Helping Families Have Sweet Sleep

Gentle Sleep Solutions With Group Coaching

For Babies 5 1/2 to 13 Months

Sugar Night Night is excited to provide of Gentle Sleep Solutions via GROUP COACHING for families with babies ages 5 ½ to 13 months. Bottom line: we all want our babies to sleep through the night and have bedtime be peaceful, right? It can be done so come learn how! 

During five weeks of Group Coaching you will learn:

• What the realistic expectations are around sleep and what your baby is capable of.
• How to meet your baby's sleep needs.
• Sleep training strategies and identify what method is best for your family.
• How to create a sleep plan that addresses your specific situation.
• Get weekly support as you coach your baby to learn the skill of self-soothing.

There are many variables that impact sleep and during this five weeks of Group Coaching you will receive support on how to identify those variables and address them in a way that matches your parenting style, sleeping arrangement and temperament of your baby. This is a personalized coaching approach, not a one size fits all.  Each family’s sleeping arrangements may be different.  Some family’s want to room-share, some co-sleep and some want to have their baby in a crib, all sleeping arrangements are welcome.  You get support and the comfort of knowing that what you are experiencing is normal.   More importantly, you will know what to do about it!   

$350 Gentle Sleep Solutions With Group Coaching includes:

1. Five Weeks - One-Hour Group Coaching – Tuesdays
2. Weekly Coaching Calls – Group Conference Call Friday or Saturday
3. Personalized Sleep Log in Google Docs – Reviewed Twice a Week by Sleep Coach
4. Supervision as You Create Your Personal Sleep Plan
5. Private Internet Forum Access to Group Members
6. Review of Your Baby’s Sleep History (10-Page Form)
7. “Client Status” Upon Completion

You have the opportunity purchase individual coaching calls as needed.  This service is only for previous clients of Sugar Night Night.  

Note:  Group size will be limited to 6 families and you are welcome to bring your baby to the Group Coaching.

Sending you my best and wishing you many nights of sweet sleep!

 Warmly,

Jen Varela

Click Here to Register Now! 

Jen Varela is the mother of two children. She holds a B.S. degree in Human Services with an emphasis in Counseling from California State University Fullerton, California. She is a member of the International Association of Child Sleep Consultants and a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach℠ trained by Kim West, “The Sleep Lady”.

For more information go to www.sugarnightnight.com

Encouraging Words from Group Member: 

Tricia – Mother of 8 Month Old - April 2014 Group

Comments During Group Coaching:

“Jen is so sweet at celebrating and recognizing the small bits of progress. Lo and behold we have made some progress! Last night we had zero awakenings and only dream feeds!! Now if we can repeat that tonight, I might do a victory dance. I really think he was sleep deprived and had nothing left to learn his self-soothing skills. My rested baby is not so needy and desperate for me to hold and comfort him.”

Reflection at Week 5:

“Reasons why I needed this class and why I would recommend it to others (not in any particular order):

1. The group setting has been great, it's almost like a support group. You know there are other moms out there with similar troubles, but to meet them and talk to them is so helpful. This is funny for me because I'm normally not a support group person.
2. The engineer in me liked the technical piece of the sleep log and the technical feedback Jen would provide. Her answers and feedback were factual from research and experience, they weren't just pulled out of a hat
3. I love the individual solutions we get, as our situations are individual. There is no one size fits all.
4. I was so sleep deprived I felt I couldn't do the research and the reading to help myself, I needed someone to "spoon feed" me. This is new for me, since normally I'm a reader and researcher.
5. Jen always has solutions, even when I thought there were no solutions
6. It was/is hard for me to know where to put my baby's sleep on the priority list. I'm still struggling with this and finding balance between siblings and responsibilities to the house and my job. Despite my personal struggle with this Jen continued to find a way to help me and push us forward
7. Jen offers such kind words, sympathy, support and ultimately help for us sleep deprived mommies!”

 

Encouraging Words From Sleeping Parents - One-on-One Coaching: 

“When our daughter stopped sleeping through the night at four months old, our friends told us we just had to "get through it."  We struggled to figure out why she suddenly developed sleep issues, and tried a dozen different things to help the problem.  We were not being consistent in our approach and had no confidence in our ability to get her to sleep.  We were trying to "get through it," but we were failing.

Hiring Jen was our best decision since becoming parents.  Although there is no magical sleep wand, Jen became the little sleep fairy sitting on our shoulder every night helping us train our daughter to self-soothe.  She diligently reviewed our sleep logs and helped us problem solve our daughter's sleep issues.  Throughout the process, Jen was supportive and non-judgmental, and provided specific, concrete solutions for us.  She helped us understand what we could expect from our daughter and helped us to see the incredible progress she was making - progress which is easy to ignore when you are exhausted!  We could not have done this on our own because we did not know what to look for and were too exhausted to even think through the problem logically.  Jen helped us develop confidence in our ability to help our daughter sleep, which led to more consistency in our approach to sleep, which in turn led to more consistent sleep for our daughter and us! 

When we started the process with our five-month old daughter, we worked on gentle sleep shaping, including transitioning our daughter to the crib from a cradle that we used to help her reflux.  Her sleep issues gradually improved over several weeks, and after a few weeks, when she was old enough to truly develop self-soothing skills, her sleep issues seemed to substantially resolve over the course of a few days.  The sleep shaping framework we established caused everything else - including her naps and nighttime feed schedule - to fall into place. 

Throughout the process, we learned a great deal about our daughter's specific sleep needs.  However, Jen never advocated a rigid schedule; instead, we learned what guidelines to follow with our daughter so that when we need to be flexible in her schedule, we also know how to adapt the rest of our day to encourage her sleep. 

Gentle sleep coaching provides an important advantage over other methods.  Unlike a cry-it-out method - in which the child is simply exhausted into sleep - we learned about our daughter's actual sleep needs, which takes the guess work out of the process, both day and night.  It is a more long-term solution, which puts judgment in our hands as parents.

When we started sleep shaping, our daughter was up two to four times every night, and took up to an hour to put to bed.  Through Jen, we have learned the keys to encourage good sleep habits and our daughter has successfully learned to self-soothe.  Bedtime has become a much shorter process and we no longer dread it.  In fact, it is one of our most treasured times.  And the whole family is now sleeping through the night.  

With the exhaustion and the confusion that accompanies new parenthood, I do not know how we would have made such progress in such little time.  Jen helped us feel that we were not alone and that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.  We are so grateful for all of her help and support!” 

Brook Kim – Mother of 5-Month Old Daughter