A practical approach to sleeping difficulties in children

About this episode

The episode discusses practical approaches to addressing sleeping difficulties in children, emphasizing the importance of understanding sleep cycles and resettling techniques.

Send us Fan Mail A child who “won’t sleep” can trigger the fastest reflex in medicine: write a script and hope tonight is easier. We slow that moment right down and show why the quick fix often misses the real problem. Kids run shorter sleep cycles than adults, so brief overnight arousals are normal. The difference between a settled house and a 2 am crisis is whether the child can resettle independently or needs the exact same sleep onset association they had at bedtime. We break paediatric ...

People in this episode

Host: Mukul Modgil

Topics covered

• sleep difficulties
• children
• paediatric sleep
• sleep cycles
• independent resettling

Keywords

• sleep
• children
• paediatrics
• sleep cycles
• resettling
• sleep onset association

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