The Dream Team
The Dream Team are a group of mothers who have all had success with
The Baby Sleep System. Each Mum is an active contributor to the
Baby Sleep Answers forum
and all offer their support and encouragement to parents with children who are
struggling with sleep.
Ann
Ann is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland and is now living in Oslo, Norway,
after falling in love and marrying a native. Her baby was born in November 2006 after a
long labour and emergency c-section.
Ann started using the Baby Sleep System in March 2007. Her son Alexander was 4 months
old and was being fully breast fed on demand. He was waking every 2 or 3 hours during
the night and napping erratically during the day. He was very dependent on a dummy.
Ann was totally exhausted and as a result developed post natal depression.
Ann used controlled crying, ditched the
dummy and introduced a dream feed. Alexander was sleeping through the night (and still is)
less than a month later.
She has returned to work after a year's paid maternity (standard in Norway) and works
for the Norwegian Red Cross.
Kat
Kat is half French, half German and grew up both in Paris and Berlin before she moved to London 7 years ago to study. She got married to Robin 2 years ago and suddenly Charlie T (Charles Timothy) came along!!
Charlie had never slept through the night and was very dummy dependent. Kat was getting desperate and was very tired. After searching on the internet she found this site. She started using the Baby Sleep System at the end of November 2007 when Charlie was 6½ months old.
Kat used pick up/put down during the day and controlled crying at night. With a lot of support from the Dream Team, Charlie was sleeping through the night 3 days later. Two weeks on he is taking 3 regular naps, going to bed without putting up a fight and sleeping through to around 7am.
Kat works in the entertainment business.
Nicki
Before having Isabelle, Nicki worked full time as a Speech and language therapist,
working with children in mainstream schools and in a resource for children with
Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Nicki started using the Baby Sleep System in April 2007 when her daughter Isabelle
was 4 months old. Nicki came initially to the forum to deal with Isabelle's inability to nap.
However, over time Isabelle's night time waking also became an issue.
Nicki has vast experience of the pick up/put down technique and of extending naps.
Nicki returned to work in January part time, 2 and a half days a week.
Sarah J
Sarah lives in Cheshire with husband Richard, son James aged 4 and baby Freya. She is currently on extended maternity leave from a career in banking.
James did not sleep through the night until he was 14 months old so when Freya arrived Sarah was determined
to do things differently! She started using the Baby Sleep System in November 2007 when Freya was 10 weeks old
and unable to settle for naps or at bedtime. Using a combination of pick up / put down and controlled crying,
Sarah quickly helped Freya learn to settle herself to sleep. She now has 3 naps in her cot during the day and
loves bedtimes!
Louise
Louise is 38 and lives in Oxfordshire. She has been married to Dave for 7 years. They have two girls,
Felicity aged 5, and Fenella aged 14 months.
Fenella was a contented baby and slept through up until she was four months old. She then started to roll
onto her tummy and wake several times in the night. Louise started to use the Baby Sleep System alongside
the support forum. She decided to use the controlled crying method, and within a matter of weeks, Fenella reverted
to a full nights sleep, and has since slept peacefully on her tummy.
Louise returned to work in May 2007. She is a part time lawyer working three days a week.
Sharon
Sharon is 37, married to Andy and has 3 children. She lives in a small village near Southampton. Sharon's
youngest child, Cody was 17 months old when Sharon started to use the Baby Sleep System. Up until then he had
only slept through the night twice.
Two weeks after beginning the programme, Cody is now sleeping for eleven and a half continuous hours every night.
Sharon is currently a full time mum and enjoys reading and designing and making her own jewellery.
Julie
Julie is 34 years old and originally from Scotland but moved to Staffordshire in 2000. Baby Mark was born in July 2007. Mark had
begun to sleep through the night but when Julie returned to work full-time, as a research nurse at a local university the problems
began. He was 4 months old and waking every 2 -3 hours, he was also having problems getting to go off to sleep in his cot.
The only way he would settle was by lying on Julie, sucking a dummy.
Julie got to the point where she was so tired that she was arguing constantly with her husband and barely managing to cope at
work. After buying the Baby Sleep System and seeking help via the on-line support forum, Mark was not only settling by himself
in his cot, but was sleeping through the night, and is still doing so.
Julie can help parents struggling with younger babies, has experience of ditching the dummy and has used the very useful
PUPDCD technique, which is suitable for babies from 6 weeks - 6 months.
Dany
Dany is a hypnotherapist specialising in fertility, pregnancy and birth. Married to Jim their daughter Evan was born in June 2007.
At six weeks Dany felt it was time to get Evan in her own cot and implemented a strategy using Pick-Up/Put-Down (PUPD). Very quickly Evan was sleeping in 6 hour windows. However, after some time away from home, Evan found it very difficult to reaquaint herself with her cot and a few months of disturbed sleep ensued for Dany and Jim.
Dany returned to the Baby Sleep Answers forum where she signed-up for a one-to-one consultation with Wendy (the book's author). Wendy helped Dany tweak her routine and offered support and advice on implementing her chosen sleep strategy Pick-Up/Put-Down/Cry-Down (PUPDCD).
Evan is "now sleeping a consistent 18:30 to 6:30" and as a member of the Baby Sleep Answer's Dream Team, Dany wants to help other parents to a good night's sleep.
Nicola
Nicola works as an HR Manager in Cheshire. Her daughter Edie Grace was born in August 2007.
For the first four months of her life, Edie Grace would not sleep anywhere except her mummy’s chest. This obviously was not an ideal situation and Nicola purchased the Baby Sleep System. Over a 2/3 week period, Nicola used pick up/put down to encourage Edie Grace to sleep in her cot. She used the same technique to deal with night time wakings and has recently successfully dropped the dream feed.
Edie Grace is now sleeping through the night consistently.