The Happiest Baby on the Block

This is my placeholder review for The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer. I'll probably re-read it in the next few weeks, and will update this post with more thorough review then.


As it is, you probably have this book. It's commonly given amongst friends to expectant parents, because it's a good book. It's written a bit repetitively and terribly illustrated. In some ways it feels like an apologetic that's based on common sense, humor, ethnography, and "back in caveman times"-type rationale. In other ways it's almost a Dummies' guide for imbecilic parents-to-be.


But the information within, once you uniq it, is good. This belongs in your library of sleep books.