Get your child (and you) sleeping through the night.
We read the research so you don't have to. Small Hours distills 47 peer-reviewed studies, a dozen pediatric sleep textbooks, and hundreds of hours of clinical guidance so you can find the answer you need in 60 seconds and try it before the next nap. No more 3 a.m. Google rabbit holes, no more contradictory Instagram advice, no more waiting weeks for a consultant callback.
- Relief, tonight. One concrete thing to try before bed — and permission to stop blaming yourself. Night waking is normal; 20–30% of families struggle, and that is not a failing of yours.
- A bedtime routine that works — built on the 4 C's (Consistent, Calming, Compact, Concluded in bed) and the landmark 405-family study (Mindell et al., 2009 — an RCT where a consistent bedtime routine alone significantly reduced night wakings within two weeks).
- Four frameworks to replace 2 a.m. googling — the ABCs of safe sleep, the 4 C's of a bedtime routine, the Three R's (Rhythm, Routine, Room), and the four guiding principles for any sleep decision. Memorize once; use forever.
- Age-specific sleep targets — realistic hour ranges and nap patterns for 0–3 months, 4–6 months, 7–9 months, and 10–12 months. You'll know at a glance whether your baby is on track.
- A clear-eyed answer on sleep training — what the research actually supports, including the 5-year follow-up on long-term effects, so you can pick a method you'll actually stick with.
- Troubleshooting for the hard nights — the 4-month maturation, the 8-to-10-month developmental wakings, the nap drops, and when to call the pediatrician. The disruptions that used to undo you, in plain English.
- Care for the tired parent — chapter 7 is for you. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, the evidence base for CBT-I, and what to do when your sleep is the actual problem.
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the full first year
"Once we had a routine, everything became easier. Not because she was suddenly an easy sleeper — she wasn't — but because we weren't reinventing bedtime every night. We just followed the steps."— Mother of a 22-month-old · Sviggum et al. (2018), qualitative study
Three things you could do immediately.
Open the PDF. Skip to these pages. Put them to work before bedtime.
Walk to the crib with the book open. Check the ABCs: Alone, on their Back, in a safety-approved Crib. Firm mattress, no blankets, no bumpers. Three minutes, nothing to buy — and you've just eliminated the single biggest risk factor before tonight's bedtime.
The exact research-backed sequence from Chapter 3 — the same one that reduced night wakings in a 405-family study within a week. Bath, book, song, lights-out. Start it 30 minutes before your target bedtime tonight. That's it.
Before changing anything else, open the age table in Chapter 1: realistic total-sleep hours and nap patterns for 0–3 months, 4–6 months, 7–9 months, and 10–12 months. In thirty seconds you'll know whether your baby is on track — and you'll know exactly which chapter to read next.
One better night tonight.
Everything else can wait until the weekend.
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Before you buy.
The questions parents actually ask us.
I've already read three sleep books. What makes this different?
Most sleep books are built around one method — and the author's conviction that you should follow it. Small Hours is built around the research, with all the major methods compared side by side. You'll leave knowing what actually has evidence, not just what one person believes.
My baby is almost 1. Is this still for me?
Yes. The last two chapters are written specifically for the 9–12-month stretch — the four-to-three nap transition, the developmental wakings around 8–10 months, and how to set up sleep habits that carry into toddlerhood. Skip the newborn chapters if they no longer apply — the rest is written for you.
Do I need to sleep train? I don't want to.
You don't. Chapter 6 covers sleep training in detail — including the 5-year follow-up research on long-term outcomes — but the frameworks in the rest of the book work whether or not you ever cry-it-out. Many families see most of the improvement from the Three R's alone.
My partner and I don't agree on approach. Will this help?
This is one of the most common reasons parents buy the book. It's written to give both of you a shared vocabulary — the 4 C's, the Three R's, the principles behind each choice — so you're making decisions from the same page rather than from different instincts at 2 a.m.
How long does it take to read?
Two hours cover to cover. But most readers use it as a reference — skim the table of contents, find your situation, read the relevant chapter in fifteen minutes, and come back when the next thing changes. It's built to be used, not finished.
What format is the ebook?
A standard PDF. Open it on your phone, tablet, Kindle, laptop, or any web browser — no app required, nothing to install. Once you buy, it's yours forever. Re-download as many times as you need.
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