Solve Your Childs Sleep Problems

Practical and easy to understand, Solve Your Childs' Sleep Problems tells you how to handle these situations in children aged one to six:

* Refusing to go to bed

* Colic and other medical problems

* Restlessness and insomnia

* Night terrors

* Bedwetting

* Headbanging and body rocking

And other problems that keep you and your child awake in the night.

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.

Preface

I YOUR CHILD'S SLEEP

1 At the End of Your Rope

2 What We know About Sleep

3 Helping Your Child Develop Good Sleep Patterns

4 Nighttime Fears

II THE SLEEPLESS CHILD

5 What Your Child Associates with Falling Asleep — the Key Problem

6 Feedings During the Night — Another Major Cause of Trouble

7 Colic and Other Medical Causes of Poor Sleep

III SLEEP RHYTHM DISTURBANCES

8 Daily Schedules and Their Effect on Sleep — Biological Rhythms Revisited

9 Normal Sleep at the Wrong Time — Sleep Phase Shifts

IV INTERRUPTIONS DURING SLEEP

10 Sleeptalking, Walking, Thrashing, and Terrors — a Spectrum of Sudden Partial Wakings

11 Nightmares

12 Bedwetting

V OTHER PROBLEMS

13 Headbanging, Body Rocking, and Head Rolling

14 Noisy Breathing, Snoring, and Sleep Apnea

15 Narcolepsy and Other Causes of Sleepiness

APPENDICES

A Children's Books on Bedtime, Sleep, and Dreams

B Helpful Organizations

INDEX