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Don't waste your money if your problem is with napping I have read a few sleep books and this one was the least useful. Dr Weissbluth seems to have only one answer to all infants' sleeping problems: put your baby to bed earlier and then ignore him or her for the rest of the night. His early chapters made me feel like a failure as a parent because my child has difficulty napping. On top of that, he has nothing to offer parents whose children (like my daughter) sleep well at night but not during the daytime. His cookie cutter approach to infant napping fails to take into account that babies are individuals and they do wake up from hunger sometimes even beyond 4 months. There is no way that my breast-fed daughter's eating schedule could ever fit into his napping schedule. He also fails to address the needs of short nappers. While he points out that some babies are short nappers and some babies are long nappers, and you can't turn a short napper into a long napper, he doesn't seem to notice that his recommendations do not work for the short nappers. Dr W, if naps are supposed to be at 9am and 1pm and my baby can't stay awake for more than two hours but she won't nap longer than 1 hour, what do I do at 12pm? A four hour sleep plan does not work for a baby that only naps a maximum of 1 hour. And he ignores this issue entirely. Overall, I found Ferber's book much more useful. Ferber uses many examples to illustrate different solutions to different sleep problems rather than a one-size-fits-all approach and he doesn't have the if-your-child-doesn't-sleep-well-you've-screwed-him-up-for-life attitude.