What an amazing help the folks at the Happy Sleeper have been. We had a baby with complex needs who would only take naps on us in wraps or rocking for a variety of reasons, and struggled mightily with nighttime sleep on their own surface. We went through a great host of books and different philosophies and approaches, and the folks at the Happy Sleeper were the only ones that offered an approach with enough nuance to actually provide a good fit with the particularities of our situation. They taught us both what signs to look for to indicate what kinds of sleep capabilities were appropriate for what level of neurological development in our infant, and helped us make a transition to independent, full-night sleep once our little one was ready for it - without scaring or traumatizing them. We got a lot out of the book, and even more out of the sleep consult we did. Highly recommended - will use the same principles for any future children.

Our Nicolas needed us to learn how to help him sleep through the night. Heather listened to us explain our situation and she outlined a customized plan that would help us achieve our goals. We listened back, implemented, and succeeded. The implementation wasnt without its hiccups, but they were minimal, and Nico has been sleeping through the night for over 6 weeks now.Heather trained us in one session via Zoom, and checked in via email at the right times. We always felt she would be available if we needed her, but we stuck to the plan which turned out to be all we needed.Thank you Heather!!!

This book was so incredibly helpful, and I had a few phone consults with Heather and she was FANTASTIC!!! It was just so nice to be able to talk to someone and ask all of my questions (there were a lot!) and she answered every single one of them with such patience and care. For me, the wave made training less scary and I really never felt like my baby was in any distress because we could do the check-ins with him. The first night he slept independently longer than he ever had, and it just kept getting better with each night. By night four he slept almost 12 hours with only a few little wake-ups!! I have slept more in the last few nights than I have in the last five months!! Love this book, love these women. Highly recommend!!

I want to share with everyone how much of a difference Heather made in our lives as parents. We can not say thank you enough for helping us to figure out what we needed to tweak to help our son sleep better. Since our phone consult he sleeps through the night consistently - we have shared our story with others and they are all so impressed (after 18 months of trying different things this finally stuck, and we were no longer sleep deprived!!). Even with illness, we are still able to get right back on track! I dont know why I waited so long to reach out!

This book changed our familys life and brought so much health and happiness into our home. I read all the sleep books. ALL OF THEM. And we chose this method (which has quite a few important differences from Ferber, including an altogether more nurturing tone and many more helpful details). I (mama) was TERRIFIED of what sleep training would do to our relationship, his secure attachment, his heart? my heart? Our marriage? I was absolutely convinced there was NO WAY I could hear him cry and not run in and pick him up. It felt so wrong not to soothe him immediately whenever he cried. Our 7 month old son has never slept more than 3 hours consecutively without feeding... he and I were cosleeping in a separate bed... I am a birth doula primarily for planned home births and I put a lot of pressure on myself to cosleep (as did the midwives, birth teachers, doulas, and other attachment parents I knew). We had a very traumatic birth ending in an emergency c section under anesthesia and I thought I would be furthering both our birth trauma by separating at night. By seven months, our son was nursing every 45 mins- 2 hours, napping 4 20-30 min naps a day, and not gaining weight on the curve as he had been. Every time he woke to nurse, it took 10-30 mins of rocking, shushing, and sucking in my arms for him to fall back asleep. I was an absolute zombie... I stopped driving because it didnt feel safe, and I wasnt able to socialize with other parents with kids the same age because I was so jealous, and I have never been a jealous person.I finally admitted to my husband that I couldnt survive this anymore. I had gone back to work part time, as had he, and I really felt like my health and safety were at risk if we continued on this path, but I just didnt know what to do. We tried having him do several bottles a night, etc. but still none of us were sleeping and our son was screaming for mama without me in bed with him. We tried soothing him without nursing, sitting with him while he cried, etc. so he wouldnt feel alone.This was 100 % the right program for our son. We prepared for two weeks, prepping a space for him to sleep just as the book described, writing a plan, and doing two consultations with Heather (worth every penny!). On our first night of training, I did our bedtime routine, laid him down, said our mantra, and walked out of the room, and then RAN out of the house to go for a walk while my husband did the five minute checks. I thought I absolutely couldnt hear him cry without interfering. After 15 minutes, he called me to tell me that our son was out cold! having cried intermittently but never as hard as he did when we were trying to soothe him before. He only woke 3 times the first night, twice the second and third, and once for the next few days (he slept for nine hours in a row and then fed then two hours after). He never cried for more than 20 minutes, and usually not at all or for a few minutes, and never half as hard as he had when he was in our arms. We used their method for almost all of our naps in the next week (he once dozed off on the couch and did a few naps in the pack on papa so I could sleep in) As Heather said, you will be amazed by how capable your little guy is. Indeed, we were absolutely blown away by how skillful he is at soothing himself. It honestly has been a real pleasure to go through Happy Sleepering him. Heather was available by email throughout the entire process and we tweaked the feedings and such with her help.I really appreciated reading a book about sleep written by MFTs, rather than pediatricians or nurses like Taking Cara Babies or some of the books about extinction methods. This book truly is science-based and lays out great detailed plans. Any doubt I had about whether this was right for our baby and our family was soothed by our consults with Heather. Heather and Julie really try to keep their practices open for consults themselves, as opposed to some of the other authors of similar programs who have lots of people working for them.READ THIS BOOK!

This is magic! I had used the Happy Sleeper philosoply when my daughter was a baby and it worked incredibly well. We were so hesitant to do any kind of sleep training for fear that it would be traumatizing for everyone involved. But this philosophy felt gentle and compassionate — and provided a super clear structure for nighttime sleep, naps, and even weaning. And after 9 months of sleepless nights, it was totally life-changing!My daughter recently turned 2 and her sleep turned upside down. I ended up sleeping on her floor for over a month and getting myself into a totally unsustainable situation. Barely hanging onto sanity, I called Julie Wright for a phone consult. Everything turned around in under a week! It felt like a miracle. And the process was respectful towards both mine and my daughter’s needs. It was trauma-free and worked like a charm. So grateful!

The happy sleeper is a life changing system for anyone with a baby who wont sleep on their own. My partner and I were falling apart when Julie Wright walked into our lives and saved the day. Her loving approach is aligned with attachment parenting and allows the baby to thrive. Im eternally grateful and this book is my favorite thing to gift to new mommies and daddies out there.

The Happy Sleeper worked miracles for us at bedtime. In three nights’ time our son went from needing us to sit in his rocking chair until he fell asleep (the alternative was screaming and endless tears and heartbreak for all of us) to falling asleep entirely on his own. For naps, though, we needed something different. Naps were tough, and something in our routine needed to be tweaked, adjusted, matched just-so to our son’s temperament and napping struggles. So I scheduled a phone consultation with Julie, who was tremendously wise and encouraging and hopeful. The 45-minute phone call was like discovering a Secret Chapter in the book — a chapter written just for my child, my family. It was exactly what we needed to find the just-right rhythms to help our son self-soothe at nap time.