24/08/2025
Yesterday I finished working with a mum who reminded me so much of my own journey and it inspired me to reflect on the last 11 years.
When Scarlett was born, my entire world made sense. I had always dreamt of being a mum. As early as I could, I became a nanny/babysitter, travelling the world caring for little ones. Throughout my university degree in nursing, I continued to nanny.
Once I finished university, I began my grad program in paediatrics being a paediatric nurse was my dream. I continued to work in both paediatrics and adults for over seven years.
I still remember the moment I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t sleep a wink that night not one moment. It was the most exciting time of my life. Scarlett’s birth was not easy: 18 hours of labour, an emergency C-section, and when the block failed, I was put on ketamine to get her here safely. But she was finally here.
From day three, when my milk came in, Scarlett was a really unsettled baby. She cried and screamed endlessly in hospital. I felt so overwhelmed and out of my depth. Despite all my experience with babies, this was entirely different.
For the first 3–4 months of Scarlett’s life, I tried elimination diets, hydrolysed formulas, anything to help my unsettled, irritable baby. I’ve never felt more anxious and helpless than when she was covered in rashes and having diarrhoea 18 times a day.
She was diagnosed with reflux and CMPI. I tried to control every move, terrified that anything new would make her worse. Sleep was non-existent. At four months old, she became unwell again with fevers. I didn’t realise how sick she was because I was so used to her being unsettled. It turned out to be a UTI that had progressed to a kidney infection we ended up in hospital for three days.
Coming out of hospital, a friend suggested I speak to a sleep consultant. That was the turning point. From then on, everything in our lives changed. Scarlett became more settled, fed and digested better, and for the first time I could enjoy her. Her tummy even settled simply from better sleep. Scarlett went on to have nine more UTIs in her first year, but this time I could recognise when something was wrong because she was otherwise a happy, settled baby.
From that moment, I knew it would be my passion to become a sleep consultant and support families through the same transformation, from survival to joy, to not wishing time away
I trained and launched my business 10 years ago, and since then I’ve worked with tens of thousands of families across the globe. Families who thought their little one’s reflux, weight issues, teething, CMPI, medical issues, or neurodivergence meant they’d never get good sleep but we’ve helped them find it.
Since then, I’ve had three more children of my own. Along the way I’ve been a FIFO mum, a single mum, and now I’m here building the next chapter with my family.
I’ve also trained as a Circle of Security parenting facilitator, in neurodivergent sleep, and I’ve created hands-on, responsive methods. I’ve expanded our team to include more health and education professionals, including a child and family psychologist.
I’m so grateful to the tens of thousands of families who have trusted us. I didn’t create a program to “sleep train.” I created a program to sleep remember. Every babe is born knowing how to sleep, but patterns of learned dependence can make it tricky. We simply remind them that peaceful sleep is theirs to reclaim.
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