What to expect the first year vs Solve your child's sleep problems

What to expect the first year

Eisenberg

1989

Now fully revised and updated, this comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring special sections on older siblings, travelling with a baby, adopted babies, and specific problems, as well as a first aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family. Covering the most up-to-date knowledge, both medical and developmental, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is, above all, down-to-earth and reassuring - and an invaluable aid for all parents of new babies.

Solve your child's sleep problems

Richard Ferber, Ferber, Richard M.D.

1985

A major revision of Dr Richard Ferber's classic book which has been a bestseller for over 20 years. It offers priceless advice and concrete help for a whole generation of anxious and exhausted parents. It contains information on getting your child to sleep; effective strategies for naps; sleep abnormalities; REM and non REM sleep; the pros and cons of co-sleeping; sleep terrors; sleepwalking; bedwetting, headbanging; bedtime routines; sleep rhythm disturbances; nightmares; naps; narcolepsy and other causes of sleeplessness. An invaluable resource for parents everywhere. Dr Richard Ferber is director of the Centre for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, Boston.