Is your Baby not Sleeping?
This book is packed with tips for parents who want a practical guide to help.
- Densely packed, straight to the point, and easy to find the right info, so it saves you time
- Discover the 13 key sleep strategies and 180 PROVEN tips from a variety of experts
- 12 age ranges from birth to 5 years
- so YOU choose what makes sense
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!
- Driving to sleep - not the best long term solution, but at times the most reliable short-term answer.
- Rocking or walking - some of the most traditional ways to get babies to sleep.
- Fathering down - let dad earn his baby sleep stripes!
- Wearing down - again, an opportunity for dad to ease mom's burden.
- Kissing to sleep - good for anxious babies, and best done in a phased fashion.
- 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.
- Mechanical swings - let machinery do the work!
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:
- 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 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 for things that you could do in the daytime to help.
- 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 to identify if your child actually has a problem, and if so, what those problems might be.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tips to get over the 'baby vampire' - sleeps all day and is awake at night.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.).
