Baby #3 didn't get the memo that he's a 3rd child and wants to be held ALL the time. Happy to get in some baby snuggles during the day, but not at 11pm, 1130pm, 12am and...you get the point. The week before heading back to work I started to worry about how I was going to function as a working mom and enlisted the help of Susie Parker. I've had good experiences with others in the "my baby needs to sleep" industry before but here's what I really liked about Susie: - She's very honest about what you're getting yourself into and doesn't promise any miracles. After chatting with her a few times I knew the sleep training process wasn't going to be easy. She will also not push you to do anything you're uncomfortable with whether it be getting rid of the paci, which my kid will likely still have when he goes away to college. Or cutting out necessary feedings. - she holds you accountable. In the week we worked together she checked in every night and morning on profess and made suggestions based on how he did. It was also nice to have a virtual cheerleader rooting for baby's (and my own!) sleep. Susie put together an extremely detailed plan of how to get baby to sleep. I didn't have to spend time thinking or asking my husband "do I go in there or let him cry? Maybe he's hungry." When I mentioned to a friend that I had a 10 page sleep training plan I was ready to tackle she responded: "let me guess- the plan says to let him cry??" Yep - pretty much, but the plan let me know how and when to let him cry....which at least made me feel better about all the crying. :) Not to mention thinking is hard when you're an exhausted hormonal new mom! Within a day of working with Susie baby was on a much more manageable plan. He's easier to get down at night and typically only up for 1 feeding (fingers crossed). The result is a happier baby, more patient mom (and I need lots of patience with 2 pre schoolers and a baby) and a more productive worker. When my week with Susie was up I received yet another detailed plan outlining what his future sleep needs will be for the next several months. I've already referred to it several times and have a feeling it will be one of the most frequently opened files on my laptop. And if we have any hiccups along the way I know Susie is just an email away! read more

Thank you Susie for the fabulous support you gave our family during the sleep training process. Sleep Baby Love helped our son form good habits around sleep and we are so grateful for Susie's help throughout this process. Susie patiently guides parents through the process, she takes into consideration family dynamics and each parent's thoughts /ambivalences about sleep training and works with parents in an individualized way to make sleep training successful. read more

Susie was a life-saver. Period. My husband and I were at our wits end with our 5 month old who WOULD NOT SLEEP more than 20-30 minutes at a time during the day and had no idea how to fall asleep on her own. I was still nursing multiple times a night and we were ALL exhausted. Within 24 hours we saw improvements that continued as the work continued with Susie. She was there to answer questions along the way and truly gave us the confidence we needed to start sleep training. We had no idea our daughter was so ready to be trained but with her guidance we were able to teach her the priceless skill of falling asleep and staying asleep on her own. Peace has been restored in our household now that we are all getting the sleep we so desperately needed. read more

If you're struggling to sleep because your baby won't, then you NEED to consult with Susie. My wife and I felt like we were losing our minds due to lack of sleep for such a long period of time. My daughter was so bad by 5 months that we didn't even bother putting her in the bassinet anymore. She just slept in our bed or on top of my wife nursing at will. Every morning felt like we were starting already behind because of how tired we were. Over the Christmas vacation we ran into some family that commented on how tired we looked and that's when they told us about Susie. We reached out for a consult and within a few days, Susie put a plan together based on OUR lives and not some cookie cutter plan. Within a few days of starting, our daughter was sleeping for 8+ hour stretches! We're about a month and a half since using her and our daughter Summer is in her crib for 10 - 12 hours with 1 wake up since my wife still likes to nurse her. Absolutely would recommend Susie and already have! read more

Susie's help with sleep was LITERALLY the best investment my wife and I have ever made. Our son was 1.5 years old and waking up every couple hours. He would not sleep unless he was held. We tried several sleep training methods on our own but nothing worked. We were exhauseted and despondent. Finally, with Susie's help, we were able to see through a plan that stuck. Susie was professional, responsive, detailed, and a huge support. She worked with us to make a custom plan for our situation. A couple years have passed and my son remains a strong sleeper. My wife and I then had twins and went to Susie right away when they turned 6 months. We instituted a sleep training plan that was highly effective and the twins remain great sleepers to this day! I cannot stress how much Susie's services have improved my quality of life! read more

This worked wonders for our almost 3 year old. We were already doing components of sleep training ourselves, but taking to Susie REALLY pulled everything together, and now our little "I DO NOT SLEEP" girl is our zonked-out-asleep-on-time girl. We have our lives back. Frankly, we don't know what to do with ourselves. I took a shower and then wandered around, picked up a book, wandered off. I washed a dish and blinked a lot. What do normal people do when their kid actually falls asleep? read more

My 11 month old twins were not napping well and waking up overnight. The sleep books didn't work for us. Susie was fantastic and the results were incredible - two babies napping well and sleeping through the night in the same room! Best money ever spent! read more

We highly recommend Susie as a sleep coach. We sleep trained our son so that he was able to fall asleep on his own at 4 months but at 8 months he was having disruptive night wakings and nap issues so we contacted Susie. She was able to work with us to get him sleeping through the night and napping solidly. I really appreciated how she collaborated with us and gave us different options about how to tackle our concerns. She has a non-judgmental approach which is such a relief since society seems to have strong opinions about sleep. I plan to reach out to her again for some help with some nap time hiccups. She is awesome! read more

Susie is an absolute miracle worker. We had inadvertently trained our son to fall asleep while being held (he had reflux as a baby so we needed to hold him upright for a while, and even after he grew out of the reflux, he'd gotten used to falling asleep in our arms). Before Susie came to our rescue, we were holding him to fall asleep and up with him for 30-60 at least once in the middle of the night, and then awake with him for the day at 5:30am. This went on for until he was 15 months old, at which point I was complaining about how tired I was to another mom, who told me that hiring Susie for her son had been the best decision she'd ever made. I immediately contacted Susie for a consultation and she got back to me quickly with potential times to meet. At our meeting, Susie listened patiently and empathetically as I unloaded to her about our experience and how exhausted I was. She took notes, and immediately said she had some thoughts (including a couple of ideas she said I could try out over the next few days while she drafted a custom sleep plan for us). I was amazed at how quickly she was able to get me a sleep plan for our son (the very next day). The plan was very intuitive and easy to follow, and the app she had me use to log his sleep so we could both track progress was super helpful. Within 3 days, our son was being put in his crib on his own - awake - falling asleep, sleeping through the night, consistently sleeping well at his nap time, and staying in his crib until at least 6:00am. Susie also continued to check in with me to make sure everything was going smoothly and to answer some questions I had about our particular situation. She is an incredible resource, a wealth of knowledge, and simply, a lifesaver. My only regret is that we didn't reach out to her sooner! read more

I turned to Susie at Sleep Baby Love when my son was 6 months old. I wasn't sure if I could benefit from a sleep consultant because my son slept great at night but would only take 20 min cat naps during the day! Susie is very knowledgeable and I felt very comfortable with the sleep plan that she helped create for my husband and me. The very first day we implemented the plan he started sleeping better and he was a great napper within the first week! My son is almost a year old now and he takes 2 [1.5-2 hour] naps a day and is such a happy baby. There has been times that my son had a sleep regression (like when he was teething) but Susie taught me the skills and gave me tools to help get him back on track. I would highly recommend Sleep Baby Love!! read more

If you are even looking at this right now then I know how you feel and it's tired, possibly hopeless, and wondering if there is such a thing as a "baby whisperer". I was there too and I regret not calling Susie even sooner then I did. She was able to come up with a plan and I was able to follow it - with lots of encouragement and support from her. While I can not say it was always easy... it was worth every minute to get my then baby to learn to soothe and sleep happily. Bedtimes turned back into something that we enjoy and a rested kid is amazing. Now a 2 year old my son is still awesome and I've even gone back to susie for her one-time sessions to help me make sure I continue with great sleep. She's got a web class as well that I find to be AWESOME! Call her. Don't wait. It was worth it for me and will be for you too. read more

Working with Susie has been a blessing for us and our 14months old who has not slept through the night since the day he was born...until now! Thanks to Susie! She has created a personalized plan for us, listened very carefully to our needs and assessed what will work best for our son and us in order to help him become a great sleeper he is today. We still cannot believe he sleeps through the night now! Not only did she set up the plan, she literally held our hand through the entire process, available at any time and checking in with us daily even if we did not seek her assistance offering words of encouragement, helpful tips or even just a simple "woohooo!" . We felt confident throughout the entire two weeks. Thank you Susie for giving our baby and us the gift of sleep! read more

Working with Susie has been wonderful! I'd recommend her to anyone looking for support with getting their little one to sleep so you can get some sleep too! Susie is a great communicator, has a sense of humor, and is realistic. My lo is on the sensitive side and doesn't easily fall into a predictable sleep schedule but Susie has given me the tools to get through each day so that there can be some sort of predictability. And the truth of the matter is... baby sleep is ALWAYS changing. Susie empowered me to solve my child's own sleep struggles with each changing week, which as a first time mom is priceless. Thanks so much Susie and if you are questioning if you should call Susie... CALL HER! Go... do it! read more

This review is long overdue, but thanks to Susie, our daughter started napping during the day in her crib (instead of someone's arms) and the nights became bearable (1-2 wakings instead of 5+). I liked working with Susie because she was realistic and transparent - she was up front about how sleep training doesn't work for everyone, but seemed to have the experience and commitment to help us, and she definitely did. She was encouraging and enthusiastic throughout, helped us figure out a nap schedule and bed time routine and coached us through exactly what to do at night. We started at about 6.5 months and within a month or 2, our daughter was doing what Susie said she would - getting sleepy "on schedule" and falling asleep without crying (!) Even when we took a week long trip to a different timezone, she stuck to her sleep schedule. For all the parents out there who are hesitant about sleep training and cry it out, I will tell you: so were we. But when we realized that our daughter cried even when sleeping with us, we were willing to give it a shot and I am so glad we did. Figuring out her sleep and nap schedule made a huge difference in our lives. Thanks, again, Susie! read more

Working with Susie has been wonderful. We have used her several times over the last 3 years with our 3 children - 5 and under. She really understands sleep schedules based on age and helped guide us through big and small changes to get our guys back on track. When the 18m old was falling asleep really late at bedtime she advised how to adjust the afternoon nap to fix that. When my, now, 1 yr old was being rocked to sleep and basically napped whenever she wanted, Susie gave us a step by step approach to get her on a schedule and how to get her to fall asleep on her own in her crib. As the mom of 2 young children herself, I feel like Susie is "in the trenches" with us and how hard it is to break bad habits. With her guidance and support she makes getting your kids to be good sleepers easier! read more

Our son never slept through the night and at 6 months, things got even worse with up all night crying in our arms. We signed up for the 2 week consult with Susie desperate for anything better. She created a detailed sleep plan for us based on our needs and how we wanted to approach sleep training. We were afraid to start but she was our cheerleader to move forward. Expecting the worst for the first night of the new bedtime routine and check-ins, our son actually cried less then he had in a few weeks! After 5 nights he slept from 7:45 PM until 6 AM with no intervention from us. It was amazing. His 3 daytime naps are longer and better structured, he's eating a full meal immediately upon waking up instead of all day grazing, and he's no longer fussy all day long. All in all, we have a completely different baby that actually sleeps, never cries when we put him into his crib, and falls asleep on his own. Glad we used Susie - we feel like a new, well-rested family! read more

Susie is a gem! After dropping the pacifier AND transitioning to a big girl bed, our daughter who was once the best sleeper changed seemingly overnight and her sleep (and all of ours!) suffered. Susie's advice about first steps was not overwhelming to us, parents, and yet very practical so we felt like we were moving in the right direction. She is so knowledgeable, so empathic, and really set us up for better success. She never blamed us for any of the mis-steps, but rather, got us back on track. We're grateful for Susie and her many helpful hints. PS I LOVE the story template she sells on her website--We modified it for our daughter (it only took about 5 minutes to modify) and looks like we spent hours creating a personalized story for her to make bedtime better. Needless to say, our daughter loved it and Susie made it easy! Susie is so clearly passionate about what she does and I can't recommend her enough to anyone out there who wonders if they can ever get a full night's sleep again! read more