Healthy Sleep Habits

A little bunny bids goodnight to all the objects in his room before falling asleep.

This book offers tips on how to help your newborn, infant, or toddler get the rest they need while also debunking some of the most widely held myths about babies and sleep.

This book explains a step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child’s natural sleep cycles and contains the latest research on the best course of action for sleep problems.

“In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby Llama turns bedtime into an all-out llama drama! Tucked into bed by his mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying when she goes downstairs, and his soft whimpers turn to hollers when she doesn’t come right back. But just in time, Mama returns to set things right. Children will relate to Baby Llama’s need for comfort, as much as parents will appreciate Mama Llama’s reassuring message.”

This book provides a guide to the first 12 months of life with a new baby, including information on feeding, immunizations, development, sleeping, and medical care.

This book provides tips on naturally synchronizing your baby’s feeding time, wake time and nighttime sleep cycles, so the whole family can sleep through the night.

This book presents behavioral interventions for common pediatric sleep problems. Step-by-step instructions show readers how to clinically assess and treat children from toddlers to teenagers, and case examples apply the instructions to real-life scenarios.

This book will help parents tackle the thorniest sleep snags, including: navigating the tricky newborn phase like a pro, getting your child to truly sleep through the night, weaning off the all-night buffet, mastering the precarious tango that is healthy napping, and solving toddler and preschooler sleep struggles.

From bedtime tantrums to bedwetting, sleep problems can be one of the biggest sources of worry and frustration for parents of children with special needs. Help is here in this down-to-earth, nonjudgmental guide packed with widely tested, easy-to-use techniques that work for all children, with and without disabilities.

In this book with rhyming text, the dream train pulls into the station and all the different cars are loaded by the animal workers, each with the appropriate cargo.

Physical activity and quality sleep are both vital for healthy bodies. Studies suggest that doing “nothing,” and even being bored, is actually very important to how we process the world around us and is key to creativity.

Video Duration: 20 min

The Happiest Baby reveals a stunning new discovery – the calming reflex. It’s almost an “off switch” for crying that all babies are born with. Within just days you’ll boost your baby’s sleep one to three hours every night.

Video Duration: 64 min

This fully revised and updated book includes the latest insights into infant sleep, bedsharing, breastfeeding, swaddling, and SIDS risk.

Based on the scientifically established rest and activity cycle that occurs every hour and a half, this book provides a proven program to help every parent give their baby better nights and naps.

In this friendly guide through the science of infancy, the author explains how nonscientist mothers can learn the difference between hype and evidence. The Science of Mom is a fascinating, eye-opening, and extremely informative exploration of the topics that generate discussion and debate in the media and among parents.

Essential Reading for any tired parent, or any expectant parent who wants to avoid the pitfalls of sleeplessness, this book offers a practical, easy-to-follow remedy that will work for all families in need of nights of peaceful slumber.

This article provides recommendations for parents to follow to provide a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS.

The Safe to Sleep campaign which aims to reduce Sudden Infant Death.

This article provides reasonable, science-based guidelines to help you determine whether your child is getting the sleep he or she needs to grow, learn, and play.

This website provides a collection of information and resources for parents on the sleep cycle of babies, from newborns to 6-months old, and offers different sleep tips for all kinds of babies.

Conversation of the pros and cons of weighted blankets.

Shares visual bedtime routines and daily schedule tools to lessen anxiety and improve sleep for autistic children.

Discusses suitable bed types, bed rails, weighted blankets, and sensory-safe bedding tailored to special needs.

Recommends matching expectations to child’s needs, bedtime adjustment methods, and healthy eating/hydration habit.

Welcome to Illinois Safe Sleep Support, a program for families in Illinois to learn about the safest ways for their babies to sleep, get answers to their sleep safety questions, and get access to items they need to keep their babies safe. Printable resources for families are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and Polish.

Emphasizes consistent schedules, relaxing bedtime routines, and eliminating sleep props for children with special needs.