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  • Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition

  • A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep
  • Written by: Marc Weissbluth MD
  • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
  • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition

Written by: Marc Weissbluth MD
Narrated by: LJ Ganser
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Publisher's Summary

The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease - now in a completely revised and expanded fourth edition!

In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country's leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing your children's sleep problems, from infancy through adolescence. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. Rewritten and reorganized to deliver information even more efficiently, this valuable sourcebook contains the latest research on:

  • The best course of action for sleep problems: prevention and treatment
  • Common mistakes parents make trying to get their children to sleep
  • Different sleep needs for different temperaments
  • Stopping the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bed-wetting, and more
  • Ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to her internal clock - naturally
  • Handling nap-resistant kids and when to start sleep training
  • Why both night sleep and day sleep are important
  • Obstacles for working moms and children with sleep issues
  • The father's role in comforting children
  • How early sleep troubles can lead to later problems
  • The benefits and drawbacks of allowing kids to sleep in the family bed

Rest is vital to your child's health, growth, and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age.

©1987, 1999, 2003, 2015 Marc Weissbluth, Trustee, Marc Weissbluth Revocable Trust (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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"I put these principles into practice - with instant results. Dr. Weissbluth is a trusted resource and adviser." (Cindy Crawford)

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So hard to follow chapters and charts

This book is useful however not a good audible download. You can’t follow the chapters as there are no titles and it doesn’t correspond to the audio. Secondly the reader refers to tables below or on the next page which the listener has no access to. It’s really not useful.

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cry it out plus some sleep hygeine

I stopped listening when he got to extinction. not for me. this was rec by a friend but not my style. also the advice is overly simplistic

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No accompanying PDFs

Reader refers to charts and “see below” but the audible does not include accompanying PDFs. Disappointing.

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The book is great the chapters are all messed up though

Super confusing as the audible chapters are completely messed up. They aren’t labels as he refers to them in the book so you can’t go back and find anything. Totally frustrating as it’s an educational title.

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The Sleep Bible!!

This is my favourite book of all time. My son used to wake up every 20 minutes all night long when he was a baby and this book helped us correct this very efficiently. It was a real game changer! I’ve since bought many copies for friends who are becoming new parents who all have had a ton of success due to his advice. I’m now rereading the book for the arrival of our second baby and reminded how absolutely genius he is. If you are going to read only one book before your child comes this one is it! It should be require material for every parent!!

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My baby is sleeping

This book definitely gave me some really helpful tips on how to get my baby to sleep through the night. We've successfully being sleeping through the night for the past month. #audible1

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Great. Read it before baby is here for an easier time but it's never to late.

This book is the most evidence based book for infant sleep. So helpful. It's not just 'letting them cry it out'. So much information and options. Difficult to read when you are sleep deprived because it's fairly boring and hearing charts read aloud is sometimes harder than visualizing them. But all in all it works.

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