The safest place for your baby to sleep during the day is in the same part of the house you

There’s a belief that you need 8 hours of sleep a night to be healthy; that you’ll be afflicted by poor concentration, depression, obesity, poor immunity and a shorter life if you don’t have that amount. Yet adults, like babies, have highly variable sleep needs. A study of more than a million adults showed that those who averaged 6–7 hours’ sleep h

are in, near to you, surrounded by daylight and the healthy sounds of family life.

From the dawn of time and still in nomadic and hunter-gatherer cultures, humans got up in the night to kindle the fire for instance, or to check the weather or the animals, or to respond to worrying signs of predators.

It’s important not to put your hand or fingers on the back of your baby’s neck or head, because this triggers a back-arching reflex.

everyone later on. But it’s just not true.’

Segmented sleep appeared to remain quite common even until the late 1800s,

The baby is utterly and exquisitely present to you, every feeling that crosses that darling little face transparent to you! The idea that the competent mother must structure the days hydraulically, with machine-like and predictable routines, arises directly out of last century’s scientific paradigms. Twenty-first century scientific models embrace c

opportunity to unplug, to ground yourself in sensation, to remember a corporeal intelligence, to return to the landscape of the body