Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode number 514, I'm welcoming

to the show, Eve Squires from Calm and Bright Sleep Support. Please don't feel that your baby's sleep

is reflective of your quality as a parent. So if you have a poor sleeper, it doesn't

mean you're getting it wrong. It probably means you love them really hard and being there all the

time and that's hard, but it's incredibly admirable. So never ever beat yourself up if your baby

doesn't sleep. It just means you're a really great mom, not the other way around.

So how this conversation came about is I was on my creative retreat and one of the moms who

goes on that retreat with me is a pediatrician. And she was asking if I had ever done an episode

on sleep training because she said the issue she's noticing with the parents who come in her office

is a lot of them are learning about

attachment theory, which is great. And they're not wanting to disrupt that attachment process

through using cry-it-out methods. But at the same time, the parents and the infant are both

struggling because no one's getting sleep. And she just wondered if I knew of anyone, any resource, any research on how to help

babies stay connected to their parents while also training them to sleep.

And so when Eve Squires reached out to me, she's a sleep consultant with over 15 years

of experience.

She's a mum because she is British. She has this

approach to helping improve your infant sleep without resorting to harsh methods. And since this is a

very hotly debated topic, I just appreciate Eve's gracious way of dealing with things that can be hard.

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