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Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep

Gentle Nights is a calm, biology-led guide to baby and toddler sleep, written for parents who want understanding rather than pressure.

This book brings together sleep science, rhythm, and regulation to help you make sense of your child’s sleep as it changes across the early years. It does not ask you to ignore your instincts, withdraw comfort, or follow a rigid method. Instead, it offers context, reassurance, and gentle structure so sleep feels more supportive and less stressful.

Gentle Nights covers sleep from the newborn stage through to around three years, exploring why sleep changes, what is normal at different ages, and how timing, environment, and emotional regulation all work together.

It is a book to read slowly, return to often, and dip into as your child grows.

Gentle Nights explores:

  • how sleep works biologically, not behaviourally

  • circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, and why timing matters

  • creating supportive conditions for sleep, including environment and feeding

  • age-specific sleep patterns from babyhood to toddlerhood

  • night waking, regressions, early mornings, and nap transitions

  • supporting sleep gently, without force or fear

  • toddler sleep, including bedtime resistance, fears, and dropping naps

  • safe sleep and co-sleeping, approached with balance and respect

Who this book is for

Gentle Nights is for parents who want to understand sleep, not control it. It’s for those who value rhythm and structure, but don’t want rigidity. It’s especially suited to families who feel overwhelmed by conflicting sleep advice and are looking for something calmer and more grounded.

This book may not be the right fit if you are looking for a strict method, a quick fix, or guaranteed outcomes.

About the authors

Gentle Nights is written by Amanda and Nicky, mothers and the authors of Little Ones. After supporting hundreds of thousands of families worldwide, Kindred was created as a more holistic and compassionate way to talk about sleep, one that honours biology, development, and real life.

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Gentle Nights: A Kindred Guide to Baby Sleep

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.

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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.