Amy was sleeping with her parents and they were getting very broken sleep. It was putting a strain on the family and her parents had no time together in the evenings.

Amy’s mum felt, “she was probably being disturbed by us”. In addition Amy’s parents had to cuddle her to sleep every night……..which took 60 – 90 minutes.

Amy’s mum sent a recent update of family life after completing their sleep programme for Amy: “Now we put her to bed and walk away and she settles to sleep by herself with no trouble. She sleeps through the night and stays in her bed until we get her in the morning- AMAZING!”

Our 1 year old son Connor was really struggling with his sleep and so were we!
He would wake every hour and take three hours to get back down at his worst point.
Well, we persevered and stuck to the dot of the advice and guidance given to us by Mandy at Millpond Sleep Clinic… With huge breakthrough!  Our son now LOVES his bed! I just have to say to him ‘come on, it’s time for teeth’. He stops what he’s doing and goes to the bathroom, and is there ready on his step stool. We do teeth and then get him ready for bed. He then reaches for his bed and gets all wriggly if I ask
for a cuddle instead! Once in bed, thumb goes in mouth and that’s the last I hear from him until morning!

At weekends, he will happily stay in bed; he may wake up and have a quiet play with some cot toys, and then usually drops off again. Some days if our twins are also tired, we are a bit naughty and don’t get up until 10 or 10:30am!  So you can see my case is living proof, despite initial thoughts, you can get your lay ins back after children!

He still has a daytime nap. He is 19 months now and usually goes down around 11:30am and I get him up around 2pm, although often he is wide awake playing quietly.

He is so adaptable with his sleep now. On a swimming day as an example, I get him up around 8am to take the children to school, then get back and put him down at 9:45am so he’s not tired and grizzly in the pool. I tell him it’s time for sleep, thumb goes in mouth as a sign of acceptance and he goes straight off without a fuss.

At weekends, the twins can be quite noisy yet he knows it’s his sleep time and he accepts it, meaning they can carry on playing without us shhhhhh’ing them all the time.

So, in short, thank you soooo much for your help and support. Even the hardest of cases can be remarkably turned around. If you would like to use me as a reference, please do so. I have also recommended you to some of my
friends, so best of luck with your good work in the future!

Ashley was 15 months old when we contacted Millpond, and his brother Evan was 3 and a half.
Since he was a year old Evan has slept well, but his brother Ashley has always woken in the night for feeds.
In recent times night times had become horrific.  I’d go to bed with a sinking feeling of anxiety:  worrying about what time would he wake up, how many hours would he be awake for and would I be able to stop myself from being cross with him.
He would wake screaming for a bottle and then after his bottle he would be awake for a further 2, 3 or 4 hours.  He’d be chatting and yelling, on and on and on.  Nothing we did made him go to sleep.

We were in a very low place – grumpy with him and with each other.  All the joy was being sucked out of our lives and I couldn’t see how we were ever going to get it back.

Speaking to Evelyn reassured me and gave me hope.  She was so supportive and understanding, and explained to us what was probably happening.  We had a couple of tough nights with him as he got used to the new order of things but we saw an improvement almost immediately.

He still wakes from time to time but the 2, 3, 4 hour stretches of awake time are thankfully a thing of the past and he does sleep through more and more.

Thank you Evelyn and Millpond – you’ve saved our lives!