Baby & Child Sleep Consultant in Hawke’s Bay

The newborn stage is intense, beautiful, and often overwhelming - especially when sleep feels unpredictable. This guide is designed to help you understand what’s normal, what actually helps, and how to support your baby’s sleep in a way that feels realistic and reassuring.

Newborns are not expected to self-settle or follow routines. Their sleep is biologically different, fragmented, and highly dependent on comfort, connection, and regulation. This guide works with your baby’s development - not against it - focusing on calm foundations rather than rigid schedules or sleep training.

Inside the guide, you’ll learn:

• What newborn sleep really looks like (and why short naps, frequent wakes, contact naps, and evening fussiness are normal)

• How newborn sleep biology works, including sleep cycles, active sleep, the Moro reflex, and circadian rhythm development

• How to support sleep through simple, effective cues like darkness, white noise, swaddling, and consistent sleep environments

• How awake windows work in the first 12 weeks and how to avoid overtiredness

• Feeding and sleep explained - including breastfeeding, bottle feeding, cluster feeding, growth spurts, and common misconceptions (like “formula before bed”)

• How to structure your day using gentle rhythms rather than schedules

• Practical tools like bridging naps to smooth out tricky days

• Calm settling strategies, including the Shush–Pat technique for swaddled newborns

• How to pause before responding to noise and recognise active sleep versus true waking

• Support for common challenges such as short naps, frequent night waking, reflux-like discomfort, wind, and evening fussiness

• Why newborns cannot self-settle yet - and why responding does not create bad habits

• What typically changes across weeks 1–12 and when sleep usually starts to feel easier

• New Zealand safe sleep guidelines and red flags for baby and parent wellbeing

This guide is ideal if you want:

• Clear, evidence-based information without judgement

• Reassurance that you’re not doing anything wrong

• Practical strategies you can use immediately

• A calm, confident start to newborn sleep - without pressure or rigid rules

Format: Digital download (PDF) + Audio Version.
Age range: 0–12 weeks.

Designed for parents of babies and young children aged 3 months to 4 years who want a customised sleep plan that aligns with their parenting style and supports their child’s individual temperament - all backed by clear, science-based guidance.

This plan includes:

• Sleep Environment guidance

• Feeding

• Sleep Associations

• Nap Schedules/Awake Windows

• Nap Contingency Plan

• Overnight Plan

• Settling Strategy

• 2 weeks support (this will include check ins via WhatsApp or Email every 1-2 days)

You will complete a detailed intake form that allows me to understand your baby’s sleep, feeding, temperament, and your family’s preferences, so your plan is truly personalised.

✨ Includes 2 weeks of support - where real progress happens.

A calm, supportive in-home session where I guide you through your baby’s routine and help you feel confident settling them - whether it’s bedtime, the first nap, or a lunchtime nap. I’ll observe what’s happening in real time and coach you step-by-step so you can settle your baby independently with confidence.
My focus is on empowering you, not doing the settling for you.

What’s Included:

• Sleep environment assessment

• Age-appropriate awake windows

• Feeding guidance

• Nap support

• Overnight sleep expectations

• Personalised Sleep Plan created before your visit, using information from your detailed intake form

• Includes 1 week support after your home visit (this will include check ins via WhatsApp or Email every 1-2 days)

Your personalised sleep plan will be completed prior to your home consultation so you can go into the visit feeling prepared, supported, and ready to implement the strategies we discuss.

Please note:
This package includes the in-home session, your personalised sleep plan and 1 week support.

Duration: 3 hours

Age: 3months - 4yrs

Service Area
I offer in-home support across Central Hawke’s Bay and the wider Hawke’s Bay and Tararua regions including Hastings, Napier, Dannevirke, Woodville - please enquire.

This option is for families who would like calm, hands-on support through the night, with guidance and reassurance in real time.

I spend the night in your home from 5pm–5am, supporting you through bedtime, overnight wakes, and the early morning hours. Together, we gently implement your personalised sleep plan, make adjustments as needed, and build your confidence responding to your child’s sleep in the moment.

This package is ideal if nights feel overwhelming, progress has stalled, or you’d like extra reassurance while making changes - without feeling like you’re doing it alone. My focus is on empowering you, not doing the settling for you.

What’s Included:

• Sleep environment assessment

• Age-appropriate awake windows

• Feeding guidance

• Nap support

• Overnight sleep expectations

• Personalised Sleep Plan created before your visit, using information from your detailed intake form

• Includes 1 week support after your home visit (this will include check ins via WhatsApp or Email every 1-2 days)

Your personalised sleep plan will be completed prior to your home consultation so you can go into the visit feeling prepared, supported, and ready to implement the strategies we discuss.

Please note:
This package includes the overnight in-home session, your personalised sleep plan and 1 week support.

Duration: 12 hours (5pm - 5am)

Age: 3months to 4yrs

Service Area
I offer in-home support across Central Hawke’s Bay and the wider Hawke’s Bay and Tararua regions including Hastings, Napier, Dannevirke, Woodville - please enquire.