The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night: Foreword by William Sears, M.D. | Elizabeth Pantley

Giving this a go! Found it at goodwill while my hubby and I were looking for each other‘s $10 anniversary gifts and it seemed like a sign. The BEST gift we could give each other is Ethan sleeping better 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Texreader Oh those painful days. Good luck!! 6y

Ruri_kaichou I tried this book but it didn't really work for us 😅 however, it had a lot of great suggestions and different ways of going about sleep training. It's definitely worth the read. Good luck! 6y

Smangela @Texreader thank you! We‘re at our wits end a little bit haha 6y

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Smangela @Ruri_kaichou hopefully you‘ve found something that has worked for you? I tried the cry it out method and I couldn‘t keep it up. We tried it earnestly for like a week he slept amazing for about 3 days and immediately went back to poor sleep 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄 not worth the extra non-sleep to let him cry so hard 6y

merelybookish Good luck! Not getting enough sleep is tough. 6y

WarpedSweetness I'll have to look this up. All of my kids hate sleep, and somehow will end up in bed with me. -_- 6y

WarpedSweetness @Smangela I tried the cry it out method with my youngest. I hated it. He cried so hard I thought he was going to throw up. Then I had panic attacks about him choking on his vomit. 6y

Smangela @WarpedSweetness same here - after so many times waking up he just ends up sleeping next to me. I‘ll let you know how this goes! 6y

WarpedSweetness @Smangela Please do! I miss sleep. I put a t.v. in my son's room with a DVD player, and he goes to sleep a little easier now. But he still wakes up multiple times a night and always ends up in bed with me. 6y

readinginthedark Have you tried altering his sleep environment one thing at a time to find out why he‘s so upset? I‘m not sure how old your son is. When my son was a baby, swaddle bags (not the blankets, because he wanted to be able to move his legs) made him feel more secure, and as he got older we used a stuffed animal, a nightlight, and then an audiobook. Each thing helped him sleep a little better until he doesn‘t have problems anymore. Good luck! 6y

Smangela @readinginthedark he‘s 11 months almost 1 year really. And I should‘ve tried some different things before he could move... now whenever he‘s upset he just is immediately up and walking around his crib ☹️ he does have a little teddy bear he likes that we are trying to get him to associate with sleep 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻thank you for the suggestion - we do want to do gradual and avoid extra upset for the whole house lol 6y

JaclynW Oh man! This is tough! Everyone needs good sleep! Have you looked into white noise machines? All 3 of my kids liked these. We put it on the ocean sounds. Also consistency and routines helped our kids. We did try the cry it out method, it worked for us. Good luck!! 6y

Smangela @JaclynW I have a few friends cry it out worked with too! The only had to do it for 1 or 2 nights and it did the trick - amazing! I don‘t know if Ethan Is stubborn or what 🤷🏻‍♀️ we do use white noise but one of the things we‘re going to try to do better on is routine 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻we kind of started tonight, he‘s been up a little less so... hopefully that is progress! 6y

JaclynW @Smangela Oh yay! That sounds like progress! 6y

Reviewsbylola I read this when my older daughter was a baby. I️ really sucked at following through. 😂😬 As a result my youngest daughter slept with us until age three. 🤣🤣 6y

Smangela @Reviewsbylola I mean, we gotta do what we gotta do, right?? We need sleep SOMEHOW. If this doesn‘t work we‘re gonna probably try co-sleeping next! 6y

EchoLogical @Smangela Update?! I'm now reading this because of my 7 month old. Please tell me there's a light at the end of this tunnel! 😵 5y

Smangela @EchoLogical I wish wish wish I had better results for you BUT I think a lot of it was that he was older than 1 year and had already made some sleep associations that weren‘t very helpful (my fault lol) and a follow-through on my end. We travel a lot and he‘s in and out of hotel beds so it‘s hard to set up too much of a routine. Something that may be helpful is to think of sustainable sleep associations. Music - sustainable, mom laying in bed 5y

Smangela @EchoLogical with baby - not sustainable. Meaning when your babe wakes up after a sleep cycle they need to be able to recreate how they fell asleep& if they fell asleep with you holding or rocking them, they won‘t be able to recreate that on their own. Another piece of advice is gradual change. I joined a sleep group on Facebook called Ready Set Sleep and I have definitely found very logical helpful tips there!! (&other tired moms w/ empathy) (edited) 5y

Smangela @EchoLogical and I just feel your pain because when baby doesn‘t sleep no body sleeps and a lack of sleep is actually THE WORST ♥️ 5y

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