FAQ

I am in St. Louis, Missouri, and meet with families virtually or in their homes. Depending upon availability, I occasionally travel to other cities to meet with families in person.

I work with parents from the prenatal and postpartum planning period through age five. While I would not advocate for “sleep training” until around four months of age, everyone needs sleep before then, and I work with families to create rhythms of rest that continue to build as the child ages.

I received my B.S. Ed. in Human Development and Learning. In addition, I have a license as an Early Childhood teacher, and I taught preschool, kindergarten, and second grade. After leaving the classroom, I worked as a Parent Educator for a local school district. Throughout my career, there were times when I have worked as a nanny and household manager, most significantly with families who have multiple children.

My first job out of college was as a nanny to a family with newborn quadruplets. I was with that family for two years and learned much through partnering with their pediatrician and night nurses. That experience gave me insight into the lives of families with multiples and the essential need for everyone to sleep.

Since then, I’ve worked with several other families with twins, coaching them through the first several years of life with multiples. When families with whom I worked started telling me I needed to create a business and stop doing this as a side gig, I listened, and it’s been the best decision. I love helping families move from lives of chaos and exhaustion to rhythm and rest.

I steer clear of this term because it’s so confusing. I am a sleep consultant, which means I help you and your children get better sleep. We look at appropriate wake times, how much sleep your child needs in 24 hours, problem areas, the needs of other family members, and the demands of your week. Then, we balance that with what you feel comfortable with relative to teaching your child how to sleep independently.

There is a movement of quick advice in the parenting and sleep consulting world, leading to so much decision fatigue on those receiving the advice. Concierge sleep consulting and parenting support means that you aren’t alone, and you’re not left to read a lot of material and decide how to tailor it to your needs. You feel exhausted and don’t need to analyze and make more decisions right now.

Instead, you will receive 1:1 support from someone who will get to know your family. I’ll meet with you in your home and pick up on things you didn’t even know were affecting the rhythms of your days with your baby (babies).

Because sleep problems don’t only happen at night, I consider the entire 24-hour day, along with family dynamics and personalities, and I’ll be with you to tweak and troubleshoot by text or phone.

I love this question because, for so long, I didn’t know it was important for adults, too. I shower, stretch, brush my teeth, floss, and climb into bed with a book – and turn on the sound machine and fan!

Baby and toddler: This is an excellent time to focus on reading 1 or 2 of the same books each night. The rhythm acts as something else the child associates with going to sleep. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton are two of my favorites.

Preschool: Rhythmic and rhyming, simple but silly books are good for this age. Check out Llama, Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney, and Bark, George! by Jules Feiffer.

Kindergarten: There are so many for this age! It’s a great time to begin reading longer books, introducing chapter books like The Magic Treehouse series, and reading books that you and your child enjoy the storyline together.