Sleep Consultants, aleare they worth it?

[HattiesandMyrtlesmum]

Looking for some advice from those who have tried sleep consultants are they worth it? I have a 6 and a half month old who’s exclusively breast fed since 4 months her sleep has been terrible. Every hour and half she’s awake and the only thing that will get her back to sleep is feeding. I’m exhausted and can’t do this for much longer,

There is a four month sleep regression?
We used one many years ago, 6 months is too young to sleep train I think but I feel your pain.

Best money I’ve ever spent at a similar age to yours.

@comfyshoes2022 which sleep trainer did you use?

We used Andrea Grace as we lived in London at the time, albeit it was 16 years ago. Worth every single penny and got further advice at the toddler stage too.

I read the book precious little sleep, there’s a Facebook group you can join for free and the author often responds or other members. I used it around 20 weeks and my daughter is now nearly two and sleeps well. I know people who used a sleep trainer and I think it’s more for the parents to have a hand hold rather than the sleep trainers having any magical knowledge. Apparently the training they have is mainly focused on how to upsell the sleep training to others.

Ultimately any form of sleep training will have some form of crying and probably dropping a night feed so you can get a decent stretch of at least 5/6 hours a night. Some children I know never needed this and slept through early but mine definitely didn’t! She would want to latch all night long and I had very little sleep for months it seemed never ending at the time but you will sleep again.

Yep. It's a mix of routine and training, because day sleep affects night sleep so you need to ensure your child isn't under tired or over tired. A routine is easy enough to google, but it's the support you get in the first two weeks (and you need to be consistent, strict and follow through) which to me is where the value lies. Mine started sleeping through at 9 months, best money I ever spent! And also was having a 2-3hr nap during the day.

I’ve not used one but I agree that sleep begets sleep. How are their daytime naps?

And has Tongue Tie been ruled out?