Independent Sleep Co

Christmas time & sleep 🎄💤

Of course we want to try and keep things as consistent as we can during this busy time but we also know that it’s definitely not always possible & that is okay!

I know for myself, my 2.5 year olds bedtime has been all over the shop lately which so have her morning wake up times. Some days she’s been napping for 2 hours & others we haven’t been able to get her to nap at all but now that we have finished all of our Christmas celebrations & seeing all of our family, we can finally go back to her normal routine.

Christmas is a special time of year & it is only once a year. We don’t want our children to miss out on anything. Yes it’s important to ensure they’re still sleeping well both day & night but you can also always start again tomorrow.

If you need help getting your little ones sleep back on track, feel free to reach out to me for a free 15 minute chat which can be booked via the link in my bio 📞

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas with their beautiful families 🎄🫶

I look forward to helping more of you & your little ones sleep better in the new year 🥰

✨ Sleep Training ✨

Quite often I see many mums/parents asking if their 1+ year old is too old to be ‘sleep trained’ as many believe this is something that is done when babies are younger but this is definitely not the case at all.

There is never an age that would be classified as “too old” to change your child’s sleep patterns and introduce positive sleep associations. The biggest thing with changing your child’s sleep will always be consistency. Doing something for a day or two only and seeing no change, isn’t enough to know if it will end up working or not. I recommend always trialing any changes for at least 3-4 days if not a week to really know if what you’re trying will work long term.

From working with clients myself, I do find the 4-6 month age the easiest to change their sleep patterns and associations as sometimes the longer babies are used to something being a certain way, the harder and more persistent we have to be to work upon changing it.

I myself do only work with children up until 3 years of age as this is just where I am most comfortable and have more knowledge around though there are many sleep consultants who work with children up until 5-6 and through primary school age.

If you would like any help or support with changing your little one’s sleep, you’re welcome to send me a message to chat or you can book a free 15 minute phone call via the link in my bio.

✨ Client Review- 13 Months Old ✨

This mumma reached out to me with her little boy who was co-sleeping, breastfed and waking multiple times to feed overnight.

We established he had a feed to sleep association where he was unable to fall to sleep or back to sleep without being fed.

We used a gentle in the room method to transition bub to his cot at the same time as feeding earlier in the bedtime routine to begin to lessen this association. With a lot of consistency & persistence from mum & dad, we ended up seeing little man sleeping longer stretches overnight and only feeding once, being able to be resettled off to sleep using hands on approaches in the cot instead.

So so proud of these guys 🥹💤

Do you want this to be you? Do you have a little b**bie monster? Are you wanting to move away from co-sleeping? You can send me a message or head to the link in my bio to book a free 15 minute phone call today! 📞

Who loves a sale? 🙌 Especially when you can get your little one sleeping better for less $$! 💤

🎈Ends on Monday 27/11/23 🎈

👉 The popular one week support package comes down to just $105
👉 You can book a 30 minute chat answering any of your questions in this time for $35
👉 For a completely personalised sleep plan for your little one without the support was $90 but is now $63!
👉 Or you can start with a free 15 minute chat and see what sort of support option you may require while giving some advice & tips around your current situation. Any of these services can be booked via the link in my bio ☺️

*You’re welcome to share with any friends or family who may like some help & support.

✨ Client Review- Support Only ✨

Did you know I offer support only services, without the sleep plan?
If you’re someone who has reached out to me and would just like a little bit of reassurance that you’re doing the ‘right’ things or someone to ask any questions too, I can offer you one week of support to do just this ☺️

I met this lovely mum & bub at one of my sleep talks where she reached out to ask some questions regarding her 3M old at the time. We were going to do a sleep support plan but bub ended up responding really well to the example routines you can find on my page & mum just wanted to help & support along with it.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, send me a message to chat 💬

✨ 2 hourly wake ups ✨

👉 This information is for those 3-4+ months bubbas.
👉 Once your little one turns 4 months, babies sleep changes and starts to look more like adults as they move out of the newborn phase. This is equally around the time of the 4 month regression.
👉 They are also becoming more aware of their surroundings and as they wake up overnight to move through sleep cycles are more likely to fully wake if they are in a different environment to what they fell asleep in.
👉 What do I recommend to help? From 4 months+ working on getting our babies off to sleep in the bassinet/cot which will help them to go off to sleep and be waking in the same place/same environment. You can still give them plenty of cuddles to make them calm and sleepy before placing them into bed and shushing, patting and rocking them the rest of the way off to sleep.

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✨ Client Review- 10 Months Old ✨

This little guy was taking up to an hour to go off to sleep of a night as well as waking multiple times overnight.
He was also able to self-settle though had gone back to needing some assistance going off to sleep again.
Within a few days of a new routine and a settling technique, he was going off to sleep independently and falling asleep within 10 minutes of being putting down for both day and night sleep as well as only waking once overnight 👏

📞 If you want this to be you, book in your free 15 minute chat via the link to my website in my bio to have a chat about what’s happening & to see which package option would best suit you & your little one 💤
*There is also no obligation to book a package after the chat ☺️

💤 Client Review- 16 Months 💤

This review says it all! Going from feeding to sleep and waking multiple times overnight to learning to go off to sleep independently in such a short amount of time! 👏

Do you have a toddler up to the the age of 3 who is still not sleeping as great as you would like? Head to the link in my bio to book in your free 15 minute chat to see what can do to help! 📞🥱

It was so great to chat with these lovely mums about sleep 💤🥰

Yesterday we had the lovely Sam from the come & do a Q&A at our Nourish hub. Thank you to our community of Mum’s for coming together to share your stories & get some great sleep advice! 🌈🫶🏼

💤 Sleep needs by age 💤

Follow for more sleep tips for your little ones.

Save this one to refer back to as needed & share to help other mums/parents learn about their little ones sleep 😴

Always remember this information is just a guide, if you’re ever concerned about the amount of sleep your little one is having, see your GP or Child Health Nurse to discuss this.

✨ Client Review- 5.5 Months ✨

This little one was 5.5 months old where we worked on nap consistency and longer stretches of sleep overnight with the 2 weeks of support from the Ultimate Package.

She is now able to self settle, re-settle if waking early from naps and is only waking for feeds overnight. Such big improvements for the whole family 🫶

Head to the link in my bio to book your free 15 minute chat for this to be you too 📞

There are many ways to support a small business or a friend/family member who has a small business that doesn’t cost anything but means the world to them 🤍

I saw this post a while ago & wanted to recreate it, especially now after seeing 3 small businesses announce they’re closing in the past 2 days 😔

Please, if you see a post from a small business, try to engage with it in one of the ways mentioned in my post. A little goes such a long way 🫶

✨ Wind Down Time ✨

Swipe through to see what this is and why I strongly recommend implementing this before your little ones naps 💤

You may have seen the term ‘wind down’ mentioned on a few of my example routines & I thought I’d put up a post to explain exactly what it is and the benefits.

Follow for more sleep tips to help your little ones sleep better or head to the link in my bio to book your free 15 minute chat 🤍

If you have any questions, please drop them below or send me a message ☺️

Anyone in & around the Newcastle area who is keen for a small group sleep talk & Q&A, this is for you! 💤

Sam from the will be coming to talk about all things sleep! 😴 BOOK ONLINE NOW! 🌈✨

✨ Client Review- 7.5 Months ✨

𝙱𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 starting support- This bub was no longer self settling, needing to be fed &/or rocked to sleep, cat napping for his lunch time nap, waking multiple times over night & waking early or a morning.

The parents 𝙶𝚘𝚊𝚕𝚜 during our one week of support included having him self settling, consolidating the lunch nap, trying to limit to one feed overnight & sleeping in later of a morning.

𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 our one week of support- He was going off to sleep in his cot within 5 minutes with no crying involved, sleeping 2 hours for his lunch nap, only waking once or twice overnight with just one feed, when waking earlier then planned is content playing in his cot before getting him up for the day.

Such great results to this little guy & his beautiful family! 🥹👏

Head to the link in my bio to book a free 15 minute call to see which package would best suit you & your little one 🤍

What is ‘sleep training’ & what does it actually involve?

⏩️ Have a look through each of the different images and headings to find out what the term ‘sleep training’ means to me, a certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and what this involves if you were to work with me.

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Let me know if you have any questions at all, either pop these in the comments or send me a message & I’ll get back to you ☺️

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💤 Client Review- 8 Months Old 💤

This little guy was still cat napping during the day along with waking multiple times overnight needing to be resettled.

After 2 weeks of working together he was only waking twice a night, falling asleep unassisted and having 2 nice big 1.5 hour naps in the day! So proud of these guys 🥹👏

If you need more of a reason to book a free 15 minute call or one of my support packages, here it is 🤍 In such a short time, we saw some big improvements on bub & his parents sleep overall ☺️

Head to the link in my bio to book! 📞

✨ Why do I offer affordable sleep packages? ✨

1️⃣ I currently run this business on the side of my 9-5 job as an early childhood educator which I love & have so much passion for. I currently work 4 days/32 hours a week and do sleep consulting as a side hustle and a passion project as I genuinely want to help families and their little ones sleep better.

2️⃣ As a mum to a 2 year old, I get how important sleep is for the whole family. I need to charge a fee to cover my time, but I want to be affordable so families can get the sleep they deserve.

3️⃣ I only became certified in February this year therefore don’t have as much experience as some other consultants would have. However the transition from the childcare environment and working with the 0-3 age group, to sleep consulting has been an advantage for me.

4️⃣ I have a big heart and love helping people. It brings me great joy to know that my knowledge and what I do as a sleep consultant can make such a big impact and difference in the lives of others. I have always been such a giver. So much so that I often donate to a lot of go fund me pages, charities and disaster reliefs each year.

5️⃣ Sleep is important to our overall health, and currently sleep services aren't subsidised, so this is my part in helping families access sleep support who may not otherwise be able to afford it.

6️⃣ My prices may increase one day if this passion project becomes a more prominent source of income for me and my family, but my hope is it will always be affordable - because you really can't put a price on sleep.

Head to the link in my bio to check out my packages & pricing 💰

Let me know if you have any questions prior to booking with me, I’m always happy to help 💤

✨ Working on resettling to extend naps ✨

👉 If you have a cat napper, try giving them some time and space before rushing to get them out of bed. Sometimes babies wake after a sleep cycle and will babble and move around before drifting back off to sleep.
👉 There is no harm in leaving baby in their cot/bassinet for a small amount of time if they’re content. Even if baby is sooking and whinging, not full on crying, this is also okay to do for even 5-10 minutes so they learn to wake up and know that you will be in soon, not always straight away as this just isn’t always going to be possible.
👉 You can use the times in the post regardless of what method you use to get your little ones to sleep. If your little one self-settles they can still be left if happy enough for that 30 minutes-an hour.
👉 If your baby is rocked or patted to sleep, you can also try this for the time mentioned in the post as per babies age.
👉 The more often you try resettling, baby will eventually realise they should still be sleeping. It can take some time to achieve but it will be worth it.
👉 I have mentioned this before but self-settling and re-settling are actually 2 different skills that babies either learn or end up being taught. Many babies can self-settle initially for sleep though overnight may need a bottle or some cuddles to fall back to sleep.

Feel free to share with any mums or parents who will find this helpful & follow for more sleep tips 🤍

If you have any questions around the above, pop a comment below or send me a DM ☺️