Sleep successes from rested parents

"Hi Évi! I have good news!

The anaesthesia has since gone from 1-1.5 hours to 15-20 minutes, which seemed incredible at first but it worked!

He still sleeps in his own bed and has completely forgotten about his night-time cocoa, which is out of the question. We've had several sleepovers in a row which is also unbelievable compared to how it started! So we would like to thank you for your advice and all the support we have received! We don't regret for a second that we chose you, even though we would have done it sooner! ☺️"

"Hi!

I've been a member of the group for several months now, but so far I've just been a "silent observer", trying to look everywhere for solutions, guidance or help to help my little boy sleep better.

Máté is 8.5 months old at the moment, at first they tried to get him to sleep in his cot, but without success.

Until 01.03.2024.03.2024, this is what a night looked like: with mum in the parents' bed, as a little sticker, waking up 10-12 times a night, and with no help (rocking, pacifier, petting, swing and I could go on and on....) he could not fall back asleep, only on the bottle. On the advice of the nurse and doctor we have been putting water in the bottle in case he is just thirsty, but he won't take anything but formula. Not large amounts, about 10 ml was enough for him, but it kept his stomach working all night.

I've dived into books, various sleep-related articles, groups, this kind of fragrant oil, that kind of cream, a hearty dinner after feeding... I think I've tried everything to get my little boy to sleep.

One evening, in the midst of my despair, a Facebook post about the group popped up...a Lady asked who had an opinion about Sleep Hero? About what?

I've never heard of it in my life...so I looked it up...tried to go around the topic, looked at all the posts in the group to see if we should really get into it.

We decided to give it a try, it was our last save to see if we could do it. Within minutes of the first consultation we received the sleep plan, and Évi set a target of 15 March...we thought we might be able to get out of this state by mid-April.

However, things did not turn out as we had imagined (in a positive way...🙂 )

...March 5...my little boy in his own room, in his own bed, closed his eyes at 7:30am, woke up at 3am, once a night, and didn't ask for formula, didn't cry, we just stroked him and he went back to sleep. It was the same the next day.

It's incredible to me that he, who woke up 10-12 times a night and wouldn't go to sleep without formula, now wakes up only once, doesn't cry, and loves in his crib. In the morning, when he wakes up, he sits happily with a smile on his face, waiting to go play.

I would wholeheartedly recommend Sleep Hero, aka Evie, to anyone who is in the same shoes as us, she is extremely helpful, and really takes it to heart that every baby gets a good night's sleep! ☺️

This is not advertising, not persuasion, not bragging...but if our example helps even one family, then everyone is happy! ❤️"

"I'm very grateful to you that you've stopped waking me up 6-8 or sometimes more times a night. Also because he falls asleep on his own in 5-10 minutes during the day and at night. All this has been achieved without crying or fighting, with small changes. As you predicted in our very first consultation, once the night settled down and daytime naps settled in nicely the 30 min naps during the day have also been extended, he now sleeps 1-1.5 hours in the morning and afternoon. Thank you so much for everything. I would recommend you all wholeheartedly because you don't have to be down and wait for him to grow out of it and get better. It won't get better but with your help it will."

"Dear Évi!

First of all we would like to thank you very much for your help over the last 3 weeks. You have been the support of the whole family, you have kept us going when we needed it after a tired night.

The results we have achieved with your help are incredible! I would never have imagined that after 3 weeks our sweet baby, who is addicted to formula, would fall asleep alone in his bed and sleep for 7-8 hours in a row. It is really unbelievable! Even if he wakes up, he's back to sleep with just a little cuddle🥹

We are incredibly grateful to you, and only 2 days after we "said goodbye" we already miss our morning chats!

We hope that if we have to contact you again, it won't be because baby Nolen's sleep has been disturbed, but because we're having lunch together😍

Thank you very much for everything!

Eternal gratitude to you!

Many kisses"

"Dear Évi!

I can't wait until next week, I have to share this picture 😍😍 I thought we could throw the 'I slept through the night' milestone card in the bin. But specifically, we are now staring and gawping at where we've come in 2.5 weeks. Yesterday, our little boy slept through the night for the first time 🤗 the little boy who could only fall asleep on a boob or rocked for the past few months woke up every hour, often half an hour. But what's even more incredible for us is that in the evening he went to his bed awake, without any crying or protest and in 15 minutes he was asleep babbling and smiling 🥹 So much so that even in deep sleep it was difficult to put him down in his crib because he either cried or woke up immediately. And the icing on the cake is that all this with Daddy, whom she hasn't accepted at all in the evening/night 🥰 I think our gratitude is beyond words, thank you so much for your help 🙏🏻"

"Dear All!

8 months ago, my baby, who had been sleeping with me, and Evie started the recommended programme.

Our Nora then completed the goal in 1 day and was a great sleeper for months.

But my little girl changed, she started to walk, talk and play actively.

He would wake up in the night, and even then he wanted to play for 3-4 hours.

I made a mistake because I gave him control and let him have it.

Every night for a month it was game time in the middle of the night, I somehow reassured myself that it was a phase, just have to get through it.

But we were both tired, and I could see that this was not the right direction.
So I went to see Evie again, who confirmed that this was indeed not good.

Évi supported me with all her strength, and encouraged me on the right steps to take to stop my little girl from wanting to play in the middle of the night.

The second night he slept through the night again, as he used to, and so did I.

Since then, we are full of energy, we feel like going for long walks and playing with NAPPAL.

Thank you to Evie for getting my rested daughter and myself back.

I heartily recommend Eve and her practices to you mothers who are trying to survive the days and nights in zombie mode.

There is help and hope, you just have to do it! Trust Evi, she knows what she's doing!"

"What I liked about your method was that we didn't have to stick to strict rules, we did it by feel and it really proved that in some cases you do have to go in to see the children.

In the methods you read about in books, the strict rules do not take these into account and urge you to adhere to strict rules and times.

Basically, I think that what I enjoyed most about working with you was having a professional background and supportive back-up in your person.

Sometimes it was more for me to support us to persevere or to dare to step back or move on.

Indeed every child is different and you can't impose a strict set of rules on everyone, it's the method you use and your support and experience that gives you the confidence to succeed."

"I heartily recommend Evie, she is very helpful, kind and patient. Not just focused on the baby, but also on the mother's soul. We are very grateful to Evi for all her help! Finally our baby sleeps in her bed day and night. 🙂 "

"We started working together 2 months ago, and in hindsight, I have to admit that it was only in desperation that I didn't believe in it all...

Here we are two months ago, sleeping soundly, the whole family life has changed.

I often hear that sleep training is bad and that the child suffers and is deprived of self-expression by falling asleep alone ...

In our house, it's MADE because my little boy had a cold and last week he called us several times for three or four nights so he let us know he was sick and he let us know because he was CLEAR.

It made the whole sleep training thing fall apart for me because we taught my little boy to fall asleep and sleep soundly, and we taught him to signal if he was really in trouble and he did.

I can't thank you enough for contacting me and I hope that you have been able to help so many mums since then.

We love you very much Thank you very much for being there and we can always count on you and we can count on you now."

Kisses: mum and baby, who has grown 12 teeth and run since we started the programme with you."

"Finally Finally Finally.... After about 1.5-2 months, I can share our success stories.
Regina started to sleep very badly from 4.5 months of age, waking up more and more at night, not to mention 30-45 minute naps and re-sleeps during the day.

I was always betting on something, must be the heat, must be the teeth, must be the development of movement etc etc etc, I read everywhere that this is how it is, you have to survive this period...
Okay, I put up with it, I waited, but after months the situation didn't get any better, in fact it only got worse, my mood was terrible all the time.

I had looked at your site before, but I didn't dare to write, I was afraid it wouldn't work for us.

Then came the time when I decided that I didn't want to survive this period, but to enjoy every minute of it, because we moved into our house together, and I didn't feel that overwhelming happiness, I was so sleepless and exhausted.

My day was about nothing but putting the baby to sleep and sleeping. I had had enough of what I was becoming and we visited me in early October.

After 2 hours of talking, we got the sleep plan from you. It was Tuesday, but we didn't start until Friday.

I started, but in about 10 days not much changed, Regina strongly objected to the changes, as she used to sleep cradled and then next to me.
Despite all this, our little girl seemed to be able to sleep for several hours at a time, but she didn't seem to be accepting the new methods anytime soon.

That's when we got Dad in... Dad had a better result the first night, we had 1-2 sleep-overs, but on the third night something always happened.

In the meantime, his teeth started to come out, his movement started to develop, so a few things made the programme difficult, so that we wouldn't have an easy job.

Once I wanted to give up twice, I was ready to accept that we couldn't do that, but my father didn't want to hear about it.

I often drew strength from the success stories they shared.

Then you suggested another method which gave the expected result...

Regina started having more and more sleepovers, and this has continued ever since. We soon saw that she could sleep when she wanted to and fall back asleep on her own, the problem was often putting her to sleep, she was a willful little person who stuck to her routine.
Since then, there are more and more nights when he falls asleep in a few minutes, there are one or two occasions when he is more tearful or harder to put to sleep, but fortunately they are becoming less frequent.

In the meantime, another set of teeth comes in and we have definitely entered separation anxiety.
Many times even now we go to bed with the expectation that he will wake up 100 times, even though we have had sleep-over nights for 1 month.

It's amazing how clever he is, I hear him wake up twice, sometimes he cries, but he goes back to sleep on his own.

Before, I could never have imagined that he would go back to sleep BY HIMSELF.
Daytime naps are also evolving, with more and more quiet naps, but we are still working on these.

Well, a 100 words is worth a 100 words, thank you for helping us teach our baby, who used to be rocked to sleep, put to sleep with a pacifier, fall back to sleep and wake up many times, to sleep well and fall back to sleep.

Without your help, I would be in the camp of sleepless and constantly stressed mums."