With many, if such an appetite is not appeased it will cause sleeplessness.

Too strenuous play, exciting stories read before bedtime, may cause sleeplessness.

Depression and anxiety will often cause sleeplessness, which creates a vicious circle of more depression and more sleeplessness.

There are many conditions which cause sleeplessness or insomnia in a child aside from disturbance of the mental state or nervous system.

Tea taken at or near bedtime will often cause sleeplessness, and will be apt also to give spasmodic asthma; so will all indigestible foods.

Rocking baby.-Rockingand shaking cause an increased flow of blood to the brain, and this should be avoided, for it of itself will cause sleeplessness.