Sleep & Settling Support
Empathetic, Evidence-Informed Guidance for Every Mother
Whether you are a new parent or have an older baby or toddler facing sleep challenges, it's natural to seek guidance and support.
Our Sleep and Settling Services are designed to provide personalised, evidence-informed support to help your little one (and you) achieve better sleep.
Mamahood’s Packages and Services are designed to meet the needs for you and your family by:
- Providing individualised support and developmentally appropriate gentle, responsive, and attachment based settling strategies at every stage
- Offering evidence- based information, education and advice to sleep and settling challenges for both you and your little one
- Working together with families to develop a customised sleep plan that considers the needs for you, your little one and your family
- Ensuring a compassionate and experienced approach that supports you and your little one as you gently implement sleep and settling solutions
- Gentle and attentive support and guidance while keeping in mind the challenges and emotions tied to sleep and settling for you and your little one.
- Fostering a supportive environment for you to feel empowered and informed about your little one’s sleep needs and setting choices.
Confidence Consultation
Ideal for parents who know some of the basics and just need a confidence boost.
This service is perfect for addressing and troubleshooting common sleep and settling issues and making changes independently.
Pre-Visit Phone Call (20 minutes):
- Discuss sleep and settling history and current concerns.
- Review health history.
- Identify your sleep goals and needs.
Home Consultation (90 minutes):
- Scheduled at a day and time that suits you.
- Detailed discussion covering current sleep and settling concerns or challenges, such as:
- Short day sleeps.
- Frequent night waking.
- Tired cues.
- Sleep associations.
- Age-appropriate sleep and feeding needs.
- Sleep cycles and awake windows.
- Sleep pressure.
- Temperament.
- Age-appropriate gentle settling and resettling solutions.
- Establishing a consistent sleep and settling routine.
- Safe sleep recommendations and sleep environment.
- Use of age-appropriate sleep aids (e.g., wrapping, sleeping bags, comforters, dummies).
Consultation Includes:
- Working together to explore the individual needs for both you, your baby or toddler, and family.
- Guidance and education to support your abilities in making changes and implementing gentle and responsive settling strategies independently, with access to text or phone support as needed.
- Discussing and developing a sleep and settling plan tailored to your family's needs.
Additional Support:
- Nurturing your emotional wellbeing, supporting you to implement mindfulness and self-care activities.
- Sharing evidence-based responsive settling strategies, information, education, resource links, advice, tips, and guidance to keep you on track.
- Referral to other health professionals for further assessment or medical review with GP or Paediatrician if indicated.
Follow-Up Support:
- 1 week of text or phone support as you make changes.
Essentials Package
Perfect for parents seeking assistance and guidance while navigating sleep challenges.
This service can assist with sleep challenges, changes and implementing age appropriate and evidenced- based, gentle and responsive settling strategies.
Pre-Consultation Phone Call (20 minutes):
- Discuss sleep and settling history and current concerns.
- Review health history.
- Identify your sleep goals and needs.
Two Consultations:
- One 90-minute initial home visit at a time that suits you and your family.
- One 60-minute follow-up home visit (within 2 weeks of the initial visit) for review of plan, changes, and challenges..
Consultation Includes:
- Working together to explore the individual needs for both you, your baby or toddler, and family.
- Detailed sleep and settling discussion covering current concerns or challenges and topics such as:
- Short day sleeps.
- Frequent night waking.
- Tired cues.
- Sleep associations.
- Age-appropriate sleep and feeding needs.
- Sleep cycles, REM sleep, and awake windows.
- Age-appropriate gentle settling and resettling sleep strategies.
- Establishing a consistent sleep and settling routine.
- Sleep pressure.
- Sleep environment.
- Safe sleep recommendations.
- Use of age-appropriate sleep aids (e.g., wrapping, sleeping bags, comforters, dummies).
Support and Plan Development:
- Working together to identify your goals and developing a tailored and detailed written sleep and settling plan. This will be emailed within 24 hours outlining your visit, sleep and settling plan, and future steps.
- Support and guidance as you implement sleep and settling strategies at your pace, whilst supporting your little one's needs and cues.
- Guidance and education to support you as you continue to make changes and implement gentle and responsive settling strategies independently, with access to text and phone support as needed.
Additional Support:
- Sharing evidence-based responsive settling strategies, information, education, advice, tips, and guidance.
- Nurturing your emotional wellbeing, supporting you to implement mindfulness and self-care activities.
- Developmental check and weighing as indicated.
- Referral to other health professionals for further assessment or medical review with GP or Paediatrician as indicated.
Follow-Up Support:
- 4 weeks of text or phone support.
- 30-minute “wrap up” phone call 2 weeks after follow-up visit.
The Check-In Visit
A supportive follow-up visit offering reassurance, guidance, and practical support as your baby grows and your family's needs evolve.
Each Check - In Visit is tailored to your family's needs.
Follow up in Home Consultation (60 minutes):
Includes:
- Review of progress and current concerns
- Personalised guidance tailored to you and your families changing needs and care plan
- Feeding support ( breastfeeding, bottle feeding, mixed feeding, introducing solids)
- Growth and development guidance
- Baby weight check if indicated
- Responsive, evidence - based information
- Opportunity to ask questions and discuss new challenges.
- Visit scheduled at a time that suits you and your family.
- 1 week of text or phone support as you make changes.