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The No-Cry Nap Solution: Guaranteed Gentle Ways to Solve All Your Naptime Problems (Pantley) |  | Author: Elizabeth Pantley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 9734
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 007159695X
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928498
EAN: 9780071596954
ASIN: 007159695X
Publication Date: December 2, 2008
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Product Description
Winner of Disney’s iParenting Media Award for Best Product “Easy naptime solutions that really work--without any tears.”
Kathy Lynn, President, Parenting Today “Naps: Children need them. Parents want them. Here are the tools to make them happen.”
Maureen A. Doolan Boyle, Executive Director, MOST (Mothers of Supertwins), Inc. Does your child:
- nap only in your arms, a sling, a swing, or the car?
- require elaborate rituals before sleeping?
- get fussy, act cranky, or have tantrums due to lack of sleep?
- take very short naps--or none at all?
Naps are important to a child's mood, well-being, and development. The No-Cry Nap Solution offers you a proven formula to allow your baby, toddler, or preschooler to get daily restorative rest. You'll learn gentle, loving, tear-free techniques, developed by world-renowned parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley and tested by hundreds of families around the world, guaranteed to help you: - Convince any child to nap every day
- Effortlessly settle your child for naptime in his or her own bed
- Turn short, fitful naps into long, peaceful ones
- Establish a nap schedule that works for you and your child
- Easily adapt nap routines to your child's developing needs
- Confidently deal with sudden changes, nap strikes, and travel
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 Missing info on Kindle edition November 13, 2009
Firefly (North Carolina)
The Kindle edition is missing sentences-I've counted 4 paragraphs that end in a semicolon or mid-phrase, and I'm only 17% of the way through the book. I reported the problem to the content division of Kindle, but you may want to buy a hard copy of the book in the meantime.
guaranteed to solve all my naptime problems? NOPE! October 31, 2009
N. Savona (Toronto, Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book to help my cat napping baby extend her naps and since the reviews we great, I felt confident about my purchase. Well, 3 months later, my 6 month daughter was still taking
4 short naps/day. I tried EVERYTHING in the book to no avail. I felt like a failure that my baby was not taking the "golden" 1 1/2hr nap (anything less and it is not considered a real nap according to Pantley). My daughter was tired, fussy and fighting each nap more and more every day. I was becoming stressed, angry, depressed and a failure as a first time mother. I tried so hard and wanted so badly to give my daughter the daytime rest that she desperately needed (she sleeps well at night but it was not enough). All the "solutions" presented in the book actually aggrevated her problem and made it worse. AND THEN a relative recommended Ferber's Solve your Child's Sleep Problem. Within a month, my daughter was sleeping better in the day taking at least 1 nap of 1-2hrs. Let me clarify that I have not used his "crying" tactics yet and that's not what helped my daughter. Let me give you a few reasons why Dr.Ferber's method helped and Pantley's DID NOT:
1) My daughter weas getting TOO MUCH sleep at night and was tired during the day but not enough to lengthen her naps. Her drive to sleep was low. Pantley's book does not give this as a possible reason for cat-naps. I cut her night sleep to 10-10.50hrs MAX and automatically, she would sleep for 1.5hrs in the morning!!! So easy.
2) PUT YOUR OLDER BABY ON A SCHEDULE. I was so focused on her "sleepy/tired" signs that I would jump at putting her to sleep when I saw them which resulted in her taking 5/6 short naps at 3 months and 4 short naps at still 6 months. I made the mistake of allowing my daughter to lead when I was the one who should have lead her. Now she is forced to nap ONCE in the morning and once AFTER LUNCH with another nap in the early evening. How long she chooses to sleep at those designated times are up to her. The result? She gets 3-3 1/2hrs of sleep in the day and if I'm really lucky two of those naps are over an hour in length.
3) I was discouraged to allow my daughter to get "really tired" in Pantley's book and if I did not put her for naps ASAP, she would be too tired and unable to sleep. FALSE. Babies have a strong drive to sleep in the day. The longer they stay awake, the more tired they become and the longer they sleep (Ferber isn't saying that a 2 month old should stay awake for 4 hours to sleep longer but surely a 6 month old can endure 3 or 4hrs. Besides, his book is catered more for a baby over 3 or 4 months). My daughter always looked sleepy because of her short naps and so it was hard for me to determine the correct amount of time she could stay happily awake. I had to gradually lengthen the time my daughter would stay awake to get longer naps even if she seemed tired before then. IT WORKED liked a charm! Waiting a bit longer made her a bit more tired and more likely to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Now she rarely fights the naps. 5min and she's out like a light!
4) My daughter does not need to sleep 1 1/2hrs to get a good nap. And she surely does not need to sleep 14-15hrs/day as recommended on Pantley's sleep charts. 1 hour is a good nap for a baby her age (FERBER) and 12-13hrs of sleep is all she really needs (FERBER). I find that if she sleep 14hrs/day, she wakes up at night wanting to play and not sleeping as well. Yesterday she slept a total of probably 13hrs and went on to sleep 10hrs at night without waking ONCE. And she was happy and rested during the day without taking a 2hr nap. That says something.
I was not expecting any miracles from either book, but Ferber gave me a little more success, confidence and a happier, well rested baby (Pantley produced the opposite). I'm sure her solutions have helped many and that's why most people gave her 5* reviews but be warned that there are also parents that won't find solice in her approach to night/day sleeping. Ferber's book just made more sense and enlightened me about infant sleep and behaviours. This man knows his stuff!!! The only reason I did not give her a 1* review was because she gave me the idea about presenting a "lovey" for my daughter to sleep with and that made her happy. If you honestly want to solve your nap problems, give Ferber a try first. I wish I had.
 No-Cry Nap Solution is AWESOME! October 15, 2009
J. Kaelin (Louisville, KY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a first-time mother to a daughter who is 5 months old. She is a wonderful night sleeper, but a terrible napper. She is not your typical easy-going baby either.... so she desperately needs her naps! She takes "power naps," or as Pantley calls them "Catnaps," just fine... and I thought. "well, I suppose that's all she needs." Even though deep down I just knew she was still tired and would really benefit from a longer nap. I had never been able to get her to nap longer than 25-30 minutes in her crib, and no more than 45-50 minutes in my arms. And even when she did take a nap in her crib, she would often cry for a long time before falling asleep - when I say cry - I mean CRY! It killed me:-( And I usually ended up taking her out and just holding her.
I was so tired of people (and authors) telling me to let her cry it out! I never felt good about that, and it never worked for us! For a baby to cry for more than 30 minutes... something is just not right. When I did some research and found Elizabeth Pantley's book/website, I thought, "FINALLY an author who writes about NOT crying!" After going all over town to various book stores... I finally found the "No Cry Nap Solution"... I read it all THAT NIGHT! Need less to say, my daughter soundly sleeps for two naps a day. Oh, and the naps are anywhere from 80 to over 90 minutes long EACH, which I never dreamed would happen. She naps in her car seat, which is in her stroller (and yes, I brought it in the house)... but it works! I feel like if I can get her body used to napping longer, then we'll work on the location LATER!
Ok, I need to get some non-baby things done around the house while she sleeps.. but I just wanted to quickly send a big THANK YOU from my home to yours:-)
Pantley saves another toddler October 5, 2009
Jamie M. Rader (EAFB, AK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the time my child was an infant, not sleeping at all through the night, I have turned to Elizabeth Pantley's advice. She has, time and time again, provided customizable solutions for my family that have solved our sleeping problems. My child went from waking about 10 times a night to sleeping the whole night and now, as a toddler, is beginning to transition from one nap to no nap during the day. I turned to "The No-Cry Nap Solution" to get advice on how to patiently help my child make the transition, and to educate myself on what to expect and how to handle it so that naptimes wouldn't end in tears and hoarse throats. I highly recommend every single one of her books to every parent.
Pantley offers pragmatic, creative, common-sense solutions August 19, 2009
I. Gordon (Queens, New York, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Are you the kind of parent who doesn't have the heart to let your baby cry it out? But also don't want your baby's needs to hold you hostage? Elizabeth Pantley's no-cry approach offers a much-needed third way. Her pragmatic, non-dogmatic common-sense approach allows parents to find compromise solutions that meet the needs of both parents and child.
Our baby used to take extremely short naps and wake up obviously tired. Following Ms. Pantley's suggestions we purchased a baby hammock (Baby Hammock Motion Bed Set - Blue) and used the preemptive jiggling approach, and as a result our baby is now taking longer naps.
Thanks to Elizabeth Pantley's advice everybody is happy: baby is getting more sleep and parents have some much-needed downtime during the day.
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