Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook: The Sleep Lady's Gentle Step-by-step Guide for Tired Parents

The Good Night Sleep Tight Workbook is a nice book for parents who don't want to let their child "cry it out," but don't have any idea of where to begin. The first two chapters are a review of concepts from Kim West's first book, Good Night, Sleep Tight. Ms. West breaks down each month from newborn to age 2 1/2 -5 and gives tasks and goals that should be accomplished along with sample sleep schedules.The Sleep Lady Shuffle, from the Good Night, Sleep Tight book is reviewed in chapter three. This technique is the cornerstone of Ms. West's coaching plan. Basically, it is gradually moving the location of your chair away from the crib until you are out of the room, thus teaching your child to fall asleep on his own.Chapter seven is about creating your plan. There are several sample plans with specific times for waking up, feedings, naps, bath, and bed times. There are plans for babies who need feedings during the night, and older kids who do not. Then there is a section with blank spaces which the reader could fill in to create his/her own plan. These are thirteen-day plans (they could however, take longer). At the end of the book, there is a sleep log where you can record your progress.Finally, in chapter twelve, there is a list of resources containing bedtime stories, books with information on childcare, books for new siblings, bedtime music, websites related to sleep, and information on postpartum depression. This is all useful information.My children are older now, and sleeping through the night, but that certainly was not the case for the first two years of their lives. I did try the Sleep Shuffle technique when they were babies for about a month. I know that this technique does work well for a lot of people (I had friends who used it with excellent results), but it did not solve my children's sleep problems. I will not give this book less than five stars, just because the sleep shuffle technique did not work for me. It is well written, with easy-to-follow plans and suggestions. If you are a sleep-deprived parent trying to get your child on a good sleep schedule where you are not a crutch for helping him fall asleep, then read this book.-Sherry Ellis, author of  That Baby Woke Me Up, AGAIN

I have heard a lot of great things about this method and kudos to all the parents who successfully sleep trained their babies using this book.I skimmed through it and was going to try it out. However, after much thought and discussing with other parents, I ended up just letting my baby cry it out and leaving the room while watching him on the baby monitor. He only cried for 20 minutes (I was expecting up to an hour). He cried less each night and took him a shorter time to fall asleep. My life is so much better now that he can sleep on his own through the night (whereas before he was waking up 4-5 times). The method I used was really simple and it worked. I know many parents are against CIO but as a concerned parent, I did a lot of research before trying it and I honestly could not find actual evidence of any negative impact. Others may feel differently and that's okay.I really believe my baby would have cried longer if he had seen me near the crib, which is what is involved in following the steps in this book. My voice and presence provokes him to cry harder in any situation and only reminds him that he's not in my arms, and won't stop crying until he is. So if your baby is like mine, then this method might not be for you. Unless you can have your partner do all the work if he is okay to take on that burden. I'm not a baby sleep expert, but this is just my personal experience and my two cents!

My grandson was waking 6-10 times per night at seven months old. He could not go to sleep without being nursed and then putting him into bed woke him up for more crying. My daughter and her husband were completely stumped. While I was visiting I bought her this workbook as well as the book that goes with it. Together, in ONE WEEK, he was going down for 1-1/2 hour naps twice a day and going down for bed (from awake to asleep) in five minutes without being nursed, with just a little complaint (not hard crying) and by the time I left his dad or I could put him down as easily as his mom. The first step was separating nursing from falling asleep. It worked.These are tried and true sleep training tips and they work. It would be good to have the other book because she refers to it, but the workbook was great for quick lookups. In the end my daughter didn't even need to keep a journal. Her baby learned to fall asleep really, really fast.Now my grandson is nine months old, takes his naps on time, goes to bed at seven, has one big nursing in the night, goes back to sleep and sleeps until 7 a.m.Thanks, Sleep Lady!

Excellent sleeping method BUT it works best if you have a sleep coach to guide you thru it. We tried it on our own and failed. We had to hire a sleep coach and we’re happy we stuck with this method. It took a couple of weeks to work out some logistics of awake windows and we switched up who would do the training which is what set us back a week. The husband attempted first but failed. I had to take it over and start from step one. After 5 days everything improved 100%. We have a baby who is able to soothe himself to sleep and sleeps thru the night.

Sleep saver! We started using a few tips from the book and decided to commit to the system and get the work book too (started with book on kindle). Having a paper copy with the important points highlighted helped us form a plan fast. It worked immediately- from the first night we learned our breastfed baby was only eating four times because we assumed that's what he wanted. We were able to comfort him with minimal fuss and go to one feeding a night. Also naps and putting him down in general takes anywhere from 7-30 mins (the first attempt was an hour). This is a major improvement- especially because our son would insist on napping in a lap and spending half the night in the swing. We are now 100% crib. And her method for 5 month olds was age appropriate. We have done mostly attachment parenting and this fell in line with our comfort level.

Didn't help our baby sleep unfortunately.

Interesting but never found the time to read it fully. Needs brief overview for tired parents

Our 16 month old son had been waking up every 2 hours, each night, for 7 months. After going through this workbook he is now napping for 2.5 hours in the day and sleeping a solid 11 hours at night. It only took 10 days to achieve! I wish I'd been recommended this book sooner!

Really assuring and great guidelines

Brilliant book, changes my daughters sleep habits within a week! Definately recommended