Table Of Content
Contents AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresPreface to the Second Edition Part IYour Child's Sleep Chapter 1 At the End of Your RopeCan a Child Just Be a "Poor Sleeper"?How to Tell Whether Your Child Has a Sleep ProblemStarting with a Basic Understanding of Sleep Chapter 2 What We Know About SleepNon-REM SleepREM SleepHow Sleep Stages Develop in ChildrenChildren's Sleep CyclesSleep and Waking PatternsThe Importance of Biological Rhythms Chapter 3 Helping Your Child Develop Good Sleep PracticesThe Importance of Your Child's Bedtime Routines"Back to Sleep": Reducing the Risk of SIDSShould Your Child Sleep in Your Bed?Specific Issues Related to Co-sleepingThe Sleep Challenges of Multiples: Twins and TripletsThe Special Toy or Favorite BlanketDeveloping Good Schedules Part IIThe Sleepless Child Chapter 4 Sleep Associations: A Key ProblemA Typical Sleep Association ProblemWhy Sleep Associations MatterWrong Sleep AssociationsHow to Solve the Problem: The Progressive-Waiting ApproachMaking the Changes in One Step or SeveralAssociations to the Breast, Bottle, or PacifierCo-sleeping and Related ConsiderationsIf Things Are Not Getting BetterGeneral Observations Chapter 5 The Problem of Limit SettingWho's in Charge?Difficulty Setting LimitsLimits, Associations, Feedings, Schedules, and FearsSetting Limits at NightLimit Setting Problems: Some Examples Chapter 6 Feedings During the Night: Another Major Cause of TroubleIs Your Child's Sleep Problem Caused by Nighttime Feedings?How to Solve the ProblemOther Points to Keep in MindMedical Considerations Chapter 7 Nighttime FearsThe Anxious ChildBedtime FearsEvaluating Your Child's FearsHow to Cope with Nighttime FearsTechniques to Help a Child Feel Less Frightened and Fall Asleep QuicklyFinal Considerations Chapter 8 Colic and Other Medical Causes of Poor SleepColicChronic IllnessNocturnal PainMedicationAbnormal Brain Function and a True Inability to Sleep Well Part IIISchedules and Sleep Rhythm Disturbances Chapter 9 Schedules and RhythmsSleep PhasesThe Circadian System and the Forbidden Zone for Sleep: Why You Can Stay Awake Until Bedtime -- and Sleep Until MorningSetting the Biological Clock: How Do You Know What Time Zone You Are In?Individual Differences: Are You a Lark or an Owl?Society, Sleep Deprivation, and the AdolescentSpecific Sleep Problems Affecting Different Parts of the Sleep Cycle: A Summary Chapter 10 Schedule Disorders I: Sleep Phase ProblemsSleep PhasesSleep Phase ShiftsSleep Phase Shifts in the Adolescent Chapter 11 Schedule Disorders II: Other Common Schedule ProblemsProblems in Regular SchedulesIrregular and Inconsistent Sleep-Wake SchedulesTravel Chapter 12 NapsProblems with the Length and Timing of NapsTrouble Giving Up a Nap: Transition ProblemsNap Time Sleep Association ProblemsNapping (or Not) at Home and at Day CareYou May Have to Accept What Works Part IVInterruptions During Sleep Chapter 13 Partial Wakings: Sleep Talking, Sleepwalking, Confusional Arousals, and Sleep TerrorsI. What They Are and Why They HappenThe Normal Transition from Deep (Stage IV) Sleep Toward WakingMore Intense Transitions: A Spectrum of Confusional EventsWhat a Confusional Event Feels LikeWhy Confusional Events Happen: The Balance Between Sleep and WakingThe Variability of Arousals over TimeEvaluating Confus
Synopsis
The 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., The 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 h, 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., 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 twenty years ago, 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 Sleep apnea, narcolepsy, bed-wetting, and head banging Solve Your Child's Sleep Problemsoffers priceless advice and concrete help for a whole new generation of anxious, frustrated, and overtired parents., 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 twenty years ago, 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 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.
