Sleep: Elizabeth Pantley is my hero

A couple months ago Finley was waking every 2 hours at night. After doing lots of research about babies and sleep it was clear that the two schools of thought were 'cry it out' or 'learn to live with it'. Since I wasn't willing to do the first method and tired days and a grumpy mum meant I wasn't willing to learn to live with it either, I researched further until I came across this book by Elizabeth Pantley - The No-Cry Sleep Solution.

Finley has been waking up almost every hour for the last week and then is often up at 4am and doesn't go back to sleep until 5.30am! After reading through all the articles and advice on her website and trying out the gentle, loving ways she suggests getting babies to sleep for longer periods, I can confirm that it really really does work! So we went ahead and ordered the book.

Why I really like her suggestions:

• she caters for everyone: whether you bottlefeed or breastfeed your baby to sleep, use a dummy, co-sleep or if your baby sleeps in his/her own cot, there is a solution for you
• you get to choose which techniques you think will work for you and your family and put together your own customized plan and not one that is prescribed by some 'sleep expert' who knows nothing about you or your baby
• introducing a new way of falling asleep and/or staying asleep is a gentle gradual process that goes according to you and your baby's pace and not a quick fix promising to have your baby sleeping through the night (according to the medical definition of the phrase: sleeping a stretch of five or more hours without waking) in 7 days
• she comes from a place of raising children with love, compassion, respect and consistency.

So I will keep you posted on how things go, but with the little work we've done in the last couple days it already feels like we're covering ground. For those of you who find yourself in a similar position to me and can't bear to let your baby cry it out, finally there is an alternative and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I am truly excited at the possibility of having a few hours of uninterrupted sleep in the near future!

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