In the words of parents who shared this worry
“I just didn’t think I had babies that slept, but the program works.”
“And so the night before we started Actually Sleeping, she actually woke up 10 times, and that’s for real.”
“He would wake up constantly every forty five minutes.”
“Waking up every single hour all night and daytime naps were such a fight.”
“She was just kind of an unhappy baby and was a little colicky.”
“And on night one, she put herself to sleep.”
How parents come to believe their baby is a bad sleeper
After months of hourly waking, it begins to seem like part of who your baby is. Parents are told that some babies are just poor sleepers, and they stop hoping for anything different.
The parents in this video believed it as well, sometimes about more than one of their children. What they found was that their babies simply hadn’t learned to fall asleep independently yet, and were able to.
Our approach with a hard sleeper
Dr. Sam builds the plan around your baby’s temperament and history, including an early arrival or a rough, fussy first few months. If there’s something medical going on, your pediatrician takes priority, and our coaching runs alongside their care. Bootcamp-style coaching before night one gets you ready for the particular ways your baby is likely to react, daily 1:1 check-ins come after, and we coach naps until they are solid. We guarantee the result: “We guarantee that your baby will sleep 8–12 hours through the night within 14 days of consistent, correct implementation of your sleep plan.”
Among the parents in this video are a mom whose premature baby woke 10 times the night before they began, a mom whose baby was up every 45 minutes, and a mom who was getting two hours of sleep a night. Actually Sleeping gave each of them a plan written for that specific baby rather than a generic schedule.
More from our client families
All 129 client video reviews are on the reviews page. To understand why a tired baby may fight sleep even harder, read overtired baby fights sleep. Before you book, you can also check that the company is legit.
Book your free consultation and tell us about your baby’s hardest nights. The plan begins there.
Ready to solve this for your own baby?
With Actually Sleeping you get 1:1 coaching: Dr. Sam writes a sleep plan for your specific baby, we coach you bootcamp-style before the first night, and we check in daily until it is working. We have coached 700+ families, collected 129 video reviews, and put our guarantee in writing: 8–12 hours through the night within 14 days, or a full refund.
Common questions
Are some babies simply bad sleepers?
Plenty of parents in the reviews believed that about their own babies, preemies and colicky babies among them. With a plan written for their particular baby, they now describe those same babies falling asleep on their own and sleeping through.
Can Actually Sleeping help if my baby was born premature?
Yes. The families in our reviews include babies who arrived early. Dr. Sam factors your baby’s history into the plan, and your pediatrician’s advice on feeding and health always comes first.
My baby wakes hourly. Where do we even begin?
Begin with the free consultation. Dr. Sam then writes a plan based on a full picture of how your baby falls asleep, wakes, feeds and naps, and coaching before night one prepares you for what lies ahead.