I'm a mama first, but I did not write this book for my own babies. Not directly, anyway. I didn't even write Rest Assured for myself. In fact, I didn't set out to write it at all; it became, in much the same way The Velveteen Rabbit became real... well-worn, with it's fur almost loved off entirely. It is through living and loving that the words fell onto the pages. As a battle cry? Perhaps. As a calling, more accurately.

And the words? They fell for you.

I just hope they landed gently.

Rest Assured isn't your average baby sleep book. And maybe that's because I'm not your average baby sleep 'expert'. I'm not here to tell you to leave your baby crying, or to set Sleeping Through The Night as your goal. I don't subscribe to these flash-in-a-pan cultural ideals; they'll come and go (hopefully) while the biology of baby sleep remains steadfast. Unwavering.

And that's what I stand by, you've likely noticed. A soft-yet-fierce insistence on both the science and the heart of baby sleep. On the power, the absolute power, of nurture when it comes to raising healthy humans who sleep in healthy ways.

So thank you for taking the time to read my words, because this battle cry, or calling, is not mine, alone.

It is ours, and we are many.

So nurture on, my friend, nurture on.