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This is a lovely book. It really saved me from feeling a failure and gave me the confidence to believe in myself and doing it my way.

Someone who was already co-sleeping gave me this. As my second son was ok in his cot, I hadn't really planned to go down the co-sleeping route and was ambivalent about reading the book. However, once I picked it up, I could not put it down. This is a fantastic book and is possibly the best book I have read on caring for babies (and I have read a few!)

What I like about it is that it does not, as so many do, simply outline an approach and present it as the answer. Instead, it considers what babies need and why they need it. It considers how babies have been looked after over time and all over the world and draws on a lot of research. Once this has been considered, it gently concludes that yes, co-sleeping would seem to be the best option. It also goes through the concerns and even objections we have in the West and addresses these too.

Needless to say, I am now co-sleeping more and more and have a settled, contented baby to boot. What's more, it has reminded me what ds2 needs overall, not just with regards to sleep, or food or some other aspect of his life and this has helped me enormously.

I can't recommend this book enough!

It is the best parenting book I have ever read. It not only taught me that it is OK to sleep with your baby, it also got me to think from a newborn baby's perspective. As a result I had a lot more patience and understanding at 3am with my second child (after having just read the book) than I had with my first child.