Frustrated because baby doesn't sleep at night? With the help of Dr. Stuart Tomares, a pediatric sleep specialist, you can have your baby sleeping well in about a week. In this 24-minute video, Dr. Tomares outlines three major causes of sleep disturbances in infants: lack of a sleep ritual, poor sleep associations, and inconsistent parental response. After defining each of these three areas, Dr. Tomares offers several examples of good sleep rituals and sleep associations, and defines appropriate parental response. Video clips of parents with their children provide helpful visual examples.

Dr. Tomares outlines five specific stages of achieving good sleep: creating good sleep associations, a bedtime routine, a transition period, crying, and "the plan." Much emphasis is given to these stages being learned processes, to the concept of incremental comforting, and to the distressing yet necessary stage of letting your child cry. Most impressive is Dr. Tomares's suggested day-by-day, minute-by-minute timetables for comforting a baby who cries at bedtime. Especially reassuring is the "sleep talk" segment in which Dr. Tomares hosts a question-and-answer session with concerned parents and answers many frequently asked questions.

This is a wonderfully detailed plan for getting your baby to sleep well. With a 95 percent success rate, this tape is sure to help junior slip into dreamland so you can get some rest, too. --Tami Horiuchi