Lucy Wolfe
Sleep Consultant, Co-Creational Psychotherapist
Supportive and easy to follow self paced baby & child online courses helping parents achieve and maintain positive sleep practices for you and your baby. From birth to 6 years of age.
Lucy Wolfe
Sleep Consultant, Co-Creational Psychotherapist
Lucy Wolfe, author of The Baby Sleep Solution and All About The Baby Sleep Solution has created these online sleep plan courses with you and your busy life in mind; a series of easy to understand and digest, evidence based, practice informed, quality guidance and support. Using easy to follow video and written content, each course will walk you through the discovery of reasons why you are struggling, and will show and guide you how to make changes that support a great parent-child relationship with sleep. You can read more about Lucy in her bio.
Supportive and easy to follow self paced online courses helping parents achieve and maintain positive sleep practices for you and your baby. From birth to 6 years of age.
What will I achieve out of these baby & child sleep courses?
- Discover the barriers preventing your baby or child from sleeping well
- Create a foundation for positive sleep practices
- Learn and download age-appropriate feeding and sleeping balances that support better sleep
- Easily create a step-by-step plan to get your child to sleep through the night
- Help them to nap with ease and stay asleep longer
- Gradually overcome early rising
- Learn how to move through the stages and make adjustments that support your ongoing sleep journey.
- Become more confident, informed and empowered to nurture and maintain your child’s sleep.
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About my approach
My sleep approach takes every facet of your child’s story into account, and I help inform and identify core reasons that may be affecting your child’s sleep profile, and by making appropriate changes gently unlock their natural, inherent sleep skill set, enabling them (and you) achieve a deeper, more rested, and less interrupted sleep overnight and to nap well during the day too.
From birth you can begin to gently shape your child’s sleep in the first 6 months and implement my effective and caring percentage of wakefulness approach and from 6 months onwards up to age 6 you can learn all about my stay and support method and sleep guidance that promotes sleeping through the night and napping well by day, when your child is developmentally able to do so.
Achieving better, more consolidated, restful sleep as your child matures can be done without leaving them to cry alone.
I will never support or endorse leaving your child alone to “cry it out” or use cry intensive strategies. I encourage you to use, when required, my Stay-and- Support Approach that allows you to be physically responsive, verbally reassuring and emotionally connected as you accompany your child; to always respond, to soothe and to calm them for the duration of their sleep learning journey…. until they feel more safe and secure in their own sleep ability. All the guidance provided is evidence-based, and practice informed.
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How can anything you do to support your baby be considered a bad habit? Yes, sleep has specific mechanisms that mean some suggestions may be helpful to laying a foundation for more or better sleep .. but I don’t think that loving and supporting your baby in a way that feels right for you both could be considered a rod..although I hear those words a lot… would it help to forget the shoulds and the oughts???.. to be open and curious and to find out more.. learn about your baby, yourself and what resonates; make small changes if that sits well with you and know that whatever you are doing, even when it feels hard, could never be wrong ❤️❤️
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I am so happy to share the cover and some images from my recent dissertation titled: Where’s Mum? All you want is for someone to hear you. It’s been a labour of love and a birthing of sorts, as I explored the lived experience of first-time mums in Ireland and the transition from woman to mother and all that follows.
There were 3 main themes that surfaced: (1) Unexpected beginnings. What I hoped for and what I envisioned; they are completely different (2) Where’s Mum? All you want is for someone to hear you (3) Love and Loss. The best experience and also the hardest.
It is my hope that this work will initiate further discussion in this area and I am excited for the next chapter ❤️❤️
Welcome to August - June and July have been unreal with so much fun, love and laughter including a little project that was being completed, as well as a week of self isolation! August.. I have high hopes for you ❤️❤️
Wishing you a restful weekend ❤️❤️
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I love my job ❤️
10 years ago my children were 9,7,5 and 1.5 years old. The summer weeks were hectic and busy and full of need.
Today 3 of them are off working in various capacities and the youngest is at a camp.
I went for a gorgeous breakfast with one of them today. It was relaxed and chill.
I love the maturing relationships that are unfolding, that I never imagined when I was in the trenches as you may well be right now.
Interestingly 29 years ago yesterday, I met their Dad for the very first time ❤️❤️
Here are some of the questions that I am curious about as sleep consultant creating a sleep plan for a family. This might help you consider what might help your sleep journey. This is not an exhaustive list and I wonder what else might you consider ?
If you have a young baby and you want to keep cool, this post might help you achieve exactly that.
What have you done that’s helped? Please share below ❤️
Is your child aged between 18m-3years? Over 10 years of actively working with 1000’s of families I have seen recurring themes that inform my guidance- well-timed naps and bedtime are one part of the sleep puzzle that you can manage without having to think too much about. Remember, timing is just one element so if you read this and feel that you’re close to this already and yet reliable sleep is elusive- different changes are generally required, you can discover more by visiting the link in my bio. Please tag, like, save and share ❤️❤️
It’s about being curious and learning. If what you are hearing, resonates; lovingly and patiently making adjustments and refinements.
As with most parenting dynamics working on improving your child’s sleep at any stage can be challenging.
Have hope, belief and trust …. something wonderful, different, better, more is possible ❤️❤️tag a tired friend who may need to hear this xx
Good morning and welcome to new followers, I am so happy that you have joined me here to help understand more about your baby's sleep and your parenting journey in a gentle, child-led way and to hear suggestions and reassurance for where you are.
My name is Lucy Wolfe, I am a Sleep Consultant, Co-Creational Psychotherapist, Author of The Baby Sleep Solution and All About the Baby Sleep Solution, Online Course Director of Lucy Wolfe Sleep Plans and Mum of four.
My own children are currently 19, 17, 15 and 11 and I know first-hand how debilitating sleep deprivation and not knowing can be. Over 11 years ago, following extensive training and ongoing education, I established a private sleep consulting practice where I have had the honor of offering valuable guidance and support to families around the world. For more information please follow the link in my bio for all available resources.
Today, I plan to respond to your questions below and will do my best to share insights and help you pursue a new sleep direction
I look forward to hearing from you ❤️❤️
Is your child aged between 4-6 months? Having an idea of when to offer sleeps and feeds can help you initiate a rhythm that suits you both.. remember that overtired cues are obvious and intense, seeing and acting on early cues like brief eye rubs and yawns can be helpful.
Take it easy on yourself- you’re both doing great ❤️❤️
And whatever you do, don’t breathe ❤️
Do you have a child aged between 12-15months? What a great age to promote better sleep! They can and will sleep better with specific changes that you introduce ❤️
Immediate answers together with a sleep plan available on www.lucywolfesleepplans.com
Suggested sequence of the order of addressing your child’s sleep. From 6 months plus I tend to begin a plan at bedtime and follow that plan into the overnight, making sure to have a predictable response until 6am. Then if you would like naps In the cot I start the next day and if naps are short I just carry on with the day. After about 2 weeks, if naps are still short I work on lengthening.
All improvements are made with attention to individual child’s needs for feed and sleep informed by age and stage and underpinned with the science and art of sleep practices- all of which are detailed in my books and immediate to implement online sleep plans - linked in bio ❤️❤️
“I can be found weekly putting milk in the press. Cereal in the fridge. Two cups to make tea sometimes. Two teabags in one cup.. tried to answer the baby monitor one day thinking it was my phone. Last week I put the kitchen spray in the fridge. List is endless 😵💫🤣”
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Is your baby aged 6-8 months? This might help you frame sleep times - always remembering that there will be variability; reading sleep cues and knowing your own baby and trusting yourself is also so important ❤️❤️