the night since 3 months!

Downloaded this on my kindle, wish I hadn’t. It lacks any real detail and there are much better books on this subject I.e 7am - 7pm baby sleep routine by Charmian Mead, excellent and a lot more detailed.

It's 2 weeks since we bought this book, and our baby sleeps from 630-7! What more could I ask for