Article: Health: Contentment can be achieved by sleeping like a baby; Our sleeping patterns can often be dictated during childhood. Lisa Salmon looks at ways of helping children sleep soundly.(Features)

Byline: Lisa Salmon

Parents who are at their wits' end with the irritable baby from hell may be surprised to be told their child is not naturally bad-tempered - just very tired.

But many parents just don't recognise the signs that their baby hasn't had enough sleep, and instead label him as cranky, explains paediatrician and child sleep expert Dr Marc Weissbluth.

He says 20 per cent of babies are irritable, colicky, wakeful and cry more than others.

'If a ...

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