Sleeping Like a Baby - Pinky Mackay - $24.95 new softcover book. Parenting guide

SLEEPING LIKE A BABY

by PINKY McKAY

New softcover book, 324 pages. Published 2006.

Are you obsessed about your baby's sleep? Do you feel 'weak' because you can't bear to leave your baby to cry himself to sleep? Would you like to relax more and enjoy being a parent?

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. Pinky 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;
• Feed infants to encourage sleep;
• Assist your baby's sleep with natural aids such as massage and music, and meditation for toddlers;
• Gently change any 'habit' gradually, with love, when you and your baby are ready and;
• 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, guilt-free parenting and offers down-to-earth and heartening advice on helping babies (and their parents) to sleep better.

About the Author

Pinky McKay is a Melbourne-based writer specialising in health, education and family issues. An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and certified infant massage instructor, she is the author of Parenting by Heart, 100 Ways to Calm the Crying and Toddler Tactics and is a popular contributor to various national parenting publications and websites including Practical Parenting, Mother and Baby, 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 baths, tie their own shoelaces and even drive their own cars!). She has seen it all from both sides of the episiotomy and knows first-hand that parents need to laugh, or some days they'd cry.