Good Sleeper: The Essential Guide to Sleep for Your Baby and You - Softcover

Kennedy, Janet Krone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805099433 ISBN 13: 9780805099430

Verlag: Holt Paperbacks, 2015

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A refreshingly straightforward method for training infants to become great sleepers for life, inspired by clinical psychologist Janet Kennedy's popular psychotherapy practice, NYC Sleep Doctor

Cry it out or co-sleep? Bassinet or swing? White noise machine or Bach? How many hours anyway? For something so important, there's too much conflicting information about how best to get your baby to sleep through the night and nap successfully during the day. This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense answer to one of the biggest challenges new parents face when they welcome a brand new baby home. This book is written for exhausted parents, giving them immediate access to the information they need. Reassuring and easy to understand, Dr. Kennedy addresses head-on the fears and misinformation about the long-term effects of crying and takes a bold stand on controversial issues such as co-sleeping and attachment parenting. With polarizing figures and techniques dominating the marketplace—and spawning misinformation across the internet—Dr. Kennedy's methods and practices create an extensively researched and parent-tested approach to sleep training that takes both babies' and parents' needs into account to deliver good nights and days of sleep, and no small dose of peace of mind.

The Good Sleeper is a practical, empowering—and even entertaining—guide to help parents understand infant sleep. This research-based book will teach parents the basics of sleep science, determine how and when to intervene, and provide tools to solve even the most seemingly impossible sleep problems.

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Janet Kennedy, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist who spent eight years at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center where she developed the Sleep Disorders Treatment Program. She is the founder of the successful consultation and psychotherapy practice NYC Sleep Doctor, has been featured on CBS This Morning and has been quoted in Parents Magazine, NY Press, Redbook, and the Encyclopedia Britannica website. Dr. Kennedy lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children.

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Good Sleeper

The Essential Guide to Sleep for Your Baby--and You

By Janet Krone Kennedy

Henry Holt and Co.

Copyright © 2015 Janet Krone Kennedy
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8050-9943-0

Contents

Introduction 1................................................................
The Good Sleeper Approach to Infant Sleep 5...................................
1. It's All About Adrenaline 13...............................................
Adrenaline and Overfatigue 14.................................................
Keeping Your Baby Well Rested 16..............................................
Watching the Clock 16.........................................................
Following Drowsiness Cues 17..................................................
Common Myths and Misconceptions 22............................................
Key Points from Chapter 1 23..................................................
2. The Early Weeks (0-6 Weeks Old) 24.........................................
Where Will Your Baby Sleep? 25................................................
A Hierarchy of Sleep Independence 28..........................................
Becoming Your Baby's Sleep Facilitator 31.....................................
Responding to Drowsiness Cues 33..............................................
White Noise 35................................................................
Responding to Night Waking 36.................................................
Pacifiers 37..................................................................
The Onset of Fussiness 38.....................................................
Coping with Colic 38..........................................................
Is It Reflux? 43..............................................................
Avoid Information Overload 44.................................................
Key Points from Chapter 2 45..................................................
3. The Light at the End of the Newborn Tunnel (6-12 Weeks) 46.................
The Beginnings of the Body Clock 47...........................................
The Sleep and Eating "Schedule" 49............................................
The Sleep Environment 52......................................................
Easing into Independent Napping 53............................................
Establishing the Bedtime Routine 55...........................................
Lengthening Night Sleep 57....................................................
Baby Monitors 60..............................................................
Transitioning to the Crib 62..................................................
Pacifiers 63..................................................................
Swaddles 63...................................................................
Challenging Situations: Colic and Reflux 65...................................
Key Points from Chapter 3 67..................................................
4. A Schedule Emerges (12-20 Weeks and Beyond) 68.............................
Toning Down the Soothing 70...................................................
The Schedule Develops 72......................................................
Why So Much Focus on Naps? 75.................................................
The Early Bedtime 78..........................................................
The Schedule Evolves 82.......................................................
What If You Don't Have a Choice About Nap Times? 85...........................
Key Points from Chapter 4 86..................................................
5. Sleeping Through the Night 87..............................................
Step 1: Get Your Baby as Rested as Possible 88................................
Step 2: Create Sleep Cues and Stop Feeding to Sleep 89........................
Step 3: Teach Your Baby to Fall Asleep in the Crib 90.........................
Step 4: Figure Out Why Your Baby Is Still Waking Up 92........................
Need Versus Want 93...........................................................
Step 5: Pick a Strategy: Methodical Step-by-Step or Cut to the Chase 94.......
Step 6: Weaning from Night Feedings 95........................................
Step 7: Weaning from Night Soothing 98........................................
Step 8: The Final Hurdle: Cry-It-Out 99.......................................
Timing 100....................................................................
Extinction Explained 101......................................................
Preparation and Safety 102....................................................
The Process 103...............................................................
Crying with Checks: AKA the "Ferber Method" 105...............................
Crying Without Checks 107.....................................................
Keeping a Scheduled Feeding 109...............................................
Dre...........................................................................

Introduction

Of all the anxieties that plague expecting parents as the due date approaches, fear of sleep deprivation is among the most intense. Everyone knows that the first several weeks are the most difficult. But it is actually what happens after those weeks that determines how well you and your family will function during the first year and beyond.

My clients often ask about my own children. And, yes, they are great sleepers. I was dedicated to shaping their sleep habits from the start, partly because I needed them to sleep. I am not one of those people who can function without a decent night’s rest.

When I was pregnant with my son, fear of months (or years) of exhaustion inspired me to put together quite a sleep library. At the hospital where I was working, I’d already spent the prior year and a half immersing myself in research to develop a treatment program for adult and geriatric insomnia. While child and adult sleep differ in many ways, certain common principles apply (see Chapter 1). In reading about infant sleep, I was most...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Holt Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805099433
• ISBN 13: 9780805099430
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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