Anjuli M.
When you're looking for a little guidance and find so much more!
We made a pact that if our son wasn't sleeping well through the night by 18 months, and after reading all the books and trying all the tricks, that we'd reach out for a professional helping hand. What we found in Batelle was everything we could have hoped for in a helping hand - we found a community of professional, experienced, compassionate, and consistent people who were dedicated to supporting us and our son through the journey to find sleep independence. We hadn't slept through the night in over a year, and as hard as that was, we felt the worst about not being able to give our son what he needed to get those long, restorative, developmentally-essential long sleeps. We were almost there and we had such a great routine in place, our little guy just needed to hold his mum's hand to fall back to sleep during middle of the night wakings. It was small, but meaningful, and after months sleeping on the floor next to his crib to try and help him find a way to keep sleeping, we reached the end of what was an unsustainable road. Batelle gave us tools to build a better structure of security and trust for our son to choose sleep. And he did! We travel, there are a lot of environmental factors living in a bit city, and there have been many ups and downs as he's taken big developmental leaps week to week, but we have resources and knowledge of a process built on science and compassion that we know works. There is nothing more meaningful than feeling like you're not alone during some of the hardest moments of parenthood. At 3am when we were exhausted, our Batelle team were there with us in real time chatting through steps and solutions, or just giving strength and comfort; at 9am going to work after a long night, they were there to talk through ideas on calls and to champion the efforts of our little guy learning and growing through the process. Batelle is everything we could have hoped for - we were just hoping and looking for a little guidance, but it was so much more than we could have expected. Sleep for littles can be really hard, but you don't have to work through it alone, and that's the difference worth everything.




