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Sleep, Baby, Sleep

When Pre-adoption Experiences Make Slumber Difficult

By Yvette Pompa

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It's not to pacify the horrific experience of a child who, out of trauma, loss and anxiety, was given a rotten start in life. These children will more than likely have sleep problems. However, it is the love and the patience we bring and the innateness of care that we attend to our children and create the joys of the stars, the moon, the sky and wind that carry all of us to sleepy land.

We don't know when these bedtime issues will manifest themselves into a routine of calm. We just have to keep making our kids feel safe and loved. It takes a lifetime. But isn't that what parenting is all about?

Reading Them to Sleep: Tips From the Author

I think back to the times when I had hoped to have my own baby and the joy of rocking one's baby to sleep. When we adopted our boys, bedtime became a lovely nighttime gathering of wishing all goodnight as in the book Goodnight Moon (HarperFestival, 1991) by Margaret Wise Brown. I did rock my children to bed and it became satisfying for us all. I had yearned to hold my child to sleep, and they, too, had yearned for a mommy and daddy to do the same.

I'm often reminded of the importance of story time before bed. The first book my husband and I ever read to our boys, whom we adopted at a very early age, was Goodnight Moon

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