Great ideas to NOT using the cry it out method. Also read the Science of Parenting!

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	• The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears McGraw-Hill, 2002 - 254 pages average customer review:based on 684 reviews view larger image
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Great ideas to NOT using the cry it out method. Also read the Science of Parenting!

I read Ferber's book. Then Sears'. Then Pantley's. I like this book (Pantley's). I intuitively decided not to use Ferber's cry it out method. I was supported by Pantley's book. I appreciate her ideas and thoughts on the topic because I was being told by everybody that the "cry it out" method was the only way to go. I appreciated Pantley's advice & support & honesty. She is very much against Ferber's "cry it out method". And, she has every reason to feel that way. It was a very helpful book. THEN, I read "The Science of Parenting". This was the best book ever!!! It backed up Pantley's idea of NOT using the cry it out methods. It backed up Pantley with science. Since I am a biologist and a mother, I really appreciated "the Science of Parenting". I was able to finally support my intuition with science and NOT use Ferber's cry-it-out method. "The Science of Parenting" describes the neurological damage that you will be inflicting upon your child. Take me seriously on this. Read "The Science of Parenting" before you ever think of using Ferber's methods. Then, read Pantley's book. You will appreciate her intuition and her ideas. If you are lazy, want an easy way out, and want to damage your child FOR LIFE, then use Ferber's methods. These are strong words, I know, but I am NOT kidding. READ "The Science of Parenting" AND Pantley's book. Then decide for yourself.

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A gentle, more sensitive and flexible Gina Ford approach

I followed Gina Ford's Contented Baby book The New Contented Little Baby Book schedule with our first child, but years later had some trouble letting our second child cry it out like we had done with our first since her cries seemed so much more urgent and needy. I have read through Elizabeth Pantley's no-cry sleep solution and 90% of the advice and creation of schedules (however flexible) is the same as in Gina Ford's books. No matter what the title says, there still is a bit of crying involved, but it is more focused on learning to tell the difference between different cries and leaving a child who is crying alone if it is part of her normal settling back down. All very similar to gina ford's information yet her books always get labelled as cruel (unfairly).

I really like the compassionate tone of this book and the practical manner she lays out the plan and strategies for getting your kids to sleep through the night no matter what bad habits they have become accustomed to. I think the fact that she is a mother of 4 that came by these techniques through trial and error with her own kids and then took on a trial team of mothers across the globe to try out her techniques gives the book a lot of validity and integrity.

I would highly recommend it to any mother or father struggling with a child's sleep difficulties, it will make life easier for all of you. I am not giving it 5 stars because of all the hype and advertising that describe this as a radically new approach that has never been suggested before, when in fact it is a very familiar, albeit successful approach, that has been injected with a more sympathic voice.

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I could kiss her!

This book really helped us get our lives back into order after our baby was born. It gave us a bunch of different ideas to try as opposed to one dogma that we had to fit our family into. Thanks, Elizabeth!

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