Martha Sears,William Sears

The Baby Sleep Book: How to help your baby to sleep and have a restful night

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Drawing on considerable experience as both parents and professionals in the paediatric profession, the best-selling parenting experts Dr. William and Martha Sears have produced the definitive guide to the frequently fraught and troublesome topic of sleep.
The Sleep Book is designed as a practical and contemporary guide to parenting, ensuring you can get your child to sleep and making sure night time isn’t dreaded. Containing the latest medical research, and providing informed and considered advice on all the issues, this book offers guidance and support to keep you and your child rested and refreshed.
Includes advice on all aspects of sleep such as:• 8 infant sleep facts every parent should know• 31 ways to get your baby to sleep and stay asleep• Bedwetting• Hidden medical causes of night waking• Sleep trainers• Night weaning – 12 alternatives for the all-night nurser• Night terrors• 5 reasons why high need infants sleep differently• Sleep safety• SIDS: the latest research on how sleeping with your baby is safe• Co-sleeping: Yes, No, Sometimes
An invaluable resource for parents of young children, The Baby Sleep Book provides guidance on how to get your baby to sleep, what to do if he wakes up to often, what to do if he sleeps to much. It also helps with moving the place of sleep, sleepwear, managing the sleep time of more than one child, and night time feeding.
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473 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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  • Natalia Andrievskayashared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Everything you need to know about baby sleep

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  • Natalia Andrievskayahas quoted6 years ago
    Offer more feedings during the day as well. Try to work in one or two extra feedings during late afternoon and early evening. If baby breastfeeds while falling asleep, be sure he feeds for ten or fifteen minutes before he drifts off.

    Cluster feedings before bed made a big improvement on sleeping longer once we both got the hang of it.
  • Natalia Andrievskayahas quoted6 years ago
    signs of distress. These normal sleep sounds, which often occur as babies are transitioning from one state of sleep to another, may be lovingly misinterpreted as, “Oh, he’s about to wake up. I better get to him before he does.” Sometimes, if you wait out these sounds, you realize that these are not cries for attention. They’re just normal sounds, and you don’t need to rush in to pick up and comfort baby. He may not even wake up. He may put himself back to sleep without your help if he does wake. If baby’s noises escalate into cries, this indicates that something is “not right here” and that he needs something from you to make it right. It might be food, it might be holding, it might be a few soothing words, but you can’t go wrong by paying attention to these more insistent nighttime noises.
  • Natalia Andrievskayahas quoted6 years ago
    Babies are not sound-less sleepers. They sigh, snort, gurgle, coo, snore, sputter, squeak, squeal, hoot, toot, cough, even whimper and mumble a bit. Your baby’s night noises are as unique as her personality, and most of them are not

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