Marc Weissbluth
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Marc Weissbluth is an American pediatrician who has written several books on infant sleep.[1] He is a sleep disorders specialist at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.[2]
Education and early research
Weissbluth was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Palo Alto High School in California. He received his B.A. from Stanford University with Department of Biology Science Honors in 1965. Weissbluth graduated from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and was Chief Resident at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Career
From 1973 to 1978 Weissbluth practiced solo general pediatrics in Chicago’s Chinatown. In 1978, he joined the full-time faculty at Children’s Memorial Hospital, and did research on sleep in children in the Sleep Disorders Clinic that he founded. In 1983, he returned to private practice and founded The Northwestern Children's Practice.
He conducted research in children’s sleep and discovered associations between infant colic and infant sleep and separately, between temperament in children and children’s sleep. His research also showed that moving the bedtime earlier significantly reduces the frequency of night awakenings in a child. In the Sleep Disorders Clinic, he developed a program consisting of several separate elements to help parents solve their child’s sleep problems. He called this program "sleep training", a term he introduced in Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child. Subsequently, this term has been popularized as shorthand for a specific sleep solution called ‘extinction’.
Publications
- Crybabies
- Sweet Baby: How to Soothe Your Newborn
- Your Fussy Baby
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins
References
- ^ "Chicago Magazine names 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans". WGN. February 14, 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Marian Borden; Ellen Bowers (3 December 2013). The Only Baby Book You'll Ever Need: A Parent's Guide to Everything!. F+W Media. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4405-7336-1.
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