The issue of babies sleeping is perhaps one of the most controversial topics there is when it comes to raising your baby. Let's face it, sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture.I think this is an area which most of us want to get right, for our own sanities and to ensure we have a happy baby.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to imagine that all the answers to a good nights sleep have been written in a step by step manual to follow? Well as you can imagine many authors believe they have done just that.

Below you will find a list of books that have been written specifically about babies sleeping. Click on these links to find some of the most popular and recommended books on the following topics:

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  General books on Getting Babies to Sleep
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  Gentle Approaches to Babies Sleeping
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  Overcoming Baby Sleeping Problems
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  Firmer Approaches to Babies and Sleeping
  

Also for those of us who have fallen off the wagon and not been consistent with the well intended advice these authors have given, they have also given us advice on how to remedy the baby sleeping problems we may now be facing.

You may be like me and start out reading a book that follows the no-cry method in the desperate hope that this will be the answer for you and then in finding that it isn't end up in search of a book that will offer you a good nights sleep tears and all!

Along the journey to finding out what works best for you and your baby you will learn about the different ideas and suggestions there are out there about babies sleeping. Most of us really want, or dare I say need, our baby to sleep through the night, but some authors will tell you that sleeping in a 7 hour stretch is sleeping through the night. Others will tell you that some babies such as breastfed babies are not supposed to sleep through the night.

Oh it gets confusing.

One thing I find the following authors to be consistent on however, is their belief that we need to learn about sleep and understand the different stages of sleep that babies experience. Most of the books about babies sleeping we have listed on our site offer just that.

On Becoming Baby Wise: The Classic Sleep Reference Guide Used by Over 1,000,000 Parents Worldwide Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam This book is based on an approach which falls somewhere between rigid routines and attachment parenting. It encourages parents to adopt a routine with both feeding and sleeping from day one. The 'baby wise' approach encourages Parent directed feeding (PDF) as opposed to demand feeding your baby whether breast feeding or bottle feeding. Read our review 2001, Parent-Wise Solutions