I help exhausted, overwhelmed parents make sleep easier without sleep training.
As a tired parent, you may be feeling overwhelmed by information and conflicting advice about how to help your baby sleep. As an occupational therapist who specializes in sleep, I provide evidence-based support and strategies to help families sleep better without sleep training.
If you’re struggling with your baby’s sleep, book your 30-minute sleep screening call today.
Do you have questions about your baby’s sleep?
You can support your baby’s SLEEP without sleep training — let us help!
Sleep Screening Assessment
Talk with Heather about your baby’s sleep challenges, strategies, and solutions. Let’s explore your baby’s sleep and the solutions and strategies that can make it easier.
The Baby & Toddler Sleep Course
Created to support children ages newborn through 3 years old, The Baby & Toddler Sleep Course teaches you:
baby & toddler sleep development
the milestones
the strategies to help you navigate sleep for your baby without sleep training
The Confident & Connected Baby Sleep Program
Join our community of parents and get access to weekly coaching calls, online resources, discounted 1:1 coaching, and so much more!
Want to join my email list to stay updated on events, discounts, and more?
My weekly emails validate you, support you, and shift your perspective on parenting and sleep.
Signing up for my emails gets you:
🦋 A weekend check-in email to support your responsive parenting towards sleep
🦋 Lullaby Lundi: a bi-weekly curated playlist to explore the role that songs, connection, and routines play in supporting your baby’s sleep. It will grow one song at a time…
🦋 Additional bursts of emails when there is a course or event coming up.
You wonder if you’re doing it all wrong, even when you know that gentle parenting feels right.
Hi, I’m Heather Boyd - occupational therapist, mom of 3, & sleep expert!
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.
Would you like to work with Heather 1-on-1?
Learn more about our packages and what they offer!
Interested in our in-person Infant or Toddler Development Circle in Niagara, Ontario?
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.
Why is working with me so different?
I listen.
I work with families to identify strengths, needs, and options to create environments that are nurturing and healthy for the whole family.
I provide assessment, education, and recommendations for supporting sleep and infant development.
A little help on your parenting journey can make it feel a lot less difficult.
I value your knowledge, intuition, and vision for your family, your children, and yourself.
