This book really works! We started putting our baby on a schedule at 5 1/2 months old following Dr. Mindell's advice and the first night he cried for 5 minutes. The 2nd night 7 minutes, and after that he would go right to sleep. He actually seems to look forward to going to sleep and sleeps more than 10 hours at night now. We liked this book because it was flexible and let you tailor how you wanted to respond to the baby and wasn't militant about it. We'll so glad we found this book!

This is the BEST book about babies & sleep that's out there. It's solutions really work. Mindell is a doctor who not only has practiced, but works at a research institution on infant sleep. Her suggestions are backed up by research. Her cry it out/self-soothe approach really works. I was very hesitant at first - like all mothers I hate to hear my baby cry. But guess what? I used her method, and the first night he cried 10 minutes. The second night 2 minutes and the third night 1 minute. Altogether 13 minutes of crying and now he is a wonderful sleeper. He sleeps 11 hours through the night and is happy to go to bed! I know that there are a lot of mothers who don't believe in the cry it out/self-soothe method because they say that not responding to babies is unatural. However, my baby cried a lot more than that before he was sleep-trained when he woke up crying hour after hour in the night because he didn't know how to put himself back to sleep. I feel that through the advice in this book, I've now taught him an important skill of knowing how to go to sleep on his own. It's just as important of a skill as being able to walk on his own or being able to sip from a cup on his own. This is a well-organized and incredibly useful book.