Before we talk about her newly released debut book — Sleep, Baby, Sleep, (HarperCollins India) — Kerry Bajaj maintains that she didn't lose sleep over writing it. But her sleep cycle was certainly affected after her second daughter, Rumi, was born. Having lived in New York, the holistic nutritionist had to move to Mumbai in 2016 when Rumi was six months old as part of husband and bestselling author Karan Bajaj's job. But since sleep had been a "love language" for the family, they managed to correct it. Now, the two daughters — Rumi is three and Leela is five — enjoy sound sleep from 7 pm to 7 am in a city that never sleeps.

Leela and Rumi's bedtime routine certainly attracted eyeballs at the playschool they went to. Bajaj says she started getting phone calls from strangers asking her how she managed to do it. "I then said to my husband, 'This is a book.' You can't help anyone with their sleep with a five-minute conversation because it affects everything — micro-decisions like 'should our kid enrol in ballet class that starts at 5 pm?' The answer is no," she shares. Her book has garnered praise from celeb moms like Sunny Leone, Gul Panag, and Soha Ali Khan.