Good Night, Sleep Tight : The Sleep Lady®'s Gentle Guide to Helping Your Child Go to Sleep, Stay Asleep, and Wake up Happy

by West, Kim; Kenen, Joanne

• ISBN13: 9781593150259
• ISBN10: 1593150253
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Provides advice for helping infants sleep, including helping a baby to sleep through the night, weaning a child from a family bed, sleepwalking, nightmares, and teaching children how to get themselves to sleep.

Author Biography

Kim West, known as The Sleep LadyR by her clients, has helped more than a thousand parents learn to listen to their intuition, recognize their child's important sleep cues and behaviors, and gently create changes that promote and preserve healthy sleep habits. Kim, a mother of two and a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C), has been a practicing social worker for more than twelve years. She received her Master's degree in Clinical Social Work from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Kim lives with her family in Maryland. Joanne Kenen is a journalist and mother of two who first met Kim West professionally while seeking a remedy for her younger son's sleep difficulties. Joanne graduated from Harvard University, then went on to report from Latin America and the Caribbean, New York, and Miami before settling in Washington, D.C. For the past ten years she has been a Washington, D.C.-based writer, specializing in U.S. politics, health care, and health policy. Joanne lives with her husband and their sons outside of Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	xiii
Part One
Introduction: Meet the Sleep Lady	3	(9)
Chapter 1: The Sleep Lady System	12	(16)
Chapter 2: Sleep Basics	28	(7)
Chapter 3: The Right Start for Newborns and Infants	35	(16)
Part Two
Chapter 4: Newborn to Five Months	51	(27)
Chapter 5: Six to Eight Months	78	(29)
Chapter 6: Nine to Twelve Months	107	(25)
Chapter 7: Thirteen to Eighteen Months	132	(24)
Chapter 8: One and a Half to Two and a Half Years Old	156	(37)
Chapter 9: Two and a Half to Five Years Old	193	(42)
Part Three
Chapter 10: Co-sleeping and the Family Bed	235	(23)
Chapter 11: Twins and Siblings	258	(13)
Chapter 12: Nightmares, Sleepwalking, and Night Terrors	271	(7)
Chapter 13: Medical Problems	278	(20)
Chapter 14: Routine Busters	298	(18)
Chapter 15: Problem Solving and Taking Care of Mom and Dad	316	(17)
Resource Directory	333	(6)
Index	339