Babies need their sleep, but sometimes it seems like the hardest thing in the world to get them to drift off.

Parenting expert Pinky McKay argues that controlled crying and other current trends are restrictive and can add to the stress faced by parents.



A more natural, intuitive approach to settling your child, Sleeping Like a Baby will help you understand normal infant sleep at each stage of development, from birth to three years. McKay will teach you to:



• Create a safe sleeping environment
• Help your baby sleep naturally, without resorting to ‘cry it out’ regimes
• Read your baby’s body language so that learning to sleep becomes a stress-free process for parent and child
• Assist your baby’s sleep with natural aids such as massage and music, and meditation for toddlers
• Ignore the pressure to implement ‘one size fits all’ baby management routines and feel confident that YOU are the expert about YOUR baby’s sleep needs.



Sleeping Like a Baby is a must-read for stress-free parenting – and a good night’s sleep. 
Pinky McKay is a Melbourne-based writer specialising in health, education and family issues. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, is the author of Parenting by Heart and 100 Ways to Calm the Crying and is a popular contributor to various national parenting publications including Practical Parenting, Natural Parenting, Bellybelly and Motherinc.
Pinky is the mother of four young adults and a ‘bonus baby’ (the baby you have when your other kids can run their own bath, tie their own shoelaces and even drive their own cars!). She has seen it from all sides of the episiotomy and knows first-hand that parents need to laugh, or some days they’d cry.