Healthy sleep habits, happy child

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We had our twins sleeping through the night 7pm-7am at 3 months. We followed the techniques in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/03... It was a fantastic book and written by a doctor who specializes in sleep habits. It's the gift I give to all my friends who are expecting.

+1 for healthy sleep habits, happy child. Also recommend Happiest Baby on the Block ( http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/0553381466/pchristensen-20 )

…lot of "the book says" conversations early on, especially related to getting her to sleep. The thing to realize here is that it is up to you how to do it. There's a book out there that will support your position, and many of the books are contradictory. So, in the end, you'll end up having to decide what you think is right. The book many parents find useful is merely the one that reinforces their opinion, and they will use that book to appeal to authority in the passive-aggressive conversations that all new parents seem wont to have. I had trouble finding what I felt like were unbiased opinions on sleep in particular. This book: http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/03... was helpful, mostly because it more or less laid out three approaches and passed few, if any, value judgements on going to the baby vs. letting her c…