{ "item_title" : "Nine Hours of Sleep by Week Nine", "item_author" : [" Marie O'Shea "], "item_description" : "Longer newborn sleep doesn't start with training. It starts with understanding what your baby actually needs.9 Hours by 9 Weeks is a gentle, practical guide for parents who want longer stretches without ignoring hunger, forcing a schedule, or leaving a distressed baby to cry alone. Marie O'Shea is a mother of three, including twins, and a postpartum doula who has spent fifteen years working overnight in families' homes. This book is what she learned there: the patterns that turn up again and again at two in the morning, when you are standing over a bassinet trying to work out whether she is hungry, overtired, uncomfortable, genuinely awake, or just noisy in her sleep. The method aims at a nine-hour stretch by around nine weeks, for a healthy baby whose feeding and growth are on track. It gets there by working with her biology rather than against it: protecting what she eats, strengthening the daytime, heading off overtiredness, and letting sleep become more independent as she becomes ready. Inside, you'll learn how to: Protect feeding and growth before you change anything about sleepGet more milk into the daytime, without forcing itTell hunger from a comfort wakingRecognise active sleep, so you stop waking a sleeping babyCatch tired cues before overtiredness arrivesBuild a calm bedtime you can actually repeatSeparate feeding from falling asleep, when the time is rightHandle reflux, trapped air, false starts and bassinet transfersGive the least help she needs, rather than the mostLet her practise falling asleep awake once she's readyAnswer night waking without turning every sound into a full wakingAdapt all of it for breastfeeding, bottles, premature babies and twinsAt the heart of it is one order of priorities: First protect intake. Then protect daytime intake. Then work on how sleep begins. You'll meet real households too. The reflux baby who could not settle flat. The parents who were waking their daughter without realising. The mother told formula would fix bedtime. The father who thought his baby would never settle for him. This is not cry-it-out. It is a steady framework for helping a healthy baby gradually do more of the settling herself, while hunger, growth and medical needs stay first. You'll also find help with: Feeding and sleep patternsTired cues and overtirednessNight-waking troubleshootingSafe sleepBassinet transfersReflux and difficult eveningsTravelTwinsWhen to call your pediatricianFor first-time parents, breastfeeding and bottle-feeding families, parents of twins, grandparents, doulas and newborn-care specialists. A thoughtful gift for a baby shower, a pregnancy, or a family in the thick of it. If you want a calmer approach that protects feeding and respects how your baby is actually developing, start here. You are not teaching your baby not to be hungry. You are learning when she isn't. Order your copy today.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/657/9798166573193_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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