Your Sleepless Baby: The Rescue Guide

For those sleepless parents and babies the world over, in Your Sleepless Baby Rowena Bennett describes effective, drug-free solutions for infant sleep problems. Whatever your parenting style, you’ll find solutions to match. You’ll discover medical, developmental and behavioural reasons for babies experiencing broken sleep, trouble falling asleep and unusual sleeping patterns. Rowena Bennett has more than 15 years hands-on experience helping parents resolve a range of infant sleep problems. As a parent and health professional with qualifications and experience in areas such as midwifery, paediatrics, child health, mental health, breastfeeding and lactation, Rowena is well equipped to provide varying perspectives on the causes and solutions to infant sleep problems. ‘Once we followed Rowena’s Golden Rules, Jonah’s sleep problem was resolved in a matter of days.’ – JUSTIN ‘I finally get it! I can now see why I haven’t been able to fix Mia’s sleep problems before.’ – KAYLA ‘I now feel more confident about picking up Sienna’s tired signs and settling her off to sleep … I finally enjoy being a mother for the first time.’ – SIMONE Being a parent is like being on a roller coaster ride. There are plenty of ups and downs, enjoyment and frustrations. As a parent I have experienced my share of testing times along with the many joys of parenting. The most challenging times were when my children were babies, toddlers and teenagers. I was already a registered nurse and midwife by the time my children came along. As a result of having personally experienced the demoralising effects of post natal depression I wanted to help others who found the early years of parenting a struggle, and so I decided to train as a mental health nurse and later as a child health nurse and lactation consultant. For the past 17 years I have been employed as a child health nurse in an early parenting residential centre, where my role primarily involved assisting parents to resolve complex baby and toddler care problems. I know that the families who gain admission to these centres are only the tip of the iceberg. There are countless other parents out there desperately searching for answers to their child’s feeding or sleeping problems. About 10 years ago I started an online parenting consultation service, BabycareAdvice.com. I have enjoyed a high success rate, and a great deal of pleasure, assisting parents world-wide to find solutions to baby or toddler care problems that match their circumstances. Problems that their local healthcare providers were in many instances unable to resolve. The reason for my success is because my expertise lies in resolving behavioural problems; the most common of all problems experienced by healthy babies and toddlers. I knew I could reach more parents though books than individual consultations. In 2012 I published Your Sleepless Baby: The Rescue Guide, the first of what will become a series of baby care books. After 37 years as a nurse I now live and work from home on the glorious Sunshine Coast of Queensland with my husband, Bruce and dog, Ruby. Bruce and I have the time to enjoy our children and grandchildren who visit regularly. We get to reap the rewards for being parents and the joy of being grandparents!

Rowena Bennett is a registered nurse and parenting educator. She holds additional professional qualifications in midwifery, child health and mental health. She is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and holds a Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion.Rowena understands how difficult it can be for parents to find an effective solution to their baby care concerns, hence her motivation to write parenting books.After 45 years of professional life providing parenting education and guiding parents on ways to resolve complex well baby and toddler feeding and sleeping problems, Rowena now devotes her time to writing parenting books and articles for her website www.babycareadvice.com to share the wealth of knowledge she gained during her career.Your Baby's Bottle-feeding Aversion, her most popular book, is packed with empathy and evidence-based advice for new and old parents. It is also suitable for health professionals and child-care workers.