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Sleep deprivation stole a lot of joy from me in the early days of motherhood. I don’t want anyone else to suffer like that, so I use the same gentle sleep training methods that saved us to help other families.

I always felt I was meant to be a mother. But when my baby was born, I realized I wasn’t just meant to be a mom, I was meant to be his mom.

Everything was perfect at first. It was hard, of course. He slept terribly like most newborns, but I reminded myself that it’d get better soon, right? Wrong.

As he got older, his sleep stretches got shorter, and it got harder to help him sleep. For months, he woke every hour. Cosleeping didn’t help. Nothing helped.

“I wanted to enjoy the precious, fleeting moments with my baby.”

I wanted to enjoy the precious, fleeting moments with my baby. But this wasn’t what I’d imagined when I’d dreamed of motherhood. I was exhausted, discouraged, and falling apart.

At the time, all I knew of sleep trainging was the Cry It Out method, which was out of the question for us. As desperate as I was, I couldn’t do that to him. I needed a method that let me respond to and comfort him.

I was too tired to sort through all the contradictory information online. It just left me feeling more confused, and nothing worked.

I can’t do this anymore.

The thought came one night as I cried silently, my baby nursing for what felt like the 14th time that night.

That was my wakeup call. Something had to change. I was at the end of my rope when I found our sleep consultant, who later became my instructor when I became certified.

Within 3 days, he was falling asleep on his own and sleeping through the night with only one feed.

He was happier, and less clingy and fussy within the week. He became more confident and curious. And with more sleep, my postpartum depression began to resolve.

I didn’t think sleep training was an option for us because of our parenting philosophy. But now, I’ve seen firsthand just how much it has boosted my ability to be a present and patient mother.

I’m certified through the Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. My goal is to help families sleep better with gentle methods, so no one has to resort to crying it out.