Gentle Sleep Support
We want to set the stage for good sleep habits so your baby can grow up knowing that bedtime is a safe, and peaceful time. Our sleep experts will provide support to you and your family, answering your questions and creating a customized plan to optimize your sleep and achieve overall balance in your life.
Phone Consultation
$125*
- Consult with you on the phone or Zoom video chat
- Create a custom sleep plan
- Strategy packages peer-reviewed by certified doulas
- 4 weeks of email/phone follow-up
In-Home Consultation
$325*
- Consult with you in the comfort of your home or Zoom video chat
- Create a custom sleep plan
- Strategy packages peer-reviewed by certified doulas.
- 4 weeks of email/phone follow-up
*Plus HST
Our sleep support team will teach you about:
schedules
techniques
sleep patterns for a baby
to achieve family health & wellness
Safe Co-Sleeping – Notes from Sleep Expert, Dr. James McKenna
- Breastfeeding significantly helps to protect infants from death including deaths from SIDS/SUDI and from secondary disease and/or congenital conditions.
- Infants should sleep on their backs, on firm surfaces, on clean surfaces, in the absence of smoke, under light (comfortable) blanketing, and their heads should never be covered.
- The bed should not have any stuffed animals or pillows around the infant and never should an infant be placed to sleep on top of a pillow.
- Sheepskins or other fluffy material and especially bean bag mattresses should never be used.
- No water beds.
- Infants should never sleep on couches or sofas – with or without adults.
- Bottle-feeding babies should always sleep alongside the mother on a separate surface rather than in the bed.
- Both parents should agree and feel comfortable with the decision. Each bed-sharer should agree that he or she is equally responsible for the infant and acknowledge that the infant is present.
- Both parents should think of themselves as primary caregivers.
- Infants a year or less should not sleep with other children siblings.
- Persons on sedatives, medications or drugs, or who are intoxicated or excessively unable to arouse should not co-sleep on the same surface with the infant.
- Extremely obese persons, who may not feel exactly where or how close their infant is, may wish to have the infant sleep alongside but on a different surface.