Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth

The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease - now in a completely revised and expanded fourth edition

In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country's leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing your children's sleep problems, from infancy through adolescence. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. Rewritten and reorganized to deliver information even more efficiently, this valuable sourcebook contains the latest research on:

• The best course of action for sleep problems: prevention and treatment
• Common mistakes parents make trying to get their children to sleep
• Different sleep needs for different temperaments
• Stopping the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bed-wetting, and more
• Ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to her internal clock - naturally
• Handling nap-resistant kids and when to start sleep training
• Why both night sleep and day sleep are important
• Obstacles for working moms and children with sleep issues
• The father's role in comforting children
• How early sleep troubles can lead to later problems
• The benefits and drawbacks of allowing kids to sleep in the family bed

Rest is vital to your child's health, growth, and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age.

Marc Weissbluth, M.D., a pediatrician with 40 years of expertise, is also a major researcher on sleep and children. He established the first Sleep Disorders Center at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital (now known as the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital). Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) and Northwestern University School of Medicine's Clinical Pediatrics Department. He has written about sleep difficulties in pediatrics textbooks, lectured extensively to parent groups, is a regular at the 92nd Street Y, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in addition to his own studies. Dr. Weissbluth has four sons and eight grandkids with his wife of more than fifty years, Linda. They reside in the city of Chicago.