European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crying babies May Only be frustrated by by Daniel  associated press a baby that wakes up and howls at night often is befuddled and frustrated by Ani solvable problem How to tall Back  to sleep is a kind of Roll at. For Many people adults As Well As babies conditions must be just right a grown up s nightly ceremony might involve Reading watching the news or simply rolling onto one s stomach. Babies have going to sleep routines too. Many children fall asleep on the floor in the living room with the to and he lights on and everybody milling around. They Wake up in the crib in a dark room in another part of the House with it Quiel says or. Richard Ferber who Heads the Center Lor Pedi Alric sleep disorders at children s Hospital in Boston. Imagine what it would be like to Wake up and discover your Pillow gone. Would you just Drift Bach to sleep probably not says Ferber. More Likely you would snap on the Light and look Tor it and if you could t find it you would be As angry frustrated and confused As a squalling baby. Eventually everyone learns How to get Bach to sleep at night without crying Lor help. However Ferber says that for Aboul a Quarter of All parents children s nighttime crying is a problem. There Are several strategies so that eventually everyone in the House can gel a decent night s sleep. Perhaps the most widely recommended is simply let Tho baby cry. It works. 01 course it s hard on Parent and child and some doctors oppose ii another is to Check on the crying child periodically but resist Tho instinct to give a bottle or anything else to Stop the wailing. Finally there is a relatively new method known As scheduled Awakening. It sounds strange but it amounts to rousing the child in the Middle of the night before he wakes you. Experts say it works too All three have one thing in common you have to listen to crying at least Tor a few nights until the child gets used to Drifting Oft without help. Experts say this May be the chief difficulty in getting parents to quit giving in with a Middle of the night Leeding rocking or pacifier. They can t stand the pitiful wailing and fear psychological scarring. But or. Terry Marsha director of the children s sleep disorders Center at sell memorial Hospital in Greenwood s.c., says babies quickly learn that if they cry Long enough they will get what they want. People can have Normal concern and care for their child without responding to every whim end cry immediately Marshall says. Part of growing up is learning to live with  Ferber says that rather than harming a child a few ability to sleep Well virtually All children free of major medical or neurological problems have the ability to sleep Well says or. Richard Ferber. Ferber a sleep expert at children s Hospital in Boston says thai beyond the first six months of infancy almost every youngster is capable of going to bed at an appropriate hour tailing asleep within minutes and staying asleep until a reasonable hour in the morning. In his Book solve your child s sleep problems Simon & schuster. $7.95 Forbor lists those additional facts and opinions about children s sleep a Newborn sleeps 16 or 17 hours a Day while a 1-year-old gels about 14 hours. By age 3 until adolescence children gradually need less sleep. A 12-year-old should get about 10 hours needs vary from child to child. The majority of children Don t like to sleep in total darkness and there is no reason they should. A night Light or Hall Light helps children get their bearings if they Wake up especially after a dream. Children should be put on a regular sleeping schedule. Don t let a 2 or 3-year-old decide what time to go to bed. Once babies Are about 3 months old they no longer need to be fed at bedtime and several limes during the night. It babies beyond this age awaken several times and must be led to go Back to sleep feeding is causing a sleep problem. A Page 14 the stars and stripes nights of crying pay Oil when the family Lily begins getting its deep by Day the child is Tess Franky parents Aren t resentful and everyone Geta along better. Many children arc Able to sleep quietly through the night by age 3 of 4 months and by 5 or 6 months virtually All healthy full term infants have the ability to do this Ferber says. Those who Wake end cry can usually develop Good sleeping habits in three or four nights or at worst a week or two. Here s what he recommends Lor creating a sleep ritual Start by putting your child to bed White he is still awake. In a reasonably dark quiet room without being rocked or Given a Back rub or pacifier Tho idea is for the child to go to bed in the environment he will find when he wakes up during the night. If the child cries wait five minutes then return and the him know he has t been abandoned. But Don t pick him up. Trie main thing is that you want to go in end sound warm Calm and supportive Ferber says. The Way to View it is that your youngster is trying to learn How to i something that he is unaccustomed to and it s a Little  if the child still cries wait 10 minutes and go Back in briefly. The next time wait 15 minutes. Until the child Falls asleep look in every 15 minutes. If the child wakes and cries at night use the same routine beginning by checking the child after five minutes of crying. The next night the Cycle starts again. But instead of going in after live minutes reassure the child after 10 minutes is minutes and 20 minutes. Each night add live minutes to the Walling periods most sleep experts base their advice on experience rather than the kind of carefully controlled thu does that often guide medical thought. However in one study published recently in the journal paediatrics or. Vaughn Rickert of the University of Arkansas Tor medical sciences randomly assigned 33 intents and toddlers to one of three  one group parents were told to ignore the child re at night and let them cry it out after checking once l. Make sure they were Safe. A second group was told to purposely Wake the children briefly an hour or so Befort Irwy ordinarily woke up on the Crown. The rest were Tofu to continue whatever they had been doing to soothe their youngsters nighttime crying. A. Total ignoring worked Best. Rickert says but ii us tuesday