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Deciding to Night Wean at any age can be emotional for both mum and baby That love/hate relationship with getting up at 3am to nurse or warm a bott...

10 Sleep Secrets from the Baby Sleep Consultant team

Hi, I’m Becky and I live in the Waikato, I’m originally from the UK and moved over to NZ four years ago where I met my partner Ken, and two short years later had our twin boys; Beauden and Isaac.

Rachel aged 9 months 2 weeks was sleeping from 7pm-7am, she began to wake earlier and earlier – her mum got in touch as she was starting to wake as early as 5.30am and refuse to go back to sleep.

I never realised the importance of sleep until I had none! When my son was born, the lack of sleep turned our household into a bit of a whirlwind. This got me thinking of ways to try and stop this whirlwind in my own household as well as other households. And so began the most rewarding journey to becoming  a sleep consultant.

Jack’s dad was a friend of my neighbor, who had said to him in the past if things are such a struggle I think you really need to call Sam, but at ...

Chronic cat napping, and 2 hourly wake ups at night. 8 month old Tom is a healthy, physically advanced little dude, but he was having some challe...

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.

Could your baby’s reflux symptoms actually be over tiredness? 

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.