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Sound Sleep is a widely-researched book for parents with babies, toddlers or older children. The book is full of useful insights, inspiring stories, handy checklists and a variety of easy-to-understand skills and strategies for you to use and to remember. It includes vital research findings and knowledge from world- renowned baby care specialists. It offers practical tips for soothing your new baby to sleep with touch, warmth and settling routines. It helps you understand the cues your baby is giving you all the time and how best to respond to them. It describes ways to introduce a day and night rhythm for you and your baby so that broken nights and sleep starvation can become the exception rather than the rule. The book offers strategies which have been proven to quickly comfort a crying or screaming baby or toddler. It introduces 'Timed Settling' for getting wakeful toddlers into the habit of sleeping through the night, and other tactics to solve older children's sleep problems.

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Publié par	Troubador Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	04 février 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781838597955
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Copyright © 2020 Sarah Woodhouse
Sound Sleep © 2003 Sarah Woodhouse. Re-printed 2004. 2019. Originally published and re-published by Hawthorn Press in partnership with Right from the Start. Paperback and E-book publication by Troubadour 2019 The moral right of the author has been asserted.
Cover design by Pam Communications Cover photograph: Thinkstock by Getty Images
Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers.
The information and advice presented in this E-book has been reviewed and approved by medical doctors and childcare professionals. It should not however substitute for the advice of your own doctor or trained healthcare professional. You are advised to consult with them with regard to all matters that may require medical attention or diagnosis and particularly to check with your childcare professional before undertaking the Timed Settling routine described in Chapter 7 . The publisher and author specifically disclaim any responsibility for any risk which may be claimed or incurred as a consequence of the practice of anything presented in this book.
See www.right-from-the-start.org for details of further Right from the Start books, products and parent support.
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ISBN 978 1838597 955
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Matador is an imprint of Troubador Publishing Ltd
This book is dedicated to Françoise Freedman, Founder and Director of Birthlight and to Joe Chiltern Pearce. Both these visionary and extra-ordinary authors and teachers taught me all that matters most about the human spirit and the needs of babies, children and their parents. Their wisdom and affection have inspired me all my working life.

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
New Babies
1. CALMING AND HELPING YOUR BABY TO SLEEP
How much will a new baby sleep and when?
There is no settled pattern at first
Protecting yourself from exhaustion!
Soothing your baby to sleep
The importance of touch
Kangaroo closeness
Your special smell
Back-to-the-womb comforts
Music and Movement
Where to start?
In a nutshell
2. NIGHT-TIME
Your baby’s needs at night
Your needs at night
Jolted and shocked
Where should your baby sleep?
Red Flag Waving!
How to organise sleeping together
Halfway measures – the best of both worlds
Other possibilities
To minimise exhaustion
A bedtime routine comes next
In a nutshell
3. UNDERSTANDING A NEW BABY’S CRYING
Why do babies cry?
Every baby is different
Understanding your baby’s cries
The main reasons why babies start to cry
Simple burping techniques
Going outside
Rhythmic movement
Now watch and see what happens
Wheels
In a nutshell
4. WHEN CRYING BECOMES SCREAMING
Physical causes
Colic
Redundant!
Emotional causes
Prenatal trauma
Birth trauma
Bearing the anguish
How to help
In a nutshell
5. HOW THE CRYING AND SCREAMING CAN AFFECT YOU
Link with your own babyhood?
other troubles in your life?
Feeling lonely and isolated
The need to stand back
Looking after yourself
Ask for help and support
Try making a ‘Crying Diary’
One Example of a Crying Diary
In a nutshell
Older Babies
6. HELPING YOUR CHILD SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT
Daytime settling
Bedtime
Reassurance
Ways forward
Getting together with other parents
What if NONE of these strategies have helped you?
In a nutshell
7. ‘TIMED SETTLING’ (From 9 months to 3 years old or so)
How did Timed Settling develop?
How can Timed Settling help you?
Your preparations for Timed Settling
Fourth step: Check your child’s health
Fifth step: A bedtime routine
Finally: Keep a ‘sleep diary’
Timed Settling: the step-by-step routine
In a nutshell
Toddlers and Older Children
8. TODDLERS AND SLEEP
Helping your toddler settle for a nap
Helping your toddler wake from a nap
Bedtime
In a nutshell
9. AS CHILDREN GROW OLDER
I don’t want to go to bed
Looking for causes of sleeplessness
In a nutshell
10. FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING
Spirit and soul
Recovery and Healing
Verses, Prayers and Lullabies
Appendix A: Swaddling
Appendix B: Cot death
Appendix C: Post-natal depression
Help Support and Useful Addresses
What is Right from the Start ?
About the Author
Foreword
The Right from the Start charity was launched by George Alagiah and Kate Adie in 2003 with the first publication of Sound Sleep . This updated, enriched and very welcome republication of Sound Sleep comes sixteen years later.
A powerful sense of the many unmet needs of new parents came originally from Sarah s research into the root causes of neglect and abuse of babies and young children published in the NSPCC Annual Report in 1985; in the Government Three Year Research Programme (based at The Corum Family Centre in London during the early 90s.) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Report; Children and Violence published in 1995.
During the four years of this research, Sarah asked questions and listened to parents, grandparents and family members from many different cultures and communities. She also talked with Midwives, Health Visitors, Social Workers, Community Nurses, and perinatal professionals, and attended relevant National and International Conferences. Working with their authors, she distilled and made visually accessible outstanding skills and best practice from their publications to weave into the two Right from the Start books for new parents.
In the time that has passed since the first edition, the world has seen an explosion of research, especially in the field of neuroscience and into the details of what babies and young children really need for their whole and healthy development. While there are continuous new breakthroughs in knowledge and understanding, especially about brain and ‘memory’ development in the womb (and at such a stunning pace during the first three years after birth) little of the first edition has needed to be rewritten. Everything Sarah has changed or added has been positively confirmed by further research.
The need to give greater emotional, spiritual and practical help and support to expectant and new parents has never subsided. In many and new ways the loneliness, confusion, worry and sadness faced now – perhaps especially by mothers – and the threats to warm and strong family life are on the increase. There are many causes of this, all of which other books in the Right from the Start series hope to address.
The aim of this revised edition of Sound Sleep is unchanged. It is to inspire a recognition and deeper thinking and understanding of the fundamental mental, emotional and spiritual needs of parents and their babies, whatever their circumstances, and whatever their culture or faith. It is about how we might help each other respond most practically to these understood needs with warmth, intelligence and commitment. I feel very privileged to write the Foreword to the revised edition of a book I’ve always admired greatly.
Sue Palmer
Childhood campaigner and author of Toxic Childhood: how the modern world is damaging our children … and what we can do about it . Also Detoxing Childhood: What Parents need to know to raise happy, successful children.
Introduction
It was John Bowlby, psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of world renown, who said:
A society that values its children must cherish its parents
This book is part of that cherishing.
During the four years of research and the drafting of Best beginnings for your Baby and You and Sound Sleep. Calming and helping your baby or child to sleep , the lifelong physical and emotional benefits that comes from parents sleeping in darkness, within breath reach and in close and instant touch of their babies became startlingly apparent.
In response, the first, attached, bedside crib to provide this early closeness - called The Bednest - was designed, manufactured and marketed by Right from the Start to give practical support to the understandings and the teaching in those two books.
The original Bednest was then beautifully redesigned in wood by Therefore Designs . But it is now being manufactured in Europe and marketed from the Netherlands. Search www.bednest.eu also www.Bednest.nl .
This book is about how to understand your baby’s crying and respond to it as calmly and peacefully as possible! It is also about how to settle babies, toddlers and young children and help them sleep.
The early chapters look at why babies cry, what it might mean and how you can comfort them. It is never wrong for a baby or child to cry. When they cry, they need to cry. It is their way of calling out for help, especially when they have no words yet they can use. It is also a way new-borns, during the first few weeks can get rid of the tension and stress built up in their little bodies during their birth.
The same goes for older babies and toddlers. The triggers for crying or for screaming are always sudden and acute feelings of loss, upset, fear, shock, pain – or hunger pangs.
For a baby, crying is as natural as breathing and sucking. It is meant to break into our thoughts and attract our attention. It is up to us to accept the crying and do all we can to give help and comfort as quickly as we can. But this is far from easy. What does our baby w