Thank you SO MUCH for solving our getting Carla to sleep problems!!! It’s really completely changed our lives! Carla sleeps so much better now! I can’t imagine how we’d get by if we had been left to our own devises – she’s getting heavier. I think most importantly, she enjoys her time in the crib, having her own space, and can get herself to sleep as well as back to sleep. It’s amazing how much she’s changing. It’s also great that we don’t worry about the sleeping part any more – it really frees us up to deal with the changes and enjoy her development!
Thank you so much! M and C of San Jose
We hired Dawn because our three month old daughter was waking up every 45 minutes throughout the night and not napping well. Right away, Dawn helped us realize that our daughter had silent reflux (the same symptoms as reflux except the baby doesn’t spit up, swallowing the acid instead). After helping our daughter with the reflux, we were able to use Dawn’s sleep techniques and our daughter’s sleep habits improved. Dawn’s technique works for naps, bedtime and while traveling. Our daughter is over a year now and sleeps 13 hour nights and naps a couple hours a day, and we can count on the routine Dawn helped us set up to always get our child to sleep.
It was a pleasure to work with Dawn as she helped us teach our 9-month old daughter to nap longer than 30 minutes. After attending one of Dawn’s sleep seminars, we hired Dawn to come to our house to show us how to teach our daughter to nap longer. She helped us adjust our daughter’s room set up and her nap routine and taught us what to do when our daughter woke up too early crying.
Dawn is very knowledgeable and experienced. She responded right away to all of my phone calls and emails when I had questions throughout the process. My daughter is now 2 years old and has been napping well ever since Dawn came to help us.
We wish we had hired Dawn sooner and had not made the sleep teaching mistakes that we did. We’re having our second baby in a few months and plan to hire Dawn from the beginning so we know what to do from the start.
– A & S
I have so much to say and I hope this is ok. There are not enough words to express my true thanks for all your help and support. I really owe my sanity to you! Sincerely, Renee
When I first called Dawn Fry I was in the most frustrating sleeping situation with my 14 month old son. He was still waking up every 2 hours and to make it even more challenging he couldn’t sleep unless he was on top of me. Each day I would get up and I couldn’t remember sleeping. Then for his nap I would have to rock him in the carrier and lay next to him for the entire duration of the nap. Otherwise he would only sleep for 30 minutes!!! The reason why I waited so long to do any sleep work with my baby was because the only sleep methods I knew about was “cry it out.” It didn’t feel right to me to put my baby in a crib, in a room, walk out, and let him scream himself to sleep. People told me, including my doctor, if they throw up just leave them. They have to learn you are not coming back. What a horrible thing to teach your kid!!!! Luckily I found Dawn!!! Her gentle approach to parenting really helped me through this process. She did more than help my baby go to sleep. She helped me grow as a mother. Th e first thing my son and I had to overcome was me getting over him crying and my son learning to trust me that he’s ok in the crib and I will come back. Dawn helped me to understand that crying is not bad. It’s how you respond to the crying that can make it bad. She would ask me “how would you feel if you were crying and I turned my back on you? or began stressing to stop you?” This really made sense to me. Trust and respect to the needs of my baby have led to so much more healthy independence. He goes to sleep on his own now and he doesn’t wake up crying. He is 16 months now and he is asking to go “night night” when he gets tired. I’m actually getting a full nights sleep too! Sometimes I have to pinch myself because I still can’t believe the once clingy baby is now peacefully asleep in his own bed.
Hi Dawn.
We wanted to give you an update on how things were going now that we’ve been implementing your techniques for a week. That nap that we put Ines down for as our first time with your coaching, she slept for 4 hours! Since then, she has been napping pretty well and is only waking up once at night. There have been a couple of nights where she woke up twice but it hardly compares to the 5+ times she was getting up before. In addition, she falls back asleep without any need for us in the room. So far so good.By the way, practicing in the pack-n-play was a great idea because she had a pretty good night of sleep and so far her morning nap went 2 hours!
Thanks for all your help. Susan
Hi Dawn,
Ines turned one this month and I’ve been sending thank you cards to everyone who helped us make it through this first year. I have to say that your help with teaching her to sleep has really had the biggest impact on our lives. I’m going to use your techniques for a long time to come and I’m so grateful to you. Your guidance really empowered us as parents. Here’s a picture of her in all her 1 year glory. Hugs, Susan
Hi Dawn, Things have been going incredibly well with William. The night before last he slept 10 1/2 hours STRAIGHT and yesterday he had his very first 1 1/2 hour nap in his bassinet, with no assistance from me whatsoever. Amazing!!! Last night was also great; he woke up at 3am but went right to sleep after I touched his head and handed him his blanket, and it was another 10 hour night. Ash and I are blown away at how quickly we’re seeing such dramatic results.
OMG your system is amazing!!! The boys are doing great!! Little wake ups here and there but for the most part fantastic!!!!!
You should patent this and license it.
Truly fantastic and better than any and i mean ANY of the 10+ books I have read.
Words cannot express our gratitude.
Much love!!
G
Dawn is a life-saver! As first time parents, we struggled to hear our baby girl cry when putting her down for a nap or at night time. I quickly learned I could feed her to sleep and avoid some of the crying. The only challenge is that I would have to lay her in her crib oh so carefully or she’d wake and we would have to start over again—feeding, rocking, and laying her in her crib. The other major challenge is that she would wake 4 or 5 times during the night. After 10 months, we were exhausted. We tried the cry-it-out method and painfully listened to our daughter cry two or three hours every night for weeks and realized we had to find another method. This is when we learned about Dawn and her sleep training method.
For our daughter, Dawn’s method made the most sense because it taught her how to go to sleep on her own versus crying and falling asleep from exhaustion. A unique aspect of Dawn’s approach that I have not read about in any sleep book is that the parents’ attitude influences the baby’s ability to go to sleep. By having the freedom to check on Madeline, I had confidence she was safe. My confidence in Madeline’s well being and ability to go to sleep reassured her.
Another element of Dawn’s method, giving loving touches, allowed us to pat Madeline’s back or offer her a blanket and comfort her without taking her out of her crib. Now when she wakes during the night, she hugs a doll or rolls over on her bunny and feels a “loving touch” and is able to go back to sleep on her own. This is true if she has a cold or is teething!
The greatest test of the sleep method was our one-week cruise. We created a similar environment at home by turning on her noise machine, darkened the room, and followed the same sleep routine. Madeline took both of her naps daily and slept each night without waking except one stormy night. We were amazed!
We are so grateful to Dawn! By teaching our daughter how to go to sleep, Dawn’s method has allowed us to get the rest we need to enjoy our family.
Hi Dawn!!!!!!
Well I’m very happy to report that I did your sleep training with my 3 month old baby and it took 2 days and she is now sleep trained! I wish I had hired you when Rowan was younger!!! You are amazing and I fully promote your services!!!!
As I put my (nearly) 5 year old son Skyler to bed each night he reaches for his silky and drapes it across his forehead and immediately settles down as I begin to read him a bedtime story. That is just one of the many residual benefits we still experience 4 years after hiring Dawn Fry to teach our son self-soothing sleep techniques.
I recall during our private consultation session with Dawn, how amazed we were that Skyler took to the self-soothing sleep formula and techniques so quickly and easily, with very little to no fussing and/or crying. The self-soothing methods made comfortable and natural sense to us as parents, which prevented us from having any resistance or concern whatsoever with what Dawn was introducing to us.
The value of Dawn’s time and teaching was invaluable to us. Since Skyler responded to the formula so easily he was napping away within the first 30 minutes of our session with Dawn, which allowed for Dawn to provide her knowledgeable and experienced insight as to ways in which we could improve the safety in our home for Skyler, give feedback on his eating habits, development tips, and much more.
The initial results from Dawn’s self-soothing sleep formula were immediate and remain in tact today – as Skyler is a happy, well-rested, confident, self-controlled and vibrant child full of energy and life. He gives of zero resistance at bedtime and typically tells me that he’s tired and ready to go to bed even before his scheduled bedtime. As an additional bonus, we’ve also enjoyed and benefited from the DawnTalk Friendly Communication Skills CD that was included in our private consultation session. I still sing Dawn’s praises today, have recommended her to other parents, and without a shadow of a doubt investing in Dawn’s self-soothing sleep formula was the best thing we could do for our son and we are forever grateful to Dawn Fry.
~ Debbie H.
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