Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: New, Revised, and Expanded EditionThe completely revised and updated edition of the all-time bestselling book on children’s sleep problems, with important new insights and solutions from Dr. Richard Ferber, the nation’s leading authority on children’s sleep problems. Does your child have difficulty falling asleep? Wake in the middle of the night? Suffer sleep terrors, sleepwalking, or nighttime fears? Have difficulty waking for school or staying awake in class? Snore, wet the bed, or head bang? In the first major revision of his bestselling, groundbreaking classic since it was published, Dr. Richard Ferber, the nation’s foremost authority on children’s sleep problems, delivers safe, sound ideas for helping your child fall and stay asleep at night and perform well during the day. Incorporating new research, Dr. Ferber provides important basic information that all parents should know regarding the nature of sleep and the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood. He discusses the causes of most sleep problems from birth to adolescence and recommends an array of proven solutions for each so that parents can choose the strategy that works best for them. Topics covered in detail include: Bedtime difficulties and nighttime wakings, effective strategies for naps, sleep schedule abnormalities, a balanced look at co-sleeping, new insights into the nature of sleep terrors and sleepwalking, problems in setting limits, and sleep apnea, narcolepsy, bed-wetting, and head banging. Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems offers priceless advice and concrete help for a whole new generation of anxious, frustrated, and overtired parents. |
Contents
At the End of Your Rope | 3 |
Typical Sleep Requirements in Childhood | 10 |
What We Know About Sleep | 14 |
Brain Wave Patterns in Waking and in Sleep | 17 |
Typical Sleep Stage Progression in the Young Child | 25 |
CHAPTER3 Helping Your Child Develop Good | 33 |
A Key Problem | 61 |
The Progressive Waiting Approach | 74 |
Common Causes of Sleep Problems at Different Times of the Day and Night | 211 |
Sleep Phase Problems | 214 |
Sleep Phase Shifts | 223 |
Other Common | 241 |
Potential Sleep Problems | 244 |
Naps | 264 |
Drifting Nap Patterns | 279 |
INTERRUPTIONS DURING SLEEP | 285 |
Sleep Chart for Parents to Use | 77 |
Betsys Sleep Chart | 81 |
CHAPTER5 The Problem of Limit Setting | 105 |
Helping Your Child Learn to Stay in His Room | 121 |
Another Major | 136 |
Eliminating Extra Feedings at Sleep Times | 143 |
Nighttime Fears | 151 |
Colic and Other Medical Causes of Poor Sleep | 178 |
SCHEDULES AND SLEEP RHYTHM | 193 |
Sleepiness and Alertness Across the Day and NightHomeostatic and Circadian Drives | 203 |
Spectrum of Behavior in Children at the End of a Period of Stage IV Sleep | 295 |
A Summary of the Major Patterns Across Childhood and General Recommendations for Management | 330 |
Nightmares | 333 |
Bedwetting | 347 |
Head Banging Body Rocking | 368 |
Noisy Breathing Snoring and Obstructive | 387 |
Narcolepsy and Other Causes of Sleepiness | 406 |
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