Helping Your Baby to Sleep (3rd Edition‪)‬

In this most recently updated edition of their acclaimed Helping Your Baby to Sleep, child development specialists (and mothers) Anni Gethin and Beth Macgregor have created the most sought-after resource for new parents: a comprehensive, practical and evidence-based guide to understanding what babies and toddlers need to help them to sleep. 

Anni and Beth discuss what is normal and what is not, enabling parents to feel more confident about the decisions they make for their baby. They also present the latest research into babies’ emotional and brain development, and describe techniques that take into account a baby’s individual temperament and needs. 

The authors oppose ‘controlled crying’ or sleep-training techniques, claiming that this approach creates stress for the baby and can interrupt the bonding that occurs between parent and child. Helping Your Baby to Sleep offers parents ways of creating better sleep condi¬tions for their babies that won’t endanger their well-being and allows them to feel loved and safe. 

They offer practical ways to overcome numerous ‘sleep problems’, and discuss settling techniques, tools for developing a sleep plan, ways to recognise and cope with normal sleep behaviour, how to screen for sleep disorders and how to identify and address problems that interfere with sleep.

Additionally they have included a whole new chapter on toddler sleep, and offer advice on common problems such as toddlers not wanting to go to bed, stay in bed and coping with nightmares.

In this valuable guide, readers will: 


• Learn why babies wake at night and need help to settle 

• Understand how early parenting choices affect a baby’s growing brain 

• Examine why ‘sleep training’ is risky 

• Discover your baby’s individual sleep needs 

• Explore solutions to common baby sleep problems 

• Receive advice on toddler sleeping issues that can carry on from babyhood

• Find out how tired parents can create an essential support system!