Little Ones™

For our first kid we tried multiple sleep training apps before finding Little Ones. The schedule made sense (we didn’t closely follow the feeding schedule but stuck to the sleeping recommendations) and the guides on gentle sleep training methods based on our comfort level worked when nothing else would! Their guide to taking away the pacifier when the time was right was a life saver for me! I shared this app with many friends and for my 2nd child started from day 1 newborn. Her sleep schedule is predictable, we get to go out with big brother and it’s been such a contrast to the early struggles I remember. The community is helpful on every topic. Only tip to watch out for is that the consulting assumes strictly following schedule. If you are not then the broad tips still help but talking to the consultants doesn’t result in direct help. Highly recommend to know what to do for sleep for your Little One!

I found this program one sleepless night with my 4 month old. I would spend my nights searching for help for my baby who didn’t sleep. The only way I could get him asleep was to rock him asleep, then hold him for 30-60 minutes until I could put him down. Otherwise , he woke right up when I put him down. That was for every nap, and multiple times per night. Two family members told me about Healthy Sleep, Happy Baby, and how their husbands had to stop them from going into their baby’s room when the baby was crying inconsolably. My aunt even gave me the book. First of all, as a sleep deprived mom, I did not have the time or mental energy to read such a large book. Secondly, we refused to let our baby cry like that. So finding this program was just what I needed. The app makes it so easy to know when to feed your baby and when he needs sleep. I was able to get started immediately, I didn’t have to read extensively before implementing it, which is what you need when you are desperate for sleep. I started out just trying to get my baby on the sleep schedule. After a few weeks of that, one night my baby woke up every two hours and I said it was time to try self settling. When the program said that the goal was to put your baby down wide awake, and letting him put himself asleep, I thought that was a wild fantasy! And now, several weeks later, my baby usually will put himself to sleep. I am amazed! I loved the gentle approach to sleep training. I didn’t feel like I was punishing or neglecting my baby. It definitely took persistence, and my baby still isn’t perfectly in sync with the program, but I now have a schedule for the day, and we are all getting more sleep and are all happier. I can’t thank you enough for this program! I would recommend it to anyone! I only wish I knew about it sooner!

Buying this program was the biggest mistake that I made in my baby’s first year. My baby had a very difficult time syncing with their schedule, and it often turned me into a stressed out mama trying to force sleep on her baby when it was the last thing in the world she wanted. We both ended up in tears several times. In addition I personally found their expert feedback to be somewhat lazy. If you’re having an issue and you’re not on their schedule to the T, they deem your baby as overtired. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told that my baby is overtired- how is a baby that gets 10 more minutes of daytime sleep than they recommend overtired? I feel that they’re belief that the schedule is the be all end all prevents their sleep consultants from thinking more critically about what is causing issues- if your baby is not perfectly on the schedule then they assume that’s the problem, and they don’t go much deeper than that. I also was completely unprepared for the 4 month regression when it hit. Had I known you can begin teaching a baby to sleep independently before that, then I could have avoided a lot of that pain. I found the courses and sleep consultants from Taking Cara Babies much more helpful.