Tizzie Hall has gained an international reputation as a baby whisperer and miracle worker. Even from an early age, Tizzie knew how to read babies body language and cries, and from that auspicious beginning she has developed a series of sleep routines that have provided parents and babies with a good night's sleep the world over. Save Our Sleep is the book that parents asked Tizzie to write, and with over 40,000 copies sold in the past three years it has rapidly become the only book parents need to cure their own sleep deprivation!
It provides specific routines for sleeping and feeding for all stages from newborns to two years, as well as addressing issues that can affect a baby's sleep pattern such as colic, reflux through to accommodating daylight saving, travelling and moving house.
New material includes new routines, integrated feedback on routines, dummy use, express feeding, dealing with premature babies and twins, more information on teaching your baby to self-settle and brand new case studies and tips. Save Our Sleep is a must-have for all new parents. Practising Tizzie's routines is the solution to having a baby who will sleep through the night!
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If you are looking for a book on baby sleep, there are plenty of more reassuring, more educational, better-resourced books out there. The entire book is basically the authors' own opinion, rather than based on any neuroscience or basic human biology. I found the book full of constant, sweeping generalisations, and unreferenced claims. There seems to be no regard for the fact that human infants are all biologically and emotionally unique, with their own very real needs.
In terms of breastfeeding advice, the majority of the authors' comments are either inaccurate or biologically incorrect, and for a lot of parents to follow would almost certainly lead to a low supply and early weaning from the breast, due to insufficient breast stimulation. At one point the author makes comparisons between human infant feeding and dairy cows - ignoring the fact that the two are entirely different species, amongst other things!
Although the author talks against 'controlled crying', her sleep-training methods are just another version of ignoring your baby's cries at sleep time - in fact at one point in the book, the author warrants (I am paraphrasing here) leaving a baby to cry for 6 hours if necessary.
While sleep deprivation is a very real issue for some parents, I have found there are plenty of much better books out there to help with this.
As a mum of a 17 week old baby who has been using the Tizzie Hall routines since 2.5 weeks, i feel some of the above reviews are biased. We started following Tizzie routines because I am a very routine orientated person (especially so with eating and peeing during pregnancy), was planning to go back to work when my bub was 16 weeks (her dad cares for her) and struggled with demand feeding. Tizzie is fairly honest about when and how her routines work and that there may be tears from both parents and bubs along the way. Whilst they are open to being modified, you need to still apply the basics for them to work. If you do not like routines, do not use this book as you are already in the wrong mindset before you start. Every baby is on a routine, it just happens to be their own and this book will work for many and alienate others. Many midwives caution against this book but I feel that is because there is so much pressure on new parents that if this does not work, they become so dressed that it upsets the baby. I highy recommend this book to those who have an open mind and realise that parenting is about putting your baby first.
I bought this book for my daughter who had 2 small boys under 2 and one on the way. She was struggling with getting them to stay asleep and they were going to bed at all sorts of hours. Being pregnant, she found it was all getting the better of her. Within 2 days, everything changed after reading this book and implementing some of the strategies. I definitely recommend this book!
Babies don't read books. They are not all made the same !! Listen to your child you had them so you have listen to what they are telling you ! Not what some book says. ! I can't belive people by this. Yes I have read it !
This book is absolutely fantastic and every new Mum should read it. Everyone I have told about it has had enormous success, be it training a bad sleeper to sleep through the night or just having your baby in a routine so you have the confidence to know why they are crying when they do cry. Using this book my little girl slept through the night (7pm until 7am) when she was just 5 weeks old and has been a great sleeper ever since. You MUST buy this book if you are the kind of person who likes structure to their day and likes a full nights sleep!
I used this book starting when my son was 12 months old. He was still waking every three hours for a feed and was cranky during the day. I had read many books and their techniques either a)didn't work or b)used controlled control which I am 100% not comfortable inflicting on my baby.
This book was a wonderful "middle ground" for me. It is an easy read, it wasn't too traumatic and best of all it works!!!!! It has actually only been one week since I started the techniques and my boy goes to sleep on his own already with only about 10 minutes of grumbling and fussing (definitely not traumatised crying!). He is still waking once a night at this stage because I still like to feed him and this is a level I am comfortable with and have chosen for us.
I did not use the book when he was younger - it may not have suited me when he was a newborn as I am a breastfeeding mumma who is happy with demand feeding and the book recommends a more scheduled approach than I probably would have followed. However all I can say is that if you want to follow her advice it really does work and is not too harsh an approach. I read this book on the recommendation of my sister in law who followed it strictly with her boy from four months and his is now the best sleeper I have ever seen. My husband's work colleague also recommended this book with excellent results.
I read this book when my daughter was 12mths old and had suddenly decided her previous sleeping routines didn't work. I found it really helpful in eliminating the night-time feed and learning to settle herself to sleep better, but because my social life isn't run to set times, I found it very difficult to follow the routines strictly (I'm not a 'routines person'). I did try the routines for a few days but my daughter responded badly and barely slept at all during the day (at 18mths she is still needing 2 sleeps a day). I tried several of Tizzie's other ideas & suggestions - some worked and some didn't. I didn't stress about what didn't but moved onto trying something else. Now with another child on the way, I considered trying to follow the routines from the start, but I think it would only stress me out more. I don't think it's a book I'd live my life by, but a helpful resource for ideas when other things aren't working.
Poor old fashioned advice. Goes against modern SIDS advice. The newborn advise is quite dangerous - four hourly feedings are linked to failure to thrive and can have severe consequences in newborns. In addition, this book is likely to sabotage your breast feeding relationship as much of the advice about feeding is completely biologically inaccurate and will lead to early/involuntary weaning. Avoid at all costs!!
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