What parent hasn’t heard about their newborn: “So he sleeps through the night?” From birth, in fact, the question of children’s sleep arises. But while it’s normal for an infant to wake up at night to be fed, it’s more problematic for both a child and its parents if it continues to sleep poorly as it grows.
Sleep problems, nocturnal awakenings, recurrent nightmares sometimes disrupt our children’s sleep, which is so essential to their proper development. However, sleeping well can be learned, and we, parents, can teach it to our children.
Geraldine Mayr and the Dr Jimmy Mohamed receive the Dr Michel Lecendreux, psychiatrist and child psychiatrist, specialist in pathologies of sleep and awakening in children and adolescents. He performs his duties at the Robert-Debré hospital in Paris. He published A child who sleeps well Nathan Editions.
He gives us practical and simple advice to set up so that our children find or regain sleep. Much to the relief of parents!