Reddit reviews The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours a Night

There's a book for this! The Baby Sleep Solution I implemented the principles starting at 6 weeks and my baby has been sleeping 8:30pm-7:00am since 8 weeks. I tell everyone about this book because it is a sanity saver.

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Check out this book, it's really short and worked wonders in my house!! My obgyn recommended it to me before i left hospital...It's all about routine and trying to feed more in the day so they want less at night...

It's not for everyone, but I've been loosely following The Baby Sleep Solution (http://www.amazon.com/The-Baby-Sleep-Solution-Program/dp/0399532919). It moves to a large feed every four hours and an eat-play-sleep cycle that may be helpful, especially if they need to get out of a snack-mode. My boys are 22 weeks this week and we've been using that schedule since 16 weeks when we felt like it was a mess of short naps and snacks.

We didn't do Ferber but used the baby sleep solution. We started at 3.5 months with the feeding schedule. That's the first step before you start sleep training which we did at 4 months. It was hard. Really, really hard. They told us to go in after 3 to 5 minutes. Well, you know I was running in there at 2 minutes and 57 seconds each time. It was awful.

However, my twins slept 12 hours a night at 4 months and still do at 9 months. I'm glad we did it but I think I'll wait until they are a bit older before trying it with the next baby.

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I have a 9 month old. It gets better soon! It’s all about getting the feeding schedule right. Try https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Sleep-Solution-Proven-Program/dp/0399532919#

Also look back a few posts at my post about a Westchester Dad’s group.

My son was waking up to eat around 5 times a night and a friend told me to read The baby sleep solution and it saved my life!! It basically is a guide on how to ween your baby off the night time feedings.. The technique is to influence him to eat more during the day and decrease the amount of milk you give him by a half ounce every 4 nights. It helps to keep a log of what times and how much he eats. It will be tough for the first few nights but every night will get easier.

Get the following:

• Happiest Baby on the Block: great descriptions on swaddling, soothing, pacifier use, nursing, etc. A lifesaver for sure.
  
  
• What to Expect: The First Year: Tons of info about everything you didn't know to even ask. Bathing the baby, sleeping schedules, nursing/bottle feeding, etc. More of a "desk reference" type book, and actually a very good bathroom read.
  
  
• The Baby Sleep Solution: Not everyone is down with this type of book, but it really helped us get ourselves and our baby on a schedule, which is vital for parents to keep them SANE.
  
  When the pediatrician comes to check in on the baby while at the hospital, ask TONS of questions. They don't mind and it will make you feel better. That's what you're paying them for!!
  
  Finally, relax and enjoy. They are tougher than they look.

Once he gets in a place where he can start taking some action and planning some things (which takes a while, believe me), I wholeheartedly recommend this book. My son slept through the night by 4-6 months of age (A MAJOR factor in keeping your sanity with an infant!). If he is open to help, I would even be willing to buy him a copy.