Certified sleep specialist and creator of the "Hey, Sleepy Baby" platform exposes how much of modern sleep advice is cultural fiction and returns the authority to where it belongs: with parents, their intuition and their unique child.
In North America, infant sleep has become a high-stakes obsession - loaded with anxiety, judgment and unrealistic expectations. From the time families leave the hospital, parents are told that "good" babies sleep independently, that night waking is a problem to solve and that exhaustion signals personal failure. Hey Sleepy Baby flips that narrative on its head and asks a provocative question: What if the problem isn't babies - but our culture?
Blending neuroscience, anthropology, history, original research and intimate storytelling, Hey Sleepy Baby reframes infant and toddler sleep through a powerful biological and cultural lens. It reveals how modern sleep advice is shaped less by evidence and more by capitalism, productivity culture, medicalization and the loss of communal caregiving.
Hey Sleepy Baby provides something parents are desperately craving: relief, context and permission. It tackles polarizing topics - sleep training, night wakings, feeding to sleep, cosleeping, temperament and sensory needs - without shaming, dogma or one-size-fits-all prescriptions.
