Precious Little Sleep

The Complete Baby Sleep Guide for Modern Parents

By: Alexis Dubief

Narrated by: Alexis Dubief

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's Summary

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, detailing seven methods to teach your baby to sleep so that you can find what works best for your family. 

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

• Navigating the tricky newborn phase like a pro
• Getting your child to truly 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 practical solutions to improve your child’s sleep in a book that won’t put you to sleep, this is for you!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Alexis Dubief (P)2018 Alexis Dubief

Very funny and informative, gives parents lots of options

I chose this as my free trial audible book and I am so pleased with my choice! I have listened to a lot of sleep-related audiobooks and some of them are so drab and boring, mostly because they are not narrated by the author themselves. This author actually took the time to narrate a 8 hour long book and it makes such a difference! The tone and the humor makes those 8 hours go by fast instead of dragging on and on. And I definitely skipped some chapters that did not apply to my situation, something you can’t always do with other audiobooks so thanks Audible! There is so much good information in this book, that I think the hardest part is knowing what to apply to your specific situation. I have listened to several chapters but I am just now applying some of the strategies. Hopefully it helps!

Life changing

Baby went from having to be rocked and fed 7-9 times a night and fighting sleep to sleeping on her own with no tears and 1-2 wake ups in just 5 days! Amazing!

Helpful and to the point.

Alexis Dubief has been helping families sleep better for years. Finally her advice is coming straight from her lips to your ears. With humor and intelligence she will guide you in your quest to help your baby sleep. She has evidence based yet realistic advice and multiple strategies for different family situations.

Sleep bible for babies

You don’t have to go through the whole book. But the advice here are gems for the sleep deprived baby and mom. I played chapter 5-6 over and over again

Waaaaaay too much filler

There is A LOT of repetition and filler information/jokes/stories that waste time when you’re trying to learn how to teach your baby to sleep. Time is already tight, listening to hours of nonsense to find the 1-2hrs of useful content is extremely infuriating.

very useful and funny :)

recommend to listen. advice makes sense and is entertaining to listen as well. will try to implement immediately. wish me luck!

Less jokes, more information

The book has good, useful content but I can’t get past how annoying the author/narrator is. Constantly making bad jokes and using cutesy language. I guess they needed to fill up a whole book. Had to stop listening because it was just so cringey. Like all parenting books, assumes a female audience with a wink and a nod that is just insufferable.

Abuse

Should have read more reviews. This is cry it out they say it’s not but they call it something else “fuss it out” then a chapter later flat out admit it’s cry it out and if you aren’t ready to not even try. They also say leaving the house while your baby is crying is a good way to not cave in and smooth your baby. Wtf is wrong with people, just pick up and love your innocent baby.

a sleep deprived baby is better than...

I could not finish this book after she said not to let your babies sleep on you.

PLS

very helpful. really love the book and how it's done. worked wonders for my baby.

Not for me.

This book offers some useful techniques but ultimately encourages CIO. It doesn't consider the emotional maturity of the baby. Fuss it out at 2 months is not the same as your child crying aged 2 because you tell them they have to leave the sandpit. Babies are not born rational and with an innate ability to self soothe, they learn it over time. Some statements are contradictory, very anti co sleeping due to SIDS but encourages swaddling post 2 months.

Funny and well written/read, it offers one woman's opinions on sleep. Some of which are helpful but some of which go against nhs recommendations for sleep training. Not for me.

Very wordy

As a new sleep deprived mum I don’t think such a wordy book is helpful. The author could have put points across much more succinctly.

Lifesaver

Highly recommend this book to every expecting parent, yes, expecting. Do not wait until baby is born, read it beforehand so you can save precious time later.

Love the way this book is written, it funny and very insightful in the same time. It gives a lot of brilliant tips and explanation of common issues/situations. It helped our family a lot. Read it a few times, each time found something new and useful.

Amazing

I am only about half way through this book but I have to say so far it is simply amazing.
I swear Alexis Dubief has looked into my life at the moment and written a book about it to help me! She has made me beleive that I can take these steps to help baby and me sleep a lot better and that it is ok for baby to have a dummy and for me to lose my marbles from time to time.
Definatly a must read!!