The Sleeping Baby Routine Reviews 

Charmain has literally changed our lives.

Only a week ago, my four months old was waking up every hour at night and I would always have to breastfeed to sleep. During the day, if I did not want to nurse her to sleep, I would have to walk around the room with her and rock her to sleep.

We purchased the five day package and we were already amazed with the results after only the first phone call but they just kept getting better as each day passed. In less than 5 days my baby went from being rocked or nursed to sleep, to sleeping on her own, and from waking up hourly to sleeping through the night 11 or 12 hours straight.

I am so grateful for the help and support we received. It’s been life changing. I think what sets Charmain apart from other is the fact that she takes a holistic approach - it’s not about sleep training, but about looking at the daily routine and then making changes that will then inevitably result in a better night sleep. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Thanks to Charmian our baby went from waking every hour for 6 weeks to sleeping for 7 hours in the space of three days. Her support and knowledge totally changed his sleep habits and established a daily routine which is easy to follow and works. The difference to us as parents and to our baby have been huge. I would definitely recommend contacting Charmian if you need support with a baby who struggles with sleep, I only wish we'd contacted her earlier!

Best money I’ve spent in a long time.
Changed my way of thinking and helped me get my child in to a routine without making drastic changes. And I didnt even wait long to see results! Best investment in my opinion and we’ll definitely use this method on my next baby.

Charmian's book is simply written, logical and resonates so instinctively with parents. I consider it a "must-have". And her consultations are spot-on. We've consulted with her for both children and never quite understood how she can assess the issues so quickly and problem solve in a way that shows results literally overnight! She is methodical and empathetic - an essential combination when dealing with new parents. We are very grateful!

Charmian has been highly recommended to us so we did not hesitate to book a consultation and a week-long package with her. Charmian's approach, customer service, and results have exceeded all our expectations. We have instantly implemented all Charmian's recommendations and saw fantastic results from day one of the package. Not only has Chairman helped us to get our baby to sleep through the night from the first day of our 5-day package, but she also helped us to fix our baby's eating habits and daily naps. Our baby is much happier now and we continue to see the success of Charmian's work every day. The sleep training was a 100% success and we cannot recommend Charmian highly enough!

Thank you so much Charmian for all your help. Our 8 month old who had been a fab sleeper was waking up 7/8 times a night and would sometimes take a whole hour to resettle, we were both a mess. Your incredibly helpful tips and guidance on how we could alter our feedings and bedtime routine have been a life saver. Your experience and logical tips gave me the confidence to make the changes, and they have worked perfectly. Wish we had spoken sooner!

Charmian is absolutely amazing! We had an initial consultation with her when our baby was 2 weeks old and then a follow up when we were having some issues later down the line and both times our experience has been great. She is clear and has so many tips and strategies to help you solve the issues you are having, which takes the stress and guesswork out of it for new parents.
My baby slept through the night from 4 weeks old following Charmian’s method, so I can tell you it works!

We did a remote course with Charmian at 6 weeks and immediately went from chaos and cluster feeding to one feed a night, which went down to sleeping through the night after a week. Charmian’s method works and she was very patient explaining the concepts repeatedly to two sleep deprived parents. We had daily check ins / reviews with Charmian by telephone, helpful video demonstrations of techniques like swaddling and burping, and Charmian was on the end of the phone / WhatsApp whenever we needed advice / feedback / resssurance throughout the week that we were with her. We have our sleep back and our baby is v happy and contented. Thank you!

Charmaine helped me get my son back to a 7-7 routine with just a few simple tips such as increasing food portion sizes here and there and leaving him in the bath for longer. It’s worked a treat.

Great advices which worked straight away !

We booked the 5 day support package with Charmian for our 4 week old son. We had read Charmian’s book before the birth of our son but we were stuck in a pattern of snaking and bad sleeping habits, especially in the evenings. With Charmian’s thorough help we saw instant results. The bedtime routine in particular has been a real success- we have our evenings back! Our son is much happier for a routine and as are we. With scheduled nap and feed times, we have more time for ourselves. Our son can now self settle and wakes once in the night. We highly recommend Charmian’s support!

We read charmians book and started a 5 day consultation when our baby girl was 3.5 weeks old, we were absolutely amazed by the fast results and hours of night time sleep that came with it! I love how her method focused on understanding the basics around feeding and digestion. As a first time mom I also found the daily support from charmian invaluable, speaking with someone who knew so much about newborns, was a friendly voice and gave me so much confidence. Highly recommend

Charmian is a true magician! We consulted her remotely and she helped us get into a routine with our baby and resolve our issues. I had been following her book from day 1 which was so helpful in navigating the new born stage. What I absolutely loved about Charmian was that she gave a very holistic guidance — sleep, digestion, schedule, feeding positions, nappy rash etc. In one week, our lives have changed drastically — thanks to her! Everyone needs Charmian in their parenthood journey!

A smooth process. Really useful! Definitely use again. Thank you for your advice. Worth it and very reasonable

Would highly recommend - happy customers with a full night sleep at last!!

So we had heard all the horror stories, all the classics that everyone tells. Babies only sleep for 2 hours a night, prepared to be exhausted, no sleep, you'll be in a terrible place etc etc and we absolutely dreaded it.

And then we found this book, and this simple approach, and everyone we spoke to doubted it. In fact, getting a healthy sleep relationship was so important we also signed up for a support package with Charmain. So let's start by confirming.

We have a 4 week old baby, and she sleeps, a lot, calmly and contentedly (mostly, not every single sleep but 80%-90%)

Every night we sleep, we actually put her to bed, she sleeps and we sleep. She normally goes to bed after her bath (7pm ish) and once she's asleep, which can take a little while, she won't wake up for 5 hours, maybe more. Then she has a quick feed (30mins) and goes back to sleep until 7am!

Yes, our baby is sleeping for 8-10 hours between 7pm and 7am every night. And so are we!

So let's look at what almost everyone said to us as reasons this can't work

1) NO IT ISN'T SLEEP TRAINING - couldn't be further from it, we've worked with Charmain in person and to be honest she doesn't actually talk about sleep, ever. Sleep is just a consequence of the other stuff. Sleep for a baby just happens when the rest of the stuff is in place. So please don't let people put you off by saying you can't sleep train a baby. You're not trying to.

2) NO BABIES CAN'T LEARN ROUTINE - babies don't know it's 2.30pm sure, but adults do. It's the adults learning and using a routine to get everything the baby needs done and then the result is SLEEP. The baby has no real idea, she is just happy and ready for sleep.

3) OH MY BABY IS DIFFERENT - Really? Somehow different to all the others who have tried this and it works

Now that's out of the way what does this actually involved, before someone says to you it doesn't/can't work.

The theory is a well fed, mentally stimulated baby who is well winded, will naturally sleep once they have been awake long enough for their age range.

So you feed, burp and play, then sleep. Just like any 'normal' approach. But with Charmain's routine you actually think about how much food, then you burp them a lot, far far more than anyone else ever does, and guess what. They burp, they burp all the air up, every 30ml of food, and then they don't have wind and are nice and settled for active play time where the focus is all on engaging their brain so when it's bedtime they've been stimulated enough to sleep.

And they do! Our baby has done so 90% of sleeps after we apply the routine. (And most of the 10% that's gone wrong was us, we realised what we did and a couple of times, well we'll take a couple of difficult 4 hour blocks over 4 week!)

Our NCT group has 6 couples including us, all lovely people and clearly loving parents. 5 couples are awake through the night, getting a couple of hours sleep if they're lucky. 1 couple isn't awake, 1 couple is sleeping 7 hours a night (maybe more).

At our reunion the girls were describing how tired they were and most even agreed they were hallucinating at times, falling asleep sitting up etc. My wife was almost embarrassed to reveal that the night before she got just over 7 hours sleep and that was a bad night! Our baby went to sleep, woke up once for a single feed, which was too long but that's a learning point, and then went back to sleep, took 20 minutes to settle (again a learning point) and then slept through until 7am.

My wife is just tired, tired from being busy and recovering from birth, a normal level of being tired. Not completely exhausted, not devastated or unable to cope with the lack of sleep. Sure, newborns are not easy, but being tired is very manageable, being genuinely sleep deprived isn't. (I know, I've been there, it's a scary place)

Also, Charmain's approach is very PRO-BREASTFEEDING. So if you're struggling with breast feeding this might actually be what you need. We had almost given up on breast feeding. We'd seen everyone the NHS offered and even private. And we were done. 1 week into a 2 week package with Charmain and our baby is latching, feeding and then topping up with bottle while we improve our supply. But we are breast feeding most feeds! From ZERO!

Charmain focuses on the entire person, looking after your health and wellbeing to get your milk supply going. Not pumping every 2 hours during the night and being exhausted because that's not actually good for milk production.

Don't listen to all the parents who say it can't be done and wear their exhaustion as a badge of honour. Give it a go, for 2 weeks, and see what happens.

And before anyone says to you it means they'll starve, well she was 50g under on day 5 and 150g over on day 10, and is still putting on the ideal amount of weight per day. So don't let them worry you with that.

Buy the book, work with Charmain, give it a go, and get some sleep!

BOOK CHARMIAN NOW! Honestly this lady is a baby magician and she changed my life. (Sounds dramatic but it is true). Anyone reading this unsure whether it will be worth the money, please trust me (even if I’m a stranger to you) - I was very skeptical at the idea of Charmian working with me remotely and not being in the house physically with my baby however her attention to detail and focus she gives to your routine before working with you is basically like having her in your house. You have her basically on speed dial for the time you work with her too so you can ask as many questions as you want.
I used Charmian when baby was 3 months and I could not get her to nap during day when I wanted. I was feeding her (breast) to get her to sleep then trying to gently place her down and tiptoe out the room but she kept waking and so I could never have even 10 mins to myself. Within ONE DAY Charmian had fixed this and I had guaranteed nap times which was a total game changer and she no longer needed to be be on the breast to fall asleep. My baby would settle herself easily and this was without crying it out. I was very clear that I was not going to leave my baby crying for long times at all so the process was not painful for either of us.
Charmian got my baby sleeping through the night within a few days too and I had some specific odd issues like she would wake without fail 35 mins after putting her down for the night and then wouldn’t settle for ~2 hours: again within 2 days she had fixed this: as I said, she’s a magician.
I then used Charmian a second time to help with weaning and again she made it so easy and straight forward. I was very nervous knowing how and when to wean as there is so many conflicting books etc. Charmian’s track record and vast experience made me feel very reassured at every crossroads I came to that her advice was tried and tested and the right advice.
I then had sleep regression around 6 Months for various reasons but also because I had been travelling a lot in different time zones and had got into a habit of taking baby into my bed - something I didn’t want to continue (CO sleeping) so I did another week with Charmian. I also could not get baby to sleep more than 30 mins at a time so she wasn’t linking her afternoon nap. again Charmian fixed this within a few days (literally). she makes multiple tweaks - often minor tweaks that seem small to me, but the combination of them all fix the problem. It is the best value for money I have ever spent. One thing I would say however is you are much better going for the 5 day remote course with her rather than a call because she will give you suggested tweaks to your routine and then you need to implement them to see the effect of them to know how to them make more tweaks etc in order to perfect the routine so if you only do one call, this doesn’t allow for this follow up / analysis.

We had a 5 day virtual consultation with Charmian when our son was 5 weeks old. We had been trying to follow the plan from the book as best as possible, but were still experiencing two wake ups at night. Over the course of the consultation Charmian was able to fine tune the routine we had in place, and provide ongoing support and encouragement to ensure we kept persevering. By the end of the week our son was sleeping through from 7.00pm until 5.00pm, and currently he is able to sleep until 6.30am! Getting our sleep back has been a god send, and I am so glad we implemented the routine. I would definitely recommend it to all my friends 🙂

A really practical and realistic guide. It’s been my bible!