Sleep: The Easy Way to Peaceful Nights By Beatrice Hollyer & Lucy Smith

I checked this book out from the library in a moment of weakness or maybe it was a blur of exhaustiveness. I’m only kidding; my sleep situation was not that bad. I was intrigued a bit by this book, only until I realized there are tons of books out there on how to get your baby to sleep. I thought, however, because it is decently short, I’d read it for kicks.

Well, I do have to report that I really didn’t learn anything new from this book. If I were using this book to search for answers as to how to get my baby to sleep, I would finish this book and think “What now?” The main thing lacking is a definitive plan once this book has reached its conclusion. I’m still left wondering what I should do. Perhaps, it is because this book is just kind of vague. It covers a fair range of topics, but doesn’t have much depth to it.

Many times as I was reading this book, I felt the authors were pointing out something so obvious, I wondered what they were actually getting at. I suppose this book simply didn’t appeal to me. None of the advice resonated within my being, and I simply did not connect with the book. I also do not feel as though the book was written with a holistic frame of mind. Ultimately, I feel this is another book of “getting baby to sleep at all costs” frame of mind than a gentle book of respecting baby as a human with needs and emotions similar to all humans.

I’d say you can safely skip this book and go directly to The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley. That’s a book worth reading, and let’s face it; when you need some sleep, you can’t be messing around with many different books trying to decide on the right one.