A Woman's Guide to Sleep: Guaranteed Solutions for a Good Night's Rest

Although targeted specifically towards women, the book has much in it for everyone in their quest for a good night's sleep. Written in an accessible style it is based on sound science and (apparently) countless hours of research. The book was a gift for someone who has benefitted greatly from the advice inside. Highly recommended!

I enjoyed this book because the authors spoke frankly and openly about the various aspects of women's sleep. I'm not sure the book lives up to it's title phrase of "guaranteed solutions for a good night's rest" but it is very helpful and does offer some solutions I had never tried. It was also interesting to note how many factors can affect a woman's sleep as opposed to a man's. The authors offer sleep solutions in all categories, including certain foods you can eat to help you sleep, supplements you can take and lifestyle changes that aren't too tough to do. There are helpful little lists along the way, like "The top ten sleep busters" and "Stop the Snoring". The authors delve into the structure of sleep, explaining in layman's terms the various sleep stages and cycles, and how they can be affected by stimuli. One aspect of the book I did not like were the gray boxed areas that interrupted the reading. These areas, sometimes a few pages long, were very good reading, but they interrupted the flow of the book and often got you going on another sleep topic so that when you picked up where you left off, you forgot what you had been reading when you stopped. I also thought there was an awful lot of repetition, as though the authors were attempting to fill pages. At the very end of the book is a comprehensive listing of all sorts of sleep centers, sleep specialists, websites, and books for the sleep impaired. I thought this addition was great. If you are looking for some great suggestions and some new things to try, or just interested in this topic, this is a good book for you.

A good blend between easy conversational writing and a large amount of fairly technical information. There's a lot in this book that could help almost anyone get a better nights sleep. She covers almost everything in here that could disrupt sleep, from hormone fluctuations, to snoring partners, to small children. While I will continue to suffer from periodic sleep deprivation for a while (comes with the job when you're a mother of small kids), with this book, I know I can keep the temporary sleep disruptions from becoming a habit and a way of life. My only gripe at all is that sometimes you have to wade through a lot of information intended for other people to find what's relevant to you, but most of the information is interelated, so that's not too tedious a job. Good job overall.

I found this book to be very helpful. I am a bit of a health nut and buy a lot of health related books. I thought it was one of the better health books that I've read. I liked that it gave both technical and common sense information about sleep. I didn't have a big sleep problem, but I have been trying some of Dr. Walsleben's suggestions and I find I am sleeping better. A lot of the old remedies really do work!