I initially spoke to Amanda Marks in August 2019 after being referred by my friend but we were all travelling at that time so the time was not right to begin her programme.
After being settled back in our hometown in Egypt I then booked an initial video consultation with Amanda in February 2020 where we went over everything since Deano’s birth and she covered his 24-hour schedule and the changes she would recommend making to take us from where we were.
Amanda opened my eyes to so many things I had done differently due to lack of support during his newborn stage and I was totally unaware of!
My son had major acid reflux from birth, major stomach & gas issues, I was force-feeding formula to make sure he was full, I didn’t have a good milk supply after one month again due to lack of correct information and support so was totally lost and didn’t understand why any of this was happening!
Amanda explained to me step by step what went wrong for Deano and how it could have been done differently.
We booked her Platinum Package with two weeks support which was scheduled to begin in March when my son would be 13 months old, but when we were due to begin my son fell ill with a terrible stomach bug so Amanda kindly waited for him to get better to start the full programme and instead assisted us with his food diet to help him get better and hydrated.
At 13 months my son was on 2 bottles of formula, not feeding himself any food, a very minimal appetite but worst of all not sleeping through the night!!
With some tweaking Amanda recommended to his diet and so full of food and now off formula, my son was sleeping through the night by Day 10 on Stage 4 (her last stage the babies reach before the end.)
She helped me lose the formula and bottles which I never thought I could do, she put a schedule in place, adjusted meal times and nap times, she helped introduce quiet time to my son which really changed his behaviour in general and made him so much calmer!
Before starting the programme all our books were ripped to shreds and were used as a toy, but now thanks to Amanda my son is obsessed with reading books and it’s literally his favourite thing in the world!
My son now self-soothes to sleep, he sleeps right through the night often 12 hrs and is a happier baby now that Amanda helped us identify his needs, and modify his day and night!
Her programme changed my life! I never thought I would see the day that I didn’t rock my son to sleep or run to him several times a night!
He now self-settles with her Shh Shh app and I can leave the room every time he goes to sleep and no tears.
We are all in a much more relaxed environment with a happy self-soothing baby! My only regret was not starting at 6 months!
Amanda is the baby whisperer and understands babies on a different level!
