Sweet Sleep
Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

How about 6 stars? Eight? Ten??? This is without a doubt the absolute best book I've ever read on night-time parenting, co-sleeping and/or bedsharing (not the same thing, by the way). It gives the REAL skinny on safe sleep -- not the ineffective and insufficient mumbo-jumbo offered by the CDC, AAP,......more

This book has an agenda, but if you go in knowing that, it also has a lot of good information -- and more importantly, support for parenting that is just a bit outside the mainstream. I do wish I had read it earlier, back when I was in despair about how I would never sleep again, when I couldn't fall......more

There are some books that are life-changing because they change your outlook or understanding so dramatically that you end up overhauling your behaviour as well. In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan was one of those books for me. This is another. I wish I'd known it existed much sooner, and I hope m......more

I figured out pretty quickly that bed sharing would not work for me. The author seemed to view the baby sleeping in a bassinette next to the bed as a poor substitute for bed sharing, so I did not find this book terribly helpful. My biggest gripe with the book was that the author downplays the SIDS r......more

Not very many helpful strategies.......more