In recent years, the industry has “just kind of exploded,” says Arielle Greenleaf, with new consultants being certified every day. “That’s not acceptable, right, if your life is falling apart?” he says. For parents desperate enough to turn to a sleep psychologist for help, that’s a lifetime (and for the infant, it is their lifetime). Sleep providers’ wait lists are long - Canapari says his new patients usually wait four to five months before being seen. As parents who don’t have a village anymore, and we’re all working and we have all of life’s challenges on our shoulders in addition to parenting, we need sleep.” I probably had one hour, in my four years of medical school, on sleep medicine. “Pediatricians do not get a lot of training in sleep medicine.
“Nationwide, there just aren’t enough pediatric sleep doctors,” Canapari says. Sleep has always been a necessity, of course, but the isolated way we parent today, with both parents working and fewer grandparents nearby, makes it harder to come by. He attributes their recent rise into the collective consciousness of parents to two things: social media, and a very real, unmet need for exhausted new parents. Craig Canapari, M.D., board-certified pediatric sleep specialist and director of the Yale Pediatric Sleep Center, finished his training in 2007 and says sleep consultants weren’t on anyone’s radar then. But who exactly are the people we’re letting into our babies’ circadian rhythms, and what are they really qualified to be doing there?ĭr. Sleep consultants are now part of many new parents’ experiences (and expenses).
With that kind of money on the table, and a health care industry that is stretched thin, it’s no surprise a new type of wellness entrepreneur - the sleep consultant - has popped up to fill in the gap. ( Trust me.)īaby sleep, or the lack of it, has spawned a desperate market of parents who spend $325 million per year on products that claim to help infants sleep better, deeper, or longer. Whenever her baby wakes up screaming, the mom taps a frantic message to the coach asking what to do, feeling like whatever she chooses, it will be wrong. After her sit-ins, she makes herself available to the parents via text at all hours.
She watches how they handle meals with the baby - solids and breastfeeding - and calmly guides the couple through nap times and a soothing bedtime routine. The strange woman’s presence at this hour, and the fact that she was paid $2,600 to be there, might be jarring to previous generations, who learned all they knew about babies and sleep from their families.įor three days, the sleep consultant observes the family, each time for up to 12 hours. She heads downstairs where her husband and their sleep consultant wait. As instructed, she reads him a story, lays him down in his crib, steps into the hall and pulls the door closed. It would be a privilege to come along side your family and support you.A mom gives her 8-month-old baby a warm bath, towels him dry, and wriggles him into soft pajamas. Let’s connect and get to know each other better. Let us help you find the new version of you, that perfect balance between being a parent and the old you.Let us help you rekindle that spark thats been loss. Reclaim your bed for you and your partner.
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