Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins: A Step-by-Step Program For Sleep-Training Your Multiples (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I've read 7 books now on baby sleep, and here is what I have learned: Babies are different.Here are the more memorable books in order from easy to hard. #1 on this list assumes that your baby will be easy and naturally fall into a schedule of naps that works for them and everyone else. On the other end of the spectrum, #6 on this list assumes that your baby needs to be forced into to be a rigid, drill-sergeant schedule, to basically sleep-deprive them during the day so they will sleep 8 hours in a row at night, for the sake of everyone's sanity.1. Baby Sleep BookI have to put this one at #1 because it's obviously the first one on the spectrum. Sears is famous for giving advice to co-sleep, demand feed, basically do whatever baby wants. But if that worked, I wouldn't need to read books to get our lives in order, so I didn't even bother reading this one.2. Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Twins"Sleep begets sleep." Hahaha no.3. Secrets of the Baby WhispererBest attitude, mostly good advice. I wish this had worked for us.4. Baby WiseHow to set up a schedule and understand the shifting sleep needs of your growing baby.5. Solve Your Child's Sleep ProblemsHow to "cry it out" once your child is developmentally ready. Definitely read the book instead of just googling how to do it. Interesting to read the psychology of what to do and why.6. Contented Little BabyA rigid, probably somewhat arbitrary timetable. Great for twins, because if you don't keep a timetable they will not nap at the same times, and then your household is chaos. Loved the explanation on why babies and kids need good, scheduled sleep and also how much they need at every age, even what they should be doing week by week but it needed to be more specific on how to get there. I guess I was dissapointed to read that I shouldn't expect my girls' to sleep thru the night until they are a certain age (adjusted to the due date not birth date). I want them to sleep thru now...
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Let's hope some of these suggestions work!
—ilhaam_z
