Sleep Book Review #3 The No-Cry Sleep Solution:
Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
by, Elizabeth Pantley
This was the first book I read. I was really having a hard time with the idea of "the shnook" crying, and if he doesn't have to cry, why should he? That's what the book says, right? "No-cry" was handed down to me, and was also being passed around my group of mom friends. It seemed like everyone was using it. Despite the fact that I found Pantley's tone a little crunchy for me, and the description of her home having a "family sleep room" was a tad bizarre (is there also a 'sex' room?), I figured I should keep reading to see what was so great about this book.
So when I first read this book, I think "the shnook" was around 2 months old, and I was headed down a steep slope that would probably not level off until he was really 5 or 6 months, but of course I didn't know that at the time, and thought I was already at the bottom. I was fully aware that he slept less than other babies, even the ones that woke up every 3 hours slept more than he did. This is around when I realized that his naps were basically non-existant.
What I liked about this book is she made me feel like it was OK that he was waking up this much and that more often than not, babies wake up a lot more than many parents are willing to admit. In fact it is the exception when they DO sleep through the night, not when they don't. So again, I didn't feel alone, but ok lady...where are the solutions?
After reading the first few chapters and seeing all the logs and crap I was supposed to fill out, I kind of glazed over. I was way too tired to fill out some logs! No way, dude!! I know he sucks as a sleeper, I'm going straight to the solutions. In this way, I may have done myself a disservice because already I'm not fully invested in the process, but I digress. Back to the solutions.
Solutions solutions solutions, where are they? hmm...