Helping Your Kids Sleep: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Addressing Sleep Disordered Breathing Problems
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Helping Your Kids Sleep: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Addressing Sleep Disordered Breathing Problems
Sale price
$17.99
Regular price $21.99
Helping Your Kids Sleep is a comprehensive, parent-friendly guide that illuminates one of the most overlooked pillars of childhood health: the ability to breathe and sleep well. Drawing on nearly four decades of clinical experience, world-renowned orthodontist Dr Derek Mahony explains, in clear and accessible language, how breathing patterns, jaw development, airway structure, and ENT-related issues profoundly shape a child’s sleep, behaviour, facial development, learning, growth, and long-term well-being.
Sleep-disordered breathing—including snoring, mouth breathing, and obstructive sleep apnea—is far more common in children than most parents realize. Left unrecognized, it can lead to daytime fatigue, poor concentration, adverse facial growth, irritability, hyperactivity, behavioural challenges, academic struggles, and even long-term metabolic and cardiovascular issues. Dr Mahony brings together the perspectives of orthodontics, sleep medicine, ENT specialists, and paediatric research to offer parents a complete roadmap for understanding, identifying, and addressing these problems early.
Inside this book, readers will discover:
This book is more than a guide; it is a lifeline for families seeking answers, clarity, and hope.
Sleep-disordered breathing—including snoring, mouth breathing, and obstructive sleep apnea—is far more common in children than most parents realize. Left unrecognized, it can lead to daytime fatigue, poor concentration, adverse facial growth, irritability, hyperactivity, behavioural challenges, academic struggles, and even long-term metabolic and cardiovascular issues. Dr Mahony brings together the perspectives of orthodontics, sleep medicine, ENT specialists, and paediatric research to offer parents a complete roadmap for understanding, identifying, and addressing these problems early.
Inside this book, readers will discover:
- The hidden link between breathing, sleep quality, brain development, and behavioural regulation
- Common structural challenges—like narrow jaws, recessed chins, nasal obstruction, enlarged tonsils/adenoids—and how they affect the airway
- How to recognize early warning signs, from snoring and restless sleep to mouth breathing and daytime irritability
- Practical, evidence-based solutions, including orthodontic expansion, myofunctional therapy, ENT interventions, lifestyle changes, and sleep-friendly habits
- Real case studies of children whose health, behaviour, and academic performance transformed once their airway and sleep issues were addressed
- A parent’s role in prevention, early detection, and supporting long-term healthy breathing habits
This book is more than a guide; it is a lifeline for families seeking answers, clarity, and hope.