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Recommended Books & Further Reading Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber Order online from Amazon US or from Amazon UK This book is Angela Henderson's Number 1 recommendation for the parents of all children over 18 months of age. Establishing routines/settling very young babies Pantley, Elizabeth: The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Contemporary Books, 2002 (US/$14.95) Gentle approach for encouraging young babies into good sleep routines. Recommended if you are determined to avoid crying at all costs – but the methods could be very time consuming! Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Ford, Gina: The Contented Little Baby Book, Vermillion, 1999 (£7.99) For those who need help with routines: very sound, detailed ‘no-nonsense’ approach to establishing feeding/sleeping. Good advice on how to set up and equip your nursery. Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Karp, Harvey: The Happiest Baby, Michael Joseph/Penguin, 2002 (£9.99) Excellent for techniques for soothing 0-3 month old babies and dealing with colic – by mimicking the womb environment (swaddling, sounds, movement, touch, etc.). Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Sleep problems in older children Ferber, R.: Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems. Dorling Kindersley, 1st pub. 1986, (£7.99) This classic book is by a leading US expert on sleep disorders. The book gives detailed advice on topics concerning sleep problems in older children (night terrors, bed-wetting,etc.) Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Quine, Lyn: Solving Children’s Sleep Problems, Beckett Karlson, 1997 (£12.99) Amazingly detailed book, full of charts, tests, and alternative step-by-step approaches for children of all different ages from birth to teenage. Contact the publishers Beckett Karlson Ltd, Westminster House, Ermine Business Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 6XY, England. Tel: +44 (0)1733 244007 / Fax: +44 (0)1733 243322 Bed-sharing and early closeness Jackson, Deborah: Three in a Bed. Bloomsbury Press, 1999, 1st pub. 1989 (£12.99) Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Liedloff, Jean: The Continuum Concept. Penguin Arkana, 1989, 1st pub. 1975 (£7.99) Both these books strongly advocate bed-sharing and keeping your baby close to you in the early months. The Continuum Concept is a classic and compares Western childcare approaches with those of South American Indian people. Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Coping with crying Jackins, H.J.: The Human Side of Human Beings. Rational Island Publishers, PO Box 2081, Main Office Station, Seattle, WA 98111, USA, 1965 Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Solter, A.J.: The Aware Baby. Shining Star Press, PO Box 206, Goleta, CA 93116, 2001 See also website: www.awareparenting.com (advice/book orders) Jackins’ book is a classic text on what crying is and how to deal with it in both adults and children (background reading.) Solter’s draws on the same approach and is written for parents. Both take the approach that crying is an important release of distress (in both children and adults). These will also help us with our reactions to our child’s crying. Order online from from Amazon US or from Amazon UK Vaccination Studer, Hans-Peter: Vaccination - A Guide for Making Better Decisions. Floris Books, 15 Harrison Gardens, Edinburgh EH11 1SH, Scotland 2004 (£6.99) This is quite simply the best and most balanced introduction to the thorny issue of vaccination we have ever read. And we have read many! For most vaccinations offered in the UK, the time to decide whether or not to vaccinate your child has to be taken before the birth. Parents are encouraged to give baby a vitamin K injection at birth and then book in for the five-in-one Pediacell jab (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) and polio) when baby is between one and two months old. They then have just over a year to make the second big decision - whether or not to give baby the controversial MMR (measles, mumps, rubella (German measles) triple jab. Hans-Peter starts by discussing the two basic questions which guide every parent’s decision-making process: Should I protect my child from childhood infections? Is it better for my child’s long term health to catch childhood infections when a child? Am I prepared to expose my child to the risk of adverse effects from a given vaccination (e.g. measles) to try to reduce the risk of serious even fatal illness for vulnerable people in my community? The issues include: Are vaccinations the best way of preventing illness? At what age and how often should vaccinations be given? How safe are the additives put into vaccines? Are the true risks of damage from vaccinations known? Finally, he takes each vaccination recommended under the UK Childhood Vaccination Schedule 2004. Based on his experience as a doctor and exhaustive research into the findings of many studies, he describes: What and how serious the illness is, and Which vaccine(s) are used, their effectiveness and side effects, then Gives his own recommendations for each vaccination. As Hans-Peter stresses, this book "aims to help you - in consultation with your doctor - to make the right choice for you and your children, but it cannot (and should not) make the decision for you, for this is ultimately up to you". We cannot recommend it highly enough. Vaccination - A Guide for Making Better Decisions: UK Orders - International Orders For more information on vaccination and other baby issues click here Feel free to search Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk to find what you are looking for: In addition, my publishers, Hawthorn Press stock a range of excellent books on parenting and many other subjects.

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