Calm & Bright Sleep Support Reviews 697

I honestly cannot recommend Calm and Bright highly enough. When I reached out on instagram about 6 weeks ago I genuinely didn’t know where to begin with my little boys sleep but Gem and Eve were so helpful and reassuring. I put it off for another couple of weeks as I thought his sleep may get better on its own, which it didn’t. In fact it got worse.
I decided to go for the 1:1 support plan and Collette has just been amazing. Having her on the other end of WhatsApp has been a godsend. No question has ever been too much and she has guided me through the sleep plan with patience, kindness and reassurance.
Just two weeks after starting the plan we have gone from a little boy who would only fall asleep for a nap in his pram. I used to walk up and down our road endlessly, usually only resulting in a 20 to 30 minute nap. He now self settles for every nap in under a minute and stays asleep for 2 hours or more. At night, he used to spend most of the evening cluster feeding and transitioning him back into his cot would result in him crying and awake. He now self settles at 7pm within minutes, with no tears! He wakes around 3am for a feed and sleeps until 6/7. He’s only 6 months this week so we are quite happy to leave that one feed for the time being and will work on dropping it in a couple of weeks. The progress he has made in 2 weeks is just incredible and everyone in our house is so much happier for it. Thank you Calm and Bright and especially Collette, you are a sleep superstar!

Always on hand to help and my 1 yr old is sleeping beautifully now after less than a week of following the steps and helping her learn to settle. I really feel like we have given our baby the tools to sleep for life

I used this service due to anxiety about sleep and my return to work. Overall, I cannot personally recommend their services to parents like myself. However, if you're at your wits' end and willing to try anything, it might be worth considering.

It's worth getting the 1-2-1 support if you do go for this programme. While the trainer was generally friendly and very responsive to Whatsapp messages, I was disappointed with their approach to sleep training and their customer service.

The sleep training methods used by Calm & Bright were not gentle as advertised. My 6mo was left to cry for extended periods of time, sometimes up to 2 hours (on & off with limited 'allowed' interventions), which caused her to lose her voice for days afterwards. It was heart-breaking to hear her cry inconsolably, and it went against my instincts as a parent to let her endure such distress. I understand that some level of crying can be expected during sleep training, but this exceeded what I deemed acceptable.

When I reached out to the trainer to express my concerns and discomfort about leaving my baby to cry for so long, their response was surprisingly dismissive and condescending. Instead of addressing my concerns with empathy and understanding, they seemed annoyed and implied that I was overreacting. As a paying customer, I expected to be treated respectfully, especially when discussing a topic as sensitive as my baby's well-being.

I acknowledge that every baby is different and sleep training methods can vary, I believe it's important for a sleep training company to be transparent about their approach and set realistic expectations. The lack of gentleness and the unhelpful response from the trainer left me feeling frustrated and let down.
Yes, my baby ended up sleeping better and for longer periods at a time (thank you for that), but the guilt tainted the whole experience.

It's crucial to find a programme that aligns with your parenting philosophy and respects the well-being of both the baby and the parents. Unfortunately, I did not find that with Calm & Bright.

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Edit after business' response:

Despite the potential risk of getting entangled in an internet dispute, I want to clarify that my intention was not to slander. Instead, I aimed to present a well-rounded perspective based on my personal experience. Although the plan did yield results, it did not align with our preferred parenting approach. I reluctantly persisted with it due to feelings of desperation and anxiety about returning to work.

During a support session, I received a voice note in which I was explicitly told that being an "attachment" style mother was considered a "red flag" by the provider. I could have shared this review earlier, but I deliberately stored this experience in my memory, especially as I adjusted to the new routine of balancing work and caring for my baby. It only resurfaced recently when a friend inquired about my experience.

It’s been 4 weeks and we’ve done it! Jack sleeps 3-4 hours a day and 7pm til 6am.
When we first started, Jack reacted so well at nap time and went from having 10 minute cat naps to 2 hours in morning and afternoon. He always settled well at bed time but struggled to self settle in the night… I would feed him about 3am or 4am and so he kept waking. One night he went straight through so The next night I didn’t offer the milk when he woke at 4am… the next night… he didn’t wake.., and hasn’t since! If he does stir… he generally gets himself back off… he is struggling… I go in and rub his tummy 3 times and walk back out again!
Other Parents need to know that they don’t need to be walking shells… struggling to be happy.

My 6 year old was definitely getting a lesser version of me… which makes me really sad. We’re back to enjoying each other’s company and spending quality time together.

Mine and Jacks bond is something totally wonderful! I see it in his eyes… he trusts me… if we’re somewhere different and he’s struggling to fall asleep… I go up and I rub his tummy and look him in his eyes and I sssssshhhhhh…. And we connect and he I’ll leave the room and he goes to sleep, because he knows that I am there if he needs me and that is enough for him to settle, confidently and happily to sleep. Our bond is greater because of this plan…. I honestly believe that!

Thanks for your very simple and easy to follow plan. It’s helped me feel like like my old self again and feel like a happier Mummy.xx

I’ve been putting off leaving a review as I genuinely didn’t want to jinx anything!
We purchased your sleep plan to help with my sons sleep. I was worried about starting incase this disturbed my daughters sleep too. However I had no idea how things would go. After only 3 nights we had full nights sleep and not once was my daughter disturbed. I feared the worst and had the best outcome. I cannot thank you ladies enough for the plan and the little bits of extra support. Now we only have very little occasions of disturbed sleep due flare ups of his eczema which is rare. Thank you for helping us as a family to get our sleep back I only wish I had done it sooner! ❤️ xx

Calm and Bright - amazing support!

Calm & Bright Sleep Support account is the best support I have found since becoming a mum! Gem and Eve are full of useful and free advice, and it meant that during the first 6 months of my daughter’s life I was able to enjoy co-sleeping and feeding her to sleep without the worry of ‘making a rod for my own back’. At 6 months I used their plan and also added on the WhatsApp support with Lucy. I was apprehensive starting the training but I didn’t need to be as my daughter quickly learnt to self settle - day 2 she had a nice long nap in her cot and I enjoyed a hot cup of tea! The plan has all the information you need but having Lucy was like having a friend hold your hand through the process. She was absolutely brilliant! She was prompt in answering my questions and was full of great tips and tricks. If you are thinking about sleep training I highly recommend Calm and Bright Sleep Support - amazing value for money and such lovely people to help you.

Good morning Eve and Gem,
Just wanted to come on here and send a HUGE THANK YOU! Not only for providing such an amazing plan but for also changing our families sleep patterns! We had a 17month boy who slept really well until turning 1 and then got in to some habits of needing us to help settle him from there on in. We were getting up about 4 times in the night (some for 20-40 minutes at a time)
I finally decided to change it by using your plan - best money we’ve spent!!! Dubious as he was much older and thought it was ingrained but went wholeheartedly into the plan. Skip forward 2 weeks and he is self settling at naps, bedtime and in the night. We are getting 11 hours sleep a night too!! Phew!!

THANK YOU!! Recommended to everyone I know!!

I’ve never written a trust pilot review, but this seems worth it if it encourages another family to try it out. We used the plan when our baby was 4.5 months and mid regression (probably not advised) but even in the thick of it, it still worked and gave us the tools we needed to support him through the regression and afterwards. He’s now 8.5 months and has beautiful long naps in the morning and afternoon and sleeps 11-12 hours over night and I can safely say we are a happy and well rested family. PS my son is extremely feisty and I was convinced nothing would work but here we are! Long gone are the days of shushing and fiercely rocking to sleep. He was telling us he didn’t need our help and I’m glad we listened. We now get to see his gleeful eyes and loads of lovely cuddles when he wakes up after some lovely sleep! Thank you calm and bright x

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all of your support. Things were really tough with our little one not sleeping for a while but after implementing your solid sleep plan, sticking to suitable nap gaps, stirring to sleep and making sure we don't rush in, my beautiful girl sleeps like an absolute champ. My mental health has improved immeasurably. I always watch your Instagram stories and reels for any other top tips I'm missing and I'm yet to find anything that hasn't worked! Thank you thank you !

I really debated signing up for something when there’s already so much varying advice on the internet. However I did not have the headspace to trawl through it all and work out what I wanted to do. My boy was being fed or rocked to sleep for every bedtime and every nap. He’d wake after half an hour every time and would wake to be fed 4ish times in the night (and often with crazy early starts too). After 9.5 months of awful sleep and dreadful naps I took the plunge and bought the £50 plan. Yesterday (second day of the plan) he slept for 3.5 hours during the day across two naps, he didn’t do his half hour wake for either naps, nor at bedtime. He slept SO much better, I went in and fed him once - unheard of. Hoping today (day 3 of implementing the plan) goes just as well if not better. I’m so glad I signed up to the plan and only wish I’d done so sooner. I have also found Eve and Gem incredibly helpful and responsive when I have reached out on instagram. Highly recommend.

My wife and I purchased the Solid Sleep Plan approximately a week ago. After lining up a couple clear days we began and it went well straight away. Our son is 13 months and what this plan has shown us is that he definitely had the ability to self settle given the right framework. Like so many people we were probably over involved in his sleep. He's shown us he really can do it himself!

Within a day he'd started self settling and his nights have got better and better with minimal involvement. We've already gone from some intervention during the night, to him settling himself, to him sleeping a solid 11 hours!

The plan is straight forward, is actually very simple to implement and best of all, any clarity needed, the team at Calm and Bright are very good at replying on social media for ongoing support.

Best of all, by having a plan to follow it takes the pressure off you and gives you back some headspace.

Can't recommend enough to anyone with kids who are learning to sleep through

I bought the C&B plan to try with my 6 month old, stuck in an unsustainable cycle of feeding to sleep (and unsuccessfully transferring to the cot), contact napping all day and having zero time to myself in the evenings, trying to get her to stay asleep in the cot. Well, I am now sat outside in the sunshine reading a book while baby naps in the cot upstairs, going for over an hour now after falling asleep by herself in about two minutes with zero fuss. I never thought this would be possible!

I messaged C&B on Instagram with a question after buying the plan and they responded so quickly, and also recommended starting with the transition steps. Our first attempt at a nap was a little challenging, but that night baby fell asleep by herself (also moved her to the big cot at the same time too!). We get the odd wake up in the early hours but they are rare, and now I can confidently plan things for myself for the evening knowing she will be sound asleep. I feel like I am getting a piece of myself back finally.

I’ve recommended the plan to everyone who will listen, it’s honestly been life changing for me. We go on holiday abroad next week and I am feeling so positive about it now rather than dreading the prospect of feeding to sleep and contact naps in a dark hotel room by myself.

Thank you so much C&B!

Utterly brilliant! It really really does work. I have followed C&B for a long time on instagram and used their free advice but finally bought a plan when my second baby turned 6 months old as I wanted guidance on how to slowly drop the night feeds! I knew the C&B method would be gentle by I was genuinely shocked at it’s effectiveness. My baby went from waking 3 times for feeds to sleeping 12 hours non-stop (I had actually planned to keep one feed but baby had other ideas and who am I to argue?! 😂). I feel super confident that we can future proof our sleep when we encounter inevitable hurdles (teething etc) in the future and feel so comforted knowing the lovely C&B team are just a voice note away if I need some support in the future. Highly recommended - please buy it and get some sleep 🙏

It took 4 very trying and days/nights but my son has slept through since! It’s been around 5months of solid sleep. Couldn’t recommend enough

My 20 month old was waking nightly for two hours or more at night, what with work and some other family stresses I felt completely exhausted and at breaking point. Gem was so supportive, non judgemental and patient, the advice she gave felt like it was from a depth of experience and I can truly say that it feels like she has your best interests at heart. So patient and always ready to help, I would definitely recommend calm and bright to any struggling (or non struggling! ) parents who want to reclaim their nights and feel rested.

My now 11 month old was an ok sleeper up until we moved her into her room at about 7 months. From then we were experiencing frequent wakings and split nights (where she'd be awake for four hours in the middle of the night not upset just awake). This was particularly hard as I had just gone back to work. I downloaded the solid sleep plan and honestly haven't looked back. It started to work after literally one day! Our daughter who used to only nap for 30 minutes, now sleeps for an hour and a half and is happier and more refreshed because she is well rested. She has also slept through every night for the past month and I can't believe it. I only wish we had found this plan sooner. Can't thank the guys at calm and bright sleep enough !

I purchased the Solid Sleep Plan after following C&B on Instagram for some time. My 6 month old baby had never been a terrible sleeper, but not great either. From 4 months onwards he had been habit waking twice a night where I would give him a quick feed and put him back down with relative ease.

Despite this not being terrible and amount of sleep I could function on, I still felt the effects of broken sleep and felt completely worn out by the end of the day. Every time my head hit the pillow at 10pm, I knew I would be up in less than 3 hours.

Before trying C&B, I had put a LOT of effort into my son's naps and he had been consistently going for long day naps in his cot. Despite this, I was struggling to make any progress on his night sleep.

After two days and one night of trying the plan, my son slept solidly from 6.30pm until 6.30am. I couldn't believe it! I probably didn't benefit from any extra sleep myself as I was up from 5.30am worrying he was still alive and out of excitement / disbelief woke my poor partner up as well! This was my first full night's unbroken sleep since I went into labour in October. I felt like I'd already had a double espresso!

Perhaps it had a quicker effect as my son was already an independent sleeper for his naps but even if this had taken longer to achieve, it's still such a drastic result.

My son has always been on the fussier end of the scale and I have always found myself getting stressed when managing the crying and screaming at bed time. The C&B method makes me feel much calmer and in control whilst feeling gentle and loving towards my baby. I have found his crying periods have become much shorter.

Another result I noticed was during his long lunch nap yesterday. He woke for about 10-15 minutes after a sleep cycle. The previous me would have panicked and went up to soothe him or get him up (accepting this was a cat nap). I left him playing and rolling in the cot to find he had completely settled himself back to sleep without any fuss and slept another 2 hours.

I honestly cannot recommend this enough to anyone - even if sleep is not terrible but you feel it could be better! I have my MIL to stay this week and have been apprehensive about being exhausted whilst hosting. I feel so much more energised and capable of doing so much more - not to mention being more present with my son and not in a caffeine-driven haze!

This has been so lifechanging in the space of less than a week. I will tell anyone about this plan who will listen. Thank you C&B!

We have just completed night 3 of the solid sleep plan & it has been a complete life changer for us.. literally. Our 13 month old has slept through finally the last two nights with no wake ups 🙌🏼 the first night we had just over 10 minutes of crying, the second night we had 7 minutes of crying and then last night no tears at all and we couldn’t believe our eyes when our son just lay his head down and self settled to sleep - something he has NEVER been able to do. Before sleep training, our son always relied on us to sit beside his cot and rub his back or hold his hand until he fell asleep at night, we would’ve had multiple night wakes which resulted in co-sleeping nearly every night. He has never slept in his cot during the day but has done it for his naps the last two days👏🏼 The sleep deprivation was really taking it’s toll on us all and in desperation we got help from Eve & Gem and it was worth every single penny. I wish we had done it sooner & I can’t recommend the plan enough for anyone who is struggling. Thank you so much for restoring our sanity 🙌🏼 and our son who is waking up a happier boy each day. After 13 months not only my son, but also myself are finally having full nights undisturbed sleep🥳

These ladies are fantastic! Their tips are amazing and worked the first time for us and everyone else I know that has tried them. Our baby wouldn’t nap in the cot or settle himself at night, within 1 day of using their method this changed!
They are so responsive to messages and their method is gentle, kind and it just works! So grateful for their support.

If you need help with sleep honestly look no further. I can not shout about the work the team do at Calm and Bright enough!
I first bought the 0-18 month plan for my son during the first lockdown. As a family we were so unbelievably sleep deprived, with multiple wake ups during the night, non existent naps and honestly within 3 days our lives were transformed. We had a 7 month old who would now sleep 12-13 hours each night and nap for 3 hours. It was incredible. Fast forward 3 years and he still sleeps solidly getting 12 hours a night.
With our second child, my daughter (2 years age difference), I found the idea of sleep teaching more challenging at first, mainly because I breast fed her until she was 1 so I felt if she woke it was because she clearly needed feeding (I was wrong). I found I was feeding her more in the night than I had done my son, but she was in fact waking because that's the only way she knew she could get to sleep.
Even once I had stopped breast feeding I replaced the feeding with another 'ing'.
We had times where she became better at sleep where I used some of what I knew from using the plan with my son, but I wasn't following the plan 100% which is definitely needed!
At 20 months old the sleep deprivation was extreme and I knew things had to change to ensure my children were both getting the best from me and my husband.
I bought the 1:1 top up support from Calm and Bright and alongside using the 0-18month plan (100% which I wasn't before) my daughter on night 2, was able to self settle herself. Although she woke 3 times it was only briefly and she went to sleep within a minute each time. Now a week in, she is sleeping 12 solid hours and I can not believe the difference it has made to us all. We are all well rested. My husband and I have our evenings back, we have so much more energy and everyone is so much happier. Honestly I wish I had done this sooner with my daughter, honestly life changing! Thank you Calm and Bright for all that you do! Xxx