Sleep Again, Rockhampton (2026)

31/03/2026

It is the ebb & flow of their day 🍃

Sleep is possibly the only thing they will remember subconsciously as their earliest memory:
where they slept, when it happened, how it made them feel, how it was spoken of..

Sleep is the cornerstone of the multilayered sustenance their bodies need and deserve to build and grow.

As adults, we know how important sleep is. To feel our best, we ALL somewhat follow a sleep routine:
7-9 hours in a dark, cool room, at consistent times, every single 24hr period.

There’s no debate-good sleep is crucial for our mental and physical health. We know this.

So why wouldn’t we give the same care to our babies and children?

Their tiny bodies and growing brains need it even more.

Why would their basic human needs differ to ours?

Worried about crying? That’s normal. When our little ones are learning to settle (in a way they have never before) and link their sleep cycles, crying is usually communicating frustration as they adjust to positive change.

Today, we have the knowledge and tools to help our children sleep well. Ignoring sleep problems isn’t helpful—but taking action can make a huge difference for their growth, development, and your family’s life.

Get in touch for tailored sleep support & never look back ❤️

29/03/2026

Welcome to the Nap Time Chronicles.
Each week, I will post my top nap tips 💤

Naps are the part of the natural ebb and flow of the day.
They are tricky in the early weeks and months at times, but as we see sleep hormones mature, they are MAGIC!

They are respite from the natural demands of the mother-baby dyad 🍃

They aren’t out of reach- we line up elements to support our babies’ and toddlers’ sleep to achieve them.

⭐️Top tip? If your child is getting too much day sleep or naps are short and not restorative- this will impact night sleep… and so the sleep problem cycles ensue!

Get support now ✨ book directly at https://sleepagain.as.me/schedule/60f1ed55

I can’t wait to create a roadmap to the naps of your dreams 🌙

20/03/2026

A newborn mummy recently showed me an app on her phone, after anxiously trying to remember how many minutes her baby had just fed on one side while she expressed with a handheld pump on the other…

I was like,
‘delete that H*********y bs.’

Because she was timing feeding in minutes, clocking every nappy, timing sleep… but was it sleep? It was noisy? Wait the eyes were open for ten seconds?

And of course, she was tying herself in knots!

I however was witnessing the most peaceful, gorgeous, alert little baby. She had a history of jaundice and my first advice was: we don’t even want to see her sleeping non-stop! That would mean she is exhausted.

The fact she is alert and content is everything!

We rely on apps, with our minds and eyes on our phones, stealing from the true and raw moments of the early weeks of our baby’s life.

But really, we don’t need to know anything much about sleep. We lean in during this period, trusting in our ability and intuition to meet our baby’s needs- because no one knows them like we do.

Support sleep by:

⭐️ Mimicking the mammalian comforts with a firm swaddle and white noise

⭐️ After an hour or so, offer a nap by feeding or swaddling in a sleep-conducive place (little stimulation, not too hot, preferably dim or dark but this doesn’t really matter in the early weeks!)

⭐️ Expect late bedtimes up to around the 7/8th week of life when sleep hormones really begin to come into play and a routine set around 6-7pm can aid with an earlier settle

⭐️ Expect noisy sleep from your newborn. Their immature sleep cycles are almost totally comprised of active ‘noisy’ sleep

⭐️ Remedy day/night confusion by beginning the day at the same time (e.g. 7am) every day and taking your little one into direct morning sunlight briefly to set the internal body clock! Do the same in the late afternoon

⭐️Encourage full feeds and more overnight sleep hours by gently waking your newborn if they have slept for 2.5-3hrs for a day nap

⭐️ Sleep by the hour recommendations are broad assumptions to use as a guide- every baby will sleep more or less!

Need support after the first few weeks?
I love this. Get in touch!
www.sleepagain.com.au

13/03/2026

I must admit, this was a challenging case but one I hold close to my heart.

👀Let me set the scene:
Co-sleeping 11 month old baby in the parent bed. Breastfeeding all night long.

One seriously distraught mummy who was feeling so anxious physically and mentally and was convinced sleep training could damage her attachment to her baby and be harmful due to the big, awful changes.

💔 But what are you to do when you are at your lowest point?

Every element of your life is suffering, and at the end of the day you are simply an organism requiring food, water, safety & SLEEP to literally survive?

I could hear the pain in this mum’s voice and it was hard to witness someone so sleep deprived whilst also grappling with the reality that sleep training was the only track out (the concept of which had never even been explained to her-she thought cry it out was the only way..)
💔

So, I felt I was just last resort.
Perhaps the Devil’s advocate for sleep training 🥹
BUT I DGAF BC I BELIEVE IN THIS THAT MUCH!!

So off to work we went-
✔️Sleep education
✔️Sleep environment (but no air con- dw we can work with this 😘)
✔️ Age-appropriate routine for good & naps (involving many naps at grandma’s house too)
✔️ Overnight plan for gradual reduction in feeds from one million to night weaned
✔️Settling method

Eeeek. Settling method was the sticking point.
The crying 😭.
Education around stress levels and communicative crying was explained and mum opted for a gentler, cot-side approach which I fully endorsed!

But…
Over three nights it got so much worse!
Cot-side proved too overstimulating for this gorgeous boy.

So that was it, we really hit the ground running with an out of room method with support intervals in the room and we rapidly turned the corner!

Mum even felt so confident and excited she even took on nap training right away 🥰

We now have a happily sleeping family and (almost) toddler who self settles, who is calm and thriving 🍃

I will never judge your situation nor circumstances that led to it.
I will only support you in achieving the best sleep outcomes and reaching your sleep goals ❤️

It was an absolute honour, Orlagh! 🥰❤️😘

10/03/2026

The ‘anti’ community’s misunderstanding is always ringing in my ears.

‘Battling’through sleep problems completely disregards respecting your child’s need for sleep to grow and thrive.

09/03/2026

DID YOU KNOW there is a natural biological sleep window between 12-2pm? 🍃

This is the most important nap of the day as your child can achieve deep non-REM sleep and all the beautiful benefits for growth and restoration that it brings.

Focusing on protein in solids intake is key for lunch as although we do focus on wake windows and routines, nutrition also plays a role in healthy sleep.

Protein-rich foods contain an amino acid called tryptophan, which the body uses to produce serotonin and melatonin — key chemicals involved in regulating sleep.

Protein can also help stabilise blood sugar levels overnight, which may support longer stretches of sleep and reduce early waking caused by hunger.

In Australia, recommended protein intake is roughly:
• 7–12 months: ~14g/day
• 1–3 years: ~14g/day
• 4–8 years: ~20g/day

Including a source of protein at dinner can help support your child’s overnight needs while their body does important growth and repair during sleep.

🥦If your baby has just started solids, aim for a vegetable based dinner for easy digestion!

Some great protein options for babies and children include:
🥚 eggs
🐟 fish
🍗 chicken
🥣 yoghurt
🫘 beans and lentils
🧀 cheese
🥜 nut butters (age-appropriate)

Sleep isn’t just about routines — it’s also about supporting the biology behind sleep.

# InfantSleep

08/03/2026

‼️On Friday afternoon I had four consultations with four tired mums.

Over the weekend, four messages from these four mums trickled through and set my heart ablaze! ❤️‍🔥

And reminded me that I am not screaming my conviction into the abyss of the internet🧐

‼️Client One: Co-sleeping 2yo in the family bed

Local Queen Jess of finally saw her co-sleeping little girl sleep all night in her own cot after a long and exhausting history of co-sleeping and dependence on mum and dad’s input to help her to sleep and back to sleep
❤️

‼️Client Two: 15 week old baby combatting the “ 4 month regression “

We started a fortnight ago and began oh-so gently with hands-on settling to transition this babe from solely contact napping and waking during the night frequently (it just got more and more frequent as she exited the newborn stage… isn’t that the way?) to then moving to a hands-off method with short interval check-ins.
She independently fell asleep as mum stayed confident and calm and knew that this was the final step as her baby had obviously outgrown the hands-on settling that had initially worked so well!
Natural progression.
Moving up the self-settling hierarchy.
Goodbye hour long settles and lost time at bedtime with her other young child.

‼️Client Three: 16mo assisted to sleep every nap and bedtime

Need I say more?

‼️Client Four: 11mo co-sleeping baby in the parent bed

This was the ✨disaster✨ case I told you all about in my stories. Cot-side was too stimulating and after three nights we moved to Spaced Soothing.
The effects were so incredible that mum was like “I’m gonna do naps” even though I recommended “chill with the naps this week and let’s focus on nights!” But mum is so empowered that she is rolling with the momentum.

These moments are what solidifies my resolve to support families for what I hope will be the rest of my days ✨

I will never take for granted the trust you place and INVESTMENT you make into Sleep Again.

What are you waiting for? LFG x

Book at www.sleepagain.com.au

05/03/2026

The Sleep Again Puzzle 🧩🧩

The concept of sleep training is drenched in negativity simply due to its historically cry-based approach.

However, knowledge and understanding of parenting practices, mental and physical wellbeing of humans and the scientific literature around sleep and sleep behaviours in children have come a LONG way 🔬

Ultimately to ensure a family is able to thrive (in every sense of the word), good sleep should be non-negotiable.

In fact, it shouldn’t even be up for discussion!

So, I present to you the Sleep Again Puzzle to simply show you how we address the multi-faceted concept of a child’s best sleep.

Because although those battling co-sleeping (but claim to love it 🧐🥲) think sleep training is barbaric- it’s actually the kindest and most loving thing you can do for your child.

And you, the parent, simply stand at the shore of all the wonderful things it brings in with the tide.

Let’s line up the puzzle pieces for your little one and do sleep training right 🐚

The first and only time.

Will there be crying? Yes, most likely!

Will it be because your child thinks they are abandoned?
Are starving from being deprived of feeds? Are cold or hot,
Overtired or undertired and going out of their mind with impulses to get out of their cot or bed? Screaming and thrashing?

Absolutely not.

Sleep is a puzzle remember? It’s not going to be perfect until we have lined up and connected all of the pieces 🧩

And sometimes you just need a roadmap out of all the anti-sleep training nonsense and a simple and firm path to how you will finally create healthy sleep for your family!

Get in touch today. I can’t wait to support you to achieve the magic of Sleep 🥰 (Again) x

www.sleepagain.com.au

24/02/2026

✨ The words that anyone who has undergone sleep coaching for their child can understand from one of the women and spectacular sleep specialists who changed the way we understand baby sleep — Dr. Jodie Mindell.

🤓I am a stickler for the evidence- so if we need reliability, we turn to those who have studied paediatric sleep and the sleep habits of thousands of babies and children.

A globally respected pediatric sleep expert, Dr. Mindell has spent decades researching how babies learn to sleep — and what truly supports healthy, secure sleep habits.

Here’s what her work shows 👇

Babies are capable of learning to self-settle.
And when taught in a responsive, developmentally appropriate way, it can:

🌙 Improve overnight sleep
🌙 Reduce night wakings
🌙 Support parental mental health
🌙 Strengthen — not harm — attachment

Self-settling isn’t about “leaving a baby to cry.”

It’s about gently teaching a skill — with consistency, reassurance, and clear boundaries.

Sleep is learned.
And like any skill, it can be taught with warmth and confidence 🤍

If you’re feeling stuck in broken nights, know this: better sleep is possible — and the science supports it. Sometimes you just need someone to support YOU.

Get in touch so we can create a plan, mother to mother🥰
Based on the evidence, crafted for your individual and precious little one.

www.sleepagain.com.au

21/02/2026

Availability is filling fast and I am beyond grateful and indebted forever to my clients who place their trust in the magic of Sleep Again✨

What are you waiting for?

Visit ➡️ www.sleepagain.com.au and let’s get your family the sleep that is deserved ❤️

20/02/2026

I have a theory that creators of these godsend sleep aids err too heavily on the side of caution ⛔️

Especially when the usual standard doonas we sleep with are between 9-11 TOG..

And we sleep next to someone else usually…

And we have the fat and muscle ratio of adults keeping us warm and regulated too 🧐

19/02/2026

YOUR VOICE IS POWERFUL

Your voice is their favourite sound in the world ❤️

Sleep training does not steal this from your child.

In fact, it uses it to its most powerful potential as it provides the emotional buffering necessary for a child to feel supported as they tap into their innate self-settling skill 😴

We as parents tap into our most primitive and biologically binding tools that connect us to our children to improve sleep.
Your voice is not just comforting… it’s biological regulation.

When you hum or speak softly to your baby, you’re activating their parasympathetic nervous system — the “rest and digest” state that allows sleep to happen.

Low, rhythmic sounds (like humming) stimulate the vagus nerve, which helps slow heart rate, reduce cortisol, and create a sense of safety.

This is why your baby settles faster when they hear you. Not because they “need a crutch”… but because they are wired to co-regulate through connection.

Your voice is familiar from the womb. It signals:
✨ You’re safe
✨ I’m here
✨ You can let go

Sleep isn’t just behavioural — it’s neurological. And connection is powerful biology.

📖 Engage in a calm and regulating activity for you both once they wake- like simply reading a book.

Or just holding them looking out the window.

Looking at the sky while you hum ☁️

And sometimes, you will be like me, and have had enough of your child crying out to you (they aren’t sick, all their needs have been met) so you enter the room and say: ‘No. Sleep time. I love you. GO to sleep.’
And exit the room calmly as your little one flops down to settle for sleep. You have the last word. The last say in your child’s health.
And to be healthy they need good quality sleep 🥰

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