The Baby Sleep Book: How to help your baby to sleep and have a restful night
Drawing on considerable experience as both parents and professionals in the paediatric profession, the best-selling parenting experts Dr. William and Martha Sears have produced the definitive guide to the frequently fraught and troublesome topic of sleep.The Sleep Book is designed as a practical and contemporary guide to parenting, ensuring you can get your child to sleep and making sure night time isn’t dreaded. Containing the latest medical research, and providing informed and considered advice on all the issues, this book offers guidance and support to keep you and your child rested and refreshed.Includes advice on all aspects of sleep such as:• 8 infant sleep facts every parent should know• 31 ways to get your baby to sleep and stay asleep• Bedwetting• Hidden medical causes of night waking• Sleep trainers• Night weaning – 12 alternatives for the all-night nurser• Night terrors• 5 reasons why high need infants sleep differently• Sleep safety• SIDS: the latest research on how sleeping with your baby is safe• Co-sleeping: Yes, No, SometimesAn invaluable resource for parents of young children, The Baby Sleep Book provides guidance on how to get your baby to sleep, what to do if he wakes up to often, what to do if he sleeps to much. It also helps with moving the place of sleep, sleepwear, managing the sleep time of more than one child, and night time feeding.
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contents
chapter 1: five steps to get your baby to sleep better
Step 1: Find Out Where You and Your Baby Sleep Best
Step 2: Learn Baby’s Tired Times
Step 3: Create a Safe and Comfortable Environment Conducive to Sleep
Step 4: Create a Variety of Bedtime Rituals
Step 5: Help Baby Stay Asleep Longer
chapter 2: fifteen tips to help toddlers sleep
What Toddlers Learn at Bedtime
Easing Your Toddler Off to Dreamland – Fifteen Tips
Teaching Your Young Child to Fall Asleep Alone and Happy
Why Nighttime Parenting Matters
chapter 3: the facts about infant sleep and what they mean for parents
Learn the Facts of Infant Sleep
How Babies Sleep at Various Ages
Normal Night Noises Sleeping Babies Make
Adopt a Nighttime Parenting Attitude
Unclutter the Daytime Life of a Nighttime Parent
Get to Know Your Baby’s Sleep Personality
Matching You, Your Baby, and Your Sleep Plan
chapter 4: meet different families with different sleep plans
Doing it Differently with the Next Baby!
Family Burned Out from Frequent Night Feeding
chapter 5: the joys of sleeping with your baby
Science Says: Co-sleeping is Healthy
Nine Ways to Make Co-Sleeping Easier
chapter 6: night feedings and nightweaning – when and how?
Ages and Stages of Feeding at Night
Fifteen Ways to Make Night Feeding Easier
Thinking About Cutting Back on Night Feeding?
Twelve Tips for Getting Baby to Feed Less at Night
chapter 7: moving out! tips for transitioning to a big kid’s bed
Five Steps to Easing Your Kids Out of Your Bed, Out of Your Room, and into their Own Room
Getting Your Child to Sleep Independently: A Case Study
chapter 8: twenty-three nighttime fathering tips
chapter 9: naptime strategies that work
Getting Baby to Nap at Predictable Times
Winding Down the Reluctant Napper
chapter 10: should baby cry it out?
What Crying It Out Really Means
How Crying It Out Sabotages the Parent-Child Relationship
Sensitive Sleep-Training That Does Work
chapter 11: hidden medical and physical causes of night waking
When to Suspect a Medical Cause for Night Waking
chapter 12: nighttime parenting in special situations
Night Waking after Mother Returns to Work
Night Waking in a Premature Baby
“Feeding” Baby to Sleep during Childcare
Single Parents – Two Different Beds
chapter 13: eleven tips to help parents sleep better
11. Make Nighttime Mothering More Restful
appendix b: bedtime books to sleep by – for toddlers and pre-schoolers
Each day in our pediatric practice we hear tired parents sigh, “If only our baby would sleep more.” In all our years of writing books and of practising pediatrics, our goal has been to do good things for babies and make life easier for parents. We believe that helping babies sleep better is not only good for them, but good for parents. Parents who get enough sleep at night will be happier during the day.
Over the years, we have devoted a lot of time and energy to the sleep problems parents in our practice share with us. We have offered these tired parents many suggestions for helping their baby sleep longer, and we have asked them to report back to us about which worked and what didn’t. We have also asked parents who have visited our website (www.askdrsears.com) to share their sleep problems and solutions with us. As a result, much of the advice in this book comes from parents like yourselves who have struggled to help their babies sleep, found solutions, and willingly shared them with us. You will find quotes (the ones in italics) from these parents sprinkled throughout the book. We’ve also taken the advice of these parents on how to write a book about sleep. They told us, “Cut right to the plan.” This is why the first two chapters of this book contain our step-by-step approach to help your infant and toddler sleep healthier and happier.
