AIBU to think that if you're publishing a book on baby sleep...

[BirdFromDaNorf]

AIBU to think that if you're publishing a book on baby sleep...the front cover should NOT have a baby asleep on it's front, as the cover image?

We went to a baby show today. It was nothing special, and we wandered around. And there was a "baby sleep guru" with a One of the first exhibitors was someone who'd be promoted in advance of the show via the website and on promo materials, as the person to solve your baby's sleep problems.

There were posters, flyers, a 'show offer' and all sorts of marketing materials - all obviously homemade, but still, with a baby laid on its front, with eyes closed. As it's a "sleep solutions book" I inferred that it's a baby who is 'asleep'.

Surely the author should have objected to this, when the publishers proposed the book cover? Should I have said something? Should I have mentionned it to the organiser - it doesn't reflect well on them to be having something that's so, well, wrong.

AIBU to be annoyed about this?? Only thing is I don't know who to be annoyed with!

Do you mean because the baby is asleep on it's front and not just because it is asleep?

@ LadyintheRadiator. Yes, but I wasn't naming and shaming as didn't want to get MN into trouble... What do you think of it?

@TragicallyHip. I mean surely we should be promoting babies going to sleep on their backs, not on their front? How can someone be a sleep guru and have a baby on its front which is no longer considered best for babies. It's fine a baby to be asleep, just one laid on their back!

Sorry I was a bit confused at first. But YANBU! The baby should be on it's back of course

"And I also thought for a minute that you were complaining about the baby being asleep at all! as if maybe you wanted a picture of two stressed out parents and a baby screaming it's head off"

Yes that's what I thought too

Lady You hit it on the head... "it stood out on the page among the other sleep books which all seem to have babies on their backs." You noticed it and that is all that matters.

I thought you meant the book shouldn't have a picture of a baby asleep on the front of the book!

Glad I wasn't the only one who was confused!

I'm sorry, I've bodged this whole conversation by confusing it!

No, I don't want stressed parents on the front - I think it needs to show that she makes it work - gets babies to sleep, to help her sell it! Maybe stressed parents, plus a picture of her and an equals sign, with a sleeping baby at the end, to show the result???

I just can't believe she let it happen. I don't know what she was thinking? What do you think she was thinking??

Chefswife is right, hopefully people will notice it...

I see what you mean, especially with the whole "back to sleep" campaign about not putting babies on their fronts to sleep..it seems a little odd to have a baby pictured on its tummy...

must admit that at first I too thought that you wanted the book to have a picture of sleep deprived mum and dad on the front holding screaming baby at 2 am

"must admit that at first I too thought that you wanted the book to have a picture of sleep deprived mum and dad on the front holding screaming baby at 2 am"

Thats what I thought too. I was very confused at first.

YANBU, surely books like this should also be promoting the "back to sleep" campaign.

YANBU, it's a cute pic but a bad choice for anyone promoting baby sleep advice.

Hahaha, yes I was imagining a picture of two haggard wrecks screaming 'no, it's your turn' at each other, too.

But no, YANBU. Very silly on the part of the publishers, IMO.

I like that image too... much more relatable.