Food & Sleep and Separation Anxiety Programme Client Testimonials

Amanda came to us when Joshua was 16 months old.  He had never slept through the night and on most nights woke several times resulting in him being given milk or ending up sharing our bed.  On a good night he would go until 5am, have a bottle and sleep till 7am (in our bed.)  Even this was a rarity.  We had tried various sleep training techniques, ranging from ‘controlled crying’ (Gina Ford) to ‘pick up put down’, (Baby Whisperer.)  None were successful.

Amanda arrived.  I have to admit I already trusted her implicitly as she had helped me cope with the broken nights when Joshua was first born.  She went through Joshua’s existing bedtime routine and made adjustments that we immediately acted upon. After 3 nights Josh no longer needed a bottle to get him to sleep at night and no longer had his morning feed between 3-5am.  He had it at 7am, downstairs.  Slowly each of his night time wakes were for shorter periods.

By the time Amanda left, Josh was sleeping till at least 5am waking a few times thereafter but staying in his own bed until at least 6.30am.   Although the problem hadn’t been completely solved, in the short space of time, his sleep pattern has improved dramatically.  More importantly we were left with the tools to deal with his wakes confidently and continue Amanda’s work, hopefully resulting in a full night’s sleep!  Already he has slept through till 6am on 3 occasions – a miracle!

In the weeks following Amanda’s departure, we received constant and much appreciated support from her through texts and phone calls.   She is an unbelievably caring person who is so easy to talk and relate to.  At all time she was calm, kind yet firm with Joshua and consistently positive and reassuring with us.  If the same arises with number 2 we wouldn’t think twice about having Amanda back – we’d just do it a lot sooner!