Baby sleep consultant recommendations please?

[Homelife124]

Hi has anyone used a sleep consultant?
Would you recommend ?

Thinking about signing up to the Sleep Well with Hannah online course, has anyone done that and found it helpful?
It’s this one yummybabygroup.kartra.com/page/sleep-well-with-hannah

I used Boogie several years ago now and she was a huge help and support.
sleepdreamsbaby.com/

There is someone on here who gives very good advice, but annoyingly I can't think of her username! Perhaps if you explain what's going down, someone here can give you some pointers.

@Indecisivelurcher yes I think it's @FATEdestiny

I've had two non sleepers OP, happy to listen.

Brill yes that's who I was thinking of! Mine are also in the non sleeping camp and happy to listen, much better now at 4 & 7 but it's taken its toll.

Teachtosleep on IG

Saved mine and my husband’s sanity and ability to be good parents twice lulla-time.com/ I think she moved to Canada since she helped us, but many consultants work via online consultations anyway so she has continued her UK work.

Wow it sounds like lots of you have felt it was helpful! For those asking very briefly .. my son has never been a good sleeper from birth pretty much only slept when held or snuck into his bed after 20+ minutes of holding until he would wake next sleep cycle for us to do it all again. My husband and o took turns staying up throughout the night. It got slightly better around three months then a lot worse at four ( sleep regression) with him waking every hour all night. By this pint everything in our lives was falling apart, our relationship, health, mental health, relationship with our family’s or even just being able to function during the day so at a time of crisis we decided to try sleep training and by this point I was co sleeping and waking every hour all night every day. We started with Ferber checking in but quickly discover that prolonged the process and instead swooped to ot checking in which did work! He started going to sleep sometimes straight away sometimes after maybe 20 min maxim hos own cot but he gradually started waking again more often ( not every cycle) and would need soothing or feeefing to go back to sleep. Then he got a bad cold and there was no way we were going to leave him to cry even for a few minutes so started holding rocking to sleep and co sleeping…And now he won’t fall to sleep on his own or sleep in his cot. I don’t want to do the cry it out again it was way too traumatic and I can’t do it. I know it’s obvious what the problem is but we have tried gradually doing less holding rocking etc but it’s not worked. We also track and stick to awake times, have a bedtime routine, white noise etc and have pretty much read every blog and quite a few books out there!

So how old is your little one now? At 4 or 5 months you might still be in the do what you've got to do survive stage. I think a bit little for sleep training. If over 6 months maybe there are things you can try to move in the right direction.

It's tough OP. How old is he now. If I'm reading correctly you did Ferber at four months? Ish. What I would gently say there is that was a little to young. I did Ferber at 14 months with dd1 and it worked within a few days. Then with dd2 I did a watered down version at 7 to 8 months and again it worked on the main fairly quickly. Both mine were like yours with the very short sleep cycles. Ferber is not cry it out because you are going in, more controlled crying. BUT I agree it's bloody hard. I did three minutes for a long time with eight month old. Do you have the book to read the full basis of it. I think six months is the absolute youngest they suggest. I also tried all the gentle methods beforehand and none of it touched the sides. I remember sitting doing pat pat shush shush one night all night. Just horrendous.

What I will say is once sleep improves everything improves, I look back now and don't understand how I managed. How I drove a car, how I went to work, it's so dangerous.

I used Charmian Mead, she is baby sleep consultant, she was lovely and also helped with digestion issues - www.thesleepingbabyroutine.co.uk - she has also written a book which is how I found her in the first place - good luck x

Millpond sleep clinic. They are amazing. Very gentle. Saved my life. I had a non-sleeper to a 12 hr sleeper in 4 weeks.

I'm using one at the moment and the results are astonishing. She's v expensive but worth every penny. Baby is 5.5m but I know she works with younger. PM me and ill give you her details

We used millpond on our 2 year old ( now 9) and our 8 month old ( now 10 month) they both sleep through now ( expect 10 month to have wobbles now and then though) . Really recommend. Mandy is amazing!

Do you want remote help or someone to come and sleep train your baby

Contact local agencies in your area. Sure you will find some maternity nurses / sleep trainers

Charmian's method is a no cry, holistic approach (I got that from her book 😂) which basically means our little girl felt secure by routine rather than insecure by detachment - she also offered remote support.

Hi - I'm new to Mumsnet, be gentle with me please :)

We have also used www.thesleepingbabyroutine.co.uk for my little one. Lovely lady with some progression!

We've started to use 'free' things online too which is also really helpful. It started off for me ... I started using a mindfulness and meditation free YouTube Channel and have recently started doing sleep music /lullabies too for babies and toddlers. My little one loves it! Has been a great start using that this week ... seems simple/basic but if it works it works is our moto!

www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-LDVNmkPpD939TgNLczEw

Hope this helps as much for you as it has for me/us x

@Paperyfish

We used millpond on our 2 year old ( now 9) and our 8 month old ( now 10 month) they both sleep through now ( expect 10 month to have wobbles now and then though) . Really recommend. Mandy is amazing!

She is. She saved my sanity. I thought we were a hopeless case.