Sleep disturbance in the young child.

Abstract

Parents report two common problems about their child's sleep in the early years of life. The first is difficulty in getting the child to go to bed, although subsequently he sleeps on through the night. The second is the problem of the child who goes to bed but then wakes during the night. The two, of course, often co-exist, but I am going to concentrate on the second problem, which is usually the more serious. By night waking I mean not only that the child wakes?everybody wakes up at night?but that the child wakes and then wakes up the family.