Testimonials

Tori Carver

"My son was waking up every two hours overnight and only taking twenty minute naps at five months old. I was quite done with the sleep deprivation and looked to Bernie’s program to help rescue our sleep. We were assigned Angela and we couldn’t be more happy with the support. She talked me through everything, encouraged me when I had doubts and worked miracles with my baby’s sleep. Within five days my son was sleeping independently in his crib the whole night and taking three good naps per day. I was in disbelief that the sleep issues could be resolved so quickly. I would highly recommend this program and Angela!"

 

S. Aiken

"We turned to Bernie for help over a year ago because our son was struggling to fall asleep independently. A year after I can say that my son (now 3 y.o.) still sleeps in his crib independently for over 11hrs every night and whenever he sleeps over at grandparents he sleeps in a crib or pack and play and very rarely wakes up in the middle of the night. Thanks to Bernie’s coaching we did things at our own pace and in our own way (a way we felt comfortable with) and this was something she respected and encouraged. We strongly recommend her because everything she coached us and taught us really worked, worth every penny. Thank you so much Bernie."

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A. Wan

"With Angela's guidance, our toddler was sleeping through the night in 3 days! I wish we hadn't waited 9 months to hire her - so much lost sleep for no reason. She is the best!! Thank you Angela!!!"

 

E. Lim

"Our 10 month old went from waking every 3 hours each night to sleeping through the night, 8pm-7am! Angela was wonderful and we are so glad we decided to reach out for help."

 

C. Heth

"Bernie was recommend to us from a post I made regarding my 2 yr olds sleep. We were hesitant to do this because I did not want to do cry it out at all. We have been rocking our 2 yr told since day one, which I absolutely loved to do. However, with our second on the way it was becoming difficult to get her in the crib. It was taking us 1-2 hours before we were able to get her in the crib without her waking up and wanting to go back to the rocking chair (or crying once we got her in the crib). After working with Bernie, we are now able to get our 2 yr old in her crib, say good night and she falls asleep on her own! We never had to do cry it out, which made us feel so much better. Bedtime and naps are no longer a stress for us. I still can't believe the difference it made just within a few days! Thank you so much Bernie, you really helped us out A LOT!"

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K. Crane

"Bernie’s sleep coaching is the gift the keeps on giving! Our 1 year old would only contact sleep for naps and bedtime and I was starting to wonder if that’s how the rest of motherhood would be. I am a believer in co sleeping and still believe in it, but I also now understand the importance of teaching your child independence to sleep and not rely on you, literally, for sleep. After seeing a post shared by a friend about Bernie and sleep training we thought about it for about a month before we contacted her. We set up a free consultation, came up with a plan and then Within 2 weeks she had our son sleeping by himself in his crib (that he once hated) for 12 hours at bedtime and for 3-4hours of nap time during the day. He has a routine and a process and it works wonders!! She catered everything around our wants and needs as well as his personality and age. Also, No cry it out was needed. We couldn’t believe how much better he was with proper sleep and how much better we were as well. He still sleeps very well 7months later and for that I am forever grateful. Thank you Bernie " 

 

B. McGinnis

"We hired Bernie a year ago to help with our 10 month old, Lily. She was waking multiple times a night needing a bottle to get back to sleep every time. We were exhausted and I dreaded bedtimes. Bernie was an amazing listener and worked with our family’s needs, while adjusting Lily’s daytime nap schedule as well. After just a couple weeks, Lily was sleeping 12 hours straight through the night!! She was so much happier during the day and naps became predictable and healthier. My favorite part of Bernie’s sleep training style is that it accounts for what your baby is going through, so if baby is sick or your mama gut is saying to hold and snuggle baby through the night, you have all the freedom to do that.

Now at almost 2, Lily is still sleeping through the night. Sometimes she still wakes up, but I just hear her making happy noises (la-la-la-la!) until she settles into sleep again. On nights that she’s awake and fussy, we use the same principles Bernie taught us from a year ago and nights are smooth.

Bernie is so patient and easy to talk to and there’s never any judgement about how you have been practicing bedtime, and what your future goals are. She’s a natural with children and tailors everything to your needs, accounting for the baby’s eating habits, personality, and moods, while carving the road for success. I will definitely be using her with future children!" 

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M. Campbell

"I hired Bernie last month to help with my 15 month old son. After 1 day of following her eating/sleeping/rest schedule he was in bed at 7:30pm and only woke once! Sleeps through the night now!" 

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K. Singer

"My son hasn’t been sleeping through the night yet. I messaged with Bernie and she gave me a few simple tips and tricks to help my little guy and I am AMAZED by how fast a few tips helped us!" 

 

Z. Peterson

"Our son is 9 months old and hadn't slept through the night before working with Bernie. Her positivity won us over from the beginning. Within the first 2-3 days our son was sleeping through the night. Truly a miracle! It's tough at the beginning, but she is very flexible and can adapt to whatever challenges you're facing. She was very attentive and with us each step of the day and throughout our 2 week journey. Bernie was always available for answering my questions about my sons new sleep routines. whenever we would break the routine by going to family/friends houses she was always available to reassure and help us navigate through it all. I can't thank you enough for giving me and my husband sleep again! We will definitely be using her for our next child" 

 

E. Peterson

"My wife and I have been so thankful to have worked with Bernie to help sleep train our 5-month-old boy. Bernie is a true marvel in her expertise of all things baby sleep related. It’s wildly impressive what progress we have made through working with Snuggle & Sleep. It’s been a “night and day” difference that has completely transformed our days and nights for the better. Prior to working with Bernie, our baby was impossible to put down for naps. We still ended up contact napping him a lot of the time, and family coming over to help during the day struggled to help. Baby's night sleep was also all over the place with emotional crying wakings every 2 hours that required us to get up and re-settle him. My wife and I had been trying to get our baby on a schedule and to help him learn how to self-soothe and sleep independently, but felt like we weren’t making much progress. We both work full time and were overtaxed and overtired ourselves.

We’d just been struggling with feeding issues for a couple months prior, and once we got those issues squared away and his nutrition solid, we knew our child was ready for proper sleep training. However, my wife and I needed better sleep *yesterday* - as new parents we did not have the time or knowledge to train him quickly enough for our mental and physical health to permit. Bernie came in to save the day. We enlisted her for her training consultation services as well as had her do an overnight visit for the first night of training. The initial consultation helped us to understand the different sleep training methods and feel confident and comfortable in the one we selected being right for our baby's temperament. The overnight visit helped us see the method in action and know that what our baby was doing was within a normal range. This reassured my wife and me in a way that I’m not sure we would have if we did this all on our own. Since there was crying involved, we might have caved out of fear that we were doing something wrong. With Bernie’s experience and confidence there, we felt in good hands.

In the days and nights moving forward, we continued executing Bernie’s plan with great success. She was also available to help answer any of our questions via text, which helped to course correct the schedule where we found problems. It didn’t take long for our boy to start mastering self-soothing and for him to be able to be put down for naps in his crib independently. He started sleeping much better through the night with 1 to 2 feedings (as developmentally expected). For the first time since he was born, I started regaining my own sleep hygiene. Thanks to Bernie’s planning, we also have the baby on a day/night schedule that has done wonders for giving him some predictability in his life. He now reliably knows when sleep and feeding are going to happen, and I think this has generally made him a happier and better-adjusted baby.

Before working with Bernie, I used to think putting our baby down in a crib “drowsy, but awake” and expecting him to sleep was an impossible notion. How? Baby freaks out the moment he touches the crib/bassinet. I had to put him down completely asleep and pray to Harvey Karp that the baby wouldn’t wake up when being carefully placed into his crib. Today, there are situations when our baby actually *calms down* when he goes into the crib. I leave the room, and he falls asleep on his own. I’m still in awe that it’s working. That being said, it all still *was* a lot of work. Bernie gave us spot-on guidance, but as parents, we still had to properly execute everything. We also diligently filled out our sleep and feed logs so that Bernie could give us the best advice. With us all working together as a team, we were able to meet our sleep goals and beyond.

Our work with Bernie was so valuable and beneficial to us as a family. I highly recommend her services. She is a joy to work with. She is fantastic at explaining what to expect, and adept at adjusting on the fly when things go awry (as they inevitably do). She is great at listening, paying attention to all the details, and connecting the dots on all the things happening that may be affecting sleep. Long story short (too late), if you’re struggling with your child’s sleep, definitely reach out to Bernie and get the relief you deserve! " 

 

L. Cunliffe

"I am incredibly grateful for Bernie! Our 4month old was only contact napping & wouldn't sleep for longer than 15min even on us. She was constantly tired & grumpy. After working with Bernie for 2 weeks, our baby is now sleeping in her bassinet for a good amount of time, linking sleep cycles & self settling. She is also feeding way better, which has helped with better sleeps. It has been amazing for our whole family & I am able to spend some quality time with our firstborn as well. Bernie was really gentle & went with what I felt comfortable with. Would %100 recommend her over and over again." 

 

L. Smylie

"Bernie was amazing with my 4mo old. We had only really contact napped and were ready for our little boy to have naps in his cot, have a routine/structure to our day, an easier bed time and a few other small changes.

We worked with Bernie for 2 weeks but from night 2/day 3 we saw amazing results. NO tears at all at bedtime, sometimes grizzled to sleep for naps but honestly it has been a great experience for us.

Thank you so much Bernie" 

 

L. Hutchinson

"Bernie worked with me and my almost 3YO son who was waking numerous times a night, and taking 1-1.5hrs to get to sleep at night.

Her approach was very flexible. We slowly cut his day sleep down and now he only has a small day sleep on random days when he needs it. I wasn’t pressured into leaving my son to cry. She helped me adopt a gentle approach to make him feel comfortable and safe. We gradually withdrew how much I settled my son, whilst maintaining firm boundaries with him. I now have a little boy who goes to bed happy and is asleep within 10mins. He does not poo every time I put him to bed anymore (this was a ploy to get me back into the room). He is now sleeping 11-11.5hours a night, with NO WAKES.

As my time with Bernie has finished, I have continued to implement her suggestions to help my son to wake up at a reasonable hour using our toddler clock. I am very thankful that I bumped into Bernie while we were at the park. Now this heavily pregnant mumma is getting some amazing sleep overnight. Can’t recommend her enough!" 

 

C. Baird

"Thanks so much for your help. In under 2 weeks our little one is now sleeping through the night and enjoying better naps through the day. Much happier baby that is easier to settle and is now even soothing himself to sleep which is something we had struggled with before. Bernie was very easy to communicate with and answered any questions we had along the way and made changes to suit our little one. Would highly recommend x" 

 

L. Young

"Where do I even start. Bernie!!! You are a life saver. I have three children (aged 2, 3, and 4) and none of them were sleeping through the night. I was getting up approximately 7 – 9 times a night to settle or return at least one, if not all of them to bed. NOW, just TWO weeks later I have THREE children that sleep through. You heard that right. All three of them. My two older children now go to sleep independently (no patting, shushing, rocking), just a story, cuddle and a kiss goodnight and wake up at 6 – 630am in the morning. And my littlest man now also goes to sleep independently, and although he wakes earlier than the girls, Bernie has given us a follow up plan to decrease his early morning wake and I know we are on the right track to sorting this last little step.

 

Bernie is amazing to work with. She communicates clearly and quickly, answering any questions or queries with amazing answers and ideas. She has been an absolute blessing in our lives. I know that I will be finally making up on some lost sleep, but now know that all my kids are getting the sleep they need and deserve. Thank you so much Bernie!!!"

 

J. D'Amore

"Bernie is truly our sleep fairy godmother, and if you're reading this review, she can be yours too -- because likely you're wishing upon a star at 3am as you're desperately trying to soothe your crying baby to sleep (for umpteenth time) and you're still batting zero!

This was my husband and I for over 7 months as we constantly struggled with our baby girl's lack of sleeping skills (since infancy). We were so sleep deprived by that point, that we were in dire need of help, and craving some kind of schedule or reprieve from our consistently inconsistent daughter. It had been 7 months of never getting more than 3 hours of sleep at night (if that) and NO naps. We were exhausted!

And then, like starlight shined brightly through our window, Bernie was recommended to us, and our lives were truly transformed.

After an in-depth in-take form, a personalized sleep plan with a phone consultation, Bernie journeyed with us over the course of 2 weeks to understand and modify our daughter's sleep and eating schedule in order to bring serenity, routine, and energy back into our lives! By introducing a strict sleep and eating schedule, and giving us the tools to teach her how to self soothe, she now naps twice a day (once at lunch for 2.5 hours) and goes to sleep with barely a fuss at 6:30pm every night, waking up only 1-2 times (at our choice) until the next morning at 7am! It is really quite unbelievable.

Again, our families and I are so incredibly grateful for our sleep fairy godmother Bernie, and you will be too!" 

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J. Hopkins

"Bernie is a life saver! My little 7 week old boy went from being what I thought was a colicky, unhappy baby who never slept more than 20 minutes at a time day or night, to a happy baby who now sleeps through the night only waking for feeds every 4 hours! And it only took a week to see a difference

Bernie was super supportive with giving advice and showing me new ways to settle him and give us a bit more of a routing that is easy to follow. I was able to change parts what didn’t suit our life style and she gave ideas around that.

Id highly recommend Bernie to anyone needing help with sleep! I now have a beautiful, happy and settled baby boy and my sanity back and I am so grateful for the support Bernie gave us " 

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C. Caldwell

"Bernie helped me to implement a sleep routine for my 2 month old baby boy. Following the initial assessment, I was hesitant to implement all the recommendations made as I was happy with the status quo in some areas, however Bernie was totally supportive in letting me pick one or 2 things that I thought were achievable to begin with and then left me with the other things to bring in slowly over time. She helped me with small changes to start with, to ease the dreaded witching hour which was my chosen area of focus. We noticed a difference almost immediately and it gave us the confidence to continue on the plan for better sleep practices as he grows." 

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M. Adams

"High recommend Bernie! First time mom here and this was exactly what I needed to get my 5 month old on a solid schedule with sleeping! Poor guy was having trouble staying asleep at night (4-5 wake ups a night) and was falling asleep by feeding. While feeding to sleep is completely normal, I wanted to option of having him self soothe. Bernie was incredibly flexible and heard all my wants. She organized her techniques according to my wants. My little boy was sleeping through the night with only one feed, in his own crib, and self settling within 1 week! He was regularly taking scheduled naps within those two weeks as well. She helped me structure a wind down that worked for me and my baby and was just an amazing source of knowledge when it came to different techniques and options. Can't thank you enough, Bernie, for giving this first time mom the confidence she and her little man needed." 

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M. Courtier

"Bernie has put together such a fantastic Newborn Sleep Package which has helped like a dream. The settling pat is definitely Georges favourite! Thank you :)" 

 

C. Rodriguez

"Woooow, you should work with Bernie for sure.

We have Mateo of 11 months, he was co sleeping and no naps during the day. Now he is sleeping 12 hours at night and 2 naps during the day. Bernie is there"