Sleep Consulting
Sleep that works with feeding, not against it
Feeding-informed infant and toddler sleep consultations, delivered virtually.
When nights change, it’s hard to tell what’s driving it. Is your baby hungry, comfort nursing, moving through a developmental leap, reacting to solids, teething, or waking out of habit? A sleep consultation helps you sort the pattern and build a plan that works for sleep and feeding together.
This isn’t a one-size-fits-all sleep training program, and it isn’t just wait it out. Your consultant is an IBCLC with additional certification through the Child Sleep Institute, so the same person shaping your sleep plan understands lactation, milk supply, and night feeding. You don’t have to choose between sleep support and feeding support, or translate between two providers.
What we help with
The questions that show up, from the newborn weeks through toddlerhood
A sleep consultation is appropriate at any age, from newborn night-feeding patterns through toddler sleep transitions. Most consultations cover one or more of these:
Night waking and night feeds
- How often night feeding is normal at your baby’s age
- What role feeding plays in night wakings
- When night feeds typically reduce or stop
- How to gently reduce night feeds when appropriate, without dropping milk supply
Naps and routines
- Naps that have gotten short, fragmented, or unpredictable
- Building bedtime and nap routines that fit your family
Developmental sleep changes
- The 4-month, 8 to 10-month, and 18-month sleep windows
- Sleep changes around solids, teething, illness, or developmental leaps
Family transitions
- Returning to work and the sleep arrangements that come with it
- Toddler bedtime resistance and night wakings
Our approach
Gentle, developmentally informed, and built around your family
We work from your family’s situation, not a single method. In the visit we look at your feeding pattern, daytime intake, naps, bedtime routine, night waking, your goals, your baby’s temperament, and what’s realistic for your household. From that, we build a plan that’s individualized and feeding-informed. We don’t apply one approach to every family, and we don’t promise a set number of days to a result. Plans are adjusted as you and your baby work through them. A typical engagement includes one substantive visit and structured follow-up.
The Child Sleep Institute certification reflects training in evidence-based, gentle sleep approaches that account for infant feeding, attachment, and development. Our sleep consultants hold this credential in addition to their IBCLC board certification.
What we don’t do
We do not provide cry-it-out sleep training, extinction-based plans, scheduled-wake protocols, or rigid programs that ignore feeding needs or developmental readiness. Those methods are outside the scope of an IBCLC sleep consultation.
If a dedicated behavioral sleep coach is a better fit for your family, we’ll say so honestly and can point you toward providers we know. Most families who come to us want the lactation-informed version of sleep guidance, not a sleep training program. If that’s you, you’re in the right place.
Common reasons families schedule
When sleep changed and you can’t tell whether to wait it out, adjust feeding, change routines, or get more support
Families often come to us when sleep changed and they can’t tell whether to wait it out, adjust feeding, change routines, or get more support. Common reasons:
- Your baby is waking more often than before, and you can’t tell what’s driving it
- Night feeds have gotten longer or harder to settle from
- Naps have shortened or fragmented
- You want to gently reduce night feeds without dropping supply
- Sleep changed after solids, illness, teething, or a developmental leap
- You’re returning to work and need nights to fit a new schedule
- Your toddler is resisting bedtime or waking often
- You want to confirm what’s developmentally normal at your baby’s age
How it works
A clinical conversation, then a written plan
Sleep consultations are virtual because the work is history-taking, pattern recognition, and care planning. Most families don’t need an in-home visit for this, and virtual keeps scheduling flexible.
01 · Before
Intake and review
You complete the intake form. Your consultant reviews your baby’s history, current feeding pattern, and prior visits, so the consultation starts with context rather than basic questions.
02 · During
Virtual visit
A 60-minute video visit covering your baby’s specific sleep and feeding picture, your goals, and an individualized plan you and your consultant build together.
03 · After
Written plan and follow-up
You receive the plan in writing. Structured follow-up is included so we can adjust as your baby responds. Plans evolve; that’s the design.
Virtual only
Insurance & Billing
How billing works
When a sleep consultation is part of lactation care, it may be billable to insurance or through The Lactation Network. Standalone sleep consultations are typically self-pay, and cash-pay is available for all visits. Verification is part of every intake, so you know what to expect before the visit.
Get started
Sleep that fits feeding, not the other way around
The next step is the intake form. Our scheduling team will book your sleep consultation and our billing team will verify your insurance, both before your visit.
Start your intakeOpens our intake form in a separate, HIPAA-secure system (new tab).