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laughlinesandliterature's review against another edition
5.0
For any parent struggling to get a child to sleep there is no better book. I've been following Alexis from her blog, but her chapters go more in depth, and also provide more detail for older kids which I found incredibly helpful.
emilyholladay's review against another edition
4.0
This is so far the most helpful book I have read on baby sleep. She does not prescribe an exact method for getting your baby to sleep, but helps troubleshoot multiple avenues that could work. We are still working with our baby, but this book will continue to be a resource for us as he grows.
enjoyjournaling's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.75
Definitely got this in the middle of being completely exhausted and sleep deprived. It helped me feel confident in the CIO extinction method for our family and I’m grateful. Good info for older babies and kiddos. Not a huge fan of the constantly trying to be silly and relatable tone, but that’s a personal preference, and the actual info is good.
refvemma's review against another edition
4.0
Ok I haven't read all of this yet... like many of these types of books, they are a good reference but hard to take in all at once (especially if you're in the middle of sleep anxiety like me). In order not to feed the beast of my sleep anxiety, I'm going to call this one "done" and come back to it as needed. I really, really appreciate her tone because so much of the baby sleep world is stressful so it's nice to have a silly person to listen to. I felt heard. I also felt stressed, but it wasn't her fault.
ejdecoster's review against another edition
4.0
Obviously won't be practical/actionable until later - but the information is useful to have now for context of what's normal for an x-day/week-old baby and when to expect issues to pop up in future.
maryreadsandsips's review
5.0
We’ve been fairly lucky thus far to navigate the first five (almost six) months of our baby’s life with relative ease when it comes to sleep. She slept like a newborn when she was a newborn, started to get longer stretches, hit the four month regression around 13.5 weeks but recovered fairly quickly. I know that we’re not out of the woods by a LONG shot, but my deep dive into baby sleep research has seemingly helped us make it this far at least being prepared for what we could potentially experience. The Taking Cara Babies newborn course equipped us for the early weeks, and spoke to my desire to be flexible and compassionate while equipping my daughter with developmentally appropriate tools for sleep.
As a companion, this book is a wealth of knowledge from newbornhood and beyond. Some of it didn’t resonate with us, but I appreciated having ONE resource to go to that explained things thoroughly, from a research perspective, in order to help me feel like whatever decisions I was making were intentional and appropriate. As someone whose PPA made it so that she was frantically downloading baby sleep books at all hours of the night while nursing my two week old, I wish I could go back to her and say– just pick ONE book on the topic, and let it be this one.
As a companion, this book is a wealth of knowledge from newbornhood and beyond. Some of it didn’t resonate with us, but I appreciated having ONE resource to go to that explained things thoroughly, from a research perspective, in order to help me feel like whatever decisions I was making were intentional and appropriate. As someone whose PPA made it so that she was frantically downloading baby sleep books at all hours of the night while nursing my two week old, I wish I could go back to her and say– just pick ONE book on the topic, and let it be this one.