Baby Sleep Consultations
Tailored sleep help - just for you.
Have a question about your specific baby? Maybe you read the book or watched the class and you want to ask about your unique situation? Or you want us to walk you through the whole process, start to finish? We’ve got you!
As licensed psychotherapists and authors, we’ve helped thousands of families. We personally do each sleep consultation ourselves. Sleep consultations are incredibly effective. Often a baby or child’s sleep improves in under a week with one-on-one guidance.
Schedule a 30, 60 or 90 minute sleep consultation by reading the descriptions below and contacting us. We can often schedule your session within a few days, so you get support quickly.
“Brilliant. The tweaks that you suggested in our consult changed everything.”
$420
Full Sleep Consultation
In our 90 minute sleep consultation (video call), we will create and walk you through every step of your sleep plan. Sleeping through the night (for babies 5 months and up) and healthy regular naps — all will be covered. This consultation comes with 2 weeks of follow up.
$140-$280
30-60 Minute Sleep Consultations
If you have read The Happy Sleeper book or watched the online class, we can answer your remaining questions in a shorter phone consultation. You’d be surprised how helpful it is to connect and troubleshoot your unique sleep situation!
What Parents Are Saying
“I love your method. My 7 month old learned to sleep in just one night! He went from waking 3 times to sleeping 11 hours straight. Thank you for the extra support, Julie!”
— ashley
“After months of little sleep and an awful 4 month regression, I was at my breaking point. I booked a consult with Heather and she gave me the support I desperately needed and helped put together a plan. After 3 nights of minimal crying my son was easily putting himself to sleep, which felt like a miracle. He’s been sleeping so well and so has the whole family!”
— KIM
“This is exponentially better than the sh!t show we’ve been living for 3 months. I thought there was no hope for us and already things are improving.”
— Dara
Frequently Asked Questions about The Happy Sleeper Sleep Classes
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First, we gather information about your baby or child’s sleep routines and schedules. We want to understand where you’re coming from and what your baby’s sleep history has been. Next, we ask for your goals and desires for your family’s sleep. This may be more nighttime sleep, an earlier bedtime, your baby learning to self-soothe and fall asleep without your help, transitioning baby to her own room, learning to nap in the crib, eliminating night feedings, or some combination of these goals. Based on your goals, we create a customized plan for you. This plan often includes handing over the role of self-soothing and falling asleep to your capable baby, helping your baby wake up at night less frequently or getting rid of night wakings, weaning from night feedings, helping your baby or toddler learn to nap in her crib, and more.
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With our 90-minute consults, there is a 2 week follow up period. You can email us with a handful of questions as they arise during this 2 week period, and sometimes it’s easier to just talk on the phone to cover your questions (this phone call is normally about 10-15 min). Within reason, we are available for you by email during the 2 week period, and we try to respond within 24 hours (except if it’s the weekend, which may take a bit longer). We want you to feel confident in your sleep plan, and the power is in the details.
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The answer is often yes. Many babies do protest when you change a well-entrenched pattern, including the sleep patterns they’re used to. The more closely families follow our guidance, the less crying is involved. This is because the specifics of our sleep plans are very important. Following these details, to a tee, is the quickest road to success — and a plan you can feel good about. As psychotherapists with graduate training in attachment theory and relationships, years of clinical experience (and kids of our own) our methods are specifically designed to maintain your connection and response to your baby.
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Babies, toddlers, preschoolers, big kids, and teens.
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Yes, we do! We will help you create a sleep plan for your twins or multiples using special strategies, while also taking into account their individual temperaments and sleep history.
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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
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We will work with you to ensure as much consistency as possible, whether your baby is in daycare, with a nanny or cared for by a grandparent or other family member. Babies are good at adapting to differences, so if things are not exactly the same at daycare or with Grandma, it works out. It will still be important that your baby falls asleep independently.
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No, because we want you to feel confident to implement your sleep plan. This is important for a few reasons. One, your baby needs to feel the presence of a trusted caretaker, not a stranger. Two, we are going to teach you techniques and ways of thinking that we want you to adopt and use for the rest of your baby’s childhood. We don’t just do a “sleep training” program (we don’t even use the word sleep training, because sleep is natural), we impart methods and tools that will change the way your family thinks and behaves towards sleep for years to come.
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.
The gift of sleep!
This card can be applied to any online sleep class