Olive was a good little napper during the day – but what a night owl! Olive regularly woke up 3-5 times a night, and would stay awake for up to 2 hours each time. After 8 months of this, Olive’s parents decided that it couldn’t continue; they all needed a better night’s rest.
Over tiredness is the word I most commonly use when talking to parents to describe their baby’s sleeping patterns! An over tired baby is too tired ...
Baby Levi was 9 months old and had been feed to sleep or rocked to sleep for all of his life, he shared a studio apartment with his parents in the city, so there was little space and few doors – this resulted in Levi being assisted to sleep for every nap and several (every 2 hours) wake ups over night.
Hi, I’m Sacha Barrack, mum of Edward and Heidi. I have been passionate about babies and their sleep since giving birth to Edward nearly five years ago. As a new mother I found it almost impossible to function on such a lack of sleep, combined with being alone a lot with my husband flying away so often, and sought the answers to give me both more sleep, and a happy, healthy baby. By being fortunate enough to train through Baby Sleep Consultant, my knowledge about infant and child sleep and the tools one can use to improve it have helped families to give their own babies and children the gift of good sleep.
My name is Cherene Daley and I have a Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood, as well as my full teaching registration and I am a certified baby sleep consultant. I have spent over 8 years in the education sector, and took time out to start a family of my own.
Swaddling is a powerful and usually very positive sleep association. I have a large range of swaddles in my sleep consultant kit, and I love showin...
The ability to go from awake to drowsy to asleep without any assistance from Mum or Dad is what we refer to as Self Settling. Do you let you wrap y...
Katelyn at 18 weeks old was only 5.6kg, and exclusively breastfed and suffering from severe reflux.
Mum had been to Plunket and at their suggestion Katelyn took all naps in her buggy in the lounge, swaddled with her dummy and was rocked to sleep, and throughout her naps.
Hi, I am Holly. I am married to James and we have 2 gorgeous children. Originally from the UK, but absolutely loving our NZ lifestyle.
Baby Zoe was 6 months when her mum phoned me for a 15 minute consult, this was the first opportunity I got to see what was happening with her little girl. This mum was getting frustrated with her daughters frequent night wake ups to breastfeed back to sleep, and then only having short naps over the day.
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