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To any more sleep deprived parents out there…
After hearing what amazing sleep miracles Amanda Marks can make happen from my dear friend Shruti, we decided that we had to change our lives with our twins Maia & Daisy (aged 17 months) who have been co-sleeping most of their lives.
With Daisy being happy in her cot and occasionally sleeping through the night, Maia on the other hand had never slept in a cot or away from me and was mostly attached to my boob all night. So on ‘bad’ nights I was feeding Maia all night long, plus if Daisy woke up I had to feed her as well to get her back to sleep.
Putting the girls back to bed every night has always been a hard chore as my husband works long hours and I was mostly stuck in their room for up to 2 hours feeding and rocking them.
After waiting a few weeks for Amanda to have time to begin working with us, we started on Monday afternoon with her 2 hour consultation over Skype and we started the programme once the girls woke up from their nap.
The first 3 nights were extremely hard. Cutting down from roughly 12-15 feeds a day to 2 was not easy on the 3 of us, but especially hard on myself. I felt like giving up and didn’t see that my girls would ever sleep through and thought I just had to accept that. But the next night we went milk free with Amanda’s constant guidance and on-call support, and shortly after both girls slept through the night.
I loved that the girls were never left alone and had 100% reassurance at all times with Amanda’s Sleep Programme 1-4 Stages. From being with them in their room and rocking and patting and shushing to finally just sitting outside their bedroom door on the bedtime chair shushing.
Amanda had kept reassuring me that, I can do this…
… and… we’ve done it!
It’s just amazing and I am actually looking forward to bedtime now and an evening ‘off’.
We couldn’t have done it without Amanda’s ongoing ‘virtually there’ support programme and are so happy, as are our twins with their new rested days and sleep-filled nights.
