The Holistic Baby and Toddler Sleep Podcast
The Holistic Baby and Toddler Sleep Podcast will provide you with tips and tricks to solve your current sleep issues. It will also give you plenty of education and knowledge so you feel equipped, empowered and confident to handle any baby and toddler sleep challenge that comes your way in the future. Naturopathy and Holistic Sleep is the ideal mix to provide your family with a Holistic approach to your child's sleep challenges, insights into your parenting and nutritional obstacles. I am your host Georgina Windebank, a Holistic Sleep Consultant, qualified Naturopath & Nutritionist and Mumma. Join me as we discuss child sleep in a unique way that will make your think about the status quo and provide a new and holistic way of approaching parenting, child sleep and health.
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The Holistic Baby and Toddler Sleep Podcast
Ep 51-Living with sleep anxiety and practical tips to manage it
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Do you feel anxious as bedtime approaches?
Does your stomach drop when your child wakes up after 30 minutes from a nap?
Do you get overwhelmed as you spend ages getting your child TO sleep and back to sleep?
This episode is for you! Mumma, you are not alone. I was you. In this episode I share my personal story of anxiety, PTSD, baby loss, parental loss and how all of these traumas led to excessive anxiety around my child's sleep.
No village, unable to sleep myself, checking on my baby repeatedly, missing my parents, having no in-laws, dealing with the loss of 3 babies was all too much.
But it led me to prioritising my child's sleep and having a plan to get him sleeping, gaining a sense of control and sleep for myself.
If you have ever been anxious or are feeling that way now, this episode will resonate with you. The episode also gives heaps of practical tips which will support you during stages of minimal sleep so you can come out the other side with a sleeping child, more well rested and of course less anxious!
Listen here!
SHOW NOTES
These episodes linked below are from mummas who were struggling, feeling vulnerable and who were on the edge. Their stories illustrate how sleep transformed their babies, themselves and their entire family unit. Listen below.
- Episode 31 "Rhiannon was suicidal because her baby hadn't slept in 18 months" https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Bapsx0EA1CA9Kq8Fixp5y?si=ma2Pm7moROmGaxSpagmSFg
- Episode 34 "Jess had worked with 3 sleep consultants and still wasnt getting any sleep!"https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Tp4YxIv2tPcdJ6lG4lygn?si=_Ap7uPCGRFa-bt8WKfUuRQ
- Episode 29 "Megan's baby was only sleeping 15-20 minutes at a time" https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UHxMgjBDVF5USkoND4w5a?si=kRCFDniaS8WNhPCrw7EZTA
Trigger Warning-this episode mentions PND, PTSD, Suicide and Anxiety