Discover why sleeping babies have become such big business

Forget superhero franchises– these days Hollywood execs are making big-budget movies about getting your child to sleep all night. 

WHEN my friend Hannah had a baby, someone gave her ‘Go the Fuck to Sleep’, the bedtime story written by an exasperated New York dad whose toddler was driving him nuts at night. It’s a picture book for grown-ups, full of swearing and darkly comic thoughts about children. And so Hannah duly read the book to her newborn for weeks before realising the gift was intended for her.