Episode 31: To Healthy Sleep Routines For You and Your Child

Moms, we all love sleep and need plenty of it. Though, often we lose out on lots of sleep due to the restless nights of newborns and children. If your young child’s inconsistent sleeping patterns cause distress, if your child has trouble falling or staying asleep, or if you know someone whose young child’s sleeping patterns cause trouble in the family unit, this episode is for you!Our guest, Eva Klein, founder of My Sleeping Baby, offers tremendous support regarding ways to improve the sleeping cycle and conditions for your young child, which will result in results that you probably would have never imagine before turning into this episode. This episode contains truly amazing tips that will change your life!About our guest:Eva is a Certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and is the founder of My Sleeping Baby and the Sleep Bible program.  Eva’s main goal is to help her clients establish healthy sleep habits for their children. After experiencing the debilitating effects of chronic sleep deprivation from her middle child, Eva was inspired to help families overcome their sleep challenges. Eva truly empathizes with her clients’ sleep troubles and personally invests herself in their sleep journey. In addition to completing her sleep consulting certification, she is a member of the Association of Professional Sleep Consultants and she completed the 2016 Infant Mental Health Community Training through the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Eva also has her Bachelor of Arts from York University and her law degree from the University of Western Ontario. Eva is a proud wife and mother of two girls and a boy (who are all great sleepers) and lives with her family in Toronto. She provides individual sleep consultations, facilitates group seminars and runs an online sleep program and community called the Sleep Bible.SHOW NOTES:3:20: Introducing Eva Klein, My Sleeping Baby and what pushed her to create her business“I had no choice but to open up the sleep books, figure out what was going on, and I managed to make the situation a little bit more manageable for myself.”6:50: Crafting a perfect sleeping scheduling for a child “You know, there are multiple puzzle pieces that need to be addressed simultaneously in order for you to get your baby consistently sleeping through the night.” 10:15: Practical Tips to ensure your little one gets a perfect night sleep“And so if you’re goal is to have yourself a wickedly awesome sleeper, so that you can be sleeping well at night, then it is absolutely crucial to make sure that they are napping well”12:15: Eva’s Sleep Chart “I’ll just give you some examples: A four-month-old usually cannot be up for longer than about 90 minutes before needing to go back to sleep”13:25: Advice for parents whose child will not nap!“I am a huge proponent in teaching babies, and teaching toddlers and preschoolers, and re-teaching them if necessary, how to fall asleep independently, so that they are not constantly relying on you and all that help from you to fall asleep.” 15:58: Helping young kids fall asleep independently “I want to ensure people that cry-it-out is not the only option here” 26:40: Last thoughts "Just because our previous generations of mothers lived a certain way and dealt with certain things communally, like frequent night wakings from their little ones with no end in sight, doesn’t have to be our reality (...) we can do better than that!"Plus, check out Eva's Free Gift Here Credits:Host: Jodi FriedGuest: Eva KleinEditor: Matthew Feiler