How Babies Sleep

A must-read for new parents looking for data to back up what their intuition has been telling them about their baby. Compelling, reassuring, and empowering, it will change everything.

Tiffany Belanger, author of Cosleepy

How Babies Sleep fills me with hope for all the parents and babies who will be nurtured through the night by Helen Ball’s words. Cutting through the overwhelming world of baby sleep advice with science, insight, and compassion, this book offers parents the confidence to trust their instincts and rest easy, knowing their nighttime parenting is exactly what their baby needs. It’s a gift and a lifeline for families everywhere.

Tracy Gillett, Founder of Raised Good

A fascinating review of the science of infant sleep. This book will show you how to let go of your fears and get connected as a family.

Dr Herbert Renz-Polster, paediatrician, academic and author

Based on first-hand experience and decades of research, Helen has managed to write the book on infant sleep that will serve as both a guide and comfort blanket to weary new parents who are inundated by mixed messages about their baby’s sleep. Her empathy, wisdom, and ability to take something as complex as infant sleep and make it digestible is not only no small feat, but is exactly what today’s parents need and deserve to help them make the best sleep choices for their families.

Tracy Cassels, PhD, Founder of Evolutionary Parenting

Brings together evolutionary biology, cross-cultural research and feminist critique in a guide that is as compassionate as it is clinically rigorous. The result is a quiet revolution: a myth-busting, parent-respecting, evidence-soaked call to rethink everything we think we know about infant sleep . . . This book should be required reading for every GP, health visitor and paediatrician . . . For clinicians, Ball’s book offers both a wake-up call and a toolkit. For parents, it is permission to stop blaming themselves — and start asking harder questions about the world we have built around babies. The most revolutionary thing in this book is not the science — it is the solidarity. And perhaps, that is the real ‘sleep solution’ we have been searching for all along.

Guddi Singh, British Medical Journal

In a clear explanation of the science, Helen Ball has provided information and reassurance so families can understand their children’s individual sleep patterns and requirements. This book will help parents truly relax and enjoy their babies while getting the rest they need.

Mary Francell, lactation consultant and writer ‘What Babies Need’

In a world where infant sleep is grossly misunderstood by parents and professionals, Professor Helen Ball is the most important voice we have to bring clarity. We must support infants to have safe and healthy sleep, because their brain development and lifelong health depends on it.

Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD, Neuroscientist, Doula, and author of The Nurture Revolution

In the confusing and contentious world of baby sleep, Professor Helen Ball offers evidence-based reason and sensibility. Thank goodness this book exists – it will be the reassuring companion all new parents rely on.

Jodi Wilson, postpartum doula and author of The Complete Guide to Postpartum