The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Without Leaving Them to Cry It Out

My baby was waking approximately every 1.5hours to breastfeed from 8 months old until I read this book. (4 very hard months later) The first night it took 20 minutes for baby to fall asleep all on his own without the boob. I lay at the side of his cot and reassured him and was pleasantly surprised at how little crying there was. That night he slept for the longest stretch he had in months! The 2nd night it only took 10 mins for him to get to sleep and now he falls asleep easily and without a fuss. He now wakes once a night, on average and the results for this sleep training were instant. We haven’t followed it to a tea as I never did bother with the ‘Sleep Lady shuffle’, I just lie next to his cot until he falls asleep and it’s so fast that it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. This book has saved my sanity! Read it :)

Some groups (6-8 and 9-12 mth) have almost the same text and methods. I expected more on going back to work earlier and child sleeping problems, moving to another apartment/house problems... It could be shorter and clearer (in every chapter the same thing about overtired child, rocking or holding to sleep habits...). It is ok, but soon as I manage my out-of-nowhere problem (the child without cruthes have also sleeping problems) I'll let you know if it's worth it.The basic problem in night wakening is that you can't always wait for an hour or two and do so for 4-6 nights... or even 14... We sleep in same room with child and this affects both parents and it isn't best method in small apartments. But I hope it will be worth of trying.

Great book. Worked for me

This is a good book but did not have anything with regards to my sons specific sleep issue.

Good condition

My husband and I got bought this book as we got into the habit of rocking our 9 month old to sleep and she kept waking all through the night to be rocked again. We read the book and followed the advice and she now sleeps 13.5 hours a night!I followed the plan to the letter so the first 3 nights I sat by her cot, then moved to sit across the room for nights 4-6 and so on. I found it important not to look at my daughter or touch her as she got very angry and upset all over again but when I occasionally said "It's Okay" etc it seemed to reassure her. Eventually I found clearing my throat quietly worked just as well as she knew I was there but wasn't interacting with her.The first night putting her down was awful as she cried herself hoarse for nearly 2 hours but I made sure I stayed by her side and reassured her every now and then. The second night she cried for a few minutes and the rest of the nights she cried for maybe 1 or 2 minutes. By night 4 she didn't cry and just babbled to herself then went to sleep.We found naps more difficult to deal with as it took her a long time to go to sleep and the book doesn't tell you how long to leave them for before getting them up again. We left our daughter for around 45 minutes and if she wasn't asleep we got her up again. Her naps have always been short at around15-30 minutes and using methods in the book hasn't made them much longer but we made her bedtime earlier to compensate. She goes to bed at around 6 and happily sleeps through until 7.30 the next morning.As I've said I wouldn't recommend touching their hand or stroking their back as for us it just made her much more angry. I would also recommend earplugs as listening to your baby cry when you don't let them normally was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I had a kindle handy to try to distract myself otherwise I would probably have given in to her crying which wouldn't have been fair to our baby.We got there in the end and she sleeps through the night without any bother so it was really worth it. She's much happier now too. I recommend this to anyone I know who has problems getting their baby to sleep.

My little boy was sleeping through the night within 4 days of applying the techniques of the sleep lady. The book gives advice by age group and gives advise how sleep patterns change with age and how other factors affect sleep. My son has gone from a happy 14 month old to a very happy 14 month old.

First of all the book isn’t written in a good way, there is loads of repetition. On the same flipping page even. I started sleep training my baby with four months, and when I say sleep training I taught her to fall asleep independently. It wasn’t straight forward but the book did help and I felt confident with it. Overall the fact that she can fall asleep has been a game changer for when staying somewhere else (pre-covid) or when starting nursery. After talking to loads of mums I think babies sleep through the night when they are ready. Brain development ready I mean. With ours it was 18 months a number I heard often.