[kofduke]

I've seen people here talk about Ezzo/Ferber, but I've never seen this book mentioned: Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child by Weissbluth (sp?) I looked at it the other day at Borders, and

I just can't believe what's being advocated. I mean, I'm appalled by Ferber, and this seems to take the CIO even a step further (don't even reassure the baby while he's crying), PLUS implies that I'm a bad parent for not giving my DS the gift of sleep

. Has anyone else seen this book?

 

[Casimir's_Mama]

I just gleefully bashed this book in the thread about the book _Gentle Sleep Solutions_ by Elizabeth Pantley. Everybody told me this book was great, and I even gave a copy to a friend before I had a baby cuz I heard it was so super. Jeez. Anyway, I will admit that it has a few good points, and I learned a bit about how babies sleep and how important it is that they get the sleep they need. I liked that he acknowledged, albeit in about two sentences, that some parents co-sleep and that it's OK for them to nurse many times in the night. However, he kind of puts the fear of god in the reader about the sleep deprivation thing. Sleep deprivation=accumulated problems=hyper kids/bad grades=adult sleep problems= your child will just be a big wreck his whole life.

I also don't care much for his writing style, which at times seemed callous to me (calling sleepless babies "fussy brats" and referring to babies "screaming their brains out").
I know a lot of good parents allow their kids to cry it out, but they way he advocated just quickly wiping up and leaving again after a baby vomited due to crying so hard seemed a bit, well, heartless.
so yeah, I didn't much care for it either, in case that's not apparent.

 

[Graceoc]

Hated it! It too was recommend to me.....what are people thinking....