When your baby is awake for long periods in the night or won't fall back into deep sleep

Is your baby showing one or more of the following exhausting behaviours during the night, as a pattern over time? Is your baby

• Awake for long periods

• Groaning, grunting and backarching or writhing for long periods

• Breastfeeding for long periods

• Unable to fall back into deep sleep for long periods

• Waking as soon as you put her down

• Only sleeping when in contact with your body?

Then your baby has developed excessive night waking, which can result in quite awful parental sleep deprivation! What's happening is that your baby's two sleep regulators have become disrupted. Her sleep pressure isn't high enough to sustain blocks of sleep, because her body clock is out of sync.

If this is your situation, we have lots to do together! I invite you to experiment with the steps of The Possums Sleep Program. It might take a couple of weeks to return to normal night waking, as you try out various strategies and do a reset, but families typically find that nights - and their lives - with their little one become much easier and much more enjoyable, afterwards.

I suggest that you start by working through the pages called The essentials, starting here.