Two weeks of sleep

The sheet

A sleep diary for fourteen nights, to take to the GP: when your child went to bed and fell asleep, when they woke in the night and for how long, and how the next day went.

For an appointment · A4 landscape, two pages · Two pages · PDF, 43 KB

How it helps

One bad night says little, and a fortnight of nights often shows a pattern: when your child falls asleep, how often they wake, and how the next day goes. It gives the GP something to work with, and sometimes shows you something you hadn’t seen.

How to use it

1. Start on any night, and fill it in each morning for fourteen nights in a row. Your best guess is fine.
2. An older child can fill in their own. If they sleep some nights at their other home, ask their other parent to fill those in, or mark them.
3. Keep going on the nights that are fine too, because they’re part of the pattern.
4. Take it to the appointment. If your child snores loudly most nights, or their breathing seems to stop and start in their sleep, see your GP without waiting for the two weeks.

How to get this sheet

This sheet comes with a subscription. It is also yours with its chapter, if that is the chapter you read free, or if a teacher or therapist sends it to you. School staff and therapists signed in to their shelf can print it too.

The first chapter you open here is free to read in full, with its sheets. This one goes with The Hour Before Bed and When Reassurance Stops Working.

Free to print

These are free to anyone, with nothing to sign up for.

• A plan for a bad dayTo fill in together · A4
• Before you ring the schoolFor a call or a meeting · A4
• What to say: school and friendsCards to cut out · A4, eight cards to cut
• Before the SENCo meetingFor a meeting · A4
• Three reports, side by sideFor a meeting · A4 landscape
• The return-to-school meetingFor a meeting · A4
• The move to secondary school, for a parents’ eveningFor a parents’ evening · A4, five pages
• The last half-hour before bedFor the fridge · A4
• The worry ladderTo fill in together · A4
• Before you see the GP about your childFor an appointment · A4, two sides
• A record of what happenedFor a call or a meeting · A4, two pages
• The people I can tellTo make together · A4, two pages

Every sheet, marked free or with a subscription, is at theparentbook.com/printables.