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Hard to find good help for child sleep issues
From newborn babies to restless teenagers, Australians may find it difficult to get expert advice and professional support for sleep problems in children and adolescents.
Ahead of World Sleep Day (19 March 2021) a new paper in Sleep Medicine led by University of Western Australia and Flinders University sleep researchers found a serious shortfall in health professionals’ knowledge, understanding and skills to identify manage and prevent paediatric sleep disorders.
“While the focus of this study was on health professionals, it shows that the public need to be more aware about the quality training in sleep that their health professionals have received,” says senior author Flinders Professor Michael Gradisar, director of the Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic at Flinders University.
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For every parent who has woken in the middle of the night to rock, feed, change, pat, cuddle or shush a new baby to sleep we applaud you and see your sleeplessness and sacrifice. But could there be something worse that a baby who won t stick to a sleep schedule?
Many toddlers and children can have sleep issues of their own. Some just won t sleep in their own bed or keep getting out of it and there are children with exhausting bed avoidance routines, but some more serious issues like sleep walking, night terrors, insomnia and bed wetting. These are issues that can upset the whole family but often take years to be recognised or treated by medical professionals.