Meet Sarah

How has an only child with no children of her own transformed into one of the nation’s leading experts on infant and toddler behavior?

Sarah Petrie knows children. It’s as simple as that.

She has more than twenty years of in-home childcare experience and has spent the last fifteen years developing her approach to establishing healthy feeding, nursing, and sleeping patterns in young children. Sarah also helps parents with prenatal care, breastfeeding/bottlefeeding choices, infant development and sibling rivalry. Sarah works with children aged 0 to 5 and their parents. She is experienced at addressing a whole range of situations: from teaching the parents of a healthy newborn how to improve his or her feeding habits, to addressing the issues of a child with chronic and severe sleeping problems. Sarah's theories and methodology are strongly influenced by renowned Hungarian childcare experts Magda Gerber and Emmi Pickler (R.I.E.).

Sarah is unlike anyone else in the field: she focuses on your child’s daytime behaviors and organizes his or her food, play, and sleep rhythms, resulting in a child who is able to not only put themselves to sleep, but indicate to you when they're ready.

She also empowers parents, rather than simply solving their problems or providing quick fixes without practical training. This will help you, the parent, to actually understand why you're doing things, thereby providing you with tools for years to come.

Sarah maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California. She consults with her clients via telephone, email, and in-home visits (optional). She has many clients within Los Angeles as well as throughout the world. Face-to-face visits are not a necessity for Sarah's method and the consultation style is tailor-made to each situation. Sarah is a contributor to City Baby L.A. and the author of a forthcoming book.