Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: A Step-by-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success

by Suzy Giordano, Lisa Abidin

Genres: Parenting, Audiobook

1 pages, Audio CD

Published March 1, 2021

Reviews

[Nick Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worked for us!

[Andrew Bonney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m manifesting that this works by giving it five stars. Please work please work please work 🙏🏻

Update: it worked 😭

[Jess Ghisletta Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good tips on sleeping and eating and I appreciate her section on how to not create bad habits in the first 4-6/8 weeks to make getting to the longer stretches in weeks 8-12 easier. It’s a bit strict if you look at following her plan exactly which we don’t intend on doing but it does provide helpful information and ideas on getting babies to sleep longer sooner.

[S · Rating 4 out of 5]

This seems like the Holy Grail for new patients. But I have no idea if it will work lol. I like the confidence of the author on how well this works. So I think we will give it a shot. “Happiest Baby on the Block” says to do the opposite, but idk I want to try this. “Cribsheet” seems to back this one up a bit.

[Caitlin Yuko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Technically didn’t try this but that’s because I just can’t get behind only feeding a baby 4 times a day, not my parenting style at alllll. Baby eats whenever he wants!!!!

[Breanna Copple · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved how practical this book was! Her approach is not complicated and very logical to developing good sleep habits. I’ll be referring to it as I sleep train.

[Simone · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don’t know, seems like torture for me and baby to try to stretch daytime feeds to 4 hours. I think I will just trust her to feed on demand and have already seen some gains in sleep as she has gotten older/bigger and forming her own schedule without much structure/input. I do think it can be comforting to have a plan but this level of rigidity seems like an illusion of control.

[Matti Tackett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Our baby hasn’t arrived yet, so I can’t attest to the effectiveness of this book. However, the principles and philosophies on parenting that were discussed and implemented into the “sleep training” make complete sense. The steps are simple and straight forward. The author seems to have a very traditional style of parenting & discipline and shares a common sense step-by-step guide to hopefully instill a healthy dynamic with Baby when it comes to both our sleeping and sanity. Very quick read!!!

[Clare · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really want this to magically help but haven’t been testing long enough to attest to effectiveness. I like her recommendations for ways to soothe a waking baby that aren’t feeding-based, and look forward to trying some of those out. There’s still some “cry it out lite” required by this method and that doesn’t work for me as a parent, but that doesn’t mean it won’t work for others.

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

*review subject to change after testing 😂
I appreciated the brevity and straightforwardness of this book. I think that the basics of her limited cry method, daytime feeding routines and day/night toolbelt will help us get Ellie into a better rhythms. The author sometimes presented her way at the only way and I didn’t agree with every suggested method, but super helpful tips and routines.

[Amy West · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and seemingly good approach to sleep training while yet to be tested by me. I’m hesitant to put it into practice as their advice contradicts what I learned in hospital and insurance-led classes but there are some good principles they shared that I plan to use with our child.

[Ashley (BooksViaAshley) · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short and sweet audiobook. We started implanting the ideas and methods just a few days ago and our 11 week old is already sleeping more at night and the future looks promising (and more well rested 😵‍💫)

[Julia Hunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can report back after I finally get my son sleeping through the night how it works for me. Where I struggle is logistically and don’t have the ability to have him sleep 12 hours due to work schedules so it discourages me

[Hyangshim Moik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and to the point, intentionally borderline manual while still maintaining a voice. Provided a good road map, but the reality of implementing is very difficult.

[Gina Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some useful information. Somewhat repetitive and a bit unrealistic at times.

[Elena Salazar]

I’ll rate this once I try out the methods for myself with my baby! ;)

[Kailee Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Terra needs to sleep in her bassinet first, but hopefully we can get to the tools in this book too

(Can you tell what my reading consists of these days?😂)

[Morgan Jester]

DNF. Stopped at 47%, in the middle of chapter 4. Was tired of how all of these books contradict each other.

[Lorena · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’ve had more time to digest and process the concepts in this book now that my child is coming up on 8 weeks old. The concepts are good in theory but there is no way they work for every baby starting at 8 weeks. Breastfed babies digest milk faster than formula fed babies, so they are going to wake at night for feedings for a while longer. Maybe this works for formula fed babies since formula takes longer to digest, so I’m not convinced this is a must do for every baby because it likely doesn’t work for each baby. I probably will not be sleep/feed trainjng my baby this way. I’m too concerned about weight gain issues and loss of a secure attachment by my child. Every baby will drop off from their night feedings when their bodies adjust and are ready to do so in their own timing.

[Ryan Preddy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll give it four. It's concise and easy to understand. TBD on the quality of technique