E-book Category: Children, Parenting, Self Help
E-book Title: Helping Your Baby to Sleep
Book Description: Is your Baby not Sleeping? Does it take long for your baby to go to sleep? Do you (and your child and your partner) get stressed at night-time? Does she cry as soon as you leave the room? Do you regularly spend hours trying to get her to sleep? Are you caught between the guilt of letting her cry to sleep, and your own need to sleep? Have you tried everything?
This book is packed with tips for parents who want a practical guide to help. - Discover the 13 key sleep strategies and 180 PROVEN tips from a variety of experts
- so YOU choose what makes sense
- 12 age ranges from birth to 5 years
- Densely packed, straight to the point, and easy to find the right info, so it saves you time
- Bonus - when you buy this book, you will be directed to our Baby Sleeping Resources Center website, which has a number of the best available resources for helping your baby to sleep.
This book pulls together experience from parents, experts, and web resources to give you the broadest selection of practical tips to help your baby sleep.
Not every child responds to the same system. Not every parent is happy to apply the same solution. So our approach is to give you the widest variety of available sleep strategies so that you can make the best choice for you and your family.
The heart of the book is the huge number of tips pulled together from a huge number of sources. Tips which answer questions like ... - How can I help my baby to sleep earlier?
- Should I be sleeping with my baby?
- Will this help her sleep?
- Is it safe?
- Should I be nursing her to sleep?
- If I do, how can I wean her off it?
- What kind of bedtime routine helps her sleep?
- What should I avoid?
- What works best at each age?
- What can I do during the day to help her sleep at night?
- How do I know if she has a sleep problem?
- Where should I put her to bed?
- How should I put her to bed?
- What do I do about her needing mommy for sleep?
- How do I stop her coming to my bed at night or in the morning?
- And many more ...
No waffle - just straight talk and tips This is not a book on child psychology or biology. It is a straight to the point guide with tips and strategies on how to help your baby sleep. There is a thorough reference, bibliography and web resource list at the end if you want to read further into the academic and practical study and literature which are sources of this book . However, this book is for parents who want direct advice on doing something to make it better...
Book Description This is a practical e-book that pulls together most of the currently available material on how to help your child to sleep. It contains: - 12 age ranges , from newly born to 5 years old, so that you can adapt as your child grows older.
- 13 key strategies that are in common use, so that you can assess which ones will work best for your family;
- 180 proven tips, including bed time, routines, where and when to put her to bed, how to help her sleep once in bed, things you can do in the day to help, how to stop her getting out of bed, etc.
How you bring up your child is your own choice. Only you know your values, what you are prepared to tolerate, what your child is prepared to tolerate and so on. Most books on baby sleep discuss one system - the writer's. You will usually get one opinion and theory. This book pulls the learnings from a huge number of them, as well as from the enormous amount of information on the web, into one concise and practical volume. Rather than making assumptions about how you want to bring your children up, the book arms you with the widest range of options, strategies and tips available so that you can apply based on what works best for you.
It includes strategies from the major sleep systems in use, including different varieties of controlled crying, nursing to sleep, co-sleeping, and so on. And the tips are from medical experts as well as from parents (the real experts) who just found good ways to help their children sleep.
It will save you a lot of time... It is a one stop resource to give you one of the widest ranges of tips available, with a reference that allows you to go deeper if you want to. It will give you the best chance of helping you and your baby to sleep.
Discover 13 KEY sleep strategies
We have compiled the 13 key sleeping strategies that are available into one chapter so that you can decide for yourself which is the best fit for your child and your family.
Approaches 1 and 2 are whether your child sleeps alone or co-sleeps with you. You can see the benefits and disadvantages of each, and get guidance to help you decide which is the better approach for your family. This section also gives you extra tips on how to minimise the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (cot death), as well as practical safety tips if you do sleep together.
Approaches 3 to 5 are the main flavours of controlled crying. These are the 3 different ways to train your child to sleep without immediately responding to her crying. The plan here is to train her to cry only when she really needs something.
Controlled crying really isn't for everyone. You can read the case for and against this so that you make the right choice for your child. If you do decide that controlled crying is for you, then the 3 key strategies for applying this are discussed. These are Ferberizing, timed ignoring of tantrums, and systematic ignoring or extinction. Each takes a slightly different approach to how you would implement a controlled crying strategy.
The final 8 strategies are various alternatives to controlled crying. These include the following: - Gradually moving away - which is a longer approach than controlled crying, but involves significantly less crying!
- Kissing to sleep - good for anxious babies, and best done in a phased fashion.
- Fathering down - let dad earn his baby sleep stripes!
- Rocking or walking - some of the most traditional ways to get babies to sleep.
- Wearing down - again, an opportunity for dad to ease mom's burden.
- Mechanical swings - let machinery do the work!
- Driving to sleep - not the best long term solution, but at times the most reliable short-term answer.
- Nursing to sleep - also a contentious method, and the pros and cons are highlighted to help you decide whether you think this would be a good approach for you. If you do adopt it, then there are tips for how to get away once she is asleep, as well as five options for how to get her off it in time.
180 PROVEN sleeping tips, some traditional, many new
These 180 tips form the core of the book. To make them easy to find, they are split into tips by age group, tips which may support certain sleep strategies you adopt, as well as overall tips for various stages of getting your child to sleep.
A to-the-point tips section breaks down the tips into the following categories: - Tips to identify if your child actually has a problem, and if so, what those problems might be.
- A breakdown of the main causes of lack of sleep, including growth periods, environmental issues, physical ailments and social causes. For each of these, you also get tips to help overcome them.
- Tips on where to put your child to sleep. This also includes tips on creating the best physical environment (light, noise, air, location, etc.) for sleep.
- Tips on when to put you child to bed, and on the signals you should watch out for to identify when the time is right.
- What to do before putting your child to bed. The whole topic of routines is discussed, including why, how, where and options for what that routine might look like. Also other things that will help minimise disruption once in bed (making sure needs such as toilet are done before bed, avoiding TV and video games, etc.).
- Then there are tips for what to do once your child's in bed. How to ensure she's actually asleep, what to do if she's afraid of sleeping, tips for dealing with separation anxiety, dealing with night terrors, the perennial dummy or no dummy debate, and so on.
- Tips for things that you could do in the daytime to help.
- Tips to stop her coming to your bed if that's a problem for you. This includes some really creative and fun ways to help her get over it.
- Tips to get over the 'baby vampire' - sleeps all day and is awake at night.
- Some 'alternative' tips, such as baby massage, baby yoga, cranial osteopathy, and so on. You actually get a baby massage routine if you want to try it out to help her sleep.
- And finally, some tips for you! This will be a testing time, so you need to look after yourself, and there are some basics here that will help.
There is a huge variety of sources for these tips, and that is the real advantage of this book. In this one eBook, we combine strategies and tips from the proclaimed experts on baby sleep such as Elizabeth Pantley, Jodi Mindell, Dr Sears, Richard Ferber and Dr Spock. These professionals have written a number of books on the topic, and you get these referenced in this one volume. It also adds to this tips from the field - tips that mothers and fathers have found to work on their children and shared via the internet. Finally, tips that come from some of the most widely used (and some niche) web sites are also included. So all in all, an emporium of tips that is likely unmatched in any one other place.
12 age ranges from birth to 5 years
Children's sleep issues will vary by age, as will the possible solutions to these issues. For that reason, this book also summarises what you should expect by age, as well as providing some age-specific tips to help. The 12 age ranges discussed are: - Newborn to 3 weeks;
- 3 to 6 weeks;
- 6 weeks to 3 months;
- 3 to 4 months;
- 4 to 6 months;
- 6 to 9 months;
- 9 to 12 months;
- 12 to 18 months;
- 18 to 24 months;
- 2 to 3 years;
- 3 to 4 years
- 4 to 5 years.
No padding - straight to the point
This book is not intended as an academic tome. And it shows. Everything within in is very practical. Whenever we researched an additional bit of information, we applied a very simple test for inclusion within the book: - Is it something that you can actually do to help your child to sleep?
- Will it help you decide on what's best for your baby?
If it didn't fit one of these criteria, then it didn't make it into the book. Reference to books, experts and web sites are provided in case you want to delve more into specific areas, but the point of this book is to deliver in the most direct way proven ways for you to get your child to sleep. It is packed densely with the tips and strategies so that you can get to the guts as quickly as possible.
Saves time - great if you don't have the time to read everything
It is this directness that makes it a great time saver. If you want to get to your options quickly, and don't have the luxury of time to read all the various literature that's out there, research the 1,250,000 + web sites that come up in a google search, then this book is ideal. Again, the references are there so that if you have more leisurely time you can go and look, but this really is a book about getting as much relevant information to you in the shortest time possible.
Easy to read and to find the right information
The style of the book is very straight forward. It is not a high-confuluted academic treatise - it is just written in plain English in order to get you the information in the easiest way. A really handy "Tips Directory" at the start of the book also allows you to skip very quickly to the right parts if you are facing a particular problem.
Tips from many experts - not just one view
This really is the key difference that this book brings from most of the others. It does not restrict you to one system. Rather, it brings together a wide variety of these into one place. Most available books will only give you one viewpoint, one set of rules, one set of prescriptions. And that is great if you really like their system and don't want to try out other things. The reality is, though, that most parents will keep trying different things until they get to the one that works, and even then it may only be for a while. They then may need to look again. This book gives you all these various options, ...
So YOU get the choice of what to apply
And that is the point. Each child is different. Each parent is different. Each home is different. Each family is different. Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all approach, it really is down to you to decide what is the best way. She is your child, after all! More... | 
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