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Food & Sleep, Separation Anxiety, Boundaries and Behaviour Programme Client Case Studies

Roma Iyer – aged 4 – from Megha and Sai

  1. No complications during pregnancy.
  2. Natural birth, approx 2.6kg at birth
  3. Breastfeeding issues from Birth.
  4. Tongue-tie diagnosed by lactation consultant. Tongue-tie removed at less than 10 weeks.
  5. Expressed breastmilk till 4 months old followed by Aptamil till she was a year old.
  6. At 6 months we successfully used ‘baby led weaning’
  7. Good appetite, she eats very well till date.  No food allergies.
  8. Medical conditions – recurrent eczema, usually at winter. Well managed presently, triggers unknown.
  9. All vaccinations are up to date, including hepatitis.
  10. She has been in nursery since she was 6 months old. We have recently changed the daycare (December 2019)

24 hour cycle

  1. Wake up around 6:45am
  2. Brush teeth, get dressed, sometimes a small breakfast at home. Get to daycare by 8am
  3. Day care typical day schedule is attached to this mail.
  4. Pickup from day care around 5pm
  5. Bath, light dinner and change to pyjamas
  6. Brush teeth, story time with one of the parents
  7. Sleep by 8pm

Sleep associations

  1. One parent reads a book and then she asks to read it herself
  2. Lights out, kisses and one parent lays down next to her until she falls asleep
  3. No dummies, some soft toys around her pillow and a bottle of water on her bedside table.

Night waking patterns

  1. Once asleep, she wakes up anywhere between 11pm and 12am or between 3am and 4am
  2. She wakes up and comes over to our bedroom, and can very lucidly ask to sleep next to us. She often brings her water bottle and a stuffed toy with her.
  3. She can get aggressive if she is asked to go back to her bed and is very determined to climb in between us.
  4. Typically one parent would get up and sleep elsewhere
  5. Once she is with a parent in our bed, she settles very quickly and goes back to sleep, no matter how agitated she may have got a few minutes before
  6. In the morning when she wakes up she has a reason for coming over. It’s often because she couldn’t go back to sleep on her own or she has a nightmare.
  7. She says every night very earnestly that she will try her best to sleep in her bed on her own. She often apologises for coming over to our bed in the night and waking us up

Family Medical information

Asthma in both parents. Post-natal depression in mum.

I hope this gives you plenty of information to be able to access the best course ahead for our family. Above everything, Roma is a highly emotionally intelligent child as well as very affectionate and compliant. We look forward to taking this forward. Thank you.

Ekam age 3 years, 11 months – from Luchmie
Noah P – 3 years, 2 months – from Beenish
Patrick – 3 years, 5 months
Roma Iyer – aged 4 – from Megha and Sai
Elian and Kian – aged 3½
Henry – aged 4 – from Giselle
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