Sleep Related Articles & Blog Posts

She learns to pull herself to standing. Soon she is cruising ’round and ’round the crib, instead of going down for a nap. Then she begins to bounce up and down. Before long, she catapults over the top — generally landing with a loud thud. A long silence follows, then a heart-stopping wail.

In anger I threw my pager across the on-call room, slamming it against the wall. I don’t anger easily or often, but I was a pediatric resident who had been awake for 36 hours. The pager had gone off one time too many. Sleep deprivation had changed me from a calm, caring person into an [...]

My little girl snores occasionally. Could this mean she has sleep apnea?

Dear Dr. Greene, My eight year old son has wet the bed consistently (about every other night) for as long as I can remember. He feels terrible about it and I feel like a failure as a parent. My…

Dear Dr. Greene, If an infant has had a history of childhood apnea to the extent that he has had to use a heart and lung monitor during the sleeping hours for the first two years of his life,…

I am now 20 years old, a college student, and I still struggle with bedwetting. This is not a laughing matter. For a while I thought I had the problem licked, but this past year, the problem has strangely…

My 13 year old daughter has developed a fear of not being able to go to sleep. This problem started after she was forced to go to sleep without light as a result of Hurricane Fran’s assault on our…

Dr. Greene, my son is 13 years old and I am wondering how much sleep he needs?

What should I do when my son has a sleep terror? Is it bad to wake him up?

What are “night terrors” and why do children get them?
Grace Montenegro – Fremont, California