A Conversation About Sleep with a Sleep Consultant

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As part of my sleep series of podcast episodes, I wanted to welcome a sleep consultant. Sleep consultants are relatively new in the world of parenting. Over the past 10 years, they continue to gain in popularity. In Episode 18, I discuss my personal views on sleep consultants and if every family needs one to have a successfully sleeping child. I am so happy to welcome Andrea, a sleep consultant (@babysleep.answers on Instagram). We have a great conversation about infant/child sleep. We talk about sleep training (and sleep in general) including her thoughts on various methods and considerations when a family is deciding how to aid their child is self-settling. She also tackles common questions I get asked in regards to transitioning baby from a bassinet to a crib, naps, early wakings, and information on cry-methods of sleep training and methods with less crying. Tune in and make sure to also listen to episode 16, 17, and 18 as all episodes are jam-packed with useful info that pertains to sleep and sleep-training. Follow us at @pedsdoctalk and @babysleep.answers to continue the conversation! Check out the PedsDocTalk New Mom's Survival Guide for more help navigating through the first year of parenthood. Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to episode 19, a conversation about sleep with a sleep consultant.
0:05.6	Hey everyone, welcome to the Pete's Doc Talk Podcast. I'm your host Dr Mona where each
0:16.8	week I hope to educate and inspire you in your journey through parenthood with
0:20.8	information on your most common concerns as a parent and
0:23.6	interviews with fellow parents and experts in the field.
0:26.4	My hope is you leave each week feeling more educated,
0:29.4	confident, and empowered in the decisions you make for your child.
0:33.0	Hello, welcome to this episode. So this episode is part of the sleep
0:47.9	training series that I have done and I'm so glad to welcome Andrea is a sleep training consultant and she has a fantastic
0:56.5	Instagram page called baby sleep dot answers. Welcome Andrea.
1:00.9	Hi, thank you. I'm excited to be here.
1:03.0	I love this.
1:04.0	I am so excited you're here too.
1:06.0	I, you know, what I wanted to do was I recorded an episode on my own.
1:10.6	I had some other episodes as well, but I really wanted to get a sleep training consultant on just to kind of educate families about the different methods out there. So I'm so glad that you're on today. So tell me a little bit more about why you became a sleep training
1:23.5	consultant and also a little bit more about your account. Yeah for sure actually if I
1:28.8	if I can I'll say I want to be more of a sleep consultant than just a sleep
1:32.2	training consultant because I want to be more of a sleep consultant than just a sleep training consultant because I want to help people figure out what's going on with their sleep before they even think they have to sleep train because that's something a lot of people fear like I'm going to have to sleep train and most people you don't actually have to you know when we think sleep train we think like leaping kids for crying for hours in their bed right and so what I focus on is giving like the perfect schedule, perfect environment, perfect everything so that
1:54.7	they when they're tired they can just go to sleep.
1:57.0	And then if we need to step by, like take another step and do sleep training, then we can find
2:01.4	like the most gentle method or the most intense method
2:04.0	whatever it works best for a family but sorry backtracking how did I get into this
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