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Baby Sleep Schedules
Does your child sleep like a baby?
If so, that may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your idea of what a baby’s sleep schedule should be like.
When you think about a sleeping baby, do you picture a baby sleeping through the night, or a baby that sleeps for just four or five hours and is up crying and wanting to eat?
Can’t Sleep at Night? Here’s What to Do
photo by Andy G
It’s 3:28am. You’re wide awake. You toss and turn, but you can’t sleep. You want to sleep, but you’re mind and body are not cooperating. What should you do?
Physical Causes of Sleeplessness
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Baby’s Sleep Problems
Your Baby’s Sleep
At five months, the average baby gets about 11 to 14 hours of sleep a day, including about 8 to 9 hours overnight. She will likely also take two or three naps, totaling another 3 to 4 hours of sleep during the day.
Some babies do begin to sleep through the night by the time they are about three to four months old. By five to six months, most babies are sleeping through the night.
Sleeping Through the Night
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The Baby Sleep Solution
Coping with Infant Sleep Disorders
Unfortunately, sleep disorders can plague infants as well as adults.
There are many types of infant sleep disorders, however a physician is often the only person who can properly diagnose them.
Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler :: the blog: Sleep Book Reviews
This is the first is a series of sleep book mini-reviews that will be posted to this blog. These sleep book mini-reviews are mentioned in Appendix C of my brand new book Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage. The purpose of these reviews is to help parents to zero in on additional sleep books that may be compatible with their child’s temperament, their parenting style, their family’s unique needs and circumstances, given what they have learned from reading my book.
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night’s Sleep
By Marc Weissbluth, MD
3rd Edition
Ballantine Books, 503 pages, $14.95 US/$22.95 Cdn
About the book:
Weissbluth explains the key role that sleep plays in allowing children to be at their best during the day—to achieve Weissbluth calls optimal wakefulness. He points out the link between sleep problems at night and a child’s behavior during the day: “Sleep problems not only disrupt a child’s nights, they disrupt his days, too, by making him less mentally alert, more inattentive, unable to concentrate, and easily distracted. They also make him more physically impulsive, hyperactive, or lazy. But when children sleep well, they are optimally awake and alert, able to learn and grow up with charm and humor.”
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“At long last, I’ve found a book that I can hand to weary parents with the confidence that they can learn to help their baby sleep through the night–without the baby crying it out.” –William Sears, M.D., Author of The Baby Book
“When I followed the steps in this book, it only took a few nights to see a HUGE improvement. Now every night I’m getting more sleep than I’ve gotten in years! The best part is, there has been NO crying!” –Becky, mother of 13-month-old Melissa
Big Story: The best sleep advice you’ve never heard
Big Story: The best sleep advice you’ve never heard by Catherine Guthrie Last updated: September 2005
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” — Leo J. Burke.
Ah, blessed, luxurious sleep … remember what it was like to get eight uninterrupted hours a night? If you have young children, it probably seems like a distant memory. According to a 2004 National Sleep Foundation poll, up to 69 percent of kids age 10 and under have trouble falling asleep and staying there. As for the other 31 percent — what’s their secret? We turned to leading childhood sleep experts to help us uncover some surprising strategies that really work.
Babies: Sleep deprivation 101
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After thousands of years, one would suppose appropriate sleep routines would be ingrained in our traditional childrearing practices, but somehow we’ve lapsed, so it’s fortunate Elizabeth Pantley felt called to retrain us in mindful, deliberate ways to support children’s healthful rest.
Following her insightful, reliable guide to helping babies settle into sleep better (No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night 2002), Pantley presents the next step, a fresh look at sleep issues with practical, logical help for parents of older children.
She gives sound information, wise, caring opinions, and down-to-earth strategies such as her “gentle removal plan” and morning fairy rewards, but no harsh, extinction-based or cry-it-out “programs” to follow. With respect for children and parents, in understandable, friendly language, she explains basic normal sleep patterns and problems, lays out how to develop customized “sleep plans,” and offers general tips, precautions, and a variety of options parents might consider.
Berkeley Parents Network: Waking at Night: 2 and 3 Year Olds
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Waking at Night: 2 and 3 Year Olds Berkeley Parents Network > Advice > Sleep > > Waking at Night
- 2-year-old used to sleep well, wakes at night now
- 2-year-old has started waking up at 2:00 A.M.
- 2.5 year old waking several times a night
- 2.5 year old has never slept through the night
- Setting up an “OK” time for 3-y-o to come into our bed
- Night Terrors
- More advice about waking at night
2-year-old used to sleep well, wakes at night now Feb 2004
I have a 2 year old who has always been a good sleeper and is now waking once or twice a night and having a hard time getting back to sleep. I checked the archives and noticed this doesn’t seem to be unconmmon. To parents who have 3 and 4 year olds who went through this at 2, does it go away on it’s own? Is this a phase that will pass without work or should I do something to help him through it. Currently, my husband or I go in and sleep on the floor but it’s tiering for us and I’m wondering if he’ll need us in there forever to be comfortable? Are we supporting him through a difficult developmental phase or are we creating a dependancy we will have to ”break” him from later. Let me know. Thanks! Sleepless
For what it’s worth, I am someone who recently posted a desperate e-mail about night- (and early-morning-) waking in my two-year-old, who up until then had been a champion sleeper. Her brother arrived just before she turned two, so I don’t know whether it was turning two, or the new addition to the family, but she just became a miserable, miserable sleeper — unable to fall asleep without having someone stay by her side for ages, waking up with terrible nightmares and unable to fall back asleep without yet more endless help, and then getting up to start the day sometimes as early as 4 a.m. I’m not really sure how we got through this, but yes, it DOES get better. My husband was in favor of indulging whatever requests she came up with — extra songs, lots of ”watching over her,” taking her into our bed (a big disaster), etc.; I was more inclined to try to nip things in the bud. In the end, we took a sort of middle road: he, the one willing to put up with everything, started putting her to bed, so at bedtime she got indulged — but ONLY as long as she was TRYING to fall asleep. If she was just playing around in her crib, or whining, or whatever, he would threaten to leave; if she lay there quietly with her eyes shut (although clearly suffering from some kind of anxious insomnia), he would stay quietly in the room for as long as it took, until she fell asleep. I would go to her for the night wakings, with a similar sort of approach. However, since we had the new little baby, eventually I would just get too exhausted to stay up with her, and amazingly, when I explained that I HAD to leave because I just couldn’t stay awake any longer, . . . she simply accepted that and went to sleep herself. Now, at 2-1/2, she often falls asleep without much trouble and when she (rarely) wakes during the night, a quick visit is enough to get her right back to sleep. I do think she benefitted from the extra comforting we gave her — maybe this helped her eventually to feel a bit more relaxed and confident – - but it was also interesting to see that she really didn’t NEED all of the comforting she had been demanding.
Or, . . . maybe she just grew out of it!
2-year-old has started waking up at 2:00 A.M. May 2002
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Newborn Babies and Sleep
Newborn Babies and Sleep
By Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution
Congratulations on the birth of your new baby. This is a glorious time in your life and a sleepless time too. Newborns have very different sleep needs than older babies. This article will help you understand your baby’s developing sleep patterns, and will help you have reasonable expectations for sleep.