I am a HUGE fan of SOS being a first mother, it was extremely helpful. I found my son naturally fell into her sleeping patterns/ routines and slept through the night (12 hours) at 12 weeks old. My beautiful son LOVES his bed and we have no sleep issues at all. I highly recommend this book to anyone. At 16 months he still follows it perfectly. He still sleeps 12/13 hours a night and sleeps between 2 and 3 hours during the day and its all because of S.O.S.
So please don't be so hard on the book, it saved me from being sleep deprived.