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Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies Happy | The New Yorker

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The pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.”

Save this story Save this story The pediatrician and entrepreneur Harvey Karp is the most famous baby calmer in the world. To new parents, he is something between a sage and a magician, offering insight into the opaque miseries and motivations of the tiny humans newly entrusted to their care. In his multi-decade career as a public figure, across books, videos, blog posts, television appearances, and a baby-sleep-tracking app, Karp projects the affable confidence of a person who knows that he knows more than you do, but is awfully excited to bring you into the light. In 2002, after decades of p

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