All the tools you need to enjoy parenting and have a happy and well rested newborn!The Holistic Sleep E-Course is for:
Parents who are conflicted and overwhelmed with the amount of information available on baby sleep, they want to support their baby to sleep well but without traditional sleep training. It’s an integrated framework which is founded on parent’s unique values and is anchored in the science of infant sleep, feeding, attachment, family emotional wellbeing and whole-baby development. |
The Newborn Holistic Sleep
E-Course is designed to help you:
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Instant SupportShort easy to watch video lessons covering my key fundamentals so you can lay the foundations for healthy, biologically normal infant sleep from the start.
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Responsive StrategiesI won't ask you to leave your baby alone when they need you, but encourage a pattern of sensible responsiveness overtime.
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Printable GuidesEasy to print reference guides that equip you to get started and take easy and gradual steps so you don't get overwhelmed.
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Holistic Sleep E-Course
£47
0-6 months
FREE Bonuses included
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my APPROACH
My approach helps parents recalibrate their expectations of infant sleep development, encourages responsive parenting and experimentation to meet your baby's needs, offers parents strategies for supporting the development of their babies’ biological sleep regulators and promote their own well-being.
One-on-one support
This course is designed to provide you with all the relevant tools and information based on modern evidence and practices, however I fully understand that talking things through with a compassionate person can be exactly what the Doctor ordered. I am available for private 1-2-1 sessions based on a person centered and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) which has been specially adapted for the perinatal period via the possums NDC program which I am trained in. You will find details on how to book this in the e-course if desired sessions are £50.
CRYING, fussy BEhaviour
Bouts of crying in the first few months which are difficult or impossible to soothe can be extremely worrying and hard going. There is nothing more maddening than being told this is normal!
While the cause of these bouts and the associated ‘peak’ in infant crying in the first three months are not well understood, evidence has accumulated that most such infants are healthy and grow and develop normally, that many infants have a crying ‘peak’ at around one to two months of age and that this crying peak and the ‘unsoothable’ crying bouts which distress parents usually resolve spontaneously by five months of age. Studies have concluded that only about 5% of infants cry a lot because of organic disturbances, in most cases the crying is due to normal developmental processes.
The other reason I see is that some babies are short sleepers and some are long sleepers for example the average total sleeping time per 24 hours varies from nine to 19 hours at birth and from 12 to 21 hours at 2 months, with wide daily variations in each baby’s total sleeping times and in one study only 37% of healthy 3 month old infants regularly sleep 8 hours at night and so in some cases parents are 'trying to get their babies to sleep when they don't need it' through no fault of there own, it is the sleep breeds sleep messaging all around us that is the cause. Trying to get a baby to sleep when they don't need it will result in a fussy baby who fights sleep but looks like they need it causing distress. This is why I encourage you to follow your babies lead, if it is taking a long time to fall asleep and they sleep for short periods baby likely needs more time awake and sensory integration (covered in the e-course)
I would absolutely rule out organic reason for cry-fuss behavior and as early as possible such as
While the cause of these bouts and the associated ‘peak’ in infant crying in the first three months are not well understood, evidence has accumulated that most such infants are healthy and grow and develop normally, that many infants have a crying ‘peak’ at around one to two months of age and that this crying peak and the ‘unsoothable’ crying bouts which distress parents usually resolve spontaneously by five months of age. Studies have concluded that only about 5% of infants cry a lot because of organic disturbances, in most cases the crying is due to normal developmental processes.
The other reason I see is that some babies are short sleepers and some are long sleepers for example the average total sleeping time per 24 hours varies from nine to 19 hours at birth and from 12 to 21 hours at 2 months, with wide daily variations in each baby’s total sleeping times and in one study only 37% of healthy 3 month old infants regularly sleep 8 hours at night and so in some cases parents are 'trying to get their babies to sleep when they don't need it' through no fault of there own, it is the sleep breeds sleep messaging all around us that is the cause. Trying to get a baby to sleep when they don't need it will result in a fussy baby who fights sleep but looks like they need it causing distress. This is why I encourage you to follow your babies lead, if it is taking a long time to fall asleep and they sleep for short periods baby likely needs more time awake and sensory integration (covered in the e-course)
I would absolutely rule out organic reason for cry-fuss behavior and as early as possible such as
- Unidentified feeding issues / possible food allergy with an IBCLC (60-70% of families who reach out to me with babues under 6 months of age whom are breastfeeding have been previously told that latch is fine, weight is fine but once a full assessment is completed with an IBCLC unidentified feeding issues were resolved and the baby was more settled)
- Unidentified medical issues with your GP or HV
where baby sleep's
Where baby sleeps is a highly personal decision, I have found the resource from Basis to be very effective in helping parents make decisions around this topic, you can view this here
this is not sleep training - explained
Sleep training in the traditional sense is crying it out (extinction-leaving your baby alone to cry to sleep) or controlled crying (modified extinction-leaving your baby alone to cry to sleep but checking in increments of time) these types of sleep training methods might be called various different names, rapid return, sooth and check or similar.
This e-course does not suggest these methods, but does provide practical options which parents and caregivers can experiment with if desired, however the whole course is about education and laying the foundations rather then getting your baby to sleep through the night, according to a large study the majority of 3 month old babies wake on average 2.2 times a night. Only 16.5% of babies slept through the night (Paavonen et al., 2020)
This e-course does not suggest these methods, but does provide practical options which parents and caregivers can experiment with if desired, however the whole course is about education and laying the foundations rather then getting your baby to sleep through the night, according to a large study the majority of 3 month old babies wake on average 2.2 times a night. Only 16.5% of babies slept through the night (Paavonen et al., 2020)
UNIDENTIFIED FEEDING PROBLEMS
Unsettled and fussy babies who have significant disturbed sleep (a pattern of waking more than every couple of hours in the night) will do well with a feeding assessment from an IBCLC, in many many situations feeding issues are overlooked, there are gaps in knowledge with professionals regarding breastfeeding, this is because it is a highly specialized area in it's own right, the best person is an IBCLC to assess.
