Finally Get Your Child to Sleep
Without Cry-It-Out, Endless Googling, or Losing Your Mind in the Process
Calm & Confident SLEEP Foundation
A Sleep Foundation Program for Parents Ready to Lead Their Child to Sleep.
A 6-week small group coaching experience for overwhelmed parents who have tried everything and still feel stuck, so they can finally understand what their child is communicating, lead with confidence, and watch sleep become possible.
This isn't another sleep training program...
It's not a method that asks you to let your child cry while you sit on the other side of a door, wondering if you're doing the right thing. It's not a rigid schedule you have to start at 6 weeks or miss the window. And it's not a generic plan that was built for someone else's child.
You've already decided you want to parent differently. You want to respond to your child, not just manage them. You believe connection matters. You just haven't always had a clear path for how to take action on that, especially in the middle of the night when you're running on empty and your child is wide awake.
This is a 6-week guided experience that teaches you how to read your child's sleep communication, understand what's actually getting in the way of sleep, and lead your family into rhythms that actually work, so you can feel calm, confident, and rested again.
If you've been following the advice and still feel like nothing sticks, that's not a you problem. You haven't been given the right foundation. That's what we're building here.
If you are done guessing and ready to actually understand what your child needs, you are in exactly the right place.
This is for you if...
- You've tried everything... multiple approaches, schedules, apps, sleep training, maybe a book or two, and something would work for a few days, then stop working. You're living in inconsistency, and you can't figure out why.
- Your child has been described as sensitive, alert, or has FOMO, fear or missing out. They don't fit neatly into any method you've read about. They notice everything, resist transitions, and seem to need more from you than other children their age.
- Whether you have a newborn, an infant, a toddler, or a preschooler, the root cause matters more than the age. This program meets you where your child actually is.
- You feel like you spend every nap, every bedtime, every early wake-up either dreading it or recovering from it. The mental load of sleep is exhausting you more than the actual lost sleep.
- You know something needs to change, but you're terrified of making it worse. You second-guess every decision. You don't trust yourself yet.
- You've been told to just let them cry- it out, and something in you says no, I can't just let them cry-it out, but you also know what you're doing now isn't sustainable either.
- You want a plan. But what you actually need is to understand your child and stop fighting sleep. You want someone to help you see what's really happening so you can make a decision you feel good about.
- You are at or near the "I can't keep doing this" breaking point, not because you're failing, but because you've been trying to solve the wrong problem.
If you read that list and thought: That's me, keep reading. You are exactly who this was built for.
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A 6-week small group coaching experience for parents who are ready to stop guessing and start leading, so sleep becomes possible for the whole family.
Inside the program, you will:
- Understand the root cause of your child's sleep challenges, not just the symptoms on the surface.
- Learn how to read your child's communication and respond with clarity instead of anxiety.
- Build flexible, sustainable rhythms around feeding, play, and sleep that actually fit your family.
- Shift from trying to fix sleep to knowing how to support it. That distinction changes everything.
- Have something to reach for in the hard moments, so you stop spiraling and start seeing clearly.
- Feel confident saying goodnight and meaning it, even when your child pushes back.
What's included:
- ✔ Welcome Week orientation, gather your Sleep History, get a baseline for what's taking place in your home
- ✔ 5 weeks of structured step-by-step content inside your Sleep Library with lessons, tools, and resources
- ✔ Mindset Moments, simple tools to weave into your existing routines so you can show up calmer without adding anything to your plate.
- ✔ Weekly live online sleep coaching call on Google Meet, Thursdays at 12pm ET, with replays for every session
- ✔ Daily community and support with access to text, audio, and video between calls
- ✔ Sleep log review and real-time coaching support
- ✔ Rest & Reset Toolkit: Your Self-Care Rx
- ✔ Cohort size of 8 to 12 families, small enough to be seen, heard, and supported
How this works: The SLEEP Framework
Every week of the program follows one letter of the SLEEP path. This is not a checklist. It is a journey.
Each step moves you from overwhelmed and reactive to grounded, clear, and leading.
Welcome Week
Slow down and see what's actually happening. Log feeds, meals, and sleep for a few days. Awareness before action. This is where clarity starts.
S -- Show Up
Week 1
How you show up shapes what happens at bedtime. Identify the stories you carry into the room. Learn co-regulation. Start shifting from fixing to supporting. This is also where implementation begins, because showing up differently is the first change your child feels.
L -- Lead and Listen
Week 2
Learn what your child actually knows about sleep. Understand the biology. Begin the sleep experiment. Replace rigid schedules with flexible routines. If your child is sensitive, alert, or has a serious case of FOMO, this week helps you finally understand what their body and behavior have been trying to tell you.
E -- Evaluate and Observe
Week 3
Assess whether the environment and routine are actually helping your child do the work of falling asleep. Choose your coaching method. What implementation looks like will depend on where you and your child are. There is no single right starting point. We find yours together.
E -- Empower and Validate
Week 4
Keep practicing, keep showing up, keep leading. This is where you learn to be present without over-functioning, stepping back just enough to empower your child to do their work.
P -- Play and Be Empowered
Week 5
Celebrate what has shifted and look forward at what is ahead. You will leave equipped to navigate the real seasons of family life, travel, illness, regressions without losing the ground you have built.
Woven through every single step: Breathe LOVE.
The in-the-moment check-in that asks, am I breathing fear right now, or am I breathing love? It is not a framework on its own. It is how you show up inside each one.
Sleep Coaching Success Stories
"Working with Irene felt like a partnership, not someone handing me a list of rules. She leads with questions, not judgment, and the way she teaches sleep, feeding, play—it all builds together in a way that finally made sense. I went from feeling like nothing was working to actually understanding what my son needed."
— Mom of an 18-month-old toddler
"I came in for sleep support and got so much more than I expected. Irene gave me the encouragement and specific direction I needed to actually move forward. Now my son asks to go to his crib, and I feel like I'm enjoying parenting in a way I didn't with my older kids."
— Mom of a 10-month-old
"It was good to finally have a plan, but what surprised me most was realizing I needed to work on myself to help my son. Irene helped me see that. She never made me feel like I was doing it wrong. She just helped me understand what he needed and what I needed to show up for him."
— Mom of a 5-month-old infant
Hi, I'm Irene.
I became a parent in 2006 during one of the hardest seasons of my life. My husband was going through some serious health challenges. I was sleep deprived in a way I didn't know was possible. I had anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and a level of overwhelm I had never experienced before.
And the thing that made it so disorienting was that I was an educator. I knew about children. But knowing about children and understanding your own child are two completely different things. I learned that the hard way.
I became a certified Gentle Sleep Coach with Kim West in 2011. And even with that training, I still had blind spots in my parenting journey. I still had seasons where I was stuck. Hiring my own coach and getting support to help me see what I couldn't see from inside it changed everything.
That's the story I carry into every family I work with. Not because I have it all figured out. Because I know what it feels like to be at the breaking point, to have tried everything, to not trust yourself, to wonder if this is ever going to get better.
I am a Family Sleep Coach, certified Postpartum Doula, and Infant Feeding Specialist. I have worked with hundreds of families, newborns through school-age children. And every single one of them came to me with the same core struggle: their child was not sleeping and they were exhausted. What I've come to understand is that it's a sleep communication problem. They were trying to fix the behavior when what they needed was to understand the message. They were solving the wrong problem.
A parent can lead their child to sleep because they show up calm, confident, and rested.
That is not a tagline. That is what I have watched happen in family after family when they stop trying to fix sleep and start learning how to support it.
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If you have read this far, something in here resonated.
That is worth paying attention to.
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You have been trying to figure this out. You have been reading, researching, adjusting, holding on. And you are still here, still looking, which means you haven't given up. That matters.
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What you are looking for is not one more method. It is clarity. It is the ability to walk into your child's room at night and know what is happening, know what your role is, and trust yourself enough to lead.
That is what this program builds. Not overnight. Not perfectly. But consistently, step by step, in a small group of parents who are doing the same work alongside you.
A parent can lead their child to sleep because they show up calm, confident, and rested.
You can get there. This is how.
