Healthy Family Sleep With Sarah Healy, Certified Infant Sleep Specialist
Fourth Trimester Podcast Episode 154: Healthy Family Sleep With Sarah Healy, Certified Infant Sleep Specialist
Sarah Healy is a certified sleep consultant who puts the health and wellness of babies first. And this fact is precisely why we invited her to be our guest on Fourth Trimester.
Healthy family sleep is our topic, including key considerations around sleep training such as age, developmental factors, the unique needs of a given baby plus the unique needs of the parents and other adults in the household.
After working with over 2,000 families and counting, Sarah has gained a great deal of wisdom that will benefit anyone looking to improve the amount and quality of sleep for their family. She will break down the fundamentals for us on this episode to get everyone feeling and sleeping better right away.
Sarah Healy, Certified Infant Sleep Specialist
“Sleep isn’t something we do to babies, it’s something we learn with them, in relationship.”
— Sarah Healy, Certified Infant Sleep Specialist
Full Show Notes
1. Why family sleep matters — [00:00:40]
2. Sarah Healy’s path to sleep work — [00:01:25]
3. Postpartum anxiety and early challenges — [00:02:47]
4. Evidence-based, holistic sleep approach — [00:04:53]
5. Overwhelm from conflicting advice — [00:11:22]
6. “Ghosts in the nursery” explained — [00:08:16]
7. Sleep learning vs. sleep training — [00:13:33]
8. Low-cry and cry-it-out spectrum — [00:15:16]
9. Night feeds and self-soothing timing — [00:16:59]
10. Decision framework and readiness — [00:18:07]
11. Parents’ intuition over noise — [00:20:55]
12. Preparing emotionally for change — [00:31:40]
13. When to start sleep learning — [00:34:26]
14. Multigenerational and cultural dynamics — [00:36:33]
15. Social media, comparison, and guilt — [00:39:45]
16. Encouragement and real-life perspective — [00:45:02]
17. Resources and listener discounts — [00:47:14]
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