The sleepeasy solution
by Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack · first published 2007
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Two experts who are helping Hollywood's A-list babies get their zzz's share the no-fail, family-friendly method that has helped thousands of sleep-deprived moms and dads.
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I highly, highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepeasy-Solution-Exhausted-Parents-... You can probably borrow it for free at your local library, you certainly don’t need to own it. It’s easy to follow, both of our kids were well sleep trained at 5 months. I’ve foisted…
on “The awake ape: Why people sleep less than their primate relatives” ↗…that if put her in the crib and watched her, she would cry for a variable amount of time, anywhere from 1 to 10 minutes, depending on how tired she was, and then fall asleep. The we got a book called the Sleepeasy Solution which was basically letting them "cry it out" with some check-ins at 5, 10, 15 minute intervals. By this time she was about 4 months old. We basically followed the book, the scheduling of naps and nightime…
on “Crying for Comfort: Distressed Babies Need to be Held” ↗