An e-reader might be better for winding down than your paperback ...

Alexandra Scherer received funding from The British Academy for the start of this research project on sleep. If you are a parent of a young child, sleep may well have become an obsession for you.

When I was seven months pregnant, someone handed me a copy of Twelve Hours by Twelve Weeks, a bestselling baby sleep manual. I devoured it like scripture. Everyone had warned me that the sleep ...