La ciencia del sueño infantil

No one can deny it anymore: the foundations of the traditional science of childhood sleep are shaking. And it is that the childhood sleep pandemic that has affected our society during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st -it is estimated that 25% of children suffer from sleep problems- has forced families to demand from health professionals a new look and a new approach to childhood dreams. For this reason, in the last 20 years a true paradigm shift has been growing slowly. A wave of change that began to take shape slowly at the end of the last century, at the hands of biologists and anthropologists, whose knowledge conflicted with the demands that pediatrics imposed on children's sleep at that time. Over the years, this confrontation has escaped scientific forums. Today, in bookstores or in the virtual world of popularization on parenting, different experts give the most varied guidelines, on many occasions totally opposite, on how, when, how much and where our children should sleep, thereby producing an enormous confusion in families. This book was born with the aim of helping you understand this complex situation. Reading its pages you will understand the historical journey of the science of childhood sleep, which began dominated by the perspective of pediatrics and psychology at the beginning of the last century, and which over time has been integrating the information provided by other disciplines such as anthropology, biology, neurology or ethology, allowing the most avant-garde experts to develop recommendations and treatments much more in line with human nature. My goal is that with this information in hand, each family can decide, according to their values, desires and preferences, how and where each of its members will sleep to have a happy, healthy and safe sleep.