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When your child isn't sleeping, chances are that you aren't either. Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems--a tired parent's essential for more than 10 years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on Ferber's research as the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. Detailed case histories on night waking, difficulty sleeping, and more serious disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking help illustrate a wide variety of problems and their solutions. New parents will benefit from Ferber's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first place. You'll also find a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming, as well as a list of helpful organizations. Here's a book that is sure to put you and your whole family to sleep--in this case, that's a good thing.
Book Description

You've tried everything. Warm milk. Bedtime stories. Sharing your bed. But your child still has problems falling asleep. Dr. Richard Ferber can help. Director of the Sleep Laboratory and Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Ferber is widely recognized as the nation's leading authority on children's 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	9
I	Your Child's Sleep	13
1	At the End of Your Rope	15
2	What We Know About Sleep	22
3	Helping Your Child Develop Good Sleep Patterns	35
4	Nighttime Fears	46
II	The Sleepless Child	53
5	What Your Child Associates with Falling Asleep-the Key Problem	55
6	Feedings During the Night-Another Major Cause of Trouble	81
7	Colic and Other Medical Causes of Poor Sleep	90
III	Sleep Rhythm Disturbances	101
8	Daily Schedules and Their Effect on Sleep-Biological Rhythms Revisited	103
9	Normal Sleep at the Wrong Time-Sleep Phase Shifts	117
IV	Interruptions During Sleep	133
10	Sleeptalking, Walking, Thrashing, and Terrors-a Spectrum of Sudden Partial Wakings	135
11	Nightmares	163
12	Bedwetting	174
V	Other Problems	191
13	Headbanging, Body Rocking, and Head Rolling	193
14	Noisy Breathing, Snoring, and Sleep Apnea	201
15	Narcolepsy and Other Causes of Sleepiness	214
	Appendices	233
A	Children's Books on Bedtime, Sleep, and Dreams	235
B	Helpful Organizations	239
	Index	241