Our 9-month-old daughter had been sleeping in our bed for months. What had started out as a way for tired parents to get more sleep during the night and to facilitate nursing had turned into a disaster of multiple night wakings and naps where I was on pins and needles listening for signs of her awakening as I feared she’d tumble off the bed. I knew moving our daughter to her crib was way overdue. Although I’d read lots of books and blogs about sleep and infants I remained unsure about exactly what approach to use to make the transfer. We’d made a lot of mistakes around sleep with our older daughter and I wanted a more positive experience for all with our younger girl.

It was just my good luck to have found Rebecca through a seminar where she generously shared some of her vast knowledge about infant sleep and patiently answered questions from many moms in the group. She spoke about differing approaches to encouraging sleep, not advocating a one-size fits all solution.

After the seminar I took advantage of her offer of a free phone consult. Talking to her is like talking to a friend, a warm and caring friend who just happens to know a lot about sleep. While speaking with her, it finally crystallized for me what approach to sleeping made sense for our daughter and our family and it was not a difficult decision to engage her help.

After I filled out her questionnaire she quickly sent me a detailed sleep plan to follow which built on some of the routines we already had in place. We followed the plan and we couldn’t be more thrilled and relieved that within 10 days of starting it our daughter was sleeping safely in her crib for 11-12 hours at night and for 2 naps a day with minimal protesting. The nights organized themselves pretty quickly, within 2-3 nights, but the naps took longer about 8-9 days, something Rebecca informed us would probably happen but we stayed the course with her support. For most of us, there is no one in our lives who can read and respond promptly to emails and texts about the details of a child’s sleep progress multiple times a day with patient reassurance and encouragement. Having Rebecca’s support was invaluable through this process and I can’t recommend her enough!