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The Gentle Sleep Book

For Calm Babies, Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers

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The Gentle Sleep Book

By: Sarah Ockwell-Smith
Narrated by: Katy Sobey
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The Gentle Sleep Book offers gentle, no-tears sleep solutions for exhausted parents of newborns to five-year-olds.

A large percentage of parents find their young children's sleep - or lack of - challenging. This new audiobook from Sarah Ockwell-Smith, founder of BabyCalm, will be an indispensable guide for parents, whatever challenges they are facing with their child's sleep - from the day they bring their newborn home until their child is settled in at school.

Examining everything from frequent night waking in babyhood through bedwetting in toddlerhood to nightmares and refusal to go to bed in preschoolers, this audiobook provides extensive scientific and anecdotal information plus plenty of gentle suggestions to help everyone get a good night's sleep.

This is a gentle, evidence-based approach that doesn't involve leaving a baby to cry or shutting a sobbing child in his or her bedroom.

©2016 Sarah Ockwell-Smith (P)2016 Hachette Audio UK Infants & Toddlers Parenting & Families Physical Illness & Disease Relationships Sexual & Reproductive Health Sleep Disorders Toddler Infant Sleep Training

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"Sleep is not a battle. It's a balance, and in this book Sarah helps parents find that balance...the practical advice for real situations is very helpful." (Juno)
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I think this book is good if you are thinking about the idea or being urged to do sleep training by others but actually don’t want to. It goes in to scientific/psychological detail about why infants sleep the way they do and how it is natural. It is not a guide as to how to get your child to sleep without harsh sleep training methods, in my opinion, more just assurance that it isn’t necessary for your infant to sleep through the night.

Assurance you don’t need to sleep train

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This book is a bit repetitive and dragged out. I normally really like the SOS books but I wasn't as keen on this one

a bit repetitive and dragged out

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Very insightful book. However better labeling of chapters would be helpful for navigating more easily.

Insightful

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I thoroughly enjoyed The Gentle Sleep Book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith. There's so much great info in there. It's well presented. As a Mum to two young children, I prefer to parent along the lines of attachment parenting and so this book was perfect for me.

I found the narrator to be a little robotic, though, so it was slightly off-putting at first, but I got over it!

Loved the book

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Good useful book with gentle and useful advise. Really enjoined listening to the reader's voice.

Really enjoined it

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