This book is amazing.. It was recommended by 2 friends whom I trust and respect as mommas. I wish I had this book when my older kids were infants! She takes you step by step on how to train your baby to sleep and it all begins with their feedings. First she has you write down when your baby eats from birth to 6-8 weeks. Your baby will naturally be on a schedule. You don't force your schedule, but figure out what your infants schedule is. I used the baby tracker app. Otherwise I would have no clue since I am super busy with 3 older kids. She doesn't recommend to begin sleep training until your child is 6 weeks and 10 pounds. If your infant is not both, than you don't begin until both are true. You start with the first feeding of your day and try to make it a little longer (a little longer by a min-15 min./ don't make your baby cry to prolong.. change their diaper.. use one of the tools she gives you for daytime). I began this at 8 weeks.. I had this realization that when I fed my son less than 3 hours between feedings that he literally would throw up all the milk I just fed him. So I began by feeding him every 3+ hours because I knew that he could go that long. He honestly would sleep long enough that it wasn't a problem. I didn't make him cry. I would change his diaper.. prolonging it a few minutes, then feed him. He eventually on his own would go 4 hours in between feedings during the day. As I stretched his feedings during the day, he naturally would sleep longer at night. (She also says this is what your infant will do in the book). He started at 6 hours... a week went by & it was 7 hour stretch, than 8/9, than 10 hour stretches between his nighttime feedings. Then on his own he slept 11 hours. There were times during the 6 weeks of training him I felt like we took a step back (which she says is normal). But after he slept 11 hours on his own several times.. when he woke up 2 times in the middle of the night I knew he wasn't hungry.. so I just gave him his pacifier. The next nights he slept on his own through the night 11-12 hours. This happens gradually, & is not an overnight solution. Stick to what she says in the book & it will be a domino effect. Your baby will sleep in longer stretches gradually until it's 12 hours and 4 feedings that are 4 hours apart during the day. You begin with the first feeding, then when he naturally goes 4 hours in between, you begin on feeding #2, than feeding #3, than feeding #4.. and have your infant eat a little later.. by a min, or 5 min. Each minute is a minute gained. That's when I would prolong his feedings (sometimes just by a few minutes each time because I changed his diaper. But it gave me a better idea of when he was hungry and when he was tired. She gives you a list of tools for daytime and nighttime. I honestly didn't use them all the time, but they were an excellent resource if I needed them. The progression was very natural. He would go longer and longer at night sleeping as I fed him closer to every 4 hours during the day. My feedings (I'm breastfeeding) went from being every 11-13 minutes every 2-3 hours, to 20-25 minutes every 4 hours. Her list of tools work. She even has had success with parents of multiples. Even now my son will sometimes wake up early from his nap (during the day b/c I have to transfer him in his car seat someplace b/c I have older kids) but I can still tell he's tired. I'm not a momma who lets her baby's cry. So I feed him when he's hungry, & this has taught me when he's not hungry, but tired. Highly recommend.. !!!

It takes patience and discipline to do the routine. But do it for a few weeks BY THE BOOK and it pays off for months and months and months. It will save your sanity and make everyone, especially baby, very happy and well rested. The number one question you get with a new baby is, "How does he/she sleep?" Everyone asks. Why?? Because most babies don't. That means most parents don't. People are amazed when I tell them our kid sleeps 12 hours every night and has a routine. They think it is impossible or magic or something. They tell us we are just "lucky" and "must have gotten a good one" because they can't believe it. Nope. We followed this book as directed. Not luck, not magic, a routine. When we followed this book to a 'T', it worked exactly as described. My little guy is one year old now and he still sleeps from 7 pm to 7 am EVERY DAY, and has since he was 9 weeks old. Literally he has only had 3 or 4 nights in his life since 9 weeks that he has not slept 12 hours straight. There are a lot of negative reviews for this book. I've read many of them now. I can't fathom that. Really people? All I can say is there are a ton of people out there that have very very strong feelings about co-sleeping, about breast feeding constantly, and people that can't be disciplined, or have the willpower to stick to the routine that ARE SIMPLY HATING on people that have used this book's methods successfully. I think some of them are stay at home mom's that took pride in the difficulty and think other's should have to "earn their stripes" too. I don't understand why they think suffering is the good route though. People that claim the baby will be mal-nourished, or throw out the "these authors aren't doctors" criticism are not only mis-informed on the actual plan, but they are being very over-dramatic and un-educated on the needs of the baby. It is funny how quickly people criticize authors for "not being experts" and turn around and give terrible, non-informed, even less expert opinions. You feed your baby the same amount, just not every hour all hours of the night. You funnel the feedings away from night and into day, then eventually just to 4 times daily. Many humans eat 4 times daily. It isn't dangerous or unhealthy. Yes, the babies stomach is smaller, but it is still proportionate to the baby, it doesn't mean they have to eat constantly. Of course your baby would eat every hour all night if you offered it milk, it doesn't mean it needs to. It would eat every 10 minutes if that is the routine you offer it. Why would you though? If you are worried about your milk drying up, you are not following the plan. The plan says to still pump if you need to. If you are so dramatic to claim this would cause depression or anxiety, you are wrong, it causes the opposite! My baby is always happy, very well developed, hitting all his milestones, and is happy to go to bed at night every night with this routine. Our whole family is well-rested, energetic and loving life because of this book. It is simple if you just do it and stick to it. Save your sleep, your sanity and make the whole family happy. Use this book! For all those haters that are saying it is impossible and unrealistic, they should meet my wonderful little boy (just not between 7 PM and 7 AM because he will be blissfully sleeping). There is seriously no product on earth I would endorse more.

This book was very insightful. Easy read, highly recommend.