Sleep

Five Steps to Get Your Baby to Sleep Better
The Baby Sleep Book : The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family
by William Sears, M. D., Martha Sears, R. N., Robert W. Sears, M.D.
For every parent who has ever been deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now there's hope. The Baby Sleep Book is the comprehensive, reassuring, solution-filled sleep resource that every family will want to own.

Why Healthy Sleep Is So Important
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
by Marc Weissbluth, M.D.
Sleeplessness in children and worrying about sleeplessness have been around for a long time. Healthy sleep appears to come so easily and naturally to newborn babies. Effortlessly, they fall asleep and stay asleep.

Sleep Tools-Transitioning Tips
The Baby Sleep Book : The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family
by William Sears, M. D., Martha Sears, R. N., Robert W. Sears, M.D.
Babies don't come equipped with the type of sleep switch that you can suddenly turn off at nap time and bedtime. Yet, a transitioning-to-sleep ritual can be like a dimmer switch that gradually tunes out and turns down stimulation in baby's environment.

Create A Safe And Comfortable Environment Conducive To Sleep
The Baby Sleep Book : The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family
by William Sears, M. D., Martha Sears, R. N., Robert W. Sears, M.D.
If baby's bedroom (or your bedroom) is too light, too dark, too noisy, too quiet, or too stimulating, your baby may have difficulty going to sleep or staying asleep. Some babies are more sensitive to their sleeping environment than others.

Stress: The Principal Cause of Insomnia
The Insomnia Solution : The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep
by Michael Krugman, MA, GCFP
What causes the transitory insomnia that plagues so many millions of us? And more important, why is it happening to you? The short answer is, stress. Stress is the principal cause of insomnia. But what is stress?

Why Children Misbehave and What You Can Do About It
Eating, Sleeping, and Getting Up: How to Stop the Daily Battles with Your Child
by Carolyn Crowder
Understanding why your children misbehave is not as difficult and daunting as it may first seem. Perhaps because we are living in a complicated world we are constantly looking for complicated answers, especially when it comes to examining human behavior.

Why America Can't Sleep
The Insomnia Solution : The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep
by Michael Krugman, MA, GCFP
Don't let insomnia keep you awake at night! Take action now with the Sounder Sleep System and start rediscovering the blissful experience of a good night's sleep-naturally. Based on traditional and modern self-healing methods, including yoga, qigong

Avoiding Bedtime Battles So the Whole Family Sleeps Well
American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Sleep : Birth Through Adolescence
by George J. Cohen, M.D., The American Academy of Pediatrics
Sooner or later, almost every parent must deal with a child's sleeptime problems. In early infancy, the first task is to help your baby learn to sleep longer at night and stay awake for increasingly longer periods during the daytime.

Sleep, Thoughts, Worries and Fears
by Remez Sasson
Do you fall asleep immediately after entering bed or do thoughts and worries begin to flow into your mind, keeping your sleep away? Do you find it hard to stop them? When you are in bed at night there are fewer outside distractions it is quiet and dark

How Well Are You Sleeping? : Sleepy During the Day, Snoring
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Feeling tired every now and then during the day is normal. But it's not normal for sleepiness to interfere with your routine activities. For example, you shouldn't be dozing off while reading the newspaper, during business meetings, or while sitting

Helping Children Sleep
Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years
by Laura Davis, Janis Keyser
Sleep is a core issue in parenting. It is one of the first areas where we grapple with the reality that there are things about our children that we cannot control. As parents, we can set the stage for relaxation, but we cannot force children to sleep.

Tips for Better Sleep, Kids and Sleep, The Stages of Sleep
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Doctors use an all-night sleep study to make a definitive diagnosis of sleep apnea. During the test, sensors are attached to the head, face, chest, abdomen, and legs. The sensors transmit data on how many times the person being tested wakes up, as well

Adult Sleep Apnea : Treatment - Lots of Options
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A physician can diagnose sleep apnea and suggest treatment based on the patient's complaints of daytime sleepiness, insomnia, awareness of obstructed breathing during sleep, snoring, and headache or dry mouth on waking.

Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
A young baby should sleep almost all the time, and it will if intelligently cared for. Overfeeding is the bane of the baby's life and is the cause of most of its restlessness. The first few months the baby should be awake enough to take its food

Vitality Supreme
by Bernarr Macfadden
Sleep is one of the first essentials in maintaining or in building vitality. There are differences of opinion as to how much sleep may be necessary to health, but that sufficient sleep is required if one wishes to maintain the maximum of energy no one can

A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
A most important element in a life of healthful exercise, study, and play is rest. Even when we are hard at work, we need frequent breathing spells and changes of occupation and amusement to keep one part of our muscles, or our brains, from poisoning

Why Worry?
by George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
Sleeplessness is due, in the majority of cases, to a faulty habit of mind. The preparation for a sleepless night begins with the waking hours, is continued through the day, and reaches its maximum when we cease from the occupations

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
Generally speaking, the length of time a person can go without sleep is the same as that during which he can survive without food. Persons, particularly those of an hysteric nature, are prone to make statements that they have not slept for many days

The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health
by William A. Alcott
Not a few persons consider all rules relative to sleep as utterly futile. They regard it as so much of a natural or animal process, that if we are let alone we shall seldom err, at any age, respecting it. Rules on the subject, above all

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is no practice which has been more extensively eulogized in all ages than early rising; and this universal impression is an indication that it is founded on true philosophy. For it is rarely the case that the common sense of mankind fastens