About the book
Science and sense for baby sleep
With over 30 years of experience, Sister Lilian tackles this issue with science and sense, helping you to understand your baby’s sleep patterns and establish a baby-friendly sleep routine.
This guide includes a step-by-step recipe for a good night’s sleep and offers Sister Lilian’s sensitive but effective solutions to almost every possible sleep struggle, from birth up until the toddler years.
If you’re crying out for a voice of reason amidst the torrent of impractical and ineffective sleep advice, or if you simply want to understand your newborn’s sleep patterns, then this guide is for you.
The details
FormatDownloadable eBook (PDF format)
CategoryBooks
PriceR275.00
Table of contents
Four sections, twenty-six chapters
Section One
Understanding Your Baby’s Sleep
1The basics of baby sleep
How sleep works · The significance of sleep ‘incompatibility’ · Why babies need sleep
2Sleep surveys and research
Learning from communities that don’t have sleep problems
3Your baby’s slumber landscape
4Newborn and small baby sleep
What you need to know about sleep alignment · Swapping day and night · Small babies need to feed more often at night · When Baby doesn’t sleep much during the day
5Who sleeps like a baby?
The lesson of the ‘good sleeper’ story
6Profiling a ‘serial non-sleeper’
The moral of the serial non-sleeper story
7Defining sleep problems
An identity parade of all possible types of sleep problems
Section Two
Myth Busting and Paradigm Shifts
8Looking sleep in the eye
Sleep nonsense · Six sleep myths
9Developing a ‘sleep routine’
Routine for babies from birth to six months · Routine for babies from six to twelve months · Can there be such a thing as a sleep recipe? · Sister Lilian’s Sleep Recipe
10Investing in happy nights
11Co-sleeping – the ultimate sleep strategy
The benefits of sleeping together are numerous · Co-sleeping sense · When co-sleeping continues for a long time
Section Three
Solving Sleep Problems
12How to handle frequent waking at night
What is ‘sleeping through’? · At what age will Baby sleep through? · Why sleeping through is not the golden norm · And the solution is…
13What to do when Baby wakes up, and stays awake
14How to deal with sleep and bedtime resistance
15How to improve restless, fidgety sleep
16What to do when Baby must suckle to fall asleep
17What to do if Baby needs rocking or movement to fall asleep
18What to do if Baby is thirsty at night
19Dealing with nightmares, terrors, sleep walking and talking
Nightmares · Night terrors · Four ways to help avoid nightmares and night terrors · Sleep walking and sleep talking
20Age-related quick tip sleep guide
Section Four
Sleep Odds, Ends and Extras
21Sleep safety
Cot safety · Sudden Infant Death Syndrome · Baby’s sleep position
22Natural remedies for better sleep
Homeopathic remedies · Herbal remedies · Massage oils
23Breast milk is a wonderful sleep aid
24When parents disagree about sleep management
First Aid for ‘suicide hour’
25How colour choice affects Baby’s sleep
26A bit of this, and a bit of that
Dropping day naps · Food and sleep · Blocked nose and sleep
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Baby and Toddler Sleep Guide
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