No-Cry Sleep Solution Index

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No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night - Elizabeth Pantley

• Gentle Removal Plan  - For frequent breastfeeders, night time bottle feeders and pacifier users
• Help baby to fall back to sleep in her crib - for crib sleepers
• Help your baby fall back to sleep on his own and move him out of your bed and into his own - tips to help a co-sleeping baby move to a crib
• Help your baby fall back to sleep with another person's assistance - especially useful for co-sleeping and breastfeeding babies
• Help your baby to fall back to sleep on his own while you continue to breastfeed and co-sleep - For Breastfeeding and co-sleeping babies
• No-Cry Sleep Solution, The: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night - Book Review
• Sleep Solutions for 0-4 months
• Sleep Solutions for Older Babies (4 months to 2 years)
• Ten Steps to Helping Your Baby Sleep All Night

HELP BABY TO FALL BACK TO SLEEP IN HER CRIB - for crib sleepers (No-Cry Sleep Solution)

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When baby wakes at night, do what you normally do to help her fall asleep, but slowly decrease the length of time you spend with this "back to sleep" routine. Try to put baby down drowsy but not completely asleep. If baby gets upset when you do this, start your

HELP YOUR BABY FALL BACK TO SLEEP WITH ANOTHER PERSON'S ASSISTANCE - especially useful for co-sleeping & breastfeeding babies (No-Cry Sleep Solution)

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Many babies get used to one method of falling asleep (which often includes mom breastfeeding and/or co-sleeping) and are unable to fall asleep any other way or with any other person.

To help your child fall asleep with another person, pantley suggests you have a willing person who baby is comfortable with put baby to sleep for a week or so. She suggests you start with naps, but you can start with night time sleep too.

HELP YOUR BABY FALL BACK TO SLEEP ON HIS OWN AND MOVE HIM OUT OF YOUR BED AND INTO HIS OWN (No-Cry Sleep Solution)

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These ideas, of course, are only for those who want to move baby/toddler out of their bed. Some people are content with having their child sleep with them for as long as their child wants to.

I suggest having your child play in his crib (and possibly room) beforehand so that he gets used to it and has a good association with it. You can start by

HELP YOUR BABY FALL BACK TO SLEEP ON HIS OWN WHILE YOU CONTINUE TO BREASTFEED AND CO-SLEEP (No-Cry Sleep Solution)

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Pantley includes a co-sleeping safety list in The No Cry Sleep Solution (p. 37) that I suggest you look over before co-sleeping.

Babies that co-sleep and breastfeed usually wake more often than babies that sleep in a separate bed. Pantley says you can help most babies learn to sleep beside you without waking frequently by shortening your night time

GENTLE REMOVAL PLAN - For frequent breastfeeders, night time bottle feeders and pacifier users (No Cry Sleep Solution)

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**Pantley's Gentle Removal Plan Listed Below**

Many babies associate the action of sucking with sleeping and end up needing to suck to fall or stay asleep. Pantley doesn't consider this a negative sleep association, but says that it usually isn't practical (especially for an extended period of time) since most people have busy lifestyles and therefore have to do a lot more than just

No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night (book review)

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The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley offers gentle ways to help your baby sleep through the night, tear free. Pantley states that if you desperately want your baby to sleep better and don't want to let your baby cry it out, then this book is for you. I want to put an emphasis on the word

No Cry Sleep Solution: Ten Steps to Helping Your Baby Sleep All Night

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Pantley, from The No Cry Sleep Solution, lists 10 steps to follow as you make your sleep solution plan.

1) Do a Safety Check
Make sure baby's environment is safe and remember that safety is more important than sleep. For an extensive lists of safety precautions check out her book. You can also look here for some: Safety In Mind.

2) Learn Basic Sleep Facts
Pantly goes over how babies sleep and mentions one of the most common causes of frequent night wakings--not being able to

No-Cry Sleep Solution: Sleep Solutions for Older Babies (4 months to 2 years)

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Pantley suggests you look over this list (p. 89) and choose what you think will work best for you and your baby. If your baby is close to 4 months old you might want to look over the list for babies 0-4 months of age too. If your baby is over 2 years old, these suggestions might also be useful.

GET YOURSELF READY
Believe it or not, but you may actually be the one preventing any changes from happening. Let's look at a few things that might be going on to prevent

No-Cry Sleep Solution: Sleep Solutions for 0-4 months

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Pantley goes over several ideas that may be able to help your child sleep better. She suggests you look over all these ideas and decide what will work best for you and baby. She also suggests you look over the section for older babies since this has a bunch of useful information in it too.

**This section is organized slightly different than her book. I thought it flowed better this way.

Read, Learn, and Beware of Bad Advice
Knowledge is power (as the saying goes). Pantley mentions that "the more knowledge you have the less likely that other people will make you doubt your parenting skills." When you are knowledgeable, you will be able to better choose what parenting