Good Night and Good Luck : A New Mum Battles Manual And Myths

By Kusumanjali Ravindranath

About the book

‘An honest, heartfelt account of a new mother about evolving an individual way of motherhood, balancing advice from mothers and manuals’ – Nirupama Subramanian Can a good mum get a good night’s sleep?  Kusumanjali Ravindranath – Anju to her family – has just had her first child. She revels in motherhood, and does not miss her job, her old body, or even the freedom to check emails whenever she wants to.But she does miss her sleep. Fast turning into an insomniac, Anju accepts the inevitability of her sleep-deprived existence. Until she meets the local miracle mum and her child – a child who has been sleeping from 7 pm to 7 am since he was three months old. Good Night & Good Luck is Anju’s journey to peaceful slumber – for herself and her baby. It’s an obstacle course, strewn with ‘booby’ traps, warring baby gurus, indulgent and obsessive grandmothers, jet lag, and colliding cultures. All part of the new mother’s vertiginous learning curve. A witty, heartwarming book about the magical first year of a baby, and about navigating the myths and truths of modern parenting , Anju’s experience could be your guide to (dare we say it?) a good night’s sleep.