Within this section you can find articles with tips and advice on bedtime routines for your child to help her sleep through the night together with up-to-date information on how to avoid cot death.
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Cot Death
Great progress has been made in identifying factors that can significantly reduce the risk of cot death. Cot death is rare and a few simple precautions will encourage peace of mind.
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Cot Death - Bedding Sheepskins
Scientist warns parents about new research into bedding sheepskins: Generation of highly toxic gas from sheepskins proved.
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Crying Out
As your sleep issues cast lengthening shadows over your life, you may begin to live purely for the moment. Your sleep-deprived, foggy brain may focus so intently on sleep that you can’t think beyond the next few hours of rest. You may have one - or many - people telling you that you should just let your baby cry to sleep.
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Early Bedtime
In their efforts to encourage their baby to sleep better, one approach that many parents use is to put their baby to bed later in the evening. They think, “If he’s “really tired” he’ll sleep better, right?” Wrong! This often backfires because Baby becomes overtired, and chronically sleep-deprived.
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Insomnia
Dealing with insomnia by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., and Jan Hanson, L.Ac., authors of Mother Nurture.
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Sleeping Baby
When your baby wakes in the middle of the night, you probably have a routine to get him back to sleep. Learning how to break the association can be a gradual, thoughtful process that required self-examination.
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Sleep Prevention
As much as we may want our babies to sleep through the night, our own subconscious emotions sometimes hold us back from encouraging change in our babies’ sleeping habits. You yourself may be the very obstacle preventing you from changing a routine that disrupts your life.
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Sleep Tips
In the very early days with your newborn baby, it is unrealistic to expect long, uninterrupted nights of sleep. Demand feeding, the need for reassuring cuddles and your baby's lack of awareness of the difference between day and night can all contribute to disturbed sleep for you and your partner.
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Too Hot?
Small babies are not very good at controlling their own temperature. It's just as important to avoid getting too hot as it is to avoid getting chilled. Overheating is known to be a factor in cot death. So how do we know what is too hot? A guide to 'tog values'.
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