Tired of Googling your baby or toddler’s age to find sleep schedule advice?

Learn how to optimize your child’s sleep schedule from newborn to preschool!

This is for you if…

You want to help your child sleep better, but you aren’t sure how.

None of the online sleep schedules or charts seem to be a fit for your child.

You’re ready to have all of the scheduling advice you need, from newborn to preschool.

Better sleep starts with understanding your child’s unique sleep needs, and optimizing their sleep scheduling.

It’s not just about following a wake window chart.

“I would charge way more for this, it is fantastic. It gives parents all the sleep info they need for YEARS.” 

- Kristen, mom of a 4-year-old & 7-month-old

“This entire guide is so informative! I think being able to reference and troubleshoot each stage is the most valuable part.”

-Johanna, mom of an 18-month-old

“I hear a lot about wake windows which can be confusing and hard to keep track of, learning about sleep pressure and how it goes along with the wake windows was a game-changer!”

- Melissa, mom of a 6-week-old

A screenshot of the 32-page sleep scheduling guide to help you understand your child's sleep pressure

I want sleep scheduling to feel effortless for you. 

My 34-page sleep scheduling guide gives you:

A deep understanding of how to optimize your child’s sleep pressure

The information you need to build and adjust a schedule to fit your child’s unique sleep needs.

Strategies to fix common sleep challenges caused by scheduling issues (split nights, short naps, false starts, early mornings)

A flexible, realistic approach to sleep scheduling

Sleep schedule information, nap transition steps, and examples by month, for ages 0 - 4 years old

“Is this sleep training?”

Nope!

Sleep training is a strategy used to teach your child to sleep independently. This guide is designed for all families, regardless of their approach to sleep. Whether you bed-share, assist to sleep and transfer to the crib, or are wanting to focus on independent sleep-your child can sleep so much better if their sleep schedule is optimized.

If you are planning on sleep training, I strongly believe that optimizing your child’s sleep schedule should come first. If we don’t do this, sleep training is unlikely to go well. Understanding how your child’s sleep needs will change as they age is also key to making sleep changes last long term.  Sleep regressions are often just a signal that your child needs less sleep and their schedule needs to be adjusted.

Need a real life example?

THE CASE

7.5-month-old takes two naps per day. Bedtime goes okay, but he wakes up 45 minutes later screaming. He also wakes every hour between 4-6am and needs help settling.

Morning Wake Up

7:15-7:30 a.m.

THE CURRENT SLEEP SCHEDULE

Wake Windows (hours)

2.5 / 2.5 / 3-3.5

Bedtime

Around 7 p.m.

THE PROBLEM

This baby is only getting 8-8.5h of total awake time, which is too low for his age. He is also in bed for more than 12 hours per night. He is treating bedtime like a nap, because his body feels the day isn't done yet.

THE FIX

Extend wake windows significantly. For a two nap schedule, something like 2.75/3/2.25-3.5h could work well.

Mom decided a set schedule was preferred - so this means naps at 9:30 and 2 p.m., bedtime at 7 p.m. In both cases, we need to have him awake by 7 a.m. if we want bedtime to be in the 7 p.m. hour.

Shanel, your trusted sleep consultant, who created the sleep schedule guide

Hi! I’m Shanel!

I became really interested in sleep scheduling after struggling with my first daughter’s sleep. We worked with a sleep consultant to sleep train her at 8 months old (life-changing for us!) but by 11 months sleep had gone backwards again- and I had no idea why or what to do about it.

As it turned out, my sleep consultant didn't educate me on how to understand my daughter’s ever-changing sleep needs, or how to adjust her sleep schedule as she aged. 

Fast-forward 6 years, two pediatric sleep certifications, and almost 500 1:1 sleep clients later, I can tell you that understanding sleep scheduling actually matters more than how you choose to offer your child sleep. 

You might be saving blog posts, reels, or random notes on your phone to try to figure out your child’s sleep scheduling, I’d like to help!

I have sat down and wrote out everything I know about baby and toddler sleep scheduling to give you the guidance you need to meet your child’s sleep needs for years to come.