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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 03 2017, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the zzzzzz-WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! dept.

Some Soylentils have managed to reproduce, so this study, which has findings on how to keep the young ones keep sleeping through the night, might be useful.

Overall, studies indicate that 15 to 20 percent of one to three year olds continue to have nightwakings. According to Stephanie Zandieh, M.D., Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders and Apnea Center, The Valley Hospital, "Inappropriate sleep associations are the primary cause of frequent nightwakings. Sleep associations are those conditions that are habitually present at the time of sleep onset and in the presence of which the infant or child has learned to fall asleep. These same conditions are then required in order for the infant or child to fall back to sleep following periodic normal nighttime arousals."

Sleep associations can be appropriate (e.g., thumb sucking) or problematic (e.g., rocking, nursing, parental presence). "Problematic sleep associations are those that require parental intervention and thus cannot be reestablished independently by the child upon awakening during the night," adds Dr. Zandieh.

Here are some helpful tips to help your child sleep through the night:

Every child is different, but the techniques seem sensible and worth trying, such as giving them a security blanket (or teddy bear, etc) when being put to bed to signal it's time to sleep.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @03:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @03:14AM (#449626)

    Me too. Right now, 1,5 hours of trying to sleep. I think my personal best is falling a sleep after about 7 hours of trying to sleep.
    I pretty much have all the things that makes falling a sleep difficult: very sensitive to light and sound, exploding head, flashes of light, feeling of falling (forgot the name), hypnic jerks, i toss and turn, restless legs syndrome etc.
    I find sleeping aid pills sometime seem to work, but otherwise definitely not.
    In the army i could take naps outside even during full daylight, but that ended there. Also when i was a kid i could sleep in the bus and mostly woke up a stop or 2 before my stop.