Sleepy Miracles - Gentle Baby & Child Sleep Solutions

After my 2nd baby Abby’s born, the sleep situation of my first baby Daniel, who is a 2.5 years old toddler, become worse and worse. He even wakes up and specifically want me to co-sleep with him for more than 8 times a night! Since I also have a newborn to feed during the night, I almost have no sleep during night! When Abby turns to 3 months and we found we cannot handle Daniel’s bad sleep situation anymore, so we find Maria --- what a good decision we’ve made! Honestly speaking, the first week is really hard for me as Maria gives me a lot of “homework”, but I found that’s all the necessary movement I need to make to change Daniel’s situation and it really works for Daniel! After Maria knew I was stress out about the changes, she provide me lots of reassurance and encouragements, which is really really important for a helpless Mom. I saw significate changes within 2 weeks and by the time we finished working with Maria, Daniel can sleep through the night! I just need to put Daniel in the crib, leave the room and say “Good Morning” to him around 7:00am. I still cannot believe it right now! All the families then have enough sleep; I have more quality time with my husband and Daniel become healthier and happier! I will definitely recommend Maria to any of my friends who need their baby sleep through the night!

If you would have told me a month ago that my toddler would be sleeping through the night in his crib and waking up at a decent hour in the morning, I would have thought you were crazy. But after following Maria's advice and structure the impossible happened. He no longer needs us beside him or a bottle to sleep, and napping in his crib has given me a much needed break during the day. Maria's constant support and care for our family during the three weeks was worth every penny! I highly recommend her!!!!!!

We can’t thank Maria enough for all she has done for our family! Our baby could only fall asleep if I nursed or rocked him to sleep, sometimes both at the same time. We also were co-sleeping which made the quantity of night feeding so high. He would wake up every hour or so during the night to request for nursing. Besides, my baby always wanted to be nursed during his naps, so he would sleep on the breast for the entire nap 3 times a day. I started to have back pains and sleep problems, I was emotionally exhausted too. It also impacted our relationship with my husband and friends. So that was a real miracle how things changed after we started to work with Maria and follow her advice! To be honest, the sleep coaching is a challenging process and requires so much discipline from both parents. But it is so rewarding! Our baby started to sleep for 12 hours at night in his crib without waking ups from the day 2 of coaching! And now there are days when I have to wake him up myself in the morning, as he has been sleeping too much. My husband and I finally have the quality time back, so that we can simply have dinner and watch a movie together. I also have so much more spare time during a day while our baby is sleeping in his room. And of course, we all have a good and restful sleep now which makes our days more pleasant and productive!

Our daughter has not been a very good sleeper since day 1. She stopped sleeping in the bassinet for her naps at 2 weeks old, and we would take turns going for a stroller or car ride or take her in the carrier to put her to sleep. She would sleep okay at night but would cry through any bedtime routine and as we were trying to put her to sleep. She was only sleeping 8 hours at night in between the night feeds. We tried sleep training ourselves using the information that we found online but we were not successful. When we started working with Maria, our daughter finally started sleeping in the crib for naps for the first time, and the night sleep got up to 10.5-11 hours with one feed. At the end of the process, our baby started taking great naps in the crib and slept 11 hours at night straight. She started going to sleep happy with no tears! Our baby and us parents are now better rested and happier! We are so happy that we didnt wait any longer to hire a sleep consultant! Throughout the process, Maria was very professional, patient, and supportive. She knew exactly what to do and kept us on track. We found Maria's approach much gentler than the other sleep training techniques that we read about and it worked wonders for our daughter!

My husband and I worked with Maria for a months time on learning how to sleep coach our 7month old son. He was waking up anywhere from every 45mins-2hrs and nothing ever longer. He needed to be rocked, patted and shushed to sleep every night for 5mins-1hr each night and sometimes throughout the night if feeding him didn't work. Almost every night he woke up 45mins after his initial falling asleep and I would need to do it all over again. It was all a viscous cycle. He needed to co sleep since every time he was put down sleeping anywhere he would wake within minutes very upset and crying. All his naps were contact naps and I did not see any end in sight. I did not know what to do. This is when I decided to look into a sleep coach, one that specifically had a gentle way of helping our son learn. In the one month of working with Maria our son started sleeping through the night with little to no awakenings in his very own room and crib along with his nap times as well. I did not think this was ever going to be possible. She was able to answer all questions. Was available everyday all day for calls, texts emails and always answered in no time. I cant thank Maria enough for helping us along with our sleep journey. Having this free time has helped my husband and I to have some time to ourselves as well we are all getting a much better sleep and waking for the days all in happier spirits. Thanks so much Maria!

I was very excited with all the great reviews but my experience was not good at all. First, I was sold this was a very gentle method with very little tears, but I didn't find the method gentle at all. I was also told this method would be customized for my baby, but in the end, there was no customization for my family. Second, during the discovery call, I was told I would have support during the process, however, the second night that I couldn’t handle anymore my baby crying for that long, the next morning, instead of receiving support, I felt shamed for not being consistent. I was very sleep deprived and the morning call only put more stress on me. I was told that I was not ready and if the program doesn't work and it's was my fault. Third, I didn’t know the room needed to be pitch black during the day, which, in my opinion, it's not natural or normal for a baby. I was instructed to put tin foil on my windows. But then it would cause issues down the road. For example, when the baby travels with us and it’s not pitch black? Or when the baby goes to preschool and it’s not pitch black, how will she nap? I was told I was not following the instructions. I gave up the program because I didn't feel supported during the process. Fourth, in my opinion, the program is not a gentle innovative method as I was sold. You will have to chose between the lady shuffle or the check methods plus adjusting the room to be more sleep friendly for the baby. If this was clear to me since the beginning, it would be more helpful learning the method by myself instead of hiring a consultant with which I didn't feel supported. Fifth, the night weaning very quick and as a consequence, .I had to work on relactation and even though, I had some milk back, I had to supplement with formula.I was never told this could happen. During the first call, I was explicit saying that I wanted to keep breastfeeding at night at least twice and but I was told me that this was not good for the baby to wake up to feed. For these reasons, I do not recommend this service. It turns out that with a little routine adjustment and just getting the schedule right (which was not the suggested schedule in the program), a lot of love and great bedtime routine, my baby sleeps through the night without any tears or training. Please do your research first before doing sleep training. My baby just needed my support, not being trained.

Maria is wonderful to work with. I've worked with her since my daughter was 15 months old, and two more times when she went through toddler regressions. I am much more well informed of how to help my daughter and I get the best sleep possible after working with Maria.

If you are reading this review it means you are already considering hiring a sleep consultant, in which case I would suggest not to look further than Maria. She truly is a MIRACLE worker. She has gotten mine and my hubby's lives back. We came to her with a 21 month old and a 7 month old whose sleep schedules were so off we were lucky to ever get a 3 hour sleep stretch. We would spend hours putting them to sleep only for our 7 months old to wake up every half hour to an hour until at least midnight. Our 21 month old also wouldn't fall asleep until 10:00-11:00 pm and would often times wake up at 4:00 am to "party" and stay up until 6-7 am before crashing again. After working with Maria and following all of her advice and direction both our babies sleep 11-12 hours at night without waking up once, we no longer have to rock them to sleep or lay with them but rather place them in their cribs awake. Our babies are rested, happy and thriving and so are WE. This is the best money we could have ever spent and our only regret is not reaching out to Maria sooner.