Sleep Sense

Baby Sense
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Written by acclaimed authors of baby sense, it offers the same simple, sensible solutions to ensure you and your baby will get a good nights sleep by establishing healthy sleeping habits
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SLEEP SENSE / SLAAP KINDJIE SLAAP

Sleep is within your reach, with this simple but effective approach to helping your baby and toddler sleep through the night.

Simple steps to a full night's sleep for babies and toddlers. Are you suffering from sleep deprivation because your baby will just not sleep through the night? Have you tried everything and reached the end of your tether? Then this is the book you've been waiting for. Written by acclaimed authors of baby sense, it offers the same simple, sensible solutions to ensure you and your baby will get a good nights sleep by establishing healthy sleeping habits.

In addition sleep sense offers an age-related trouble shooting section where desperate parents will find quick fixes. The sleep sense approach to sleep coaching is gentle and based on the natural and age-appropriate capacity your baby has for self-calming or soothing and for separation from you

Product Features at a Glance

  • Learn to set the stage for sleep with: Realistic expectations. Appropriate sensory experiences during the day
  • The right sleep zone. The elimination of hunger or medical reasons for night waking
  • Healthy and sufficient day sleeps
  • Good sleep associations to prime your baby for independent night soothing and teach him to re-settle by himself
  • Solutions for separation issues.

Table of Contents

1.SLEEP 101

The importance of sleep • Length of day sleeps: What to expect Sleep rejuvenation: What to expect • Night wakings: What to expect Sleeping through: What to expect • Summary of Sleep 101

2. SENSORY SECRETS FOR SLEEP

Sensory load and state • Stimulation during the day Stimulation prior to bedtime • Sensory input for self-soothing Sensory input during sleep – The sleep zone Age-appropriate sensory input to support sleep Summary of sensory secrets for sleep

3. THE SLEEP ZONE

A consistent sleep zone • A calming sleep space Summary of your baby’s sleep zone

4. SOUND NUTRITION FOR A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP

Breast-feeding and sleep Supplementary or complementary bottle-feeding Formula milk choices • Solid food and sleep Nutrition and older babies • Nutrition and your toddler Summary of nutrition for sleep

5. MEDICAL CAUSES OF NIGHT WAKINGS

Acute medical issues that will affect sleep Ongoing organic issues that affect sleep Summary of health issues affecting sleep

6. DAY-SLEEP ROUTINE

Natural sleep rhythms • Establishing a day-sleep routine When day routines don’t work out • Waking your baby from sleep Summary of establishing a healthy day-sleep routine

7. SLEEP ASSOCIATIONS

Sleep soothers • Bedtime routine • Undesirable sleep associations Summary of sleep associations for healthy sleep habits

8. SEPARATION ISSUES

How separation anxiety develops The effect of separation anxiety on sleep Normal age-appropriate separation anxiety Separation anxiety related to a life change Separation anxiety in a sensitive baby Coping with maternal separation anxiety Dealing with anxiety at night Summary of separation anxiety

9. SLEEP COACHING

Things have gone wrong • Getting it right The three C’s of sleep coaching for parents Before sleep coaching – set the stage Sleep coaching procedure • Summary of sleep coaching

10. QUICK RELIEF FOR TIRED PARENTS - NEWBORNS

What to expect in terms of sleep at this stage Getting it right: The basics • Getting it right: Setting the stage Getting it right at bedtime • Getting it right at night Common sleep issues from birth to six weeks

11. QUICK RELIEF FOR TIRED PARENTS – SIX WEEKS to FOUR MONTHS

What to expect in terms of sleep at this stage Getting it right: The basics • Getting it right: Setting the stage Getting it right at bedtime • Getting it right at night Common sleep issues from six weeks to four months

12. QUICK RELIEF FOR TIRED PARENTS - FOUR to SEVEN MONTHS

What to expect in terms of sleep at this stage Getting it right: The basics • Getting it right: Setting the stage Getting it right at bedtime • Getting it right at night Common sleep issues from four to seven months

13. QUICK RELIEVE FOR TIRED PARENTS - SEVEN to 12 MONTHS

What to expect in terms of sleep at this stage Getting it right: The basics • Getting it right: Setting the stage Getting it right at bedtime • Getting it right at night Common sleep issues from seven to 12 months

14. QUICK RELIF FOR TIRED PARENTS - 12 MONTHS to 18 MONTHS

What to expect in terms of sleep at this stage Getting it right: The basics • Getting it right: Setting the stage Getting it right at bedtime • Getting it right at night Common sleep issues from 12 to 18 months

15. QUICK RELIEF FOR TIRED PARENTS - TODDLER & PRESCHOOLER

What to expect in terms of sleep at this stage Getting it right: The basics • Getting it right: Setting the stage Getting it right at bedtime • Getting it right at night Common sleep issues in toddlers and preschoolers

APPENDIX A: Sensory processing problems and sleep

Three groups of sensory processing problems impact on sleep Solutions for sleep problems related to sensory processing problems

APPENDIX B: Specific sleep problems

Nightmares Night terrors Head banging and body rocking

APPENDIX C: Twins/Multiples and sleep

The importance of routine Sleep coaching

APPENDIX D: Useful resources

Books for kids Books for parents Lullabies Websites CD’s for sleep

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