Achieving Independent Sleep for Children and Overcoming Postpartum Sleep Deprivation

I was experiencing a lot of sleep deprivation and I didn't know what to do honestly to get my baby to sleep, to, like, get myself sleep. And so I struggled through that. And then when I had my second child, it was unsustainable, it wasn't working. Nobody was getting good sleep, we were really, really struggling and I found The Sleep Lady. I realized that there was actually such a thing as like sleep training and sleep coaching, and I utilized it. and I was able to get my children sleeping independently through the night and getting myself good sleep and I was like, this is amazing, and this is essential and I want to do this. I'm Megan Hast. I am a licensed clinical social worker and a Gentle Sleep Coach. I work in perinatal mental health, so I support moms and families going through pregnancy postpartum and a big part of that is sleep. I also support families with newborn sleep, with toddler sleep, baby sleep. I really like to work with newborns. I really like doing that newborn kind of sleep shaping, building routines and schedules. It's really helpful especially working with new postpartum moms. I also really enjoy the older kids. who Maybe they have just moved out of a crib or they're getting ready to move out of a crib or they've got a lot of big feelings. So I like to work with those as well. Clients can expect to kind of talk about their issue, the struggle that they're having and then the goal that they have in order to kind of overcome that struggle. Then we would just kind of dig into all the different factors that are playing into that struggle that they are experiencing and we would problem solve. Try to, like, come up with ideas and strategies to manage that struggle and to get them to a better place with their kids sleeping, them sleeping, everybody sleeping. I never really thought much about sleep, I never really had issues with sleeping. And then when I became a mom, myself. When I was in my postpartum period with my first child, I actually had a lot of struggles with breastfeeding, I had a lot of struggles with anxiety, what I now realize is postpartum anxiety. I had a lot of my own mental health struggles. As a therapist, as a clinician I have to find a way to incorporate this to be able to support families to sleep. I had a client who reached out to me, actually from her therapist. And her daughter had been struggling with sleep and they were doing all these things, trying to be consistent and manage schedule and have routines. But they essentially had a lot of sleep associations. They had to put her down, asleep, she would wake up and when she would wake up she would cry so much that she would make herself throw up. They were at their end. They weren't sleeping, nobody was sleeping. And this client had a lot of anxiety around that was like I don't think this is going to work. I don't think we're going to be able to do this but I'm going to try it, tried all kinds of things. So we met, we talked about the struggles, we created a plan and I walked her and her husband through that plan. I look forward to working with you. Please schedule your consultation below.