Amanda Marks literally changed our life 🙌🏼♥️
I reached out to Amanda in September 2024 with my then 6 month old after having tried to wean her myself for a couple of weeks and to get her off the boob at night time long enough to have a few hours sleep.
Hattie was having absolutely none of it, she wouldn’t eat one little thing. She constantly refused getting overly stressed, crying, turning away always ending up in me offering her the boob again.
Hattie was on the boob probably every one to two hours all day & all night.
I was co-sleeping with her and going to bed at 8 o’clock at night with her just to try and ensure that I could rest when she rested.
It got to the point where I just couldn’t see the end and how I would be able to sort this myself, which is when I came across Amanda online.
I reached out to her to explain that I was getting pretty desperate. I wasn’t able to do anything without having to think about where I could give her the boob.
The longest window was two ish hours, she was permanently attached.
After having an initial consultation with Amanda and going through all of my concerns and Hattie’s case study, I decided to embark on the Platinum package as I knew I needed the accountability and constant guidance as I was shattered and I think without Amanda‘s constant support (my God did she support me) I probably would have bailed 10 times over!
The program is a lot of graft, personally the first 4 to 5 days I found really hard work and bless Amanda, every day she was having to reassure me that we were on the right path and that everything that I was feeling was completely normal.
Seeing and hearing other peoples experiences and results was all that was keeping me going at one stage.
I wasn’t prepared for the hormonal balance of not being the constant provider for Hattie! And that took some adjusting for me personally.
But by day 5 something clicked and everything fell into place.
Hattie relaxed and slept all the way through. It was the most gratifying feeling! She woke up that following morning so happy chatty relaxed calm! She wasn’t clingy and wasn’t searching for the boob!
She was just a calm happy baby who was all of a sudden eating a four course breakfast, lunch and tea!
Everything changed because of this, I don’t think me or my husband had realised just how much in the trenches we were until we felt this light happy relaxed feeling again!!
Everything became easier we were free.
We were able to work around our new routine to incorporate going out for lunch, just generally going out the house without stressing about where I was going to feed her.
She was sleeping through 12 hours plus at night time with predictable nap times during the day!
It was genuinely the best feeling ever!
This newfound freedom with a calm happy happy baby!
Another unexpected bonus to the process was the bond my husband and Hattie now had as a result in him having to do the hard first 5 days.
Hattie has now just turned one and I’m extremely happy to say that everything that we learnt with Amanda in that two weeks has carried on.
Hattie sleeps through the night every single night.
Amanda constantly checks in with us and loaded us up with a shed load of information on how to progress from month-to-month over the coming years, how to tweak everything we’ve learnt to grow along with Hattie’s growing stages.
We have been able to go away on holiday long haul and short haul with the confidence in knowing that Hattie will be able to eat anything that we have in the restaurant and she will sleep wherever we are!!
After having struggled with my first child with Breastfeeding, sleep and food having Amanda with our second has been genuinely life changing!
Amanda we genuinely owe you so much!!
Thank you for making life that much better! ♥️
