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Full of mother-wisdom, reassurance, and support, Sweet Sleep is the first book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It is a comprehensive how-to guide for making sane and safe decisions on how and where your family sleeps, backed by the latest research in pediatric care. This invaluable resource will help you: ● Sleep better tonight in under ten minutes with the Quick Start guide--and sleep safer every night with the Safe Sleep Seven checklist ● Sort out the facts and fictions of bedsharing and SIDS ● Learn about normal sleep at every age and stage, from newborn to new parent ● Direct your baby toward longer sleep when he's ready ● Tailor your approach to your baby's temperament ● Uncover the hidden costs of sleep training and cry it out techniques

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"Pam Ward, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress' Talking Books program. The fact that she can work with Blackstone Audio from the beauty of the mountains of Southern Oregon is an unexpected bonus. Teresa Pitman has been writing about birth, breastfeeding, and parenting for more than twenty-five years. She co-wrote the popular ""Steps and Stages"" columns in Today's Parent, Canada's national parenting magazine, and has also written for many other magazines, including Mothering, Family Fun, Chatelaine, and More. Diane Wiessinger is an American breastfeeding advocate, author, and researcher. She is coauthor, with Diana West, Linda Smith, and Teresa Pitman, of La Leche League International's Sweet Sleep Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family. Diana West is an international board certified lactation consultant in private practice in New Jersey. She is the author of Defining Your Own Success and coauthor of Sweet Sleep. Mayim Bialik is perhaps best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early 1990s NBC television sitcom Blossom, and she currently stars in the top-rated comedy series The Big Bang Theory. She earned a BS from UCLA in 2000 in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies, and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA in 2007. She designed a neuroscience curriculum for homeschoolers in Southern California, where she also teaches biology, chemistry, and piano to middle and high school students. Married to her college sweetheart with two young sons, Mayim is also a certified lactation education counselor. She is currently the celebrity spokesperson for the Holistic Moms Network, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting holistic and green parenting and living. She is also a writer for Kveller.com, a Jewish parenting Web site. Mayim Bialik is perhaps best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early 1990s NBC television sitcom Blossom, and she currently stars in the top-rated comedy series The Big Bang Theory. She earned a BS from UCLA in 2000 in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies, and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA in 2007. She designed a neuroscience curriculum for homeschoolers in Southern California, where she also teaches biology, chemistry, and piano to middle and high school students. Married to her college sweetheart with two young sons, Mayim is also a certified lactation education counselor. She is currently the celebrity spokesperson for the Holistic Moms Network, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting holistic and green parenting and living. She is also a writer for Kveller.com, a Jewish parenting Web site. La Leche League International is the most trusted name in breastfeeding information, support, and advocacy. Founded in 1956 by seven intrepid women, La Leche League now has more than 7,000 accredited leaders in sixty-eight countries, and offers phone, online, and in-person consultation to breastfeeding mothers. Linda J. Smith has been a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, and public speaker for more than forty years. She holds a master's degree in public health, is an adjunct instructor in the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio, and is the author of four professional textbooks on birth and breastfeeding. Linda has lectured in twenty-two countries and her presentations have been translated into fifteen languages including Inuktitut."

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