Precious Little Sleep

I liked this book, and definitely got some useful tidbits out of it. However, there were some bits of advice that conflicted with advice from other parts of the book. Sometimes the author didn't specify which age group she was referring to, so it was hard to know what would be right for my child - I found myself often asking “wait, is this for an infant or for a 2 year old?”

The overall premises were good:

- S.W.A.P. (Sleep With Assistance Plan) - pacifiers, swaddling, rockers, and the like.

and if you can't do those:

- S.L.I.P. (Sleep Learning Independence Plan) - fuss it out, cry it out

Every once in a while she would throw in a term like “crap nap” that wasn't explained. This would leave me confused about our baby's napping - is it 30 minutes or less? Is it OK for a newborn to sleep this amount of time? Are crap naps defined differently for different child ages?

Overall, I liked this book, I thought it had a lot of useful tips, especially if you haven't read other advice on getting your child to sleep. It could use a little more refinement, and a little less “witty” banter as it gave advice. It's got to be a challenge to write an all-encompassing book for a topic that changes so rapidly in the first few years of life. For me personally, I think I'll return to review it a few times as my child grows, since it seems like everything changes every few months.