here are some of the lovely things our customers have said after working with calm sleep consulting
"There are hard days in motherhood. But looking at your sleeping baby reminds you why it's all worth it."
How it works
I want to let you know how wonderfully fabulous Fiona has been throughout this 2-week journey helping with our daughter’s sleep.
My husband and I were in a desperate state, incredibly sleep deprived with our 15-month-old daughter waking multiple times a night, sometimes for 4-5 hours at a time. Fiona was empathetic, caring and totally attentive throughout the process, and the results… well our little darling daughter is sleeping through the night, every night!! Fiona and the plan she created for us has been life changing for our family and we are eternally grateful. We would highly recommend her to anyone who needs support with their little one's sleep! Thank you again Fiona!!
Fiona helped me sleep train / coach my son at 6 months old and supported me in reducing his night feeds from 7/8 times a night to just 1/2 (and he has slept through the whole night as well). Fiona really took the time to listen to what my son’s personality was like and think of how best to help him learn to self-settle. As he is very curious and alert it became clear I couldn’t just leave him alone. Instead, Fiona suggested a much softer approach and it worked. Halfway through the week I thought I wouldn’t be able to stick at it, but Fi encouraged me and I’m so glad I stuck with it because within 7 days my little one was putting himself to sleep and only waking once at night. Fiona also supported me in setting our naps up a little better, so he was more well rested throughout the day. He had been on the cusp of crawling for a few weeks and after a few good nights’ sleep he started crawling, so I do think improving his sleep had a huge developmental impact on him as well as improving my wellbeing too. After 2 weeks, my son slept through the night for the first time and I couldn’t believe it, after everything that I had read I thought that it would take him months to drop the extra feed. But he’s done so well, and signals to me when he wants to get in the cot now - all that’s down to Fiona’s help!
You really gave me confidence that I could sort out her sleep. Setting up her bedtime routine was really key and is something I will continue doing going forward!
All in all, I’m thrilled with the progress and hopefully Isla continues to sleep beautifully!
Fiona recently supported us to get on top of my 2 year old’s erratic sleep patterns. It was a triple whammy with him – numerous night wakings, taking ages (sometimes up to 2 hours) to get to sleep with one of us having to stay with him the whole time, and early morning wake ups. We were all exhausted and the anxiety of bedtimes were really starting to get to us. A post Fiona put out on Facebook popped up on my feed and on the spur of the moment I contacted her to ask for help. I had never really considered engaging a sleep consultant before – I suppose I was a bit cynical and possibly a bit scared that I would feel judged. I was uncomfortable with the idea of “controlled crying” and I thought that was the route we would be pushed down.
I was wrong about all of that. Fiona was understanding, empathetic and compassionate from the outset. She was completely non-judgmental and spoke with such conviction and calm authority that I immediately trusted her. She listened to our experiences and needs and built a plan for us that worked in harmony with our parenting style. I felt she had our back and having an expert on the outside helped my husband and I to feel we were tackling this as equals – not one of us leading and the other following.
The first three days were tough and there was crying (not just from my son), but I never felt we were being unkind to him or that he felt alone. Then on day 4 at bedtime we put him in the cot, he said night night and he went to sleep. He didn’t wake up at all that night and he slept until 6.30am. We couldn’t believe it. In fact for a while I was still quite anxious as I worried that maybe this was a fluke and after a while things would go back to how they had been. We’ve had the odd blip but 7 weeks on he is still sleeping well and so are we.
Fiona’s support throughout the first two weeks was fantastic. She’d check in every day to ask for feedback on how things were going and suggest little tweaks to the plan as needed. Most of all she provided calm reassurance. She was relaxed about things needing to flex around changing routines and built our confidence to tackle things as they arose.
I would highly recommend Fiona to anyone who is struggling with getting their little one into a good sleep routine. Asking for her help was the best parenting decision we’ve made and the results have literally been life changing.