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A sleep consultant is a professional who specialises in helping families establish healthy sleep habits and routines for infants, toddlers, and young children. We provide personalised guidance, support, and strategies to address common sleep challenges and improve overall sleep quality for the entire family.

I can help your family by:
– Creating a customised sleep plan tailored to your child’s age, temperament, and sleep needs.
– Providing education on healthy eating and sleep habits, routines, and sleep hygiene practices.
– Offering guidance and support through various techniques.
– Addressing specific sleep challenges such as bedtime struggles, night waking, nap transitions, and more.
– Empowering parents with knowledge and tools to promote better sleep for their child and themselves.

I work with families and children of all ages but I specialise in 0-5 years. Each age group may have unique sleep challenges and developmental considerations, and I tailor my approach accordingly to meet the needs of each child and family.

The timeline for seeing improvements in your child’s sleep can vary depending on factors such as age, temperament, consistency with implementing sleep strategies, and parental involvement. In many cases, families begin to notice positive changes within a few days and have reached their goals within 3 weeks. I provide ongoing support and adjustments as needed to help ensure long-term success.

Absolutely, I encourage parents to work slowly through the changes and we are a often (but not always) changing to a different sleep environment. We need to make sure your little one is comfortable before we start to remove your presence (if that’s your goal).

Most certainly. I know from my knowledge and experience that children do not need to night wean in order to sleep well. If you are moving from feeding to sleep to something more sustainable, your little one may reduce the frequency down from 8 little feeds to fall asleep overnight to 1-2 larger, consolidated feeds for example.

I would say both my background and experience. As a Maternity Practitioner and Sleep Consultant in Sydney, I spent many years working with new parents with sleeping, feeding and all the complexities parenthood brings. Then as a midwife supporting women through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period and now as a lactation consultant. Having the experience, medical knowledge and being a mum myself, I really get how hard it is. I’ve worked with families that have done Tresillian or worked with other night nurses to no avail. With consulting, every single family gets a personalised, unique plan tailored to their needs.

Most of my consulting is completed via Zoom! It works just like if I were sitting in your nursery with you.

During sleep consultations on Zoom, we will discuss your child, your parenting experience, feeding and sleeping goals, and your family dynamics to create a personalised plan. Regardless of whether we meet face-to-face or over Zoom, I take a holistic approach to sleep training where we can discuss what your baby is eating, connection with family, whether they go to daycare, how parenting is going, and what the current routine looks like. Sleep training goes beyond wake windows and routines – I want to ensure we both have a full view of what can contribute to a more productive sleep routine before we get started.

Working together, my one-hour Zoom/Phone packages will help to provide more clarity on your experience with sleep training, patterns to look out for, ways to settle your little one, and how we can improve your confidence at bedtime.

I provide Zoom consultations as a one-off package (for parents who may not require ongoing support), and consult packages over a three week period, ideal for families who want support while moving through what can be a challenging period.