There are many factors that influence your baby or toddler's ability to sleep through the night:

• their age
• the amount of calories they've consumed during the day
• the sleep environment
• the length of their wake windows during the day
• the time and length of their daytime naps
• their settling or self-settling ability
• less common are factors like reflux, colic, sickness or other medical conditions

To get all these factors lined up right for your little one, our Sleep Programs are the best place to start.

Sleep regressions are stages every baby will go through and can be very disruptive to their (and your) sleep. Signs of sleep regression are:

• Shorter naps
• More night waking
• Staying awake for long periods in the night
• Nap refusal
• Bedtime battles
• More cranky than usual
• Seems to have "forgotten" any sleep progress made

For more details information and advice about sleep regressions, read this article.

Self-settling is a sleep skill where your little one is able to drift off to sleep without needing you to actively settle them to sleep (with rocking, feeding etc). Tt becomes important from around 4 months old to achieve longer naps and more consolidated night time sleep.

There are many methods you can use to teach this skill to your little one, more information and guidance is available here.

Wake windows are the period of time your little one is awake for, between naps. It is one of the most important aspects of baby sleep.

Your baby's wake windows are changing every week until 12 weeks old, then every month after that - it is important to keep up with these changes.

For more detailed information, check out this article.

For the ultimate solution, our Sleep Programs are the best place to start.

Your sleep program can be accessed instantly upon purchase through our mobile app, which you can download from your app store. The Little Ones Baby Sleep App contains comprehensive methods, guides and advice to get your baby's napping and night-time sleep on track. It is the most detailed and in-depth online sleep app in the world. The App contains:

• Sleep o rhythm (the Little Ones sleep algorithm) which automatically adjusts your baby's day based on tracked events
• Customised schedule
• Lessons on every aspect of sleep
• Feed, sleep & diaper trackers and detailed analysis
• Ability to export sleep tracking to our sleep consultants, if you're working with them
• Dark mode
• Notifications about events such as naps, feeds and wake times. The notifications are customisable
• Home Screen widget
• Ability to add multiple children
• Methods for twins and multiples
• Access to certified Sleep Consultants in the  Village - private chat version of this coming soon!
• Notifications about upcoming changes in your little one’s sleep
• Detailed troubleshooting 

Yes! We have helped lots of parents with multiples and have a special Multiples Guide within our Little Ones Sleep App. This talks you through your babies’ sleep, ideas about feeding techniques and how to stagger your daily schedule if necessary.

When it comes to a child’s age-specific sleep needs, they don’t differ on a massive scale. That said, some do certainly need a bit more or less sleep than others their age, so our customized schedules are designed around the maximum times. For example we give you the maximum awake time, the time by which all little ones’ that age will be overtired and need to be in bed by - this means if your little one needs a bit less awake time and/or a bit more sleep, you’re able to work inside of that window to cater to your child’s particular needs. We provide you with all the information to know when your child’s sleep needs are changing, for example when they might start needing more awake time or slightly less day sleep.

Yes absolutely! Our Little Ones™ founders both breastfed all of their babies while successfully using our methods. You are also able to breastfeed your baby or toddler on demand if that’s your preference, or you can choose to follow the suggested feeding times in the schedules, which are designed to ensure that your little one won’t wake early from naps because they are hungry. The feeding times also change as your baby grows older, ie becoming further apart.

Once your little one has been seen by a doctor and is on medication if needed, then yes absolutely! Our Program will ensure that your little one's daily sleep needs are met so that they aren't unsettled due to being over tired.

Not at all! These are suggestions in our app because we’ve seen how well white noise and a very dark room help little ones link sleep cycles and settle easier at nap and bedtime. Many of our customers don’t use either and still have success with our methods. Totally up to you.

There is no way to guarantee the effectiveness of each individual baby or toddler due to outside factors which may detract from results and it can be hard work for some babies to dramatically change their sleep habits. Our App is not an overnight miracle fix, but is designed and proven to lock in excellent sleep habits with your baby for years to come. If however, you don’t see improvements with your baby’s sleep, we may offer a refund as per the refund policy here: Refund Policy.

If you are a subscription customer please ensure you cancel your subscription to ensure no further payments are deducted. You can find out how to do that here: Terms of use.
We do not offer refunds on subscription purchases as per our refund policy here: Refund Policy

We have developed a unique and gradual approach to sleep. Our methods for teaching self-settling (for babies over 4 months) work with your little one’s existing sleep association and allow you to comfort them throughout the process, meaning you can go at your own pace and provide hands-on comfort if that is your preference. Because we aim to cater to many different parenting styles, we also provide a more hands-off method for parents who choose that approach, but this is not traditional "extinction" sleep training.

A lot of our customers have had success using the Program while still choosing to feed or rock their little ones to sleep. They have found the Sleep Program provides a framework for their day and something to come back to troubleshoot if needed. If and when these mothers (and little ones) are ready, they are better placed to begin the gradual self-settling process as they have good sleep habits already established through the Program.

If you’d like to continue to co-sleep you can certainly still use our methods as a framework for getting naps happening at the right times and avoiding too much overtiredness. If you’d like to get your little one sleeping in their own bed, we have a very gradual method especially for co-sleeping babies & toddlers which respects the closeness of that bond and gently transitions them into their own sleeping space.

Complete Sleep Program customers will have included access to our Certified Sleep Consultants in our baby sleep app. For customers who purchase age-specific Sleep Programs, Village access is available as an add-on purchase in the App.

* This support is only available in the app. The app requires iOS v 11 or later, Android 4.0 or later.
** The support is not an instant messaging service and some delays in response times are expected.

Our company is an accredited member of the IACSC (International Association of Child Sleep Consultants). The Little Ones™ Team are all certified Sleep Consultants through our internationally registered training academy and hold a whole host of additional qualifications relevant to this industry - we have healthcare practitioners and registered education professionals among our team! All our consultants have received extensive training in baby sleep neurology and behaviour, age-appropriate settling methods and best sleep practices in addition to their existing tertiary qualifications.

Little Ones™ is also endorsed and recommended by Kate Johnson,Ph.D. Sleep Physiology and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and SRI (formerly Stanford Research International) and is recommended by paediatricians and doctors worldwide.

All our research links and a full bibliography can be found here

Your Program is available immediately after purchase inside our mobile app. You need to make sure you register / log in to the app and the website using the email address you purchased with.

Certain parts of our program are downloadable as images or PDFs. You can save them to your phone, tablet or computer. If using an Apple device you must export the PDF to iBooks. For Android devices, simply save the PDF to your files. 

Our Sleep Program is intended for use by the individual who purchased it and is governed by copyright law. With this in mind, you cannot share or distribute your Program or access with anyone else, either in part or in whole, including sharing your customer login with anyone else. The exception to this is sharing your login with your partner or co-parent for the child you share.

We believe it is really helpful to start setting up good sleep habits from early on if you can. This doesn't mean you're forcing your newborn baby into a rigid sleep program, rather you're helping them establish and regulate natural nap and sleep patterns that will mean your baby is settled and happy because they're getting enough sleep at the right times.

Nope! Our Program caters for babies and toddlers from birth to 3 years old and we have settling and self-settling methods that are age specific across that whole spectrum. Many of our customers have started our Appp with their older babies or toddlers and have achieved great success.

At first glance yes, our Customized Schedules do seem very time specific, however this is to give you the most guidance around your little one’s nap and feed times each day. You could say our schedules give you a goal for your day, however this is extremely flexible and adaptable to the needs of your family. If for example your little one wakes earlier in the day, you can simply move all their naps forwards to compensate - you don't have to stretch them when they're tired just to meet scheduled nap times. You can use the schedule more as a guide if you’d prefer, to know the perfect amount of awake time and when naps should be and if things start to go awry you can always come back to the schedule a bit more closely to troubleshoot the problem.

Some babies & toddlers would happily sleep all day and some will wake naturally from naps and regulate their own sleep. If your little one is at risk of having too much day sleep which will impact their night time settling and sleep, or if it means your baby will be missing a feed, then we do recommend you wake your little one some of the time. Helping them to regulate their daytime nap hours is the best way to avoid day/night confusion and will also help them consolidate their nights quicker. There is no peer-reviewed or evidenced based research that waking a baby is harmful to their development. For some naps we have found it really important to control the nap length a bit more, for example keeping the morning nap shorter so that your little one will then have a really good long lunchtime sleep, or shortening naps in a transition period when your little one is about to drop that nap.

Not at all! The best thing about having predictability to your little one’s day is that you’re able to more confidently plan outings for when you know your little one will be awake and happy, rather than not knowing when they’ll need a feed or if they might need a sleep while you’re out. The morning and afternoon naps are really easy to do out and about and we really only suggest you aim for the long lunchtime sleep to happen in their bed as this helps teach them that this is where they sleep (which has a positive impact on their night time settling and sleep in their bed) and it also ensures they have the best chance for a long nap. An added advantage is that you then have a good 2 hours to yourself to have some lunch in peace or put your feet up.

Catnapping is a really normal developmental occurrence and can be very common between the ages of 8 week to 6 months. There are heaps of factors that affect a baby’s napping and sometimes simply following our methods and making sure they’re being offered naps at the optimum time for their age reduces the catnapping! For other babies, working on gradually teaching self-settling is another way to go. We also have catnapping routines in our app for those tricky babies who are still refusing to link cycles! Our Program contains all the info you need to get through the rest of your day if your baby can't do the longer lunchtime nap suggested in the schedule.

We have developed a unique and gradual approach to sleep. Our methods for teaching self-settling (for babies over 4 months) work with your little one’s existing sleep association and allow you to comfort them throughout the process, meaning you can go at your own pace and provide hands-on comfort if that is your preference. Because we aim to cater to many different parenting styles, we also provide a more hands-off method for parents who choose that approach, but this is not traditional "extinction" sleep training.