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21. Sleep

ChildSeries 1

Sleep. It drives people crazy. When did we start getting so anxious about baby sleep, and what’s ‘normal’ for a baby anyway?

Go on, be honest. Is this the first episode you clicked? It drives people crazy. It’s a firecracker of a topic, and emotions run high around sleep.
So let’s talk about it. When did we start getting so anxious about baby sleep, and what’s ‘normal’ for a baby anyway? India talks to anthropologist Dr Helen Ball about all this and the controversial topic of bed sharing as well as economist Emily Oster, who’s crunched the numbers and research on… sleep training.

Presented by: India Rakusen.
Producer: Ellie Sans.
Series producer: Ellie Sans.
Executive producer: Suzy Grant.
Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts
Original music composed and performed by The Big Moon and Eska Mtungwazi.
Mix and Mastering by Olga Reed.

A Listen Production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

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14 minutes

Last on

Sat 31 May 202505:45
BBC Radio 4

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