The Origins, Prevention and Treatment of Infant Crying and Sleeping Problems
The Origins, Prevention and Treatment of Infant Crying and Sleeping Problems

Author: Ian St James-Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1136453962

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Babies who cry a lot, or are unsettled in the night, are common sources of concern for parents and, consequently, costly problems for health services. In this book, Ian St James-Roberts summarises the evidence concerning infant crying and sleeping problems to provide a new evidence-based approach to these common challenges for parents and health services. The book begins by distinguishing between infant and parental parts of the problems and provides guidelines for assessing each issue. Topics covered include: • the pros and cons of 'infant-demand' versus 'limit-setting' forms of parenting • causes of infant 'colicky' crying and night waking • effects of night-time separations on infant attachments • interventions such as swaddling, herbal remedies, and 'controlled crying.' Since there is now firm evidence that parents' vulnerabilities and cultural backgrounds affect how problems are defined and guidance is acted upon, and that parents who wish to do so can reduce infant crying and unsettled night waking, social factors are considered alongside medical issues. Translating research evidence into practical tools and guidance, The Origins, Prevention and Treatment of Infant Crying and Sleeping Problems will be essential reading for a wide range of healthcare professionals including mental health staff, social workers, midwives, health visitors, community physicians and paediatricians.

Infant Crying
Infant Crying

Author: C.F.Z. Boukydis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1461323819

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The cries of infants and children are familiar to essentially all adults, and we all have our own common sense notions of the meanings of various cries at each age level. As is often the case, in the study of various aspects ofhuman behavior we often investigate what seems self evident to the general public. For example,if an infant cries, he or she needs atttention;if the cry is different than usual, he or she is sick; and when we areupsetby othermatters, children's crying can be very annoy ing. As a pediatric clinician often faced with discussing with parents their concerns or lack of them with respect to their children's crying, these usual commonsense interpretations were frequently inadequate. As this book illustrates, when we investigate such everyday behaviors as children's crying and adults' responses to crying, the nature of the problem becomes surprisingly complex. As a pediatrician working in the newborn nursery early in my career, I knew from pediatric textbooks and from nursery nurses, that newborn infants with high, piercing cries were often abnormal. In order to teach this interestingphenomenon to others and tounderstand under what circumstances it occurred, I found I needed to know what consti tuted a high-pitched cry or even a normal cry, for that matter, and how often this occurred with sick infants. Certainly I saw sick infants who did not have high-pitched cries, but I still wonderedif their cries were deviant in some other way.

Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems
Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems

Author: Dilys Daws

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0429582374

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Sleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over 40 years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together. Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise, this new edition of Dilys Daws’ classic work, updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton, frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families, showing instead how to begin the challenging journey of discovering new emotions that every baby brings. It sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babies’ physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems; and connections with feeding and weaning. This much-needed, compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems draws on twenty-first century development research and rich clinical wisdom to offer ways of understanding sleep problems in each individual family context, with all its particular pressures and possibilities. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies.

Crying Babies & Beyond
Crying Babies & Beyond

Author: Renée Shilkin

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780646533001

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"A book for parents about the medical aspects of distressed infants and issues during childhood. Topics discussed include irritability, feeding and sleeping problems in infants and the relationship to middle ear disease, allergy and reflux in infants and older children." -- Title page.

From Neurons to Neighborhoods
From Neurons to Neighborhoods

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2000-11-13

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0309069882

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How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more. Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.

Building Early Social and Emotional Relationships with Infants and Toddlers
Building Early Social and Emotional Relationships with Infants and Toddlers

Author: Amanda Sheffield Morris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-09

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 3030031101

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the process of building healthy early social and emotional relationships with infants from a developmental perspective. The book synthesizes current research on the contextual influences of attachment, family relationships, and caregiving practices on social-emotional development. Chapters examine the processes of socioemotional development—particularly in relationships with parents, other family members, and peers—and identify areas for promoting healthy attachments and resilience, improving caregiving skills, and intervening in traumatic and stressful situations. Chapters also present empirically-supported intervention and prevention programs focused on building early relationships from birth through three years of age. The book concludes with future directions for supporting infant mental health and its vital importance as a component of research, clinical and educational practice, and child and family policy. Topics featured in this book include: The effect of prenatal and neonatal attachment on social and emotional development. The impact of primary relationships and early experiences in toddlerhood. Toddler autonomy and peer awareness in the context of families and child care. Supporting early social and emotional relationships through The Legacy for ChildrenTM Intervention. How to build early relationship programming across various cultures. Building Early Social and Emotional Relationships with Infants and Toddlers is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians and professionals, and graduate students in the fields of infant mental health, developmental psychology, pediatrics, public health, family studies, and early childhood education.

Baby Sleep
Baby Sleep

Author: Larry Jane Clew

Publisher: Cocrix Press

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781637501894

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Are you nursing a baby and you want to know more about what to expect during the first few years of nursing a baby as either a first time mother or father or already a mother or father, or do you wish to gift book on nursing a baby to new parents? This is the guide to meet all your need. It's a comprehensive book that talks about the nature of babies. It could be debilitating if you are exhausted or more during the night to soothe your crying baby, mainly if you had a long day. We'll begin with why a baby isn't sleeping and ways to help her to rest better. When babies can't rest, they may be experiencing challenges like the common life-long struggle that lots of people have as it pertains right down to bedtime. Many people develop sleeplessness from certain sets off, such as too much caffeine, display screen time too near to the night, or only excess stress. Babies have their group of sleeplessness sets off that may keep them from a good evening rest. Being conscious of why your child won't rest, can't sleep, or requires continuous co-sleeping is the first step to resolving those problems. In this book you will learn sleep program that is strongly suggested if you want assistance in getting the baby to drift off and stay asleep, how to set bed time regimen, ways to turn your child from a crib to toddler bed, common baby sleep myths, how babies adapt to timezone changes, childhood sleep apnea, reasons why your child won't laugh or happy, what to do when your baby sleep with eyes opened, food to avoid and food to eat, and many more! After reading this book, you would be well equipped with what to expect during the first year of childbirth and nurturing of your baby.