Help Your Baby to Sleep
Penney Hames
Copyright Copyright Dedication Introduction 1 What do we Know About Sleep? 2 But What do You Want? 3 What does your Baby need for a Good Night’s Sleep? 4 Where Should my Baby Sleep? 5 Feeding and Sleeping 6 Who Wakes at Night? 7 Crying and Sleeping 8 Practical Tips 9 Coping with Feelings, Gaining Support 10 Alternative Help 11 Behaviour Management 12 Sleeping at the Wrong Time 13 Beyond Babies 14 Afterthought Resources Further Reading About the National Childbirth Trust Index Acknowledgements About the Author Other titles in this series About the Publisher
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Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction 1 What do we Know About Sleep? 2 But What do You Want? 3 What does your Baby need for a Good Night’s Sleep? 4 Where Should my Baby Sleep? 5 Feeding and Sleeping 6 Who Wakes at Night? 7 Crying and Sleeping 8 Practical Tips 9 Coping with Feelings, Gaining Support 10 Alternative Help 11 Behaviour Management 12 Sleeping at the Wrong Time 13 Beyond Babies 14 Afterthought Resources Further Reading About the National Childbirth Trust Index Acknowledgements About the Author Other titles in this series About the Publisher
For Richard. Beany and Richard (Junior), with love
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
1 What do we Know About Sleep?
2 But What do You Want?
3 What does your Baby need for a Good Night’s Sleep?
4 Where Should my Baby Sleep?
5 Feeding and Sleeping
6 Who Wakes at Night?
7 Crying and Sleeping
8 Practical Tips
9 Coping with Feelings, Gaining Support
10 Alternative Help
11 Behaviour Management
12 Sleeping at the Wrong Time
13 Beyond Babies
14 Afterthought
Resources
Further Reading
About the National Childbirth Trust
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Other titles in this series
About the Publisher
Sleepless babies are all too common. One small paragraph in New Generation , the Journal of the National Childbirth Trust, which asked for parents’ experiences for this book elicited dozens of replies. Then, talking to an astonishing array of professionals and researchers who have devised, through their widely differing disciplines, effective approaches or remedies for the sleeplessness of babies led me on to dozens more women. And women who had heard about the book on the grapevine of my local National Childbirth Trust branch, also called. Find me a parent and I’ll show you someone with an opinion about babies’ sleep.
The problem with any subject worth its salt is that right-minded, sensitive people can believe any number of threateningly different things. I believe that an author ought to listen to all these different opinions, try to see the value in each, and while rejecting none, chart a clear course for each reader, irrespective of how that reader prefers to travel.
So much for the theory. I’m sure that my own persuasions are written large in between the lines of this book. Nevertheless I hope that Help Your Baby to Sleep has accomplished three things: first, to acknowledge that no one approach is right for everybody; second, to accept that complex emotional ties may make the supposedly simple act of leaving your baby to sleep heart-wrenchingly difficult, and that is not simply something to overcome, but an awareness that may suggest a different approach; and third, to express the ambivalence and complexity of a vast range of attitudes, through the words of parents.
I hope you find in it something that speaks to you.
Penney Hames
1 What do we Know About Sleep?
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole
Coleridge, ‘The Ancient Mariner’
Why does my Baby Sleep so Much?
Babies have a lot to learn, and quickly. But it’s hard to reflect on anything when there’s a lot going on. This is one of the reasons that babies sleep so much. Putting the world into some sort of order takes a bit of peace and quiet. While he is asleep your baby’s brain can organize the vast array of experiences he has when he’s awake. At the same time, chemicals in the brain and body are renewing themselves ready for more activity. As new parents we also have a lot to learn, and we also need our sleep to help us do it. Without sufficient sleep everyone suffers.
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