Sleeping Like A Baby

How do I get my baby to sleep? Discover the gentle scientific child-led solution to this bewildering (and exhausting) phenomenon of early parenthood for 0-5 year olds.Sleeping Like a Baby serves as the ultimate bedside companion for parents packed with all the modern tools you need to build a stronger connection with your children and enable age-appropriate sleep for their optimum growth. The book does the seemingly impossible blending traditional wisdom and the latest research it gives us a revolutionary approach to achieve longer naps better night sleep with fewer wakings a happier baby and more joy and rest as a family without resorting to fraught practices like 'sleep training'. With anecdotal insights deep research and practical tips in an Indian context this book empowers parents to tune into their instincts and understand a child's cues so that bedtime battles cranky days and sleepless nights are a thing of the past. Authored by the co-founders running the pioneering Facebook group Gentle Baby Sleep India Sleeping Like a Baby shares the secret sauce that enables a family-no matter its structure or pressures-to keep the child's evolutionary and biological sleep needs in focus. Endorsed by some of the most eminent child sleep experts and written in a style that is deceptively simple and accessible Sleeping Like a Baby is the final word on responsive and restful sleep for caregiver and baby. All night long. Review Himani and Neha have written a gem of a book packed with useful information for new and prospective parents. They have thoughtfully applied the concept of biologically normal infant sleep to the concerns of Indian parents having noted in their online parenting community that the discourse regarding where babies' needs arise from was missing from parents' understanding of their babies' sleep patterns and preferences. Their overall approach is very much aligned with the outcomes of our research regarding the importance of encouraging parents to understand and foster biologicallynormal infant sleep including nursing to sleep safe bedsharing contact napping experimenting and adapting to meet babies' changing needs and avoiding sleep training. -- Helen Ball Professor Durham University Director Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre Director Baby Sleep Information SourceNo parenting subject has been more fraught than infant sleep-and none has been as muddied by misinformation and everyday violence. It thrills me that at last we see a book in India that lays bare the myths associated with baby sleep and leads parents with authority towards a path that is aligned with the biological sleep needs of mum and baby.This book is important for more reasons that I can list-but especially because it is empowering. It grants mothers the permission they so desperately need to hold their babies (well past toddlerhood) share sleep with them onthe same bed tune into the instincts they're otherwise made to suppress and know the joy and security and restfulness that such an arrangement brings. Our children don't need sleep training. They need us their nurturers. They need our warm bodies the embrace of our willing arms as they drift into sleep. Himani Dalmia and Neha Bhatt-by deftly weaving together scientific fact and lived experience-remind us of precisely this. -- Dharini Bhaskar Mother and Author of These Our Bodies Possessed by LightIt is so wonderful to see a book on sleep that blends the cross-cultural and historical practices that are covered in-depth in anthropological research with the modern Western science on sleep. For too long families have been told they should be pushing independence when it comes to sleep and yet what children need in order to feel safe and secure is to be close to a parent. It is unfortunate that Western obsessions regarding sleep-that are not rooted in our human biology-are leaving families exhausted and frustrated. Help that is