You've tried everything. Warm milk. Bedtime stories. Sharing your bed. But your child still has problems falling asleep. Dr. Richard Ferber can help. Director of the Sleep Laboratory and Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Ferber is widely recognized as the nation's leading authority on children's sleep problems.
Practical and easy to understand, Solve Your Childs' Sleep Problems tells you how to handle these situations in children aged one to six:
* Refusing to go to bed * Colic and other medical problems * Restlessness and insomnia * Night terrors * Bedwetting * Headbanging and body rocking
And other problems that keep you and your child awake in the night.
Based on six years of intensive research in a top medical facility, Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems is packed with tips, suggestions, sample problems and solutions, and a bibliography of children's "go-to-sleep" books.
When your child isn't sleeping, chances are that you aren't either. Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems--a tired parent's essential for more than 10 years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on Ferber's research as the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. Detailed case histories on night waking, difficulty sleeping, and more serious disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking help illustrate a wide variety of problems and their solutions. New parents will benefit from Ferber's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first place. You'll also find a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming, as well as a list of helpful organizations. Here's a book that is sure to put you and your whole family to sleep--in this case, that's a good thing.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
I am a believer now! My son just turned 6 months and had not slept more than 3 hours straight in his entire life. It would take me sometimes over an hour of rocking, breastfeeding, walking, breastfeeding, etc to get him to fall asleep. We would have to put him first in his bouncer and later move him into his crib when he was in a deeper sleep. Half the time he would wake and I would have to breastfeed him back to sleep. Naps were just as bad, if not worse. I was frustrated and hating the night time. I decided to commit to... more info
I am amazed. Never thought this would work, but it did. I felt pretty desperate as my five month old son was only sleeping for at most an hour at a time and as little as 10 minutes. We had tried everything and nothing worked. I felt that this was my last resort. We had two nights of crying for about half an hour. I would go and check on him during the designated times. This was definitely hard, but I knew that we had no other choice. The crying quickly shortened. By the third night, he felt asleep on his own with no crying and slept for 7 hours. He awoke, was... more info
Maybe I'll Try Again Later We tried this method for a few nights and a few naps when our daughter turned three months old, but it just didn't work for us. Perhaps we didn't give it enough time, but we just couldn't take it. The first night we started at 8:45, and she cried until 3:30 in the morning--she threw up twice during the process and snubbed for hours after we gave up. The next night after four hours, I gave up again, knowing that she was stubborn and would go until 3:30 again if we'd allow it. At four months old we started... more info
I don't know if its just me and my baby, or if this method doesn't work It is difficult to implement this. And, when babies teethe or are sick (which, unfortunately happens a lot between 6-12 months), it is challenging to implement. I'm breastfeeding and husband and I are both working outside of the home, so I read the book, tried implementation, and I'm getting more sleep, but baby is far from sleeping through...maybe it's just us...
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