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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Your Child's Sleep | |
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| At the End of Your Rope | |
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| Can a Child Just Be a "Poor Sleeper"? | |
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| How to Tell Whether Your Child Has a Sleep Problem | |
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| Starting with a Basic Understanding of Sleep | |
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| What We Know About Sleep | |
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| Non-REM Sleep | |
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| REM Sleep | |
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| How Sleep Stages Develop in Children | |
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| Children's Sleep Cycles | |
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| Sleep and Waking Patterns | |
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| The Importance of Biological Rhythms | |
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| Helping Your Child Develop Good Sleep Practices | |
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| The Importance of Your Child's Bedtime Routines | |
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| "Back to Sleep": Reducing the Risk of SIDS | |
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| Should Your Child Sleep in Your Bed? | |
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| Specific Issues Related to Co-sleeping | |
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| The Sleep Challenges of Multiples: Twins and Triplets | |
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| The Special Toy or Favorite Blanket | |
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| Developing Good Schedules | |
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| The Sleepless Child | |
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| Sleep Associations: A Key Problem | |
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| A Typical Sleep Association Problem | |
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| Why Sleep Associations Matter | |
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| Wrong Sleep Associations | |
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| How to Solve the Problem: The Progressive-Waiting Approach | |
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| Making the Changes in One Step or Several | |
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| Associations to the Breast, Bottle, or Pacifier | |
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| Co-sleeping and Related Considerations | |
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| If Things Are Not Getting Better | |
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| General Observations | |
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| The Problem of Limit Setting | |
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| Who's in Charge? | |
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| Difficulty Setting Limits | |
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| Limits, Associations, Feedings, Schedules, and Fears | |
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| Setting Limits at Night | |
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| Limit Setting Problems: Some Examples | |
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| Feedings During the Night: Another Major Cause of Trouble | |
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| Is Your Child's Sleep Problem Caused by Nighttime Feedings? | |
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| How to Solve the Problem | |
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| Other Points to Keep in Mind | |
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| Medical Considerations | |
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| Nighttime Fears | |
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| The Anxious Child | |
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| Bedtime Fears | |
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| Evaluating Your Child's Fears | |
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| How to Cope with Nighttime Fears | |
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| Techniques to Help a Child Feel Less Frightened and Fall Asleep Quickly | |
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| Final Considerations | |
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| Colic and Other Medical Causes of Poor Sleep | |
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| Colic | |
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| Chronic Illness | |
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| Nocturnal Pain | |
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| Medication | |
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| Abnormal Brain Function and a True Inability to Sleep Well | |
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| Schedules and Sleep Rhythm Disturbances | |
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| Schedules and Rhythms | |
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| Sleep Phases | |
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| The Circadian System and the Forbidden Zone for Sleep: Why You Can Stay Awake Until Bedtime-and Sleep Until Morning | |
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| Setting the Biological Clock: How Do You Know What Time Zone You Are In? | |
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| Individual Differences: Are You a Lark or an Owl? | |
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| Society, Sleep Deprivation, and the Adolescent | |
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| Specific Sleep Problems Affecting Different Parts of the Sleep Cycle: A Summary | |
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| Schedule Disorders I: Sleep Phase Problems | |
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| Sleep Phases | |
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| Sleep Phase Shifts | |
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| Sleep Phase Shifts in the Adolescent | |
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| Schedule Disorders II: Other Common Schedule Problems | |
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| Problems in Regular Schedules | |
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| Irregular and Inconsistent Sleep-Wake Schedules | |
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| Travel | |
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| Naps | |
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| Problems with the Length and Timing of Naps | |
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| Trouble Giving Up a Nap: Transition Problems | |
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| Nap Time Sleep Association Problems | |
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| Napping (or Not) at Home and at Day Care | |
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| You May Have to Accept What Works | |
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| Interruptions During Sleep | |
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| Partial Wakings: Sleep Talking, Sleepwalking, Confusional Arousals, and Sleep Terrors | |
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| What They Are and Why They Happen | |
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| The Normal Transition from Deep (Stage IV) Sleep Toward Waking | |
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| More Intense Transitions: A Spectrum of Confusional Events | |
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| What a Confusional Event Feels Like | |
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| Why Confusional Events Happen: The Balance Between Sleep and Waking | |
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| The Variability of Arousals over Time | |
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| Evaluating Confusional Events: When to Take Action | |
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| Treatment | |
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| What You Should Do and What Else to Consider | |
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| How We Helped the Children Described Earlier | |
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| Nightmares | |
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| What Nightmares Are and Why They Occur | |
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| How to Help Your Child If He Is Having Nightmares | |
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| Nightmares and Confusional Events | |
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| Nightmares or "'No'-mares"?: "I had a bad dream" | |
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| Bedwetting | |
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| The Impact of Enuresis | |
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| What Causes Enuresis? | |
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| Approaches to Treating Enuresis | |
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| Final Words | |
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| Head Banging, Body Rocking, and Head Rolling | |
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| When Do These Behaviors Occur? | |
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| What Do These Behaviors Look Like? | |
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| Is Head Banging Dangerous? | |
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| When Should You Be Concerned? | |
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| What Causes Rhythmic Behaviors? | |
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| Treating the Problem | |
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| Outcomes | |
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| The Sleepy Child | |
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| Noisy Breathing, Snoring, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea | |
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| What Happens in Sleep Apnea | |
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| What Causes the Obstruction | |
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| Treating Sleep Apnea | |
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| Some Words of Caution | |
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| Getting Your Child the Help She Needs | |
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| Narcolepsy and Other Causes of Sleepiness | |
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| Is Your Child Abnormally Sleepy? | |
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| Causes of Sleepiness Other Than Narcolepsy | |
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| Treating Simpler Causes of Sleepiness | |
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| Evaluation at a Sleep Disorders Center | |
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| Narcolepsy | |
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| The Cause of Narcolepsy | |
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| The Treatment of Narcolepsy | |
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| Future Treatments | |
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| Index | |