A calm, biological approach to baby and toddler sleep.
Understand sleep, rhythm and regulation in the early years, without pressure, fear, or force.
If you have ever felt like you are doing everything “right” and sleep still feels hard, this book is for you.
And you’re not alone. Many parents are caught between conflicting advice, told to trust their instincts while also being handed rigid rules. Told to respond to their baby, but not too much. To follow structure, but not rely on it.
Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep was written to resolve that tension, not by choosing sides, but by helping you understand how sleep actually works.
This is not a sleep training manual.
It does not ask you to ignore your instincts, withdraw comfort, or follow a method that doesn’t sit right in your body.
Instead, Gentle Nights offers an understanding of how sleep, regulation and rhythm work together, so that any changes you make feel supportive rather than stressful.
There is no single right way for a baby to fall asleep. There is only what feels sustainable and right for your family, at this moment in time.
Inside Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep, you’ll be guided through the biology of sleep, including how circadian rhythm and sleep pressure shape your child’s rest.
You’ll learn why timing matters more than technique, what healthy sleep often looks like at different ages and how to support sleep without removing comfort.
The book explores night waking, early mornings, regressions and nap transitions, not as problems to fix, but as normal parts of development that can be supported gently.
As children grow, it also addresses the emotional side of sleep, including bedtime resistance, fears and the transition away from naps.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, you'll discover how sleep and your parenting choices can be approached without judgement
Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep is for parents who want to understand their child’s sleep, not control it.
It’s for those who value rhythm and patterns, but don’t want rigidity. For those who want reassurance grounded in real experience, not fear.
If sleep advice has ever made you feel tense, like you’re constantly getting it wrong, this book was written with you in mind.
If you are looking for a strict method, a quick fix, or guaranteed outcomes, this book may not be the right fit, and that’s okay.
Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep is written by Amanda and Nicky, founders of Little Ones and mothers who understand how overwhelming sleep advice can feel in the early years.
After supporting hundreds of thousands of families worldwide, we have seen the same patterns repeat themselves again and again. Babies change, sleep shifts and parents are often left feeling like they are doing something wrong, when in reality their child is simply developing.
Kindred grew from a desire to talk about sleep more honestly and more humanly. To hold biology, rhythm and responsiveness in the same space, without pressure or fear.
Gentle Nights brings together everything we have learned over years of experience, research and listening to families. It is not about perfect sleep or rigid outcomes. It is about understanding how sleep works, so parents can feel steadier and more confident as they support their children through a constantly changing season.
This book is the heart of that approach.
You don’t need to read it all at once.
You don’t need to follow it perfectly.
You can come back to it again and again as your child grows.
Read some short excerpts from Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep
Night waking is one of the most misunderstood aspects of baby and toddler sleep. It is often framed as a problem to be solved, when in reality it is a normal feature of immature sleep.
Babies wake between sleep cycles. They wake when hungry. They wake when uncomfortable. They wake when their nervous system is overloaded. Waking is not a sign that sleep has failed. What changes over time is not whether waking happens, but how easily the body returns to sleep. A well rested nervous system moves through night waking very differently to an overtired one. This is why night waking so often increases when day sleep is short, wake windows stretch too far, or bedtime drifts later. The body carries that fatigue into the night, and stress hormones rise more easily in the early hours.
Before changing how you respond overnight, it is always worth stepping back and looking at the rhythm of the day as a whole. When timing is supportive, many night waking patterns soften without any change to how sleep is supported. Night waking is not something you have created. It is something your child is moving through. Understanding that removes urgency, and replaces it with steadiness.
Sleep rarely falls apart without reason. When it changes, it is usually responding to development rather than failure.
Babies and young children do not move through sleep in a straight line. Sleep reshapes itself as bodies grow, brains reorganise, and emotional awareness expands. Periods of disruption are not signs that something has gone wrong, they are signs that something new is being integrated.
During these phases, sleep often becomes lighter. Settling may take longer. Night waking may increase, or early mornings may appear. This can feel alarming, particularly if sleep had previously improved.
What often helps most during these times is not doing more, but doing less. Protecting timing. Shortening awake windows slightly. Choosing earlier bedtimes. Increasing reassurance rather than withdrawing it.
When we understand regressions as reorganisation, our response changes. We stop trying to fix sleep urgently, and start supporting it through change.
Sleep does not need to be perfected to be supported.
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