Twins

• Observing and assisting newborn feeding patterns, assisting optimal positioning/attachment, reducing nipple trauma, and preventing mastitis whilst meeting nutritional need for both babies. (we can also help with mixed feeding or alternative feeding options).
• Explanation of baby cries/body language and pre-curser sounds so you can interpret your babies needs more easily and reduce unnecessary tears.
• Understanding age-appropriate awake times from 0-12 months, with suggested sleep times, play ideas and awake windows.
• Early settling tools for twins to keep things simple and prevent the introduction of multiple sleep aids.
• Helping parents to predict early to late tired signs and determine the best times for naps, whilst helping your little ones to link sleep cycles together for refreshing sleep, that the whole family can benefit from.
• How to prevent/reduce colic and reflux symptoms with non-pharma logical methods.
• Suggestions of tools, tricks, and methods to make parenting easier with twins.
• From 4-7 weeks we can look at establishing structure and routine that promotes longer sleep by day and in the dark hours.

2-6 months Package $410

2 hours in-home visit*. Learn to prevent or solve issues resulting from growth spurts and sleep regressions. The 4-month sleep regression is notorious for bringing parents to breaking point. The single wake overnight turning into an unpredictable nightmare of multiple call outs, or alternatively the baby that only cat naps by day. We have helped over 1000 families to get their little ones sleeping through the night, as well as getting the day sleeps, they need. What you can expect;

• Help to determine what is hindering your twins sleep by day and/or overnight.
• Sleep training through 1.2.3 Sleep Strategy, that moves through a formulated set of settling techniques that empowers your little ones to self-settle.
• Understanding on reading body language to determine early-late tired signs and knowing how to achieve getting 2 little ones to rest at the same time.
• A personalised daily routine that is designed to fit your twins needs as well as your personal lifestyle can be purchased as a small additional fee.
• Creating a bedtime routine that will promote your twins sleeping through the night with just 0-1 feed overnight.
• Guidance on how to lose sleep aids and make sleep association tools to promote longer sleep.
• Written handouts to assist anyone to follow the routine and settling techniques. Feed-play-sleep summary guide for 0-12 months, cry sounds/body language. early-moderate-late tired signs chart, and 1.2.3 Settle guide to refer back to.
• You will have more time to do the things you need to do, as well as the things you would like to do (Start a hobby).
• Optional: How to introduce solids without disrupting sleep patterns.
• Included in the package is a 10 minute follow up call 4 days after the in-home visit.

7-24 months Package $430

2 hour in-home visit* to assess your twins current behaviour in play, eating habits and settling whilst giving solutions to solve cat napping and/or waking overnight. At this age the problem can be more subtle. Your twins are getting older and individual personalities have started to form. They can be more aware of their environment which can be a hinder or help to sleep patterns. We help determine why what you have tried isn’t working and create solutions to get your twins feeding-playing and sleeping well. What you can expect;

• We DO NOT teach cry it out method or control crying but there will most likely be some crying involved. We help parents understand the difference between protest and distressed cry, so you know which cries need your attention and which you can leave.
• We encourage twins to remain together for naps and overnight.
• We help you to determine your twins little body language in regards to early-moderate-late tired signs so that you can be guided by them as individuals and not a generic routine.
• We can create a personalised routine with a range of time for awake windows, time in bed, milk and solids to fit with your lifestyle. This helps you have predictability in what each day will look like and best times to go out.
• You will be given a bedtime routine for twins to promote sleeping through the night.
• No more cat napping, this will be turned into restorative sleep-in blocks.
• We can assist them to meet nutritional need with correct milk to solids ratio.
• We can also improve mobility and movement patterns, so they can develop their natural milestones with ease.
• We can help if early behavioural problems through positive and negative discipline suggestions that help to reduce unwanted behaviour.
• Written handouts will be provided to assist anyone to follow the routine and settling techniques. Feed-play-sleep summary guide for 0-12 months or 12-24 months, early-moderate-late tired signs, cry sounds chart, 1.2.3 Settle Strategy.
• Included in the package is a 10 minute follow up call 4 days after the in home visit.

2-3 years Package $480

2 hours of feed-play-sleep training in the comfort of your toddler twins own environment*. The foundations of sleep are often set in the first 12 months of life. Patterns and habits are starting to get harder to break for toddlers as well as parents at this age. Common problems include; unwanted behavioural issues, tantrums, fussy eating, regression with the arrival of a sibling, sleep refusal, long drawn out settling for bed with one or both kids, call outs whilst waking the other twin or getting out of bed in the night. How we can help;

• Creating age-appropriate play and sleep times that help reduce nap refusal.
• Designing a bedtime routine for your twins (considering their individual needs) that will promote sleeping through the night.
• Balancing enough day sleep for the twins to help promote all night sleep.
• We teach discipline ideas to set boundaries/consequences of actions which in turn helps them to make good choices. We also encourage positive reinforcement through rewards charts and prize boxes (evidence-based formation).
• We encourage delayed gratification through play ideas, which in turn supports their ability to calibrate emotions, as well as increase their ability to self-settle.
• We create environments for eating well, playing to learn, and quick settling strategies to boost sleeping patterns for both kids by day and overnight.
• We offer play ideas to boost development, reduce boredom, improve sleep patterns.
• We help guide you to meet nutritional needs through correct solids and fluid ratios.
• We can also help prepare for transitioning twins into day-care.
• We also help families prepare or transition during the arrival of a new sibling.
• Included in the package is a 10 minute follow up call 4 days after the in-home visit.