Are people still hiring sleep nannies these days?

[hobbgoblin]

In the next 16 days I either have to resign from my county council job or go back to work after 13 weeks unpaid remaining maternity leave. I want to resign but have to do something to pay the bills and was thinking of going back to behaviour cosnultancy/sleep training but am wondering if this sort of thing has had its day?

What do you reckon - is 'supernanny' old hat?

I think it's pretty popular actually - I have used in the past.

I just wonder whether although people still seek the advice whether they actually hire someone to come to the home, etc. It is quite an extravagance in many respects to some, and with the recession I thought it may have died a bit of a death.

I wonder whether to run a 'clinic' type of thing locally may work better?

Really am in two minds whether to do this as I couldn't afford to invest in website and restart costs if it is a non starter.

It wouldn't work where I am (Dorset) but I think if you were in London you would probably do well.

I've used a "sleep consultant" twice with D1 and D3. Was worth every penny!! About £100.

NightNannies, Millpond et al still seem to be doing well, although we used a night nanny to help us survive some difficult early times, we didn't want to hire a sleep trainer when DS was older, as it didn't seem to make sense once he had become more attached to me and DH.

FWIW I would have been interested in somebody who would have come and spent time with us finding out about our issues and helping us to come up with a plan. But the people who do more like this (e.g. baby sleep system seem to be very inflexible in their "solutions" and it's all a phone/email approach.

I think you could learn something from the approach of the cranial osteopaths, where I think (at least) half the value to people is that here is somebody who is actually interested in hearing about what the parents are experiencing and trying to help them fix it.

Hope this ramble helps!