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The Gentle Sleep Book

Gentle, No-Tears, Sleep Solutions for Parents of Newborns to Five-Year-Olds
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The Gentle Sleep Book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith offers compassionate, evidence-based guidance for parents struggling with their young child's sleep. Covering challenges from newborn frequent night waking to toddler bedwetting and pre-school nightmares or bedtime refusal, it combines scientific insights with real-life anecdotes. The book presents gentle strategies that avoid leaving babies to cry or isolating distressed children, aiming to help families achieve restful nights from infancy through school age.
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Ideal for parents seeking a gentle, evidence-based approach to improving their young child's sleep, including those facing frequent night waking, bedwetting, nightmares, or bedtime resistance.

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The Gentle Sleep Book offers gentle, no-tears, sleep solutions for exhausted parents of newborns to five-year-olds.

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A large percentage of parents find their young child's sleep— or lack of it—challenging. This new book from Sarah Ockwell-Smith, founder of BabyCalm, will be an indispensable guide for parents, whatever challenges they are facing with their child's sleep—from the day they bring their newborn home until their child is settled into school.

The Gentle Sleep Book examines everything from frequent night waking in babyhood, through bedwetting in toddlerhood, to nightmares and refusal to go to bed in pre-schoolers. This book provides extensive scientific and anecdotal information, plus plenty of gentle suggestions, to help everyone get a good night's sleep.

This is a gentle, evidence-based approach that doesn't involve leaving a baby to cry or shutting a sobbing child in their bedroom.

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    A large percentage of parents find their young child's sleep— or lack of it—challenging. This new book from Sarah Ockwell-Smith, founder of BabyCalm, will be an indispensable guide for parents, whatever challenges they are facing with their child's sleep—from the day they bring their newborn home until their child is settled into school. The Gentle Sleep Book examines everything from...
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Juno praises the book's approach, noting that "Sleep is not a battle. It's a balance," and highlights the practical advice provided through the useful BEDTIME acronym for managing real sleep challenges.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349405209

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Piatkus Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 234.0mm

Height: 156.0mm

Weight: 414g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four young children. She has a BSc in Psychology and worked for several years in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. Following the birth of her first-born, Sarah re-trained as a Paediatric Homeopath, HypnoBirthing Antenatal Teacher and Birth and Postnatal Doula. She has also undertaken training in Baby Massage, Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, and is the founder of BabyCalm (www.babycalm.co.uk), an award-winning company offering support and classes to new parents.

In 2012 Sarah launched ToddlerCalm, which now has 50 UK teachers, as well as teachers in Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. The company has also formed a partnership with the Active Birth Centre and hosts regular workshops at its London headquarters (www.toddlercalming.co.uk).

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