Sleep Training Class for Babies 4-24 Months
The “Sleep Wave” Class for babies 4-24 months
We know how ready you are to move on from the exhausting early months and have your entire family sleep through the night. The great news is, by 5 months, your baby is ready too! In this class you’ll learn the game-changing Sleep Wave method for 11-12 hours of nighttime sleep and healthy, independent naps for your baby.
This Sleep Training Class Includes:
Video Course
A 70-minute video class taught by Julie and Heather, creators of the parent-favorite The Happy Sleeper methods.
Mini videos
Five “Spotlight On” mini videos covering Naps, the 4-month sleep regression, when baby first rolls to tummy, and more
Office Hours
Join us for live, small group Q&As with Heather and Julie to ask questions and get support.
Notes, Reminders, & a Planner
A Notes and Reminders book to help you organize and a Sleep Wave Planner and nap schedule information
Topics covered in this course:
Your baby is capable of falling asleep independently and sleeping through the night. This class shows you how to:
Implement the gentle and effective “Sleep Wave” method
Establish a full, 11-12 hour night of sleep
Identify and change “unhelpful” sleep associations
Establish regular, independent, healthy naps
Move to a “time-of-day” schedule for naps
Wean night feeds gradually and effectively, if you choose
Look forward to your bedtime routine
Maintain your strong, nurtured bond and responsiveness to your baby
After watching this class, you will have a clear sleep plan for your baby to sleep through the night. If you implement the Sleep Wave in an organized and consistent way, night sleep often improves in 2-7 nights.
Welcome!
We're Julie Wright and Heather Turgeon — MFTs, psychotherapists, and authors of the best-selling book The Happy Sleeper.
We're also both moms, so we know what it feels like to be desperate for sleep while also wanting, above all else, what's best for our baby.
We created The Happy Sleeper method to give parents a science-based, developmental approach to healthy sleep and a healthy bond.
Signs you and your baby are ready for this class:
Your “helping ways,” like feeding and rocking, begin taking longer and longer to get your baby to sleep.
Your baby wakes more during the night, skips naps, or takes short naps.
Your baby wakes up the minute you lower her into the crib, or very soon after.
Your baby arches her back or struggles slightly as you hold and try to soothe her to sleep.
Rather than becoming sleepier, your baby seems activated by your presence.
Your baby is at least 4.5-5 months old.
This class is for:
Parents of babies 4 months and older, who are sleeping in a crib, or are ready to sleep in a crib.
We recommend purchasing the 4-24 month class if your baby is 4 months old (we don’t want you to waste your money on the younger class when your baby is so close to being ready for the next stage). However, we recommend using the Sleep Wave method (the main technique taught in this class) when your baby is closer to 5 months.
Parents and caregivers who are ready to stop working so hard to get their baby to sleep.
Choose your plan
Ask Julie and Heather your questions! When you enroll in the 4-24 Month Online class, you’ll be invited to our free Office Hours. Next session is September 6th at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET. The week before Office Hours, we will send you a link to attend.
Sleep is natural, we’ll show you how.
Join the hundreds of thousands of parents with self-soothing, happy sleepers. They’re sleeping soundly, and so can you.
Frequently Asked Questions about The Happy Sleeper Sleep Classes
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When you enroll in the class, you will be asked to create an account (user name and password). You easily purchase the class from the site, and then you can use your login directly from the top right of the homepage.
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The online classes teach The Happy Sleeper methods, which are also outlined in the book. What most parents appreciate about the online classes is the ability to actually hear us describe and teach the methods. The online classes are great for people who prefer to watch and listen, rather than reading a book.
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This is a good option if your baby is 0-3 months old, because in the 0-4 month class, you’ll learn the Health Sleep Habits, along with the Soothing Ladder and other techniques for encouraging self-soothing, and then, when your baby is 4.5-5 months and capable of sleeping independently through the night, you’ll learn the game changing techniques like the Sleep Wave from the 4-24 month class.
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In the first 4.5-5 months, we don’t have any set expectations, because every baby’s sleep abilities emerge at a different pace. Our goal in these early months is to set the stage to optimally follow your baby’s emerging self soothing and sleep abilities.
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Lifetime Access for all your kids.
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If your baby is at least 4.5-5 months old and you follow the Sleep Wave strategy (taught in the 4-24 month class), our success rate is very high, which is not surprising, since, by this age, babies are very capable of self-soothing. Before this age, we don’t have set expectations, as every baby is different.
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The Sleep Wave is our method for handing over the role of independent sleep to your capable baby. "Capable" means your baby is developmentally ready for self-soothing and sleeping through the night, which for the vast majority of babies is 5 months. When you implement the Sleep Wave, you follow our exact recommendations for responding to your baby in a very clear, very specific way, so they know you're there. If you follow the Sleep Wave steps precisely, your baby's natural ability to self soothe will emerge. Following the Sleep Wave plan also includes setting up a new bedtime routine, optimizing the timing of your baby's sleep.
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The Soothing Ladder is our method tailored to newborn babies (0-4 months). It gives you a system for responding and soothing your young baby, while also giving them space to develop their self-soothing skills. The Soothing Ladder gives your baby enough opportunity to practice their emerging sleep skills so you don't automatically get stuck in unhelpful habits.
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It’s normal for young babies, 0-4 months, to not be developmentally capable yet of falling asleep independently and sleeping through the night. They still need your help and to feed during the night. During these early months, the 0-4 month class focuses on strategies to help you gradually step back, a little at a time, so your baby can have space to practice her emerging, self-soothing abilities. We don’t let babies this age cry for more than one minute without a response from you, so that you can maintain a strong, nurtured bond. This class also helps you with timing, routines and the room environment. All of this helps to set the stage for optimal sleep and prepare you and baby for the next step, the Sleep Wave, at 4.5-5 months if you need it.
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The 4-24 month class is the best option. In this class, we help you through 4 month sleep regression and you can decide whether your baby is ready for the new techniques (including the Sleep Wave) taught in the 4-24 month class.
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It’s normal for babies younger than 5 months to still need to feed at night, plus it can be important if you are breastfeeding. The Soothing Ladder will help you navigate nighttime wakings during these months. Most babies, 5 months and older, don’t need to feed any more at night. They can get all their nutritional needs met during the day. At this age, or whenever you’re ready, the 4-24 month class (in particular, the “Spotlight On” weaning video) will help you very gradually and effectively wean night feeds. It works best when you start the weaning process at the same time you start the Sleep Wave (taught in the 4-24 month class).
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The Happy Sleeper strategies in the 0-4 month class are designed to give your baby a little space to practice her emerging self-soothing abilities. We don’t let babies cry for more than a minute at this age. Your baby will feel your attunement and responsiveness. When you move into the 4-24 month class, the Sleep Wave method is also designed to satisfy two critical needs of your baby, healthy sleep and secure attachment. We will help you understand how good, natural sleep and maintaining a strong, nurtured bond, both develop naturally and work together rather than in opposition.
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The Happy Sleeper approach is science-based. We brought together what is known about child development, including when and how the circadian system (which controls sleep) matures, how self-soothing abilities emerge gradually, the natural progression of the attachment relationship and how these all work together to support excellent sleep once your baby is capable (at about 4.5-5 months). Parents often say it feels relieving, logical and reasonable.
We are trained psychotherapists, so we use our knowledge of psychology, child development and sleep to create a plan that is both responsive and incredibly effective. It is not necessary to leave a baby to cry without response from the parent. The power of our techniques are in the details — we’re excited to teach them to you
The Gift That Outlasts Coffee
A Happy Sleeper gift card gives tired parents what they really want—rest, routines, and maybe even a little of their sanity back. Redeemable for any sleep course.