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Co-sleeping with your baby

Mum Sharon Burchill will tonight face a battle to get her one-year-old daughter to sleep in her cot. Every night since baby Cerys was born, she has refused to sleep alone. Most nights Cerys ends up in the parental bed with Sharon while dad Jason sleeps in another room at their Bristol home. It is not what they planned, but…

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Newborn baby sleep patterns

Newborn babies sleep a lot. But they follow a little-and-often, never-at-the-same-time-twice schedule. So although the average newborn baby has about 16 hours sleep in every 24, he is likely to do it in bouts of two, three or four hours throughout the night and day. As babies grow they need less sleep and take more of…

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Positive sleep patterns for your baby

A positive sleep routine

There’s nothing more pitiful than finally crashing out in bed after a long day, dozing off then hearing a plaintive cry becoming full-on screams echoing from your baby’s bedroom… “But my baby sleeps through the night,” you say, “I don’t have to worry about such things!” Yet nearly every parent, at one time or another will…

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Babies At Risk Because Parents Lack Safe Sleeping Knowledge

The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) has launched a new campaign for Baby Safety Week (9-15 May 2005) to highlight the importance of room sharing and the dangers of bed sharing. A new opinion poll commissioned by the Foundation has shown that parents are confused on safe sleeping practices for their baby.…

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Daytime Cot Death Warnings

Parents are being warned to follow the same cot death precautions during the day as at night. Experts say this includes the advice that babies should sleep on their backs and that they should be in the same room as their parents. Speaking in the International Journal of Epidemiology, researchers warned that three-quarters of babies…

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Fussy babies grow into disobedient kids

Fussy babies are likely to grow into tiny tyrants who rule the roost at home and are often in trouble at school, according to a major study. Their bad behaviour seems to follow them into their early teens as they develop into children who disobey parents and cheat, lie, and bully at school, doctors said.…

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Parenting Books

Parenting Baby’s Little Instruction Book How to Say it to Your Kids The Essential Book of Parenting Make Your Child a Millionaire The Good Web Guide to Health Baby Signs Three in a bed NCT Complete Book of Babycare The Organic Baby Book Have Baby Will Travel The Good Web Guide for Parents The New…

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Breastfeeding vs bottlefeeding

As any regular visitor to our Discuss Debate and Deliberate forum knows, there are certain parenting topics guaranteed to ruffle a few feathers. We decided to put them to a couple of fathers, Mark and Carl, to see if they get as hot under the collar as women… Breastfeeding vs bottlefeeding Question: Should mums try as…

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Arf Kids’ provide the revolutionary new way to help children stay longer in bed

6 Members will get a chance to win a Arf Kids Kidsleep clock Arf Kids offer a highly effective child sleeping aid, which will help to make your child’s sleeping times more regular, and discourage children who sleep fitfully from getting up in the middle of the night. If you are being woken up early…

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How to reduce the risk of cot death

Parents are currently advised not to share their bed with a young baby after new evidence that the practice increases the risk of cot death. Sadly each year in the UK, around 350 babies die suddenly and unexpectedly of sudden infant death syndrome or cot death, as it is commonly called. One of the biggest studies of its…

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