"the no-cry sleep solution" anyone try this?

[moongloe]

a bunch of people recommended this book to me, & i finally got it from the library. well, i read it & whilst i found a few things helpful, i am skeptical.

my 5mo nurses every 2 hours in the night, and half of the time he's asleep he is popping off and on the breast.

now, i'd love for him to have longer stretches between nursing, & i would LOVE if he'd stop the popping off and on... but i'm not sure their suggestions would work. he doesn't "fuss" if i try to soothe him other than letting him have non-stop breast access, he "cries" then wakes fully up.

the book's last resort to consider is moving him to his own bed. perhaps if ds was a year or more, but at 5mos it seems cruel.

what i'm asking is: did anyone do the no-cry solution, and how did it go?

thanks.

[JL83]

Don't think about the NCSS as a method where you have to do A B and C.

Think of it as more of a bunch of ideas and explanations. Then take from it what's applicable to your situation.

We used ideas from it and the toddler version with DD. Some of the stuff was helpful and some of the stuff was useless.

[major_mama11]

I've just started reading this book, and I am also interested in others' take on it. My DS is 8 mos. So far I'm just taking bits and pieces (like introducing a lovey for bedtime, and putting him down in his crib sometimes for naps, even though he usually cosleeps at night). I've started keeping a sleep log the past week, and it has made me more aware of his sleep patterns, even though I haven't even read through the whole book yet.

I don't plan to really even think about night-weaning yet, but I may think of using the ideas more after DS is 12-18 mos old, if he's not night-weaned on his own by then. I remember how exhausted I was when DD was a nursing toddler, who wanted to nurse every time she even halfway woke up. Night weaning her was tough, and I think if I had introduced even a few of those things mentioned in the book, it might not have been quite so rough.

I agree, for a young infant, unrestricted breast access at night just makes more sense than trying to fight what comes naturally (other than those rare babes who sleep through early on of their own accord).

[starling&diesel]

Meh.

I think I've come to the conclusion that books on how to get your child to sleep better/longer/without you/with you/self-soothe, and night parenting in general are fairly useless. Every child is so different! I've read a mazillion of them, tried a few things here and there, bought into the NCSS because it seemed the most AP of them all, and still have a child who sleeps the same way as she always has. And talking to all of my mama friends about this has only gone to show that not only is every child different, but every mama's approach is also different.

We are all adrift in a midnight ocean of sleep mystery.

[Chamomile Girl]

Originally Posted by starling&diesel

We are all adrift in a midnight ocean of sleep mystery.

THAT is awesome.