Sleep Sense

Written by the authors of Baby Sense, this title offers the same simple, sensible solutions to ensure you and your baby will get a good night's sleep by establishing healthy sleeping habits. Learn to set the stage for sleep with realistic expectations; appropriate sensory experiences during the day; the right sleep zone; healthy and sufficient day sleeps; the elimination of hunger or medical reasons for night wakings; good sleep associations to prime your baby for independent night soothing and teach him to re-settle by himself and solutions for separation issues. Sleep sense also offers an age-related trouble-shooting section where desperate parents will find sleep solutions. The sleep sense approach to sleep coaching or training is gentle and based on the natural and age-appropriate capacity your baby has for self calming or soothing, and for separation from you.

Megan Faure (B Sc OT), co-author Baby sense and owner of the acclaimed Baby Sense Company, has worked in pediatrics in the USA and South Africa. Having specialized in both sensory integration and neurodevelopment therapy, she treats babies with sensory integration difficulties, including extreme fussiness, poor sleep habits and feeding problems. She lectures to professionals and gives parent talks on issues of development and child rearing. Regularly published in parenting magazines and professional publications, Megan is the secretary of the Western Cape Association for Infant mental Health and an active member of the South African Institute for Sensory integration. She is married with three children.