Testimonials
"Sarah gave me the confidence to calmly and lovingly handle both of my babies on my own!"
"Now, what I’m about to share with you will probably sound fantastical and too good to be true."
“Sarah gave me the confidence to calmly and lovingly handle both of my babies on my own!”
When we met Sarah, our twins Josh and Madison were nearly five months old and things at our house were starting to fall apart. We were swaddling, we were pacifying, we were “shushing,” but none of it was really working.
Sarah was a godsend. She helped me slow down and once again tune into my babies’ cycles and rhythms. After three days of following Sarah’s advice, it was like I was dealing with two completely different babies. Madison’s “short fuse” had disappeared. She was happily rolling over and cooing while she played with toys on the floor. Both babies were drinking from both the breast and the bottle with minimal spit up and were no longer having digestive problems.
After a week of working with Sarah, both babies were sleeping 12-13 hours at night and 5-6 hours during the day. There are still the pressures of feeding, loving and caring for two babies who aren’t always smiling but Sarah gave me the confidence to calmly and lovingly care for both of my babies on my own. My husband and I no longer have to sleep in shifts in separate bedrooms and I no longer need a caregiver to help me feed and soothe my babies. But best of all, I feel like I am back in rhythm with my babies needs. I feed them when they are hungry and put them to bed when they are tired.
-Hayden, mother of twins-
"Now, what I’m about to share with you will probably sound fantastical and too good to be true."
My own friends have said it sounds like voodoo, but honestly and truly Sarah’s knowledge and methods are so time tested and based on simple yet old psychological and behavioral methods – and she has NEVER had a baby or child whose sleeping issues she has not been able to remedy. Sarah came over and worked with me, and that first night my darling son, who had NEVER slept longer than 3-4 hour stretches, slept 10 hours straight. The next night he was put down WITHOUT being rocked to sleep, WITHOUT being bottle-fed to sleep and WITHOUT a pacifier, and slept for 12 hours straight.
Having Sarah come into our lives was truly a blessing. Not only is Walker able to put himself to sleep at night and during the day, he can now indicate to us when he’s ready to go down. Sarah has also enabled my husband and I to not “react” to Walker when he is unhappy by trying to immediately pacifiy him or shut-down his emotions but instead to be available to him and allow him to process on his own. As a result of no longer being sleep deprived, Walker started talking and walking on the same day, just two weeks into the program. Everyone now remarks on how happy and independent he is. Thanks to Sarah, our lives will never be the same again. We’ll never be sleep deprived. We’ll never wake up at 5 a.m. and think “thank goodness it’s at least not four!”
-Shana, new mother-
"I am the mother of two children, a four-year-old girl and a seven-month-old boy, and Sarah has saved my life. "
I met Sarah when my daughter was five month old. She was a difficult baby because she was five weeks premature and she had heart surgery at 10 weeks old. At five months old, she was napping no more than 45 minutes, four times a day and waking up two times at night. She screamed whenever I put her down, so I held her constantly. Though she didn’t sleep long, I had a very easy method of getting her sleep, which involved swaddling her and rocking her for five minutes. It worked every time. I wanted Sarah to help me but she refused to help me as long as my method was working for me. She told me to call her when it all fell apart, assuring me that it would. Sure enough, within a few weeks, my five-minute method turned to 25 minutes, and my daughter started to wake up every hour throughout the night and for good at 5:30. I was at wits end and was ready to “ferberize her” (let her cry herself to sleep). Sarah implored me to wait for her, telling me that doing that would be throwing my child into the deep end without teaching her how to swim. Sarah came to me the next day, assessed my daughter and spent the next few days teaching me how to observe my child’s behavior in order to get her sleeping and eating cycles in order. We focused on my daughter’s daytime sleep, using that as a model for the night. Within a few days, my daughter was sleeping four to five hours during the day, with a three- to four-hour consolidated nap. My days were suddenly free. After that, nighttime was a breeze. She went down at around 6:30 every night, and slept until 8 a.m. Sometimes she would wake up at night, but she would just talk in her bed and go back to sleep. My daughter currently sleeps from 7:30 pm until 8:00 am, and still takes a 2 to 3 hour nap each day. She recognizes when she is tired and needs a nap and feels she is very lucky to get to sleep. She has a lot of energy during the day and is extremely happy. In addition to sleep, Sarah worked with my daughter’s eating issues. She has never been on the charts for weight and doctors constantly wanted to do tests on her. Sarah viewed the issue as behavioral and worked on teaching my daughter to enjoy meal time. Furthermore, throughout my daughter’s development, whenever there have been behavioral issues, such as fighting to get ready at night, getting out of the bath, temper tantrums, etc., Sarah has had such kind ways of addressing them that work long term.
With my son, Sarah gave me some guidelines at birth, which I followed, so that aside from the normal six weeks of fussiness, he was easy. He started taking consolidated naps early on, and never felt the anxiety of separation at sleep time. Sarah observed him to determine his eating and sleep cycles at four to five months, but did not want to put him on a sleep program until he was able to move around. I appreciate the fact that Sarah treats every child individually and looks the child’s physical development as the cue for working with them. My son is now seven months old, sleeps from 6:45 pm until 8:00 am, takes a 3.5 hour nap in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. He’s very happy and comfortable. Sarah’s taught me how to be flexible with both of my children, sleep wise, and not to watch the clock so much, but to focus on observing my children.
Both of my children can sleep anywhere, and there’s no problem adjusting to different time zones.
Having Sarah in my life makes me want to have more children because I know how easy they can be, allowing me to focus my energy on completely enjoying them. She has recently spent time with me on the flow of my household. She did a session showing me how to integrate my new baby into the family schedule. I now find it very easy to bathe both kids at the same time, have them in the kitchen while I cook dinner and get everyone to sleep easily. Before that, the late afternoons and evenings were a complete struggle. Learning how to do this has been extremely valuable to my family and me. Sarah has saved my life.
-Tara Kaplinsky-
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