Child Sleeping Problems

Prevalent sleep problems

It is estimated that 20-30% of the children suffer from common sleep problems in the first 3 years of life.

• Night-wakings - The most prevalent complaint. The baby wakes up many times during the night for short or extended periods.
  
• Difficulty falling asleep - The baby requires long and often highly demanding rituals to fall asleep.
  
• Inappropriate sleep schedule - the child falls asleep at inappropriate hours and cannot sleep during more appropriate hours of the night.
  
• Nightmares - the child wakes up frightened but responds quickly to the parents and calm down with their help.
  
• Night terrors - the child wakes up in a terrible scream, appears terrorized with eyes open or close and does not seem to respond to the parents or even resists their intervention.
  
• Fierce rocking and head banging - the child uses body rocking and head banging in the transition to sleep or during the night.
  
• Breathing problems during sleep - the child has repeated breathing cessations or difficulties during sleep.

A non-prevalent event but a very prevalent concern of parents during the first year of the baby's life is the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome which relates to the occurrence of infant death during sleep without any explainable cause.

Source: Sleeping

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