Finding Fairy Godmother Magic: A Sleep Coaching Success Story
As a sleep coach, I often meet families who come to me as a last resort, feeling as if they need some sort of fairy godmother magic to solve their child's sleep issues. Meet Daphne and Jonas, who found themselves in this very situation. Desperate for a solution after months of sleepless nights and failed DIY sleep coaching, they turned to Blissful Baby Sleep Coaching, hoping for a miracle.
Before working with me, Daphne and Jonas’s family life was chaotic. They had been struggling for 8 long months, trying every trick in the book to get their son to sleep. Despite their efforts, he was waking up every hour, leaving them exhausted and frustrated. Naps were a battleground, and disagreements over sleep training methods only added to the stress.
Feeling like they had exhausted all options, Daphne and Jonas approached sleep coaching with a mixture of skepticism and desperation. They feared they might never experience restful nights again. But from the moment they started working with me, they began to see positive changes.
In just a few days, they noticed fewer wake-ups and longer stretches of sleep. With guidance, support and a guilt-free and gentle sleep training method, they felt empowered to implement a consistent sleep routine and tackle their son's sleep crutches. Soon enough, their dreams started coming true.
“I couldn't believe that sleep training could be that effective. Everything we dreamt of, we have now.
We wanted him to sleep through the night. He's sleeping 11+ hrs at nightt.
We wanted him to be able to fall asleep by himself. Bedtime is so easy now.
We wanted him to stop waking up at 4am. He sleeps past 6am now.
We wanted to bottle wean at night (and thought it was impossible because he was drinking 3 large bottles and screaming that he's hungry.) He doesn't need bottles anymore and is eating better during the day.
We did not want to spend our whole day in the dark room trying to get him to nap. Now he takes a two hour nap during the day happily in his crib.
Daphne wants exhausted families to know “I would not wait to ask for expert sleep support. Our only regret is that we waited too long fooling around with DIY techniques. Our life was unnecessarily harder than it should have been. Sleep coaching has been magical and surprisingly effective.”
In the end, sleep coaching proved to be the fairy godmother magic the family had been searching for. With dedication, guidance, and a little bit of patience, they've transformed their nights from chaos to bliss. And for that, they'll be forever grateful.
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Hello, I'm Joanna with Blissful Baby. Sleep Coaching, and I'm here with Jonas and Daphne, who have a baby boy that was 13 months old at time of sleep training and we are doing a celebration call. So I'm so happy that you were here. Hello? Yeah. Woo. Woo. Woo. Exactly. So I love sharing your story. So why don't we start at the beginning.
What was life like before you called me? Just gimme like the down and dirty. Like what time was he going to bed? What time was he waking up? How many times was he waking, you know, how did you feel about it? What, what was happening? Oh yeah. Okay. I, I love to tell that story. 'cause Yeah,
it was horrible. Our life is a, a total mess. We've been trying for, for, I mean, eight months ourself. Everything. He is waking up the worst time every hour. And we give him all the crutches possible and still not able to have him sleep for longer. He needs a bottle all the time. So we, we were doing this like show of me collaborating over the night,
throughout the night. I give some, I breastfeed a little bit while he warms up the milk and he come back with the milk and then he drink for two sips, falling back to sleep and then start again in one hour. Yep. And nap is also hard and he's cranky during the day. We try to sleep, train ourself has some success,
but then, then was not successful again. And we fight about how to interpret the different sleep coaching, the, the sleep training method and just not aligned overall. So yeah, it was very chaotic. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, the, the, the challenge with like, you know, so what I hear you saying is like, okay,
we did tons of do it self sleep training. We were trying to take this methodology, then we'd try it and would be an epic fail. And then we tried this methodology and be an epic fail. And then we were arguing over the methodologies or how to employ the methodologies. And yet still there was tons of crying, tons of wakings, tons of bottle and breast action.
And dad was like, this was like a thing where like both parents were up. I mean, it was all hands on deck in the middle of the night and also baby cranky all the time. So when, hi, he would wake up, he wouldn't wake up cooing, he would wake up curr screaming, nah. So there was just a very jarring component of,
oh my God, he's awake again. You know, just that urgency. Right. And you guys had been trying so hard to get sleep and just could not crack the nugget on this kid. Like he was a tricky kid. Right. So what was it like to go through the process? Like you guys decided to hire me, you decided to use a gentle sleep coach.
Like what made you make a decision that you needed the expert support? And then what was it, what did you like most about having that intimate one-on-one coaching experience? Yeah. Yeah. Go for it, dad. Well, I, I think we were getting some success putting him in, in bed, but yeah, many, many wake up during the night and we were kind of at loss on,
on what to do next. So then yeah. Started working with you, thinking that kind of at last resort and thinking that if that didn't work, then we would have to accept not sleeping for the next many years to come. Yeah. But then, yeah, starting working with you. I feel like we, we've seen success pretty early after a few days we were seeing less wake up later,
later wake up in the mornings and Yeah. Easier to put him in in bed and, and basically after only a few days we were saying that what you were telling us would happen was happening. So then we were very confident in, in the program and, and yeah, very confident in just applying what you were telling us to do. And that was,
that was really helping our son to go through the process and forced to get through the process. Exactly. And I think it's really important to say that, that you guys had kind of come at the moment of desperation. Most families come to me after they've tried and failed and tried and failed again. And so when they land on my doorstep, they're usually feeling very defeated.
Feeling like last resort, like you said, like, Joanna, you're my last resort, please make this work. But you know, like it's like a hail Mary kind of feeling. So a lot of times people are really scared 'cause they're thinking, okay, I'm gonna spend this money with this lady hoping that this thing that this lady is gonna be doing is gonna work.
Right. And, and, and then, you know, I always say trust the process, which feels so nebulous. But when we're in the process and we're collaborating, 'cause everything we do is a collaboration, collaboration, we are creating a sleep plan on behalf of this child. Taking into consideration everything that we know about the child's temperament, age stage,
family values, and kind of intuitively where you guys have been with your process that you were doing before about what's gonna work and what's not gonna work. And so it's very customized. And so in that customization, we were able to get really good results those first couple of nights where dad was like, oh my God, like this is working. Like,
oh my god, he is crying less, he's waking up less, he is sleeping longer chunks. Right? So it is, you know, getting that expert support is so important because you're getting the details and you're getting the plan that takes away the doubt and the plan that takes away the two couple, like the husband and wife or the partners, like kind of eh,
at each other. Like, you didn't do this and you should have done that. We, all of that goes and what we start getting is results, which is amazing. So on that note, tell us what it looks like now. Like how many hours a night is he sleeping? What's his naps like? Like get like, give us the result.
Like what does life look like now? Well, it is, is honestly pretty incredible. I, I have said this many times to all my friends and family, couldn't believe that sleep training can be that effective. Basically everything we dreamt of is we, we have now. So we wanted him to sleep through the night, he's sleeping through the night.
We want him to be able to fall asleep by himself. He's doing that. We wanted him to not wake up at four instead wake up at a more human hour. And he's doing that too, bottle weaning at night, which thought was super impossible because he was drinking three large bottles and otherwise he's just screaming that he's hungry. But now he doesn't need that.
We shifted the calorie to to morning and then Yeah. And also nap. Right. Not having to spend our whole day in the dark room. And so, so does he trying to get him to nap and so that he can do a nap easily and, and quickly, Mr. Natural. Oh, we also also were able to do falling asleep in the stroller,
in the car, in the car. Not possible before. So make us, yeah. So open up more possibilities. More possibilities. You have a life. Yeah. So yeah. Is, I mean, everything. Yeah. And a two hour nap during the day, which is amazing. So now you guys have a super reliable schedule. So that la that brings me to my next question is what's possible for you now that wasn't possible before,
now that he has this beautiful schedule, he's waking up well rested. Like what, what's possible for you now that was literally not possible before sleep training, Planning a life. Yeah. Knowing that we can have dinners and we can have activities at night while he is sleeping and enjoying also the, the mornings now that he is waking up Yeah. Between six to seven and,
and rested and having a good night. And we can enjoy our mornings with him and not struggle to start our day in a, in a chaotic way. Yeah. Anything else to add? Well, Mom, you said that like, now when you go to work meetings, you show up like fresh instead of whining that you had a bad night. Right.
That you, you know, professionally, like you're feeling, you're showing up professionally to your work meetings, feeling like, I'm ready, you know, I'm here. I'm not just like, oh my God, forgive me, my brain's not working today. Like you're showing up, like I'm here, I can do it. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Just to also just have a reliable schedule is really nice. Otherwise, our life is on pause. We cannot, cannot schedule anything as everything is surrounded. We need to see how the baby sleep and then we'll know what kind of day we have, but now we Yeah. Have a higher confidence on how the day will go. Amazing. Yeah, that's huge.
That's so huge that you can actually plan your life because you know, you have a well-rested child and then you can, you know, plan fun family events. Like you guys just went out to a date night and went to a movie and dinner. I mean, that was not even a possibility before because you were spending hours trying to get him to sleep.
So if you met a really tired family and they were like confused, you know, should I do sleep training? Should I not, should I hire coach? Should I not? What, what do you want them to know that now your, you know, your future self now knows that you wish that you had known back then? I would say get sleep,
do sleep coaching, either DIY or with a coach right away. And I would not wait because our only regret is that we have, we waited too long. Yeah. And that it, it is a very unnecessary thing on both well, our, our life was unnecessary, harder than it shouldn't be. And also the baby, we worry that the baby maybe suffers some of the consequence.
Yeah. The sleep. Yes. I mean, sleep coaching has been magical as surprisingly effective. Hey, I love that sleep coaching is magical and surprisingly effective. I love that. That is amazing. And you weren't scared, right? Like, you don't, you didn't like you because you guys were, you know, he, so their baby boy has a very big personality and can be very intense and can have big,
big jarring cries like we said in the beginning. So you were surprised that like his crying was less than you ever expected. In fact, it was less crying than when you were actually doing all the things to try to get him to go to sleep. So, you know, that's, that's also so fun is that when you realize like, oh my God,
I made sleep training be this big, scary, awful thing. And in fact, this process was so like calm and focused and sequential and we all knew what we were doing. So we had confidence. We were in the same, you know, we were on the same page. So we weren't arguing anymore. We were seeing incremental progress. So we would,
we could validate what our next step was like. It, it's, it's, it's just, it's way better. I mean, I, I love having coaches because I feel like you get the results you're looking for faster with less drama. Because sometimes when you DYI, you're always in self-doubt and you're always second guessing yourself. But in this case, we're in collaboration and we're mo moving sequentially towards the result.
And we get there and that's why we have the celebration call because like you said, you got everything on your wishlist, you know, so it's amazing. So thank you Daphne and Jonas for trusting me and for going on this journey with me. And welcome to the well-Rested Family Revolution. That's one of my favorite things to say. You are now a part of a select group of families that can get their life back and enjoy being part of the well-Rested Family Revolution.
Thank you. Yay. I know. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.