You are listening to Episode 94, Infant and Child Sleep,

and Cultural Barriers.

Welcome to this week's episode, where I am so excited to welcome one of my favorite accounts

on social media. Her name is Diana Martins, and she is a certified sleep consultant

on Instagram as we sleep, underscore Diana, and we're talking all about infant and child sleep

and cultural barriers. Thank you so much for joining me today, Diana. Thank you so much for

having me, Dr. Mona. I am so honored, so happy to talk about this topic with you,

and hello to all your lovely listeners. Well, I'm so happy that we connected on social media,

Instagram, and that you're on here today. But tell me a little bit more about yourself,

and why you became a sleep consultant. Yeah, so I'm based here in Toronto in Nonteria, Canada.

I became a sleep consultant because it was a transformation. It wasn't just a change

that I experienced when I started to get rest with my son, but it was a true transformation

when my son, who didn't sleep longer than two hours at a time, and then all of a sudden,

my goodness, the first night of sleep training, he slept for 12. So you can imagine,

I thought this was magic. Before this happened, I never heard of sleep training. It wasn't done

in my family. Sleep wasn't really talked about. Nor did I know you could hire a person,

a whole person to help guide you throughout this. So now, Mona, this is what I do all day,

every day, and I am so passionate because I know how it can change your life.

Oh, and I love that. And you know, when we connected and we were coming up with topics,

we chose to talk about infant child sleep and cultural barriers, cultural insecurities,

all the things that our culture and our upbringing can bring into how we approach parenting.

And of course, sleep is part of our parenting philosophy. So why is this topic in particular

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