Set your child up for a lifetime of healthy sleep with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the first eighteen months of your child's life, no sleep training necessary, from the leading pediatric sleep expert and renowned author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.

The Elements of Sleep is a practical guide for new parents that makes the oft-fraught topic of sleep and babies feel surprisingly straightforward, simple, and smart. Written in an accessible tone and a short, digestible format, it promises to set babies up for easy sleep for life—making sleep training unnecessary and teaching parents how to avoid major sleep issues altogether.

The Elements of Sleep offers clear phase-by-phase guidance for how parents can help their babies develop the foundations of healthy sleep from the newborn phase through the first eighteen months. In this book you will learn:

• the 5 elements of healthy sleep
• how to teach your baby self-soothing
• how to provide age-appropriate nap opportunities
• how to approach sleep with flexibility
• the difference between proactive and reactive co-sleeping

In The Elements of Sleep, pediatrician Marc Weissbluth, M.D., combines his fifty years of unparalleled expertise with the latest scientific research, resulting in the gold standard of sleep guides for a new generation of parents.