A guide to understanding the sleep patterns and needs of children covers nighttime nursing, the family bed, SIDS, crying, and problem-free bedtime routines
With a sharp focus on the practical tools and techniques, The Baby Sleep Book covers such topics as: The facts of infant sleep vs. adult sleep Figuring out where, when, and how your child sleeps best Fail-safe methods for soothing a crying ...
A complete guide to the concept of attachment parenting, which argues that parental responsiveness to a baby's needs leads to a well-adjusted child, offers tips on breastfeeding on demand, responding to a baby's cries, minimizing parent ...
The book that puts your baby back to sleep. When your baby or toddler inevitability wakes in the middle of the night, turn to this tool that uses the basic meditation of a body scan, to aid in the soothing your child back to sleep.
The Attachment Parenting Book clearly explains the six "Baby B's" that form the basis of this popular parenting style: Bonding, Breastfeeding, Babywearing, Bedding close to baby, Belief in the language value of baby's cry, and Beware of ...
Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these ...
Put blackout drapes in your baby's sleeping room. Lay down rules for noiseless waking with the older siblings. Leave a box of fun toys, and even an occasional surprise toy, at baby's bedside to entice him to stay in his room and play ...
Being closed to any of the options may deprive you of the joys and benefits of certain parts of nighttime parenting and lead to long-term unhealthy sleep attitudes, and possibly long-term distancing between you and your child.
You'll get support and learn to trust your parenting instincts and gain the confidence to live by your baby and child, not by the book.
Sears, Nighttime Parenting, 1. 33. Ibid., 2. 34. Nonetheless, heterosexuality is assumed in Sears's work. Parents may be women, but they are always married to men. 35. Sears, Nighttime Parenting, 2. 36. Ibid. 37. Ibid., 6. 38.
Being closed to any of the options may deprive you of the joys and benefits of certain parts of nighttime parenting and lead to long-term unhealthy sleep attitudes, and possibly long-term distancing between you and your child.