There I was 35 weeks pregnant with our second baby, creating a thorough sleep plan for our unborn little girl. After giving birth first time round to our sleep thief, I was determined to use all of my tools in my toolkit to help our baby girl to learn to sleep.
Read MoreSince I have started on this journey to becoming a Sleep Consultant, I have come across hundreds of myths that are associated with early childhood sleep. Part of me can totally understand these misconceptions because before I experienced sleep coaching both as a parent with a sleepless
Read MoreExhausted, desperate and ready to give up, best explains how I felt when Oliver was 6 months old, “Why are all my friends babies napping for 3 hours a day and only up once or not at all during the night?” A question I used to ask myself daily. Oliver was refusing naps all day and awake every 60-90 minutes through the night.
Read MoreIf you are anything like me, pre child holidays involved relaxing, exploring, sunbathing, sipping cocktails and basically doing everything you wanted when you would like to. So our first trip away with Oliver was a huge shock, in fact it was actually very stressful! Which is the opposite experience that hubby and I were going for, we were looking for more of a break from busy parenting life. Silly us!
Read MoreYou may have seen the BBC article published yesterday, “13 Weird Ways parents get their children to sleep”. I wasn’t at all surprised that pre sleep consultancy days I had tried three of these.
Read MoreSo today I met up with a close friend and we got onto the topic of my business. The first question she asked me was “so how does it work, do parents have to leave their babies to cry in order to get them to sleep?”
Read MoreWhy is it when you are pregnant that there are so many classes on how to cope with childbirth yet absolutely nothing covers how to cope with and manage sleep deprivation? I’ve often caught myself saying “Nothing prepares you for the sleep deprivation” although looking back if there was a class that equipped me with all the tools
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