The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5--Revised Edition

Sleep-deprived moms and dads take note: The two women who help Hollywood’s A-listers get their ZZZs share their no-fail, family-friendly solution to get any baby, toddler, or preschooler to sleep—usually within less than five nights.

Pioneers in children’s behavioral sleep, Jen and Jill give parents the key ingredients for success: a customized sleep plan, step-by-step instructions, and plenty of emotional support as your child learns. In this fully revised edition, they share updated methods for their “least-cry” approach—refined over nearly three decades—to ensure that children learn good sleep skills quickly, with a minimum of tears. You’ll learn to:

• Gently shape sleep for newborns birth to 12 weeks old to create a solid foundation
• Teach your baby or child how to sleep through the night and take great naps
• Customize the level of support for your child’s sleep learning that feels best to you
• Say goodbye to early morning wakings
• End bedtime battles with verbal children
• Troubleshoot stumbling blocks like illness, teething, sleep regressions, and travel
• Access updated sleep planners, visual aids, and highly detailed schedules

Jennifer Waldburger, MSW, earned her master's degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also contributed to research with the Mayo Clinic. Her work with parents and children integrates both her background in psychotherapy and her postgraduate training in mindfulness, neuroscience, trauma healing, self-regulation and holistic wellness practices. Jennifer is also coauthor of Calm Mama, Happy Baby and co-creator of mindfulness and wellness programs at several schools. 

Jill Spivack, LCSW, completed her graduate studies at the University of Southern California.  After graduating with her masters in 1993, Jill developed an expertise in parenting while working as a psychotherapist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Early Childhood Department. Jill, a mother of two children, went on to develop a sub-specialty in pediatric sleep disorders while working in New York City at a parenting center after experiencing sleep problems with her first child.