After nine months of not sleeping we decided it was time to get in touch with an expert to help our daughter MXXXX to sleep! It had got to the stage of her waking every hour at night and ‘needing’ me to offer her a milk feed or rock her back to sleep.

We were really reluctant to sleep train as we didn’t want to have to let our much doted on daughter cry but Kelly was so understanding of our situation and the crying/protesting has been minimal!

MXXXX is only two weeks into sleep training and is sleeping through the night from 7-7, it’s an absolute dream and we could NEVER have got to this point without Kelly. Her advice, personalised plan and support has been just incredible. MXXXX is so much more content; although she has always been a happy baby she is now super happy! As parents so are we! We feel like we’ve got our lives back on track, we’re planning our first date night since our beautiful baby arrived and couldn’t recommend Kelly highly enough.

We contacted Kelly when our daughter was nearly 7 months old after seeing her recommended on Facebook. We were at our wits end as our baby had NEVER EVER napped anywhere other than on someone’s shoulder, needed rocking to sleep day and night and “slept” in bed with us every night (often waking for long periods in the early hours). We had no evenings as we couldn’t put her down until we went to bed with her. I also breastfed throughout the night to soothe her back to sleep. Everyone was exhausted and there was no sign of any improvement, so we decided that we needed to do something.

Kelly was very confident that she could help us but I laughed when she said that we would be able to just put baby in her cot and have time to ourselves in the day/evening. It seemed impossible. Still, we took the plunge and arranged a home visit, then got stuck in to the plan the next day.

I am not going to suggest that the plan was easy, as our daughter definitely made Kelly (and us) work hard! But, on night 1 after the first settling period she slept in her cot all night (with a few wake-ups) without us needing to go in, let alone feed her or rock her to sleep! In fact, on the whole we have now had almost 4 weeks of sleeping through the night, with a few blips here and there.

The day naps took longer and we are still working on these, but, from zero naps in the cot “pre-Kelly”, baby now gets much better sleep in the day. We have even managed a few days where she has had a full 2 hour sleep in the morning AND another hour in the afternoon!

Throughout the process Kelly was hugely supportive and kept us on track, with regular calls to check in and tons of advice over email/text. There is no way that we could have done it by ourselves - I think we would have given up on day 1!

4 weeks in and it’s hard to remember just how bad things were before we started. We wish that we had contacted Kelly sooner, rather than waiting to see if things would get better on their own. We are all so much happier and less tired!