My Child Won't Sleep: A Quick Guide for the Sleep-Deprived Parent

I've been looking at many of the reviews saying it's too short, skims the surface and doesn't offer lots of details. But that's the point - this book is designed to be a quick guide that offers an overview of evidence based interventions to help with sleep from babies to teens. There are several longer, more detailed resources out there if you have the time to dive into the topic. But this book is intended to be a brief introduction to principles and interventions for typical sleep issues. I think it fits the bill! Great start for those who don't know where to start!

i love that the selling point is the brevity of this book. If you are a sleep deprived parent you know what I mean....I never thought I would sleep train my baby. But after months of waking up several times a night, it became clear that our son was waking up more and more frequently, and that our efforts to soothe him were increasingly failing. This book lays out four major strategies for sleep training. it is very clear and steers away from unnecessary commentary/convincing/cajoling/etc. It outlines the pluses and minuses of the different approaches and gives very clear, simple instructions on how to follow a sleep plan. Perfect for when you are so tired you can't make your own plan.The book was so brief that we both could read it and select our plan together. After implementing our plan, our babe sleeps SO much better than before. Thank you Dr. Kansagra

This short book, written by the director of the Sleep Medicine Program at Duke University, is an excellent guide for parents of children with non-pathologic sleep disorders. In it Dr. Kansangra discusses the physiology of normal sleep, the factors which can cause children to have difficulty falling or staying asleep, and simple step-by-step instructions on different techniques parents and other caregivers can use to break the patterns that led to the sleep disorder. He also discusses how parents can avoid the problem in the first place, by instituting a normal sleep regimen starting when the child reaches six months of age.I would highly recommend this book to all parents and caregivers of young children, those who have sleep disorders, and all providers who counsel parents on how to get their child to sleep properly.

Perfect book for quick information. I am not the type to sit down and read a novel. This directly laid out the 4 sleep methods with each advantage and disadvantage. It really help narrow down what method I'd like to use and if my method doesn't work, I have 3 other options from the book. I'm sure I'll reference this book in the future as my child gets older too.

This was recommended by our pediatrician. The problem is that we have a 1mo old and are looking to help improve his sleep/naps but the book starts at 6mo to 1 year!So maybe it’s a good book, but not if you’re in the early, desperate months.I do like that it’s very short and to the point. Will reference again when we hit 6 months.

This book has certainly helped me improve my quality of life! I was co-sleeping with my 6-month old daughter, out of necessity, and she woke up several times a night. Probably 90% of the time she had to be nursed back to sleep. I was so afraid she was going to become more and dependent. I knew I wanted to start transitioning to her sleeping in her own room, comfortably, I just had no idea where to begin. This short book (because a sleep-deprived parent with a toddler and an infant doesn't have time for much more) was just what I needed. I needed a medical professional to tell me exactly what this book did. It laid out several options, depending on your comfort level, for sleep training in very easy-to-follow instructions. It gave me confidence in my decision, which helped me successfully sleep train my daughter. She is a wonderfully happy baby, and now she has a much happier, less exhausted, and very appreciative mommy!

This book gets one star from me because I can only find two positive things to say about it. Firstly, it is brief. It took me less than an hour to read it. Secondly, the author makes the point that it is normal for children to wake in the night. Actually it is normal for everyone to wake during the night. That, however, is as far as I can go with attributes. The author proceeds to give various methods to force a child to sleep through the night, varying with how detached the parent is (ie, how much crying they are able to stomach). To leave a child to cry in order to get them to give up asking for their parents presence is terribly sad. It's not a choice, as this author postures, it is neglect. Sleeping "through the night" (which is actually the ability to put oneself back to sleep) is a learned skill like walking or talking. You may as well put a child in a room and ignore them until they figure out how to walk. A baby eventually stops crying when left alone but they do not stop being distressed. Studies show that their levels of cortisol remain elevated even after their outward expression ceases. Parenting is a full time job. As in 24 hours a day. If you only want to parent during daylight hours, perhaps you should get a job as a nanny or daycare worker so your evenings and nights are uninterrupted. Babies need to have their needs consistently met by loving parents, and this includes their needs at 2 AM. They do not have the ability to manipulate. They are communicating in the only way they know how. As a mother and as a pediatrician, I hope that parents are smarter than to heed this book. Try Elizabeth Pantly's books or Gentle Sleep Book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith for much better advice.

Explains how to sleep train in different ways for different parenting styles no just the cold Turkey way. Research based.

Clear, concise and easily read.A resource that will have all the sleep training websites nervous for sure…Thank you Sujay!

Not an excellent book.

A great and quick read for parents of sleepless little ones! It gives clear information that is medically researched. Well done Dr. Kansagra!

its ok