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Dealing with late-night visits from your child by Dawn Margolis Reviewed by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board Why kids wake up during the night Why won’t my child sleep through the night? It’s a question many bleary-eyed parents have pondered. You may be surprised to learn, however, that no child — or adult for that [...]

One of the biggest milestones a child will reach is when he or she finally sleeps through the night. While some children naturally fall asleep and stay asleep easily with little resistance, others do not go gently and fight kicking and screaming the whole way. There is no single right way to get a child [...]

Most new parents, often wonder what it is that they are doing wrong when their new baby will not sleep through the night but Mrs. Jones child has been doing it sense birth, according to her. Most children will not sleep through the night until they are around a year of age and some will [...]

* Make your child’s room inviting, decorated to his/her taste, and age-appropriate. Consider allowing your child to help decorate by at the very least picking out the bedding. For the more ambitious adventurers, give your child choices of a bedroom theme, positioning of bed and furniture (with your help, of course), and overall look and [...]

One of the things that can be expected with the arrival of a new baby is a month or so of very little sleep. When a child is about five or six months old, however, it is reasonable to expect five hours or more of uninterrupted sleep each night. It can be quite frustrating to [...]

Helping Your Child to Sleep Through the Night An interview with Dr. Jodi A. Mindell, the author of Sleeping Through the Night Interview By Allison Martin Jodi A. Mindell is Pediatric Clinical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Allegheny University of hte Health Sciences in Philadelphia. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degress in clinical [...]

I had trouble figuring out what I wanted to “be” when I grew up. It was easier to know what I didn’t want to be. I didn’t want to be a doctor because I knew I couldn’t handle the job emotionally. A sensitive girl whose eyes well up at the mere sound of an ambulance [...]

Helping Your Child to Sleep Through the Night by Warren P. Silberstein, M.D. 05/05/97 In the past 2 months I’ve received 5 separate e-mail requests for advice about children who won’t sleep at night. The children ranged in age from 3 months to 4 years, but most were between 12 and 21 months old. All [...]

Helping Your Child With Autism Get a Good Night’s Sleep During the first few months of life, babies ease into a normal cycle of sleep and wakefulness. They gradually reduce the number of daytime naps and start sleeping for longer periods of time at night. But some children continue to have difficulty falling asleep or [...]

Private Child Sleep Consultations Although you may have heard of me as the author of the Internet’s best-selling infant and toddler sleep program, I’ve been meeting with parents in one-on-one situations for almost 5 years in my Vancouver, Canada, office. If you’re live in the Vancouver area (or will be traveling here), I’d be happy [...]