Have questions about your baby’s sleep?

There are 3 opportunities this month for getting support:

Not ready for one-on-one work?

Explore online workshops and resources:

You wonder if you’re doing it all wrong…

…even when you know that gentle parenting feels right.

My holistic approach looks at your perspectives on sleep and infant development, as well as on the biology and attachment of sleep and development. I explore how to create an environment that supports babies, and your overall wellness. This means:

• Understanding what impacts development

• Implementing small changes, not drastic ones

• Trusting your baby to develop new abilities over time

• Eliminating barriers that can make sleep and infant development more difficult

• Optimizing sleep (your baby’s and your own!) through routines and environment

• Exploring family factors that can make parenting through the sleep (and other!) challenges easier

By understanding why your baby does what they do (including waking up in the night!), you can support their needs with confidence and make decisions that feel good.

What does thriving look like?

~ A shift from making sleep or other skills happen towards creating conditions that invite development ~

~ Focusing on manageable changes to meet everyone’s needs ~

~ Parenting with less effort and more joy ~

~ Feeling confident about your parenting, even if you’re tired ~

~ Having an approach to parenting that makes problem-solving easier ~

~ Having the right information and support to feel informed and confident ~

What does working with me look like?

Consultations are offered online through secure video conferencing or by phone.

Support between sessions is provided via confidential online messaging.

Strategies are holistic and extend beyond the current challenges to other areas of infant development, environment, and family well-being.

My fees may be covered by your extended health benefits.

Learn more about working with me here. Browse my packages here.

Sleep challenges may be what brought you here,

But it’s only part of your story…

Many families struggle with supporting their baby’s sleep in the first three years. But it’s not just about sleep. A sleep challenge can be be both a developmental process that takes time, and a sign that other areas require support. When we work together, it’s rarely just about sleep: we may also talk about:

• Understanding infant development

• Developing strategies for supporting you and your baby

• Setting up healthy indoor spaces, routines, and activities

• Working towards parent self-regulation and wellness

• Exploring everyone’s sleep, including your own and your partner’s.

• Ruling out contributing factors that get in the way of sleep, wellness, and family function

• Discovering ways to support infant and child development with simplicity and evidence-based knowledge

• Discussing the wellness of your family overall

• Daytime rhythms and routines that support family function and child development

• Potty training, mealtimes, discipline, and other aspects of parenting and child development

  My approach encompasses all of these factors because it is rarely just about sleep.

This is why I offer courses, workshops, and consultations on infant development, parenting, healthy homes, and environmental health. It is also why I work collaboratively and refer to other supports when appropriate including play therapists, parent coaches, naturopaths, osteopaths, chiropractors, psychologists/therapists, and indoor environmental professionals, and building biologists.

I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences and symposiums, and provide education to health care providers and sleep consultants about addressing sleep issues, attachment-based parenting, and environmental health and wellness.

Why does it feel so difficult? 

Babies haven’t changed much. But the world around them has.

Challenges with infant sleep, and questions about infant development require a holistic, evidence-based, and compassionate approach that acknowledges a family’s strengths, and a child’s uniqueness. It also requires a biological-, and attachment-based approach that does not force change, but rather encourages small shifts in the parenting and the physical environment that create long-lasting, positive changes in child and family development.

I provide assessment, education, and recommendations for supporting sleep and infant development. 

I work with families to identify strengths, needs, and options to create environments that are nurturing and healthy for the whole family.

I listen.

I value your knowledge, intuition, and vision for your family, your children, and yourself. 

A little help on your parenting journey can make it feel a lot less difficult.

905-749-8254 Heather@HeatherBoyd.ca Ontario, Canada