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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Thank you, Dr. Ferber! Dr. Ferber, you have made a believer out of me! When I had initially heard about the Ferber method, I was skeptical. Maybe it would work for other babies, but not ours, a spirited baby boy who could scream at the top of his lungs for over an hour. We had tried to "cry him out", a battle of the wills, and he won. Our pride and joy, who had started sleeping through the night at four months started regressing after he started teething at five months. We gave in to the little guy because, after all, he was... more info
Very effective I got this book to solve my 18-month-old's sleep problems. It took only 4 nights of crying and they were not unbearable either. The best part is that his quality of sleep has improved: before, he would wake up several times a night crying and now he does not wake up at all, and he is more fresh in the morning and not tired during the day.
informative book helpful and insightful book based on years of scientific study. Kelly Shedd, MD
Night #3 - HE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!! I was skeptical but desperate. After 5 months of getting up 4-7 times a night to feed or rock my baby back to sleep I finally had to get some help to save my sanity. I was sure that I had the worse sleeper who since birth had slept no longer than 4 hours at a stretch and at that only a handful of times, who at times would take up to 2 hours to put back down at night even after a feeding. During the day I was so desperate for him to sleep that I would allow him to sleep on my nursing pillow. We went to a... more info
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