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    7:30 A.M. Up for the day
    Number of night wakings: 1 (improved from 10)
    Longest sleep stretch: 101⁄2 blissful, wonderful hours (improved from 3) Total hours of nighttime sleep: 101⁄2
    Emily, mother of twelve-month-old Alex, included this information in her first message to me:
    Alex sleeps with his mouth on my breast and his body horizontally across mine. He sometimes will sleep next to me, but only until he wakes up again, which is sometimes only five minutes later, and then it is back on top of me.
    Alex’s triumphant mother sent me this message after thirty days following the No-Cry Sleep Solution:

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    This will be my final log now that my little Alex is sleeping wonderfully. He is asleep by 8:00 p.m., and then I set him in our bed while I usually get up and shower or clean up. (Of course, we have mesh guardrails and we watch him carefully.) Alex may wake up once during the night to nurse, but it only takes him seconds to fall back asleep.
    I think he may wake up several other times during the night, but he doesn’t need my assistance to go back to sleep. He wakes around 7:30
    a.m. feeling happy and refreshed.
    I can’t believe this is the same baby as before. The difference in his sleep habits is truly amazing.
    And this from Marsha, another mother of a chest-sleeping baby:
    Last night Kailee went to bed at 8:30. She woke up a few times between 8 and 10 but quickly settled herself. I didn’t hear from her again until 8:00 a.m.! I am sure you understand that this is complete and total heaven. Kailee has gone from needing to sleep on my chest all night and waking up to nurse eight to ten times a night to sleeping 11–121⁄2 hours straight through. I never thought I would see the day when a baby of mine would sleep through the night. You are a hero in our house. I definitely wish you had been doing this study when my first daughter was a baby.
    And remember the mother I quoted earlier who said, “I am truly distressed, as the lack of sleep is starting to affect all aspects of my life”? Two months after Leesa started following my plan, she wrote, “For the last week Kyra has been waking only ONCE, at 3:30 a.m., to nurse! Heeeheeeheeee! I’m darn near giddy on sleep!”
    More quotes from the test mommies appear throughout this book in sections called Mother-Speak. Pictures of their sweet, sleeping babies are also sprinkled throughout this book.

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    The No-Cry Sleep Solution
    You Can Sleep, Too
    There are no good reasons for you to live as a sleep-deprived martyr. There are ways to get your baby to sleep without resorting to all-night cryathons. Action is key—action that will strengthen you and motivate you as you move through these next few weeks.
    So give the No-Cry Sleep Solution a try and plan on seeing results.
    You may not go straight from waking up every hour to sleeping ten consecutive hours, but you will go from waking every hour to every three . . . to every four hours . . . to, eventually, that all-night milestone, and more.
    Shortly after which you will resume waking every hour, waiting for the car to pull into the driveway, keys to plop on the kitchen table, and footsteps to resound on the stairs up to your teenager’s room. It really does go so fast.
    Please be patient as you move through the steps. This is so very important. When your baby is unhappy or starts to cry (I said
    “starts” to cry, not wails for ten minutes!), go ahead and pick him up, rock him, nurse him, or whatever your heart tells you to do to soothe your sweet baby. Every day will move you one step closer to your goal, and knowing that, you can be more loving and patient.
    Remember, too, that your baby’s apparent inability to fall asleep on her own is not her fault. She’s done things this way since the Mother-Speak
    “I understand that it will take a while to see positive results.
    But after seven months of total sleep deprivation and exhaustion, just knowing that I’ll be sleeping in another