Are you suffering from sleep deprivation because your baby will just not sleep through the night? Have you tried everything and reached the end of your tether?

Then this is the book you have been waiting for. Written by the acclaimed authors of Baby Sense, baby care consultants Megan Faure (an occupational therapist) and Ann Richardson (a specialist nursing sister); it offers the same simple, sensible solutions to ensure you and your baby will get a good night’s sleep by establishing healthy sleeping habits.

Learn to set the stage for sleep with:

• realistic expectations
• appropriate sensory experiences during the day
• the right sleep zone
• the elimination of hunger or medical reasons for night wakings
• healthy and sufficient day sleeps
• good sleep associations to prime your baby for independent night soothing and teach him to re-settle by himself
• solutions for separation issues.

Sleep Sense is well grounded in research and is a very useful tool for parents in understanding the relationship between sleep patterns and typical development. The first part of the book outlines reasons for interrupted sleep patterns and offers answers to solve these issues. In the second part of the book there is a trouble shooting section, divided into age bands from newborns to the pre-schooler. This is a quick fix section for desperate sleep deprived parents.

This book’s approach to sleep coaching is gentle and based on the natural and age-appropriate capacity your baby or child has for self-calming or soothing, and for separation from you.