You are listening to episode 52, Managing Toddler's Sleep Concerns. Welcome to this week's episode where I am welcoming Victoria

Bermuda who is a certified sleep consultant with Bella Luna family,

a toddler mom, and we are talking all about managing toddler's sleep.

Thank you for joining me today, Victoria.

Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to talk about this because I get a lot of questions about this on my Instagram, but I want to know a little bit more about you. Tell me about yourself and why you decided to be a sleep consultant.

Sure, so I am a certified child sleep consultant.

I'm also an army wife and I have my own two-year-old son who keeps me on my toes every single day. I also have a degree in child and developmental psychology and about a year ago I became certified in Child Sleep Consulting through the Family Sleep Institute.

So I made the decision to become a child sleep consultant when my son was around six months old because honestly sleep was so so hard for us.

As a newborn he really struggled to fall asleep and stay asleep and just because of the way that I am as a person this fueled a really really

serious obsession for me. I started researching everything I could get my hands on

all the books all the articles so by the time we

finally got him sleep train run around four months old I had read so many books

and articles on sleep training I was talking to anybody who would listen about it and my and

I was talking to anybody who would listen about it and my friend started asking me for help and advice and so you know helping people is something that I've always felt a very strong poll for, like a very strong passion for.

I have a background in mental health, which we know that sleep really affects, like there's a really big,

sleep has a really big impact on maternal mental health. I also found that there's this

really big stigma and a lot of misinformation you know surrounding baby sleep

and sleep training.

And so I really wanted to provide guidance

and assistance to families who are feeling helpless

like I did, but also confused about how to like how and where to even start. You know,

sleep is not a luxury and I believe that we all deserve to feel empowered regardless of

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