Supported with a plethora of examples, this book is a great read. It’s written in colloquial and direct terms, which makes it practical. I myself don’t have a child but the information is useful either way. The author also throws in some tidbits about her own life, which helps to reassure you of her practical experience and visualize the situations discussed much better. ( )

I thought this book was very well balanced and filled with sound advice on how to get a baby to sleep better. She even gave advice on how to deal with exceptions to the typical sleep time routine (babysitters, travel, teething, ect). I received this book before having twins as a bit of a refresher course knowing my husband would be traveling a great deal. She doesn't tackle what to do with multiples, but it was a good reminder of a few approaches that have work for us in the past. ( )

My daughter started sleeping through the night on her own at about 3 months old, but at 6 months we took a couple of long trips to visit family and that is when her sleep problems started. The book seems to heavily promote the cry-it-out(CIO) method, which I haven't been willing to try. It does offer other suggestions, but with the hint that you'll probably have to try CIO in the end anyway. I tried a couple of non-CIO tips with my daughter (now 1), and while she's still waking most nights and I have definitely seen an improvement. ( )

While I do not have a baby yet, I requested this book because one may be in my near future and I'm trying to retain as much knowledge as I can! So even though I cannot put the advice from the book into use yet, I got really excited reading it and thinking to myself, "I can do this!". I thought the author did a great job showing specific examples of baby's bad sleep habits and practical tips on how to overcome those sleepless nights. I lent the book to a friend with a colicky newborn so we'll see if she's able to put any of these tricks to use. It's definitely a book I'll keep on my shelf and refer to again when it comes closer to my time. ( )

Boy, I found this book just in the nick of time. Or it found me. Either way I'm grateful. Back then I was only dimly aware of how badly I would need the help and soon.

Recap: My wife and I became new parents three months ago, and my son was barely six weeks old when I picked up Janet Krone Kennedy's The Good Sleeper. As with most newborns, I wasn't getting much sleep and my wife was getting even less. New babies are naturally underdeveloped sleepers—and this is in addition to the frequent feedings they require—but I didn't realize how easy it would be for bad sleep habits to form if we didn't start working on good ones now. So we started following the advice in this book and within a couple weeks our son was consistently sleeping through the night.

Janet Kennedy is an advocate of the cry-it-out method to correct sleep problems, and thank god for her. Admittedly, my experience to date is only one subject, my son, and my casual observation of other couples who had kids with sleep problems. Not a significant sample group. Still, we nudged our son's bedtime earlier little by little and then allowed him to cry-it-out at around 8-10 weeks. The results were like night and day. We needed thick skin as he protested quite a bit at times, but I think our advantage was that he was too young to know otherwise. He didn't have time to put two and two together and realize that his parents might respond to excessive crying. We nipped that early on. Sounds harsh you say? You wouldn't know it by the big smile he greets us with each morning after 7-10 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

For those of you unwilling to try the cry-it-out solution or simply can't bring yourself to endure it, the author does offers a variety of other solutions. And most seem to work, eventually. They'll just require a lot more time and patience. ( )