Does your sleeping system really work for every child? - 4 minutes read
My name is Susan, and I would describe myself as an ordinary woman and mother. I’m originally from Germany and moved to Portland several years ago, so please excuse any grammatical errors ;).
I also have 2 kids who monkey around all day but who I of course love very, very much!
But unfortunately, our second child Martina confronted us with a problem which quickly became unbearable:
Our little girl simply never fell asleep!
I want to share with you here on my website my very own personal story and how I came across an effective system for a baby’s sleep nearly be sheer accident (and which actually works!).
When I was twelve, I already wanted to be the proud mother of 9 children one day
…and today I take care of more than 70 children
Sometimes life is strange: Instead of having 9 kids of my own, I nowadays take care of 73 children at a day care center I founded 4 years ago.
That’s why I can credibly tell you that – through my own two kids and the children from the day care center – I am confronted with the topic of baby’s sleep almost every week.
While the majority of the children from the day care center have outgrown any sleep problems, a lot of the parents also have newborns at home…
For that reason, I heard countless desperate stories of sleepless nights over the years…
However, I only realized the significance of the problem once I experienced it first-hand with my own daughter Martina.
In the beginning we still had hope that Martina's sleep would improve by itself over time
Unfortunately that did not happen. Actually, quite the opposite happened...
Sometimes it took several hours until Martina finally fell asleep!
Her eyes often were swollen and red from all the crying – it broke my heart every time I saw my daughter in this terrible condition!
That was the point when I realized that now is the time that I simply MUST find a solution for this problem.
Not just for my own child, but also for the suffering parents and children from my day care center…
In hindsight, I have to admit that I clearly regret not having started researching this topic earlier since I was asked so often for advice by other parents.
So I got down to work, researched the issue for weeks and truly read everything I could find in regards to a child's sleep
And to be completely honest, there definitely wasn’t a lack of literature on the topic…
I went through tons of specialized literature both national and international.
I selected all the techniques I considered most promising and wrote them down in my “baby’s sleep notebook”, which grew daily by several pages.
But the following problem remained:
The majority of the sleeping methods either did not work at all, or only for a very short time.
I also realized that there was a lot of contradictory advice with many inconsistencies, for example “just let your baby cry” and “never let your baby cry”…
Who was supposed to make sense out of all of this?
Luckily, I had an epiphany and a wonderful idea…
Completely overwhelmed by the mass of contradictory advice, I consulted with a renowned expert on sleep
His speciality? The process of sleep for newborns and infants
Well, to be completely honest, it was actually my husband who led me to this idea initially…I went through tons of specialized literature both national and international.
An old college friend of his knew this sleeping expert personally. And this specialist just recently published several new studies – with in some cases extraordinary results.
His fee for a three hour consultation was not low at all, but I was so determined to find a working and reliable method for falling asleep that I went for it anyway…
After a few emails and phone calls we arranged an appointment for a consultation and I showed him all my notes I collected so far – and of course asked a lot of questions.
He praised my stock of knowledge on the topic which I naturally found very flattering
However, he quickly told me that I completely missed several crucial aspects of the matter...
Eventually, we talked for far more than the initially arranged 3 hours and I felt like having an epiphany every 5 minutes.
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I now want to share a revolutionary method with you that puts even the most stubborn child consistently to sleep every night.