Sleep Works | Baby Sleep Consultant - Hamilton - Tamahere

simon & ryan

“This is Ryan. Yes, you might think she has a gorgeous smile and yes you might think she has cute cheeks too, but what you don’t see if that she was a stealer of her parents sleep!

After 4 ½ weeks of sleepless nights and multiple wake up’s we were at our wits ends and didn’t know what to do. We hadn’t had these challenges with our son and weren’t, in our minds, doing anything differently she just wasn’t sleeping any longer than 2 hours at a time. We’d tried every tip, trick and method across more baby forums, Facebook pages and friend than I can remember, and that’s when my fiancé suggested we get some help from Sleepworks sleep consultants.

I must admit that when my fiancé first suggested this, I was very sceptical. How could someone come in, understand our baby, get to know us and fix this problem in a relatively short space of time (2.5 hrs, surely those abilities lie in the realms of magic! Despite this I knew that we both needed sleep, and so we agreed to give it a try.

As soon as we’d met Tam my scepticism was replaced by amazement! I was blown away with how genuine Tam was, how well she listened and questioned us to really understand what we wanted to achieve, what we’d tried, how we were feeling and the whole way through reassured us that we were trying the right things. She holds such a calming, kind and supportive demure that we both immediately felt comfortable and for the first time ever that this would actually fix Ryan’s sleeping.

From our conversations Tam quickly homed in on the fact that we weren’t giving Ryan time to self-settle and therefore she didn’t know how. Tam then took us through some options and approaches to help Ryan to learn to self-settle, a process which felt so collaborative because she kept re-enforcing that it had to be an approach which we were comfortable with.

The first training session was hard, particularly for me being a protective father of my daughter. Letting her cry it out really pulled at the heart strings so having Tam’s calmness and caring there to help was invaluable. Over the next couple of weeks Tam continued to support us and give us re-assurance that we were doing the right things and doing well. And the results, well we now have a happy 6 month old who only wakes once for a feed through the night, and a very happy and more alert Mum and Dad who are massively grateful for the support.

We’ve already recommended you to a number of friends and colleagues and will continue to do so for a long time!

Tam you are an absolute super star and we can’t thank you enough for helping us.”