Enjoy! -Marc and Dan
We are excited to announce that our new book, “Sleep Consult” is available for all Kindle Devices!
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
-Marc and Dan Weissbluth
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February 4, 2012 at 9:36 pm |
Hello Dr. Weissbluth,
However, our boy is now 11 months and we are trying to slightly modify his early bedtime, early rise and nap routine. He’s down for the count (with a smile and no struggle) by 5:45 pm and up between 5:15-5:45. Morning nap lasts 2 hours and occurs from 8-10ish (give or take 15-30 as it depends on how early he rises) and his afternoon nap is only about 45 min, sometimes 1.5 hrs but the time also varies depending on morning rise time. But typically 1:30- 3:00 pm. I can’t seem to find anything in your literature that will help us to slowly delay his bedtime or change his nap times with hopes of putting him down a little later (6:30), resulting in a later morning rise (6:30).
Our family has greatly benefited from your wonderful book! In fact, most of the parents in our Toronto neighbourhood preach your techniques
Your comments would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
Litsa
February 4, 2012 at 11:13 pm |
If he is well rested throughout the day, stay the course.
Marc
February 4, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Thank you Marc. For the most part, he is very well rested, although it would be ideal if he wasn’t down for the count until 6:30 as his father gets home at about 6pm. Perhaps I’m asking too much, but their time together is important. If you have any suggestions please advise. Thanks again.
January 30, 2012 at 6:36 pm |
I am a sleep consultant and a huge fan of your work, Dr. Weissbluth!Is it possible to receive the book in any other form other than kindle or ipad/iphone/mac??
Perhaps as an ebook download on a PC? I have a Nook, too:)
I would really like to enjoy and learn from ‘Sleep Consult’.
Thank you,
Jennifer
January 30, 2012 at 7:22 pm |
It will be available on Nook shortly
January 30, 2012 at 3:47 am |
Hello Marc & Dan-
I just purchased your new book for my ipad and I’m excited to read it. I have followed your methods since our daughter was 4 months old, when I did a phone call consultation with you, and she is now 40 months old. I do have a question for you now that she is almost 3 1/2.
We start our daughter’s bedtime routine around 7:00pm but she is fighting us now on going to bed, showing anxiety being away from us, and often we hear her in her room playing until 9:00pm. She usually also wakes up a 2-3 times a week crying once in the night because a toy fell out of bed but usually she falls back asleep after we go to her room for 3-5 minutes. We then hear her around 6:00am but don’t take her out of her room until 7:00am. She still naps at least an hour and a half during the week at daycare, from 1:15pm to 2:45pm, and up to two hours on the weekend.
So my question is, should we putting her to bed earlier, like 6:30pm to avoid struggles and her staying up late in her room? Is it time for her nap to go away? Could she be exhibiting this behavior because my husband and I work full-time and she wants to be with us more? I would greatly appreciate your advice on a schedule to try. Thank you – Sarah
January 30, 2012 at 6:57 pm |
An earlier bedtime might be temporary or permanent but try it now with Sleep Rules.
Marc
January 30, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Thank you. Is there an earlier bedtime that you recommend with the Sleep Rules? 6:30pm maybe? Would you still keep her nap?
Sarah
February 10, 2012 at 2:08 am
Hi Sarah
Our daughter is very close in age to yours, and is pretty much doing the same thing! The only way we could get her to ‘take advantage’ of the earlier bedtime (which is now between 6pm-6:15) was to have her stop napping. We have been doing this for about 5 days now. She is tired towards the end of the day, and likely could fall asleep even earlier than the above times due to not napping and the adjustments.
When she was napping, she would wake around 5am, nap for about 2 hours starting at 1/1:30 pm, then fight us at night and would be awake until after 8pm, which I know is too late for her. So, I took the plunge and nixed the nap and now she no longer fights us and is more willing to follow our ‘sleep rules’. I just have to work at finding the right balance for bedtime that will maximize the amount of sleep she gets, and hopefully her wake time will get a bit later too (fingers crossed she is becoming better rested with an earlier bedtime). I’m thinking of trying a super-early bedtime for a few nights to see what this does to her wake-up time…when things were a little smoother she was doing a 7pm-5:45am night with a 1.5-2 hour nap.
I remember reading in various posts before that an earlier bedtime (and thus sleep occuring at the right time) is better than a nap with a too late bedtime if it means the bedtime is later than the child’s natural bedtime.
Hope things work out for you soon…and I hope I’ve done the ‘right’ thing…
Oh, to mention…I also found that it was hard for my daughter to understand and follow my sleep rules if i tried to enforce them at bedtime, but tried to be a bit more lax at nap time because i know she may be letting go of the nap naturally. This was another reason I went to no nap/early bedtime…she was getting mixed messages and calling me on it!