Precious Little Sleep: The Complete Baby Sleep Guide for Modern Parents

Alexis Dubief

Jul 2017 · Lomhara Press

About this ebook

The Expert, Hilarious, and Tactically Comprehensive Baby Sleep Book

Parenting a baby or toddler is the grandest adventure of all when you’re not miserably exhausted. Sleep expert Alexis Dubief, of the wildly popular website Precious Little Sleep, imparts effective, accessible, and flexible strategies based on years of research that will dramatically improve your child’s sleep.

This book will help you tackle the thorniest sleep snags, including:

·      Navigating the tricky newborn phase like a pro

·      Achieving the dream of helping your child sleep through the night

·      Weaning off the all night buffet

·      Mastering the precarious tango that is healthy napping

·      Solving toddler and preschooler sleep struggles 

If you’re looking for practial solutions to improve your child’s sleep in a book that won’t put you to sleep, this is for you.

In the pages of this book, Alexis Dubief becomes the friend that we all wish we had to guide us through the mysterious world of infant sleep. Her advice is grounded in science and bolstered by her experience working with many families, but it’s also practical and empathetic, and best of all, FUNNY. She’s created an indispensable guide that is a pleasure to read, even – or especially – for sleep-deprived parents.

-       Alice Callahan, PhD, The Science of Mom

Ratings and reviews

This is by far the best baby sleep book I've read! It is funny, honest, and backed by true research. It has tons of information on how baby sleep works, how it changes as they get older, and how to get your baby (and everyone) sleeping better. The book offers several sleep training methods, organized by age, current sleep prop, and gradual vs direct. It even talks about setbacks that happen as your baby gets older and how to handle them. Honestly, this book has become my baby sleep bible, which I STILL refer to and my kid is almost 2. I have the physical book AND decided to get the ebook for simplicity sake, so that says a lot about how fantastic this book is!

I am so grateful for this book. After 4 months of NO sleep with our sweet baby boy, we finally found a resource that was compassionate, practical, and very real about how hard it is to thrive when your baby isn't sleeping. Not being over-dramatic when I say this book gave me the courage to sleep-train our baby, a decision which has been literally life-changing!

This is THE ONLY SLEEP BOOK YOU NEED. I repeat - this is the only sleep book you need. This book is a quick read, well written, and hits all the major points with the perfect tone (that relates well to sleep deprived parents). In short, this book tells you what to do, how to do it, and even has additional resources like a website with articles, Podcasts, and a Facebook group. The Facebook group is key because there are administrators, and helpful members who can assist you with troubleshooting (routine, schedule tweaks, etc...), including Alexis herself who chimes in on posts. Alexis has managed to cultivate a community of parents who help and support one another - there is no parent shaming, ridiculing, or judgment. We followed SLIP in this book and our 4 month old twins learned independent sleep within 3 nights. They are now just over one, and we have had 8+ months of consistent sleep with both naps and nights. I would give more stars for this book if it were possible - 5 stars does not seem to suffice in my opinion. THANK YOU, ALEXIS! Amazing, highly recommend to any parent who is interested in learning more about how baby sleep works, and how to navigate the different phases.

About the author

Alexis Dubief has a Masters of Finance and an MBA from the University of Colorado and thus has no business writing a baby sleep book. After giving birth to her first child in 2006 she realized that sleep was suddenly the bane of her existence and none of the books/websites/communities seem to have ready answers. Coming from the perspective of, “This shouldn’t be so hard!” she used her professional skills in research and analysis to spend the next 5 years researching infant and child sleep, combining scientific evidence with insights gleaned from working with thousands of families to write the Precious Little Sleep book/blog/podcast. She writes and rabble rouses near Burlington, VT.