Infant Crying and Sleeping: Helping Parents to Prevent and Manage Problems

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 547-567

  St James Roberts, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; COLIC; CRYING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

CRYING; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRRITABLE MOOD; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49349105458     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2008.06.004     Document Type: Review

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