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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.

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...

Baby Lily was 5 months old, and she had been waking frequently through the night. Mum was anxious about Lily crying, so as well as feeding Lily 2 large bottles of formula in the night, she was getting up and popping a dummy back in Lily’s mouth as soon as she stirred.

The ability to go from awake to drowsy to asleep without any assistance from Mum or Dad is what we refer to as Self Soothing. 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.

Hi I’m Jo, mother to two wonderful and very busy little people.

Can you teach your baby to sleep without sleep training? Often when we think of sleep training we conjure up thoughts of a young helpless newborn c...

Cows milk protein allergy 2-5 % of infants suffer from a CMPA Signs of a Cows Milk Protein Allergy (CMPA) These present as either stomach proble...

Baby Eden had a rough start to life with an induced birth and tongue tie not fixed until 6 weeks, so she had been ratty and slow to gain weight. She was windy from the tongue tie and this had lead to colic symptoms present in the early evening for the first 12 weeks.

Is it bad to rock your baby to sleep? Simply put – no. Assisting your baby to sleep by rocking them is a very natural way to help your baby learn t...