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Penney Hames. Help Your Baby to Sleep
Help Your Baby to Sleep. Penney Hames
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1 What do we Know About Sleep?
Why does my Baby Sleep so Much?
How Much Sleep does a Baby Need?
Average Number of Hours of Sleep Needed
A Sense of Rhythm
Breathing in Sleep
When will He Sleep Through the Night?
How Common are Sleep Problems?
Deep and Light Sleep. REM Sleep
NREM Sleep
Sleep Gates/Windows
Cycling Through Sleep
REM Sleep
2 But What do You Want?
That Certain Something
Listening to Your Baby
Listening to Yourself
You and Your Baby’s Needs
Discovering Boundaries
Sleep Problems May Occur When…
Loving and Letting Go
Why Should I Talk Out Loud to my Baby?
Describe How it Feels
Explain the Deal
What can I say to my Baby when he goes to Sleep?
3 What does your Baby need for a Good Night’s Sleep?
Organizing the Day
The Choice is Yours
Bedtime Routines
Sleep Associations
Safe Sleeping
4 Where Should my Baby Sleep?
Bed-sharing Benefits
Advantages
Disadvantages
Is it Safe to Sleep with my Baby?
Who Shares?
What is Co-sleeping?
Why do People Share?
Sleep Goals
Tips for Independent Sleep
Tips for Co-sleeping
5 Feeding and Sleeping
Sleep Equations
Breast or Bottle-feeders – which Parents get the Most Sleep? Breastfeeding
Bottle-feeding
How about a Bottle in the Evening to Make Him Last?
Alternative Sleep Cues
When Should I Stop Feeding at Night?
Sucking
Dummy Facts
Making Decisions, Feeling Supported
6 Who Wakes at Night?
Which Babies Tend to Wake their Parents more at Night?
Which Parents Tend to be Woken?
Help your Baby Sleep
How Long Should I go on Accepting That my Baby Wakes me at Night?
Difficult Births or Illness
Children with a Disability
Tearful Babies
Self-fulfilling Prophecies
Twins or More
First-born Babies
Teething
7 Crying and Sleeping
I can’t Bear to Hear my Baby Cry
Focus on the Crying
Distract yourself
Doing Nothing is Doing Something
The Surprised Cry
What is he Trying to Say?
Postive Parents
Who’s Crying Now?
8 Practical Tips
Toys
Heat
Noise
Light
Wrap more Snugly
Touch
Company
Music and Movement
Tips to make the most of Movement
Homoeopathy
9 Coping with Feelings, Gaining Support
Your Feelings for your Baby
Finding Support
Sharing the Load
Practical Tips to Support each other when Sleeplessness is Ruining your Relationship
Asking for Support when you’re a Lone Parent
Handling Advice
Drugs
Sleep Therapy. Sleep Clinics
One-to-One Sessions with a Sleep Therapist
Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy
Child and Family Consultation Clinics (CFCC) (formerly known as Child Guidance)
Self Help
10 Alternative Help
Hyperactivity and Allergic Reactions
Acupuncture
Acupuncture Tips
Cranial Osteopathy
11 Behaviour Management
Four Simple Principles to the Behavioural Approach
How to do it
Option 1: Cold Turkey
Option 2: Controlled Crying
Option 3: the Kissing Game
Option 4: Gradual Withdrawal
Variations on a Theme
Making it Work. Charts: One for Both of You
Star chart
Climbing Out of Bed
Game-Plan 1: Back to Bed
Game-Plan 2: Back to Bed and Close the Door (for use with the cold turkey or controlled crying approaches)
Game-Plan 3: Door Fixed Ajar (for use with the cold turkey or controlled crying approaches)
Ten Point Plan for Success
12 Sleeping at the Wrong Time
Late Bedtimes and Late Risers
Daytime Naps
Early Risers
13 Beyond Babies
Nightmares and Night Terrors
Nightmares
Night Terrors
Sleepwalking
Bed Wetting (Enuresis)
Training Programme
14 Afterthought
Tips for Getting Through the Night …
… and the Day
Resources. ORGANIZATIONS
BRIEF PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY
COMPLEMENTARY PRACTITIONERS. Acupuncture
Cranial Osteopathy
Homoeopathy
Baby Massage
Intrinsic Development
SUPPLIERS. Slings
NCT Maternity Sales
Brio Wonderland Bed-Side-Cot
The Swinging Cradle
The Baby Swing
Further Reading. Books
Articles
The Internet
About the National Childbirth Trust
National Childbirth Trust
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Other titles in this series
About the Publisher
