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In this section I will cover topics to help you understand and improve your child’s sleep. Please don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more help and advice.
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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 ❤️❤️
“Lucy helped us to find that joy again. She was our port in the storm and the steady hand and mentor that I, as a first-time mother, needed in a very difficult time. As new parents, you are vulnerable and often lack confidence. This puts you at risk of being coaxed and corralled into trying out all sorts of products and services”
Join me tomorrow on @irelandamvmtv at 920am and get those pressing questions in ❤️❤️
Not sure when to offer naps and bedtime? Here’s a suggestion that may help. Don’t forget to look for early sleep cues too, such as brief yawns and eye rubs too, avoiding intense symptoms..
Let me know if this is helpful in the comments ❤️
Don’t ever feel it’s not possible. Or that small changes and adjustments, together with patience and understanding aren’t helpful to how your child experiences their sleep. Know that the better mood, being more relaxed and happier is all part of being well rested and that has such a positive impact on your child and on you as well.
Sending love to all of you on a quest for better sleep for your household ❤️❤️
Oh yes! The sun is shining which I am very happy about, but it may be problematic for your young children - link in my stories for some suggestions that may help.
What’s helps your baby ?
One of my girls made this for her Dad.. ❤️❤️❤️
Nothing too big or too small for you to handle and hold. No time when you haven’t known just what to do. Steady, solid, reassuring , honest and true. Funny, wise, kind, open and available. Can he fix it - yes he can.
To all the Dads- my own, my children’s, yours and theirs. With us, gone before us, and those wanting and waiting ❤️❤️
When you know, you know ❤️❤️
@amanda.oleander @pregnancyandbabyfair
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Happy Monday ! I am excited announce a giveaway for a 100 22 momme mulberry silk cotbed sheet (140x70cm) with @cailiekins
To enter:
1. Like this post
2.Follow me (@lucywolfesleep) and @cailiekins
3.Tag someone or as many people you think would enjoy the benefits of silk (for extra entries)
Cailiekins are a new Irish brand and they sell silk bedding babies and children. So from cosleepers to bassinets, cots; to small and large pillowcases, they’ve got your little ones covered.
Silk has lots of benefits for newborns, babies and children. It prevents the baby bald patch, it’s temperature regulating and hypoallergenic to name a few. Find out more on www.cailiekins.com
Winner announced by Thursday.
Do you liaise with your “former life” ? Do you see it in this way? What do you miss about life before baby? Lazy mornings, spontaneity?
What do you love?
An attentive audience today @arnottsdublin. A gorgeous opportunity to connect, share and be… thank you for having me ❤️❤️
📷 @sineadhingston
Psychologically we know having a plan of any kind makes a difference. Having belief in the plan itself, is another big part of the success. Having belief in yourself and your child's ability is another significant shift in how working on sleep, with a plan, is effective. I made small adjustments, and I made them consistently over a month: they included the following : I moved a single nap to 1pm and I adjusted bedtime from 7/7.30/8pm to starting at 630pm. I moved the last bottle that happened 30-60m before bedtime to always being over by 610pm to dilute the muscle memory of sucking close to sleep time. I built on an existing bedtime routine-in the bedroom, in a dimly lit environment, 20m with huge emphasis on connection. I introduced my stay and support approach-this gave the parents a framework of soothing and comfort as needed. each night waking- of which there was treated with the stay and support approach until 6am each day. On bedtime number 7- I moved to the mid-room position-see stages to sleep in my books/courses and subsequently moved every 3 nights at bedtime and at nap time. Overnight, I continued to support cotside for night waking. Within 2 weeks, I began to wait longer before going to soothe back to sleep overnight, but if there were wakings I supported them- gradually night waking was reducing, by night 13 we had just 1 wake for a dummy run- and we always put the dummy into hand and guided the hand to mouth. Parents exchanged bedtime and move away from cot at bedtime and nap time so that ultimately we were able to leave the room and he was happy for them to do so. All this has been achieved without crying it out, or feeling like they were doing something wrong. It has also been achieved whilst 2 other childminders share 5 days of childcare.
We did this whilst the parents worked full time. We did this in a way that felt like it was honouring uniqueness and was sensitive to the communication that all parties were signalling. He was 15m.
We have a plan to manage the bumps, to feel confident and have the belief that the plan gave us at the start. Self paced sleep plans are available for immediate download via www.lucywolfesleepplans.com
When I tell my kid it’s bedtime 😴😴anyone else ?
Having a few days and nights in a row like a weekend or even better a long weekend is the ideal time to make changes! Provided your child is well, then what might help? I find reviewing day sleep timings and distribution together with placement of meals and allocation of connection and outside time an easy-in.
But the big ticket items are deciding where your child will sleep, creating a sleep friendly, comfortable environment. Making necessary changes to bedtime : the time itself honoring the nap gap dynamic and the order of events - typically separating drinks from sleep by about 45 m ( if you are wondering about this then see my igtv for more) and looking at the time spent preparing your child for sleep and then supporting them as needed. My stay and support can help transitioning from feeding, rocking etc… but don’t forget it’s staged based so you move positions every few days and you will very probably need an overnight plan too- remembering that night waking can be caused by how you attend to them - so you may be reinforcing waking each time you rock, feed or change sleep locations - even if it is just once per night- somewhere along the road the waking becomes “behaviorally induced”. And that’s what can be tricky ! You will hear that consistency is important but consistently doing a reinforcer won’t help, only consistently supporting them back to sleep in a way they can ultimately do on their own is often what is required 🤷♀️this may mean night weaning as appropriate or stopping what you currently do and replacing stay and support (don’t forget it’s stage based)…. And also know that it’s likely to get harder before it gets easier .. but then you are working on your child’s future sleep profile as well as current ❤️❤️
My books and ready to download online courses for your child’s age help underpin my content here - link in bio ❤️❤️
Happy June everyone: early start for me today to be in @irelandamvmtv studio for my TV segment…
Just a brief re-introduction my name is Lucy Wolfe and I’m a sleep consultant. Author of The Baby Sleep Solution and Mum of Four children currently aged 19, 17, 15 and 11. I live in Cork Ireland and work directly with parents from 6m to 6 years creating one to one sleep plans together with individualized support and guidance.
I also have ready to download online sleep plan courses for ages 0-6 months, 6-8 months, 8-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-2.5 years and 3-6 years too.
These online sleep plan courses are a series of easy to understand and digest, evidence based-practice informed, quality guidance and support to address your current sleep challenges. I want you to be empowered to nurture your child’s sleep into being the best that it can be based on their age and their stage. Using easy to follow video and written content, I will walk you through the discovery of reasons why you are struggling, and I will show and guide you how to make changes that support a great parent-child relationship with sleep. You can read about the courses priced between €35-€55 here www.lucywolfesleepplans.com. Also linked in bio.
I will suggest that you would equally be able to work through the issues by using both/either of my books and making all of the recommended changes and suggestions. The first book specifically covers sleep challenges to age 6. You can view and purchase here: www.sleepmatters.ie/books. Also linked in bio.
There is also lots of free content here in my feed- see also comments sections and in my IGTV and websites mentioned above.
Better, more consolidated sleep is possible. It may not always be straightforward and it will and does take time … but it’s possible and that’s important to know ❤️❤️
It’s exam season and enough sleep is very important for how our young people process, retain and articulate what they are learning. Join me on @irelandamvmtv to hear suggestions that may help ❤️
I love my job ❤️❤️ Swipe to read the story of how we went from waking for a long period overnight, for over one year, to consolidated sleeping -together with a renewed confidence and of how to adjust, refine and maintain the progress throughout typical bumps in the road of the sleep journey..
Share your hard right now and let’s see if together we can help.
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The first two spontaneous labour ….. those second 2 induced ❤️❤️❤️❤️