Ebook: Hush Little Baby: The Invention of Infant Sleep in Modern France

Tracing the origins of modern preoccupations with babies’ sleep.

Hush Little Baby details the transformation of infant sleep from an unremarkable event to a precarious stage of life that attracted interest from medical experts, artists, parents, and entrepreneurs. Ventura shows how ideas about babies’ sleep that circulated in nineteenth-century France created many of the expectations keeping parents awake today.