Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night Going-To-Bed Book, The Sleep Better!: A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children With Special Needs Good Nights : The Happy Parents' Guide to the Family Bed (and a Peaceful Night's Sleep!) A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America Sleeping Through the Night : How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep

• Children's Sleep.
• Newborn infants sleep 16 to 18 hours per day in 3-4 hour cyclic periods. By age 6 months, an infant may sleep as much as 6 continuous hours at night with the need for 1 feeding in the middle of the night. ... The success of the consolidation process is extremely important for both behavioral development and the sleep of parents. Good sleep in infants and children is also important for physical growth and  school performance.
• In general, children have little difficulty in initiating sleep and staying asleep on their own. ... 95% of infants in the first 3-6 months cry upon awakening which necessitates parental soothing for a return to sleep. By 12 months, 70% of infants are now able to self-soothe themselves back to sleep. ...
• Sleep apnea in adults is becoming better known in the media. Less attention has been given to the fact that 7-10% of children snore all night, every night, and 1% actually have problems breathing during sleep. Children with apnea or difficulty staying asleep may adopt odd or peculiar sleep positions to keep their airway open. ...
• Adolescents actually need 9-10 hours of sleep per night but usually average less than 7 hours per night. A chronic sleep debt hurts grades and can lead to reckless behavior. ...
• This delayed sleep phase syndrome can seriously affect school performance and family interactions. To accommodate school hours and to ensure food health, strict schedules to ensure adequate sleep are necessary but sometimes difficult to enforce.
• Sleep Disorders Lab at Regional Medical Center - Madisonville, Kentucky.

• Sleep Apnea .
•   Children .
• Children and Sleep Apnea .
• This page discusses uncomplicated childhood sleep apnea. The American Academy of Pediatrics defines uncomplicated sleep apnea as obstructive sleep apnea in an otherwise healthy child, caused by any or all of: .
• Snoring is an important sign of uncomplicated childhood sleep apnea. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be routinely screened for snoring. ... Children who snore should be evaluated further. ...
• It is important to diagnose sleep apnea in children because the disease is common, serious, and treatable. ...
• Common About 2% of children have sleep apnea, or 1 in 50. Snoring occurs in 3% to 12% of children of pre-school age. Serious Sleep apnea in children can cause: .
• One or more of these consequences of sleep apnea may be absent in some children, mild in some, and severe in others. Death from sleep apnea has occurred. ...
• The behavioral effects of sleep apnea in children can be different from those in adults. Some children with sleep apnea have behaviors that are indistinguishable from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Treatable Surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids is the first-line treatment for most children. ... Children who undergo surgery should be evaluated afterwards, to determine the effectiveness of the operation. ...

• Wednesday, 8 September, 1999, 18:32 GMT 19:32 UK Television 'disturbs children's sleep'.
• If you want your children to get a good night's sleep stop them watching television during the evening. ...
• Not only does access to a television provide too much temptation for many children who should be getting at least eight hours sleep, the content of programmes can leave them over-excited, disturbed or frightened. ...
• Researchers found that the problem was worse if children had a television in their bedroom. ...
• In August, the Academy published a policy statement suggesting children younger than age two should not watch television at all. ...
• The new study, from Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown University in Rhode Island, said doctors "should be aware of the potential negative impact of television viewing at bedtime" and recommended parents "be questioned about their children's television viewing habits as part of general screening for sleep disorders. ...
• Researchers surveyed the parents of 495 children aged five to10 to assess sleep behaviour and TV viewing habits. ...
• They found increased daily TV viewing and increased viewing at bedtime were associated with sleep disturbance, especially when children had a set in their bedroom. ...
• One in four parents surveyed said their children had bedroom TV sets. ...
• Sleep characteristics most often affected included bedtime resistance, sleep onset delay, anxiety and shortened sleep duration, the report said. ...
• The researchers suggested that children might be over-stimulated, disturbed or frightened by the content of programmes particularly those containing violence. ...
• However, they also suggest children might not sleep well after watching television because they were not taking exercise. ...
• "Television viewing may simply serve to displace sleep time," the article said. ...
• Professor Neil Douglas, director of the Scottish National Sleep Centre, said: "It seems eminently sensible that children should be encouraged not to spend large periods of their evening watching television. ...
• "There is reasonable evidence that ability to concentrate and work well at school does relate to how well children have slept at night. ...
• Night light 'damages children's eyes' 20 May 99 | Health.

• Children's Sleep Problems.
• Many children have sleep problems. ...
• Talking during sleep; .
• Many childhood sleep problems are related to irregular sleep habits or to anxiety about going to bed and falling asleep. Sleep problems may also be symptoms of emotional difficulties. "Separation anxiety" is a developmental landmark for young children. For normal young children, bedtime is a time of separation: Some children will do all they can to prevent separation. ...
• To help minimize these types of common sleep problems, a parent can develop consistent and regular sleep routines for children. ...
• Parents often find that feeding and rocking help an infant to get to sleep. However, as the child leaves infancy, parents should encourage the child to sleep without feeding and rocking. Otherwise, the developing child will have a hard time going to sleep alone. ...
• Sleep terrors, sleepwalking, and sleep talking constitute a relatively rare group of sleep disorders, called "parasomnias. ...
• Sleep terrors are different from nightmares. The child with sleep terrors will scream uncontrollably and appear to be awake, but is confused and can't communicate. Sleep terrors usually begin between ages 4 and 12. ...
• Children who sleepwalk may appear to be awake as they move around, but are actually asleep and in danger of hurting themselves. ... Both sleep terrors and sleepwalking run in families and affect boys more often than girls. ...

• Undiagnosed sleep problem threatens children: CWRU study finds African-Americans and premature babies face increased risk .
• CLEVELAND—In a study of more than 900 Cleveland children, researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital have discovered a surprisingly large number of youth with a serious sleep-related breathing disorder that could make it difficult for them to think or perform well in school and may lead to serious growth or heart problems. ...
• The Cleveland Children's Sleep and Health Study also revealed two groups of children at much greater risk for Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB)—African-Americans and children who were born prematurely. ...
• African-American children were up to six times as likely as white children to exhibit signs of SDB. ...
• Children who were born prematurely, less than 36 weeks gestation, were found to have up to a five times greater risk of SDB than full-term children. ...
• In SDB, there is a prolonged complete or partial airway collapse that disrupts breathing during sleep. ... If unrecognized and untreated, SDB can lead to serious complications for children including behavior and learning problems, growth impairment and even heart ailments. ...
• , associate professor of pediatrics, pulmonology and neurology at CWRU and medical director of Pediatric Sleep Services at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, was primary investigator for the study, which was published in a recent issue of Journal of Pediatrics. ...
• "In previous studies, the prevalence of SDB was based on parental reports of children's snoring, which may be unreliable," Rosen said. "In this study, we actually measured SDB with special equipment in participants' homes, allowing us to get a truer estimate of SDB in children. ... 2 percent of otherwise healthy 8- to 11-year-old children. ...
• Rosen's study of Cleveland children was inspired by an ongoing study of Cleveland families being conducted by her CWRU and Rainbow colleague, Susan Redline, M. ... Redline observed SDB in the children of families where adults suffered from the disorder. ...
• In order to understand how prevalent the disorder was in the general population of children and risk factors for vulnerable populations, Rosen and colleagues supplemented the new Cleveland Children's Sleep and Health Study cohort with more minority children.
• African-American children have an increased risk for socioeconomic disadvantage that can exacerbate health problems. Premature children are at higher risk for developmental delays. ...

• Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems Richard Ferber .
• Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems--a tired parent's essential for more than 10 years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on Ferber's research as the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. Detailed case histories on night waking, difficulty sleeping, and more serious disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking help illustrate a wide variety of problems and their solutions. ... You'll also find a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming, as well as a list of helpful organizations. Here's a book that is sure to put you and your whole family to sleep--in this case, that's a good thing. ...
• Even for naps! January 27, 2004 Reviewer: Rachel from Mustang, Oklahoma I read this book after I read "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" by Pantly. ... My son was 11 months old when we started this and he is only one month into it but after only 1 night and 40 minutes of crying he now goes to sleep on his own. ...
• Was this review helpful to you?   0 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Make your baby cry January 12, 2004 Reviewer: A reader The name given this technique by fans is Ferberizing, and it means to put your baby in her crib and let her cry herself to sleep. You go in on a schedule to reassure her and then leave her again and again until she succombs to sleep. ... I'm taking a different path and using The No-Cry Sleep Solution for gentle ways to help her sleep better. ... Everyone tells us all the time how happy our kids are and how great they sleep. ...
• I see people struggle with sleep, or the people who won't give Dr. F the time of day because they stereotype him as "the guy who makes you cry your baby to sleep". ...
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• CEP-10953 for Treatment of Narcolepsy, Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome, or Chronic Shift Work Sleep Disorder.
• Conditions: Narcolepsy; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; Sleep Apnea Syndromes; Shift-Work Sleep Disorder.
• Sleep Disorders of Patients with Diseases of the Nervous System.
• Conditions: Hypersomnia; Narcolepsy; Nervous System Disease; Sleep Disorder.
• Conditions: Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic.
• Valeriana Officinalis (Valerian) for Improving Sleep in Patients With Cancer Receiving Adjuvant Therapy.
• Conditions: Sleep Disorders; unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific; Fatigue.
• Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children.
• Conditions: Lung Diseases; Sleep Apnea Syndromes.
• Conditions: Lung Diseases; Sleep Apnea Syndromes; Sleep.
• CEP-10953 in Treatment of Excessive Sleepiness Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea (OSA/H) Syndrome.
• Conditions: Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; Sleep Apnea Syndromes.
• Effects of Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Epilepsy.
• Conditions: Epilepsy; Sleep Apnea; Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
• Valerian to Improve Sleep in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.

• Home Healthy Families Babies Helping Children Sleep (over 6 months) .
• Helping Children Sleep (over 6 months) Published: 1/27/2004 - 32 .
• If there were an easy, painless way to solve your child's sleep problems, you would have already found it!.
• When children don't sleep, parents don't sleep.
• Children with poor sleep habits are cranky, irritable, less able to calm themselves and their ability to learn can be adversely affected. ...
• Parents may find themselves dragging through the day, tense, and impatient with their children and their spouses. ...
• Bedtime routines, the sleep environment, feeding patterns, nap patterns, medical causes, and how the child is put to sleep all affect how successful a child will be in sleeping well at night. ...
• Parents have many options to help children sleep.
• If the child has been accustomed to being rocked or nursed to sleep, parents can expect a significant amount of protest in the form of crying until the child is used to the new routine.
• Remember that both parents and children have improved quality of life with healthier sleep patterns.
• The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit offers information sessions on Helping Children Sleep. The workshop is for parents and caregivers of children birth to 5 years. ...
• Sleeping Through The Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get A Good Nights Sleep, HarperCollins Books.
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• Sleep Apnea.
• disability, and death from sleep apnea and to enhancing the .
• INFORMATION ABOUT SLEEP APNEA.
• SLEEP APNEA DEFINED.
• Despite the difference in the root cause of each type, in all three, people with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times during the night and often for a minute or longer. ...
• Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by a blockage of the airway, usually when the soft tissue in the rear of the throat collapses and closes during sleep. In central sleep apnea, the airway is not blocked but the brain fails to signal the muscles to breathe. ... With each apnea event, the brain briefly arouses people with sleep apnea in order for them to resume breathing, but consequently sleep is extremely fragmented and of poor quality. ...
• Sleep apnea is very common, as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than twelve million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. Risk factors include being male, overweight, and over the age of forty, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children. ...
• Untreated, sleep apnea can cause high blood pressure and other cardiovascular disease, memory problems, weight gain, impotency, and headaches. Moreover, untreated sleep apnea may be responsible for job impairment and motor vehicle crashes. Fortunately, sleep apnea can be diagnosed and treated. ...
• American Sleep Apnea Association.
• The ASAA is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing injury, disability, and death from sleep apnea and to enhancing the well-being of those affected by this common disorder.

• Treating Children's Sleep Disorders Improves Attention Deficit Symptoms .
• Description: By treating children's sleep disorders, parents may find that their attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) improves as well, according to a new study. ...
• Treating Children's Sleep Disorders Improves Attention Deficit Symptoms By treating children's sleep disorders, parents may find that their attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) improves as well, according to a study released during the American Academy of Neurology's 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting April 25-May 2 in Minneapolis, MN. ...
• The study involved children with ADHD as well as restless legs syndrome and/or periodic limb movements of sleep. ... Periodic limb movements of sleep involves episodes of repetitive leg movements causing brief awakenings in brain activity. Both sleep disorders can cause interrupted sleep and fatigue or sleepiness during the day. ...
• In the study, five children were treated with the drug levodopa, which has been shown to improve symptoms of these sleep disorders but not ADHD. ...
• "The children showed marked improvement," said neurologist Arthur S. ... "Their sleep disorders improved, and so did their behavior and mental acuity. ...
• The children's attention spans improved, along with their memory. And parents also reported that their children's behavior improved.
• Walters said the sleep disruption may cause the children to be inattentive and hyperactive due to sleep deprivation. The children also may have leg discomfort when sitting at their school desks that is relieved only by moving around, he said.
• Walters cautioned, "It is not definitely proven that periodic limb movements of sleep leads to symptoms of ADHD. ...
• Children with ADHD have a higher incidence of periodic limb movements of sleep than children who don't have ADHD, Walters said. Also, the parents of children with ADHD and periodic limb movements of sleep have a higher incidence of restless legs syndrome than other parents.

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• Children not getting enough sleep: US study.
• MARK COLVIN: And you could get the impression at the moment that we have to be busy, busy, busy from birth 'til death, and it's a sad reflection on modern society that many of our children are apparently sleep-deprived.
• A new study in the United States has found that two thirds of children there do not get enough rest, and sleep experts here say that many Australian children's lives are so packed with activity that they're not resting enough.
• They say it does matter because sleep deprivation can hinder child development and lead to behavioural problems.
• Four months after the birth of her son, James, the 31-year old new mother has reached a point where she's had to get help, as for the last five weeks her little boy has not slept for more than three hours at a time and she's feeling the effects of constant sleep deprivation.
• I haven't been getting much sleep at all for the last few weeks so it's been pretty hard.
• JUSTINE MEEKIN: I knew a bit about how to get them to sleep, but not a lot, really, no. ... But I knew he did need more sleep than he was getting.
• A new poll by the National Sleep Foundation in the United States has found that two thirds of children under school age are not getting enough sleep and as a result their parents are also losing up to 200 hours of sleep a year.
• She says this chronic lack of sleep is also on the rise in Australia.
• JULIE-ANNE MURPHY: Often in the early days parents actually don't realise that their children are tired, so they don't recognise the signs of tiredness and therefore don't give their children an opportunity to go to sleep. So often it's parents not actually realising that their children are tired. ...
• I think parents are really busy now and there's lots of pressures on them, so if children start off not having a great sleep pattern, I can see that that would carry on as the children got older. ...
• JULIA LIMB: Dr Margot Davey, from the Melbourne Children's Sleep Unit, agrees. She says the demands on the modern child are such that sleep is not always a priority and that has a significant impact on young lives.
• MARGOT DAVEY: I think children are involved in a lot more extracurricular activities, school is involved, and then a lot of parents are working and they have other commitments. ...

• Sleep Problems.
• Sleep Problems.
• Many children have sleep problems. ...
• Talking during sleep; .
• Many childhood sleep problems are related to irregular sleep habits or to anxiety about going to bed and falling asleep. Sleep problems may also be symptoms of emotional difficulties. "Separation anxiety" is a developmental landmark for young children. For normal young children, bedtime is a time of separation: Some children will do all they can to prevent separation. ...
• To help minimize these types of common sleep problems, a parent can develop consistent and regular sleep routines for children. ...
• Parents often find that feeding and rocking help an infant to get to sleep. However, as the child leaves infancy, parents should encourage the child to sleep without feeding and rocking. Otherwise, the developing child will have a hard time going to sleep alone. ...
• Sleep terrors, sleepwalking, and sleep talking constitute a relatively rare group of sleep disorders, called "parasomnias. ...
• Sleep terrors are different from nightmares. The child with sleep terrors will scream uncontrollably and appear to be awake, but is confused and can't communicate. Sleep terrors usually begin between ages 4 and 12. ...

• Mindell is Pediatric Clinical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Allegheny University of hte Health Sciences in Philadelphia. ... Joseph's University, and is the author of numerous publications on the subject of pediatric sleep disorders. Sleeping Through the Night provides information and suggestions for parents coping with their children's sleep issues. ...
• Jodi A Mindell: I wrote Sleeping Through the Night in response to parents' need for accessible information on how to get their children to sleep through the night. ... One of these obstacles, which is usually not addressed elsewhere, is parents own emotional responses to dealing with their child's sleep problems and helping them cope with sleepless nights.
• What can parents do to help their children get to sleep?.
• Jodi A Mindell: The key things that parents can do to help their children get to sleep is to have a set bedtime (preferably between 7:30 and 8:30), a consistent and soothing bedtime routine, and have their child fall asleep on his/her own.
• What should parents do if their children waken during the night?.
• Jodi A Mindell: All children wake during the night. The issue is whether or not they can return to sleep on their own. A child who can self-soothe to sleep at bedtime will be able to do so in the middle of the night. ...
• What are some signs of sleep disturbance that parents might want to be on the lookout for?.
• Jodi A Mindell: One of the most common serious sleep disturbances seen in children is obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that occurs during sleep. Some symptoms of sleep apnea are snoring, breathing pauses, mouth breathing, restlessness, and daytime sleepiness. If you are concerned about your child's sleep, speak with his/her physician or contact a sleep center in your area.
• In children, they have difficulty falling asleep and are often running about the house after being put to bed. ...

• A Sensitive and Sensible Approach to Solving Your Child's Sleep Problems.
• describes the sleep problems of infants, dispels myths about their cause, offers interesting facts and outlines treatment possibilities. ...
• Sadeh knows more about infant sleep problems than almost anyone else. ... It's a thorough book, going through just about every topic that relates to sleep. ...
• "Why doesn't my baby sleep better?" weary parents ask. "How can we get more sleep?" There are as many answers to these questions as there are babies and families, says Dr. ... Based on his years of research with sleep-disturbed babies and their sleep-deprived parents, Dr. Sadeh suggests a wide variety of practical solutions to babies' and young children's sleep problems. ...
• Other experts may recommend one strict approach to changing a baby's sleep habits, but a single remedy fails to take into account a baby's uniqueness and the dynamics of his or her family, Dr. ... He helps parents first to understand the natural sleep patterns of babies, and then to consider their own family's situation and needs. ... Sadeh describes the various sleep problems of early childhood, outlines treatment possibilities, and details the pros and cons of each of these choices. ...
• This book will appeal not only to sleepless parents seeking relief but also to those who are curious about the most recent findings in children's sleep research. ... Sadeh addresses a full range of questions: What is the importance of sleep to a baby? How do babies in different cultures sleep? How is sleep related to development? What causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? How do babies calm themselves? What are the advantages and disadvantages of communal sleeping? With up-to-date answers to these questions and more, Dr. Sadeh offers parents and professionals all the information they need to help babies--and their families--sleep better. ...
• Avi Sadeh is senior lecturer, director of the Laboratory for Children's Sleep and Arousal Disorders, and chairman of the Clinical Child Psychology Graduate Program at Tel Aviv University. ...
• "This appealing book answers an enormous number of questions about infants' and children's sleep. ... Sadeh takes into account different family dynamics and proposes a variety of options for parents in quest of a better night's sleep. ...

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea and DS .
• In children, sleep apnea is almost always obstructive. ...
• Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) are: snoring, restless/disturbed sleep, frequent partial or total wakenings and daytime mouth breathing. Some children with OSA have odd sleep positions, often with their neck bent backwards, or even in a sitting position. Some children with OSA sweat profusely during sleep. In adults, there is an association of obesity, but that's not a common association in children. Some children will have daytime grumpiness or sleepiness, but it's not common. Some children may have noisy swallowing also. ...
• Children with Down syndrome (DS) are certainly at risk for OSA. ...
• Why is this important? Well, first, there's the obvious problem of the child not getting enough quality sleep and the behavioral effects that brings. Second, I've mentioned above that during sleep apnea, the oxygenation of the blood decreases. It has been shown that in children with DS and heart disease, the low oxygen causes an increase in the blood pressure in the lungs as the body tries to get more oxygen. ...
• If you're unsure if your child has OSA, the way to test is through a sleep study, also called polysomnography. ...
• Various studies have been done on children with DS, and this appears to cure OSA in a good percentage of cases, but not all. ... In severe cases, a procedure called "uvulopalatopharyngoplasty" (UPP) is performed; this is basically for children with large and floppy soft palates. Some children with severe OSA also have a narrowing of the laryngotracheal area, which explains some failures after surgery. ...

• Helping Your Child to Sleep Through the Night.
• Mindell is Pediatric Clinical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Allegheny University of hte Health Sciences in Philadelphia. ... Joseph's University, and is the author of numerous publications on the subject of pediatric sleep disorders. ...
• Jodi A Mindell: I wrote Sleeping Through the Night in response to parents' need for accessible information on how to get their children to sleep through the night. ... One of these obstacles, which is usually not addressed elsewhere, is parents own emotional responses to dealing with their child's sleep problems and helping them cope with sleepless nights.
• What can parents do to help their children get to sleep?.
• Jodi A Mindell: The key things that parents can do to help their children get to sleep is to have a set bedtime (preferably between 7:30 and 8:30), a consistent and soothing bedtime routine, and have their child fall asleep on his/her own.
• What should parents do if their children waken during the night?.
• Jodi A Mindell: All children wake during the night. The issue is whether or not they can return to sleep on their own. A child who can self-soothe to sleep at bedtime will be able to do so in the middle of the night. ...
• What are some signs of sleep disturbance that parents might want to be on the lookout for?.
• Jodi A Mindell: One of the most common serious sleep disturbances seen in children is obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that occurs during sleep. Some symptoms of sleep apnea are snoring, breathing pauses, mouth breathing, restlessness, and daytime sleepiness. If you are concerned about your child's sleep, speak with his/her physician or contact a sleep center in your area.
• In children, they have difficulty falling asleep and are often running about the house after being put to bed. ...

• Select Comfort Helps Families with Sick Children Sleep Better in Seattle's Ronald McDonald House.
• Select Comfort Helps Families with Sick Children Sleep Better in Seattle's Ronald McDonald House; Bed Retailer Donates 120 Sleep Number Beds to Local Charity NewsVantage – The most cost effective path to dynamic and compelling content for your site! .
• 9, 2003--Select Comfort, a Minneapolis-based bed manufacturer and retailer with 11 stores in Washington, is donating 120 SLEEP NUMBER(R) beds to Ronald McDonald HouseCharities (R) of Western Washington. ...
• The 120 Sleep Number(R) beds mark Select Comfort's largest donation to-date to one Ronald McDonald House. ...
• "We are thrilled and honored to receive Select Comfort's generous gift of Sleep Number beds," said Karen Shaw, board president of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington. ...
• The donation is part of a successful and completed capital campaign for the newly expanded Seattle-based house which will have 58 rooms to meet the growing need for housing near Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center. ...
• Select Comfort, interested in helping parents and families with ill children get a better night's sleep, made its first bed donation to the national charity in January 2001 with an initial donation of 149 Sleep Number beds -- one for each Ronald McDonald House in the United States. ...
• Good Support for Better Sleep.
• Each year, thousands of families stay at Ronald McDonald Houses while their children receive medical treatment at nearby hospitals. These family members frequently experience stress and anxiety that can disrupt sleep schedules, cause insomnia and provoke a greater occurrence of daytime sleepiness. It is during these stressful times that restorative sleep is needed most for recovery and healing.
• Through our support of Ronald McDonald Houses, we hope to help families get a better night's sleep so they have the energy they need during the day to be strong and supportive," said Noel Schenker, senior vice president of marketing and new business development at Select Comfort. "In clinical studies, our bed has been proven to improve sleep quality and to allow a deeper, more restorative sleep, something of great value to families under stress. ...
• In a study conducted at the Stanford University Medical Sleep Disorders Center, researchers found that 87 percent of those who slept on a Sleep Number bed experienced a greater percentage of REM sleep with fewer sleep disturbances.
• The Sleep Number bed utilizes patented air-chamber technology that allows the mattress to be quickly adjusted for personalized comfort on each side of the bed via a hand-held remote control. A Sleep Number is a number between zero and 100 which represents the ideal combination of mattress comfort, firmness and support for each individual.

• Mott Children's Hospital | Pediatric Services.
• 1 Children's Sleep Problems: Overview .
• Many children have sleep problems. ...
• talking during sleep .
• Many childhood sleep problems are related to irregular sleep habits or to anxiety about going to bed and falling asleep. Sleep problems may also be symptoms of emotional difficulties. Separation anxiety is a developmental landmark for young children. For young children, bedtime is a time of separation. Some children will do all they can to prevent separation. ...
• To help minimize these common sleep problems, a parent can develop consistent and regular sleep routines for children. ...
• Parents often find that feeding and rocking help an infant get to sleep. However, as the child leaves infancy, parents should encourage the child to sleep without feeding and rocking. Otherwise, the child will have a hard time learning to go to sleep alone. ...
• For some children, nightmares are serious and frequent. ...
• Sleep terrors, sleepwalking, and sleep talking constitute a relatively rare group of sleep disorders called parasomnias. ...
• Sleep terrors, also called night terrors, are different from nightmares. The child with sleep terrors will scream uncontrollably and appear to be awake but is confused and can't communicate. Sleep terrors usually occur between ages 4 and 12. ...

•     Children/Teens.
• Study suggests link between children's sleep problems and ADHD .
• Children's Health .
•  -->Children's Focus.
• Children's Forum .
• CHICAGO (AP) -- New research suggests children who snore face nearly double the risk of being inattentive and hyperactive, providing fresh evidence of an intriguing link between sleep problems and attention deficit disorders. ...
• While the study doesn't answer whether one condition causes the other, the researchers believe snoring and other sleep problems may be the culprit in some cases because children often express sleepiness by being inattentive and "hyper. ...
• If it turns out to be true, this theory could help explain the paradox of why stimulants such as Ritalin can effectively treat children with conditions like attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder who already seem over-stimulated, said Dr. Ronald Chervin, a University of Michigan neurologist and sleep researcher, and the study's lead author. ...
• "If there is indeed a cause-and-effect link, sleep problems in children could represent a major public health issue," Chervin said. "It's conceivable that by better identifying and treating children's snoring and other night time breathing problems, we could help address some of the most common and challenging childhood behavioural issues. ...
• ADHD is the most common neurobehavioural disorder in childhood, affecting between four per cent and 12 per cent of school-age children. Data cited by Chervin suggest that between seven per cent and 12 per cent of children snore frequently, with apnea -- brief breathing lapses during sleep that can cause snoring -- present in up to three per cent of school-age children. ...
• Numerous other studies have found a link between sleep problems and ADHD, but many sleep specialists and psychiatrists are divided over which condition might cause the other. ...
• Stephen Sheldon, a sleep specialist at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. "There is a proportion of youngsters that have sleep pathology causing their daytime symptoms that appear virtually identical to ADHD. ...

• 5 REASONS WHY HIGH-NEED CHILDREN SLEEP DIFFERENTLY.
• "Why do high need children need more of everything but sleep?" a tired mother once asked me. Until we had a high need infant, I would have guessed that these babies would be worn out by the end of the day and would actually need more sleep; certainly, their parents do. A tired father once told me, "When it comes to sleep, I'm a high need parent. " Here's why high need babies sleep differently. ...
• Their supersensitive nature during the day carries over into their sleep habits during naps and nights. ...
• High need babies can't rely on sleep to retreat from sensory overload. ...
• Not only does an immature stimulus barrier keep babies from going to sleep, it interferes with their staying asleep. Infants with a more mature stimulus barrier may sleep through a slight discomfort, such as being too cold, too hot, slightly hungry, or even lonely. ...
• Going from the state of being awake to sleep is a major behavioral transition, one these infants can't make without a lot of help. ... Even with older high need children, their minds race so quickly at bedtime (the time you assign for them), that they cannot wind down without parental help. ...
• Young infants spend much of their sleeping time in a light sleep state called REM sleep from which they are easily awakened. During the night infants normally alternate light sleep with deep sleep stages, switching from light sleep to deep sleep and back to light sleep as often as every hour. When making the transition between deep and light sleep infants go through a vulnerable period in which they are easily awakened. As infants mature, the deep sleep stages lengthen, so that by four to six months they sleep for longer stretches. High need babies seem to take longer to develop sleep maturity. They are more prone to awaken during the vulnerable periods of transition from one sleep stage to another. Yet high need infants often seem to be totally "zonked" when they are in the stage of deep sleep. Eventually, these infants are able to spend more time in deep sleep, yet they do not "sleep through the night" as early as less sensitive babies. ...

• RSNA: Melatonin Helps Children Sleep Through Magnetic Resonance Studies .
• RSNA: Melatonin Helps Children Sleep Through Magnetic Resonance Studies.
• CHICAGO, IL -- November 26, 2001 -- A 10 mg dose of melatonin given to unruly children prior to magnetic resonance imaging studies can make them fall asleep and allow the radiologist to complete the examination without need for anesthesia. ...
• Doctors at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, in Birmingham, England, recruited 50 children for the hospital-supported study. They were randomized into two groups: 25 patients were given melatonin in a drink; a second group of 25 “sleep-deprived” patients were also brought in to the hospital and given the melatonin cocktail. Overall 68 percent of the children went to sleep; 72 percent of the sleep-deprived children went to sleep. ...
• "Usually with young children who are undergoing MRI we use sedation," said Dr. ... "But the sedation of children undergoing MRI examination carried a risk of decreased oxygen saturation and of the child drifting into a deeper level of unconsciousness. ...
• Johnson’s study included 11 children under the age of four years of age; 16 children with developmental delay; 14 children with behavioral disturbances; five children had involuntary movements; three were autistic; and one had trisomy. ...
• "None of the children who received melatonin required a hospital, oxygen saturation monitoring or close nursing supervision," Dr. ...
• When the examinations were completed, a gentle shake awoke the children. ...
• "Of course, we have heard of melatonin being used to help people sleep, although I’ve not heard of its use in this setting," said Dr. ... Frush said that it was unlikely large facilities such as Duke University, which performs a number of pediatric MRI examinations, would use the melatonin method of getting the children to cooperate. Since facilities such as Duke have the staffing necessary to monitor children under general anesthesia, he said it was unlikely that larger facilities would risk a 30 percent failure rate to get the children to sleep. ...
• Johnson concurred, saying that his institution, which draws patients from a 100 m radius in England, would likely use general anesthesia in young or uncooperative children. ...

• Preschoolers Who Sleep Less Have More Behavior Problems.
• Fewer minutes and hours of sleep add up to more problems in the daytime behavior of children aged two to five, according to new research. ...
• Snoring May Increase Risk Of Learning Problems In Some Children.
• Study Finds Host Of Sleep-Related Problems Among School-Age Kids.
• Link Found Between Kids’ Sleep, Behavior Problems; Parent Survey Connects Snoring And Sleepiness With Attention And Hyperactivity Issues.
• Two- and three-year-old children sleeping less than 10 hours in a 24-hour period were consistently at greatest risk for behavior problems such as oppositional or noncompliant behavior, "acting out" behaviors, and aggression, reported the team of Northwestern University scientists conducting the study. ...
• Preschoolers who sleep less at night have almost 25 percent greater chance of psychiatric diagnosis, according to the study, published in the June issue of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. ...
• Measuring the relationship between sleep and daytime behavior on the Child Behavior Checklist, the researchers found lower amounts of total 24-hour sleep, including daytime naps, were related to increased behavior problems. ...
• The scientists found that specific "doses" of lengths of sleep were most strongly related to behavioral problems in children two and three years old but this threshold effect faded out with the four and five year olds. ...
• The study of 510 children from two to five years old did not attempt to determine causal relationships between sleep and behavior problems, cautioned John V. ...
• Lavigne said, "The relationship between sleep and daytime behavior problems may exist because less sleep causes children to have those problems. Or because daytime behavior problems cause children to sleep less. Or because of a third variable such as the child's temperament, the parents' ability to structure sleep arrangements and daytime behavior. Or because there is some interaction effect that produces a reciprocal influence between sleep and behavior problems. ... Or a psychological mediator between sleep and daytime behavior, such as increased daytime irritability producing more tantrums. ...
• "It's an area that is relatively unexplored, compared with what is known about young children's sleep patterns, for example," says Lavigne. "Those sleep patterns decline from an average of 13 hours per night at age two to 9. ...

• Sleep Problems in Children.
• Many children have sleep problems, including:.
• Talking during sleep.
• Childhood sleep problems often are related to irregular sleep habits or to anxiety about going to bed and falling asleep. Persistent sleep problems may also be symptoms of emotional difficulties. "Separation anxiety" is a developmental landmark for young children. For all young children, bedtime is a time of separation. Some children will do all they can to prevent separation at bedtime.
• To minimize common sleep problems, a parent should develop consistent bedtime, and regular bedtime and sleep routines for children. Parents often find that feeding and rocking help an infant get to sleep. As the child leaves infancy, however, parents should encourage the child to sleep without feeding and rocking, in other words, to fall asleep on his or her own. Otherwise, the child will have a hard time going to sleep alone.
• For some children, nightmares are serious, frequent and interfere with restful sleep.
• Sleep terrors, sleepwalking, and sleeptalking constitute a relatively rare group of sleep disorders called "parasomnias. ...
• Sleep terrors are different from nightmares. The child with sleep terrors will scream uncontrollably and appear to be awake, but is confused and can't communicate. Sleep terrors usually begin between ages 4 and 12.

• Home >> Mind-Body: Parenting: Children's Sleep Problems.
• Children's Sleep Problems BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY   Many children have sleep problems. ...
• Talking during sleep; .
• Many childhood sleep problems are related to irregular sleep habits or to anxiety about going to bed and falling asleep. Sleep problems may also be symptoms of emotional difficulties. "Separation anxiety" is a developmental landmark for young children. For normal young children, bedtime is a time of separation: Some children will do all they can to prevent separation. To help minimize these types of common sleep problems, a parent can develop consistent and regular sleep routines for children. Parents often find that feeding and rocking help an infant to get to sleep. However, as the child leaves infancy, parents should encourage the child to sleep without feeding and rocking. Otherwise, the developing child will have a hard time going to sleep alone.
•   Sleep terrors, sleepwalking, and sleep talking constitute a relatively rare group of sleep disorders, called "parasomnias. " Sleep terrors are different from nightmares. The child with sleep terrors will scream uncontrollably and appear to be awake, but is confused and can't communicate. Sleep terrors usually begin between ages 4 and 12.   Children who sleepwalk may appear to be awake as they move around, but are actually asleep and in danger of hurting themselves. ... Both sleep terrors and sleepwalking run in families and affect boys more often than girls. Most often, children with parasomnias have single or occasional episodes of these disorders. ...   Fortunately, as they mature, children usually get over common sleep problems as well as the more serious disorders. ...

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