Best Books for Dealing with Sleep Problem in Babies

If your baby is feeding well, the next big parenting issue is usually how to get your child to sleep through the night. Most infants have sleep problems, including trouble falling asleep, waking up and having irregular sleep patterns. While you may be besieged by lots of well meaning advice, sometimes the best reference to turn to is a book. While there is a huge number of books available on the subject below is a brief review of some of the most popular. Most of these books are written by well established and noted pediatricians or other child development experts. In addition to helping you fix sleep problems, these books can help you learn how to prevent them from occurring and develop good sleep habits that will have you and your baby sleeping peacefully all night long.

1.Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems By Richard Ferber, MD

Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems is one of the most popular parenting books that can help you get your child sleeping through the night. This book espouses what is thought of as the ‘cry it out’ approach. Supporters of this method state that Dr. Ferber will teach you how to develop good sleep patterns and teach your child to fall asleep on his own and sleep through the night.

2.The No Cry Sleep Solution By Elizabeth Pantley
This book promotes gentle ways to help your baby sleep through the night. Written by a parent educator and mother of four this is a great book for parents who want an alternative to the Ferber method.

3.Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Children by Dr. Noel Weissbluth

Noted pediatrician Dr. Noel Weissbluth gives parents a step-by-step program for a good night’s sleep. This book will teach you how to establish good sleep habits for your child to prevent sleep problems from occurring. One of the best features of the book is that it includes a month by month guide to normal sleep patterns, including naps, and how to deal with common sleep problems.

4.American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Sleep : Birth Through Adolescence By the American Academy of Pediatrics Staff

This book is a comprehensive guide to your child’s sleep; including how much sleep your child needs, fixing problems sleeping through the night, understanding fears, nightmares and sleep terrors, the importance of bedtime routines and rituals and how to solve common problems from infancy to adolescence. Parents love this book since it covers a wide range of ages.

5.Nighttime Parenting : How to Get Your Baby & Child to Sleep By William Sears, MD

Nighttime Parenting was written with the intent to help your whole family sleep better. This book includes a discussion of attachment parenting, the benefits of the family bed, co-sleeping or sharing sleep, and how to get your baby to sleep and stay asleep.

6.Sleep: The Brazelton Way By Dr. T. Berry Brazelton

This book is written by the popular pediatrician Dr. Brazelton who popularized the term “touch point”. Sleep: The Brazelton Way covers everything a parent needs to know about sleep, including the first great “touch point” of helping the baby sleep through the night. It also deals with deciding whether to start with, and weaning a child from, a “family bed,” sleepwalking, nightmares, and, above all, how to help children learn how to get themselves to sleep.

7.Sleeping Through the Night By Dr. Jody A. Mindell

This book deal with how infants, toddlers and their parents can get a good night’s sleep. It begins with a helpful introduction to sleep and sleep problems, establishing good sleep habits, and dealing with bedtime struggles, nighttime awakenings and other common sleep problems. It also gives suggestions on how to cope with the stress of teaching a child how to sleep.

8.Sweet Dreams By Dr. Paul Fleiss

This book gives a pediatrician’s secret for baby’s good night’s sleep. This includes how to discover your child’s natural sleep patterns and how to develop a positive bedtime ritual. This is a good overall book for dealing with sleep problems in even the youngest of infants.