Sleep Train Your Baby in Real-Time With an In-Home Consultant

Sleep training your baby with a book, app, or even with an infant sleep consultant is one of the hardest things you may ever do as a parent, full stop. With all the online chatter about what you should and shouldn’t do to sleep train your baby, how can you decide which method or expert to follow? The result? Fear. Confusion. Guilt. Shame. Conviction that you’re doing something wrong because no matter what you try, your baby is still waking up at all hours of the night and you’re losing your f’ing mind!

Here’s what I want you to know:

None of the virtual baby sleep training apps, advice, or methods are going to work because if you don’t know what you’re doing, how can you be consistent with your approach? How do you know when to respond to your baby and when to let them fuss a little bit more? So much depends on your baby’s age, developmental stage, personality, and what their voice and body language tell you. And that’s really hard to decipher when your baby is crying and all you want to do is make it stop!

The good news is – you don’t have to sleep train your baby alone. With Mommywise, we hold your hand and guide you step by step to sustainable success. We offer unlimited support until you achieve all your goals. We exclusively offer real-time, in-home sleep training support with a Mommywise coach by your side so that you can’t fail. You can spend unlimited cash on postpartum sleep support (i.e., night nurse or postpartum doula), but investing in an in-home baby sleep training consultant who guides you and your baby in real time is a far better investment because it’s not a band-aid – it leads to sustainable results!

Read on for more about what real-time support looks like – both during your in-home stay and after your Mommywise coach leaves!

What Real-Time Sleep Training Support Looks Like

Working with us is effortless and includes so much more than an infant sleep consultant can offer. Here are just a few of the things you’ll get:

In-home presence

Your Mommywise Coach basically moves into your home for 3-5 nights and days for the first part of your package. She will get to know you and your baby, check for a safe sleep environment, observe with expert eyes, and guide you step by step through successfully sleep training your baby, and so much more. If your baby is feeding to sleep or feeding all night, she’ll help you getting your baby feeding on an ideal schedule during the day. She’ll help you learn to read your baby’s cues – when to put your baby down, when respond to your baby, and when to give them more time to self-settle. She’ll help you understand what’s normal crying and what’s a genuine need that requires an immediate response.

Immediate feedback

You won’t ever be left second-guessing yourself when your Mommywise coach is in your home. You’ll never have to wait for a reply to a text or email because we make adjustments instantly as we go. We make many split-second decisions while we’re working with you and your baby, and you’ll help make decisions that feel aligned for you. All of your questions will be answered in real time!

Personalized approach

There is no one-size-fits-all sleep training method that works for every baby. We tailor our approach for your baby in real-time and make tweaks as we go when we see what’s working well (or not so much) for your baby. We take a holistic approach and factor in your baby’s eating patterns, age, developmental stage, personality, and what hasn’t worked well in the past. We’ll observe your baby in real time and help you make all the adjustments necessary to lead you to sustainable success.

Confidence-building

Because your Mommywise sleep coach is with you in your home, you’ll receive hands-on learning. Your coach will help you understand your baby’s cues, when to respond, and when to give your baby a little more time to self-settle. She’ll help you find an ideal schedule for your baby and help build your confidence that you know your baby better than anyone else, so you know what to do when your coach leaves your home. You’ll have written guidelines tailored for your baby (with instructions on how to handle illness, teething, travel, and more until your baby transfers to a toddler bed. By the end of your package – which includes unlimited support until you achieve all your goals – you will feel so much more confident about how to meet all your baby’s needs!

The In-Home Stay — Sleep Training with an Expert by Your Side

The in-home stay with your Mommywise coach is what sets us apart from other nanny or sleep training services. She will literally move in with you for 3-5 nights and days to guide you through every moment of sleep training. Here’s what that looks like. 

Daytime guidance

You’ll be spending a lot of time with your Mommywise coach during the day. She’ll help you decide when and how to put your baby down for naps, and what to do if your baby wakes up crying after 20-40 minutes. She’ll help you rearrange your feeding schedule so that your baby is eating when they’re awake and falling asleep without feeding or rocking. Based on what she observes, she will make recommendations to change up our sleep training strategy minute by minute as she sees what works best for your baby. Most importantly, she’ll help you remain consistent so that your baby doesn’t get confused.

Overnights

You get to choose how involved you want to be during the nights. Your coach will invite you to sleep and take over the monitor at night. If your baby is on the younger side, she can respond to your baby overnight if they have any needs, or she can wake you up if you prefer to intervene yourself. If your baby is on the older side and has separation anxiety, your coach will wake you up to respond to your baby, if that’s even necessary. Most babies we work with sleep through the night – or don’t need any interventions at least – within 2-3 nights.

Sleep for you

Most families we work with are extremely sleep deprived, and your coach will encourage you to catch up on sleep while she’s there. You can wear earplugs and sleep during the nights she’s with you. You can take naps during the day if you want as well. You’ll still do all the caretaking and parenting, but we encourage you to take care of yourself, too. As long as one caregiver is available to make split-second decisions, you and your partner can take turns sleeping at night and during the day. We want you to feel rested by the time your coach leaves!

Overcoming challenges

Sleep training always comes with challenges. There are many ups and downs, and progress isn’t always linear. Your Mommywise coach will help you make decisions about how to shift strategy while you’re sleep training so you maintain consistency and progress through any challenges that come up while she’s with you, and for four weeks after she leaves your home. For example, if your baby is learning to roll or gets sick during sleep training, you’ll hit some challenges. Your coach will guide you through how to manage sickness or developmental leaps throughout your stay, and after she leaves.

After the Stay — Continued Real-Time Guidance

The in-home stay through sleep training is just the first part of your package. After your coach leaves your home, you have unlimited, dedicated support until you achieve all of your goals and feel confident that you don’t need us anymore. Usually, that happens within four weeks, but if you hit a roadblock, we won’t say goodbye until you’ve overcome whatever setback comes up. Your coach will give you tailored guidelines so you know how to handle illness, teething, developmental leaps, and travel all the way up until your baby transfers to a big kid bed. You will be able to navigate any setback that comes up, but our door is never closed. If you run into any trouble after your package ends, even if it’s a year later, reach out, and we’ll help you get back on track! Here’s what our ongoing guidance looks like:

• Follow-up calls & text support: We’ll schedule weekly calls to review patterns and the big picture so we can monitor your progress. Between scheduled calls, text your coach with questions anytime, and she’ll respond promptly by text or offer to hop on the phone when you’re both free! She’s dedicated to you for at least four weeks after her in-home stay, so you’ll always have your questions answered.
• Ongoing adjustments: Once your baby sleeps through the night and catches up on sleep, we’ll work on fine-tuning your nap schedule. Naps often take 2-3 weeks to fall into a new, predictable pattern, but your coach will guide you every step of the way so you know when and how to adjust as your baby grows. 
• Accountability & encouragement: If you sleep train your baby with a book, app, or online program, you won’t have ongoing accountability or encouragement when things don’t go as planned. Maybe your baby is struggling to connect sleep cycles during naps, or starts waking up in the night again. If you don’t have personal support, it’s common to feel discouraged or give up. Your coach will hold your hand and guide you through whatever comes up so that you can stay on track and know how to handle any setback in the future. 
• Rapid troubleshooting: Sleep training progress isn’t often linear, and things don’t often go as planned. Let’s say your baby gets sick or goes through a developmental leap after your coach leaves (huge developmental leaps are super common after a baby consistently gets 10-12 hours of sleep!). Or, you might hit a big setback with illness or teething. Without real-time support, you could quickly slip back into old patterns and end up back where you started. If that happens, your coach is only a text away to help you troubleshoot in real time so you’re never left guessing what to do. With her guidance, you won’t go back to where you started. She’ll guide you to maintain healthy sleep habits through any regression.

Why Real-Time Support Works Better than DIY Sleep Training

If you try to sleep train your baby with a book, online program, or with a remote baby sleep consultant, you won’t have live, real-time support. Without real-time support, it’s nearly impossible to remain consistent when your baby’s crying. If you don’t feel confident about what you’re doing, or if you’re changing your strategy every day, your baby will cry more than necessary, and will get confused. Most of our clients have already tried sleep training independently and failed because their baby cried so hard they gave up. That doesn’t happen with our support. Your baby will cry less, learn quickly, and you’ll achieve sustainable results faster than any other method you’ll find. Here’s why:

• Immediate course correction. When things don’t go as planned, your coach will help you pivot in real-time and maintain progress through any challenges. 
• Reduced stress. With so many sleep training methods available online, you’re naturally confused about which approach to follow. Your coach will ensure that you feel relaxed and confident throughout the entire sleep training process, so your baby cries less and learns faster.
• Faster results: With our support, your baby will master independent sleep skills faster and easier, with fewer tears and stress. Your coach will be with you through the entire process, tweaking our approach in real time, so that your baby doesn’t get confused.
• Emotional reassurance: Sleep training your baby can be emotional for you, and is especially challenging for lactating moms. You might cry when your baby cries. You will worry if you’re doing the right thing. Your coach will support you and help you navigate any emotions that come up. 

Who This Approach is Best For

Wondering if our in-home sleep training program is right for you? We’re a great fit if you’re:

• Feeling overwhelmed by conflicting sleep training advice
• Frustrated with inconsistent sleep habits
• Have multiples or older siblings with sleep challenges
• Returning to work soon and need fast results 
• Skeptical about sleep training but need sustainable change
• Afraid of sleep training and sense you need expert support

How to Get Started with Mommywise Real-Time Sleep Training

If you want our hands-on support to lead you through sleep training in your home, here are the next steps to get started:

• Submit this form to tell us a bit about your family
• Check your email – it will include a link to schedule a call
• Talk to us about your challenges, and what results you want

In our call, we’ll assess your baby’s sleep challenges and tell you if we’re confident we can help you achieve the results you want. If so, we’ll send you a proposal and you’ll select one of our packages while we match you with the perfect coach. You’ll choose a start date, and we’ll get you all set up!