Sleeping Like a Baby

Himani Dalmia · Neha Bhatt

Nov 2021 · Penguin Random House India Private Limited

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Himani Dalmia is an Australian-Certified Infant and Child Sleep Specialist and Co-Founder of the support group, Gentle Baby Sleep India. She is a Leader of the La Leche League, the largest non-profit for breastfeeding awareness globally. Her first book, a bestselling and critically acclaimed novel titled Life is Perfect was published in 2009. Formerly a member of the Times of India Edit Page team, she has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, and journals. A children's picture book by her is currently under publication by HarperCollins India. She lives in New Delhi with her husband Akash and two little girls, Devika and Yamini, aged 6 years and 3.5 years.

Neha Bhatt is an award-winning journalist who has worked in the Indian media for over 15 years, including at CNN-News18, Outlook magazine, Business Standard and Scroll. She has also written for leading newspapers such as The Hindu, The Indian Express and The Asian Age. She currently contributes to international publications such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Vice, The Globe and Mail and The British Medical Journal on the intersection of politics, health, education, gender, social justice, and culture. She is an advocate for conscious and gentle parenting. She is based in Gurgaon where she lives with her 7-year-old son and her husband.