Help Your Baby to Sleep

Help Your Baby to Sleep
Penney Hames

Sleep is something all new parents want, both for themselves and their babies. This book offers background information and practical steps to help you establish a routine with your baby that will look after his or her needs – and yours, too.New parents are given all sorts of conflicting advice on how best to get their baby to sleep through the night. For example, should he/she sleep in your bed, in your room beside your bed or in another room altogether? Should you leave your baby when he/she wakes or cries?Penney Hames tackles every issue, including cot death, and talks about each technique. She examines the need for routine, a comfortable sleep environment and a baby’s sleep patterns at different ages and stages. She also explores research into how a child’s sleep pattern might reflect its character, well-being, health, and even intelligence, thereby debunking myths and extracting the truth. Two-colour with black and white pictures.The main message Penney Hames gives is that parents should make their own minds up and she offers advice on where to get help with addresses of sleep clinics and other support agencies.

Help Your Baby to Sleep

Penney Hames

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Dedication (#u72949ace-4374-573b-97d9-f1d17b3b37dc)

For Richard. Beany and Richard (Junior), with love

Contents

Cover (#u2525a2f3-7301-5eb5-8bf6-b2da666eb1d4)

Title Page (#uc33ae671-90b4-5e6b-bb1c-3adc1d0794c4)

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Dedication (#ubb52380d-65e5-5ec1-8874-dd2034de148e)

Introduction (#ubee39a3e-0070-5617-8fbb-6e30b01dff00)

1 What do we Know About Sleep? (#u8c8737ed-5471-5c16-8c74-772faf5f9a9c)

2 But What do You Want? (#u3b839961-dfe9-59c3-aadf-af43b86ca1bc)

3 What does your Baby need for a Good Night’s Sleep? (#ucfd14ea0-46c9-54cb-835f-e31cd0e3911b)

4 Where Should my Baby Sleep? (#u4b7b2457-7377-5862-994f-25d11af7cf48)

5 Feeding and Sleeping (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Who Wakes at Night? (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Crying and Sleeping (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Practical Tips (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Coping with Feelings, Gaining Support (#litres_trial_promo)

10 Alternative Help (#litres_trial_promo)

11 Behaviour Management (#litres_trial_promo)

12 Sleeping at the Wrong Time (#litres_trial_promo)

13 Beyond Babies (#litres_trial_promo)

14 Afterthought (#litres_trial_promo)

Resources (#litres_trial_promo)

Further Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

About the National Childbirth Trust (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Other titles in this series (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Introduction (#ulink_57865709-adf7-5e28-b321-d2599d5d1722)

Sleepless babies are all too common. One small paragraph in New Generation, the Journal of the National Childbirth Trust, which asked for parents’ experiences for this book elicited dozens of replies. Then, talking to an astonishing array of professionals and researchers who have devised, through their widely differing disciplines, effective approaches or remedies for the sleeplessness of babies led me on to dozens more women. And women who had heard about the book on the grapevine of my local National Childbirth Trust branch, also called. Find me a parent and I’ll show you someone with an opinion about babies’ sleep.