Author Description

Are you an exhausted parent who desperately needs your baby to sleep better and longer so you can too? Have you felt confused by the plethora of books on sleep methods and their seemingly contradictory advice? Are you expecting and hoping to get your baby sleeping well right from the start? With so much information available, it can be difficult to cut through the clutter and obtain practical tools that actually work. Enter Future Focused Sleep Strategies. With super short chapters and thought-provoking questions, this workbook moves quickly from the theoretical to the strategic, providing actionable, progressive steps that garner real results in as little as a week. Using the simple I.N.F.A.N.T. model, parents can implement steps toward improving baby's sleep patterns in a systematic way that is both gentle and effective. "I thought that as a third time mom, I would have this baby sleeping thing figured out. I didn't. What was so helpful about Deana's book was the acronym I.N.F.A.N.T; namely the "I" for Intention. I had a different "why" for this child (as she is my last baby) which allowed me to have a clear reason why I was working on sleep with her. It also helped me to identify that I was actually okay with an extra nighttime feeding to savor these last months of nursing. This saved me from the despised "mom guilt" we know all too well. This book came at just the right time!" - S.R. Deana Thayer has been working with expectant and new parents for over 16 years as a birth/postpartum doula, infant sleep consultant, childbirth educator, sign language instructor and parent coach. She is the co-creator of Future Focused Parenting and co-host of the Raising Adults podcast. Deana lives in the Seattle area with her husband and five teenagers. To contact Deana or to book speaking engagements and private coaching sessions, visit futurefocusedparenting.com.