About MeHello I'm Heidi, mother of two, infant sleep adviser, certified breastfeeding counselor and the author of this site. This page is about me and about how I came to writing these pages. 
Yes, it's just me,
not a company selling baby products, or a health advisory selling a
service. I'm a mother, intrigued by sleep and loving to share baby
sleep advice that can help you.I enjoy talking and advising about sleep and babies more than about me, but here's just a bit, so you know who's talking ... About me and sleepLong before I started researching the science of sleep, for as long as I can remember, I've had a fascination for sleep. As a little girl of course I was curious about dreams. How come I had a dream about that, does it mean something? Then later why do we dream at all? Then how do we sleep? Can I observe my own sleep patterns? Why do we sleep? ...  I was so intrigued by this thing called sleep, even more when I learned that not all is known and understood. Reading along in books and articles, I discovered many things that are known. But I also found out that simple questions like why do we sleep? do not have a definitive answer. About me and babiesGrowing up I studied physics, but always kept my interest in sleep. My PhD degree allowed me to keep current with sleep research from a scientific point of view. Then I had kids. And two lovely ones too ... That's me in the picture hiding behind my baby girl sleeping ... We started out as so many new parents I guess: not knowing what  to expect and often unsure of how to do things
right. But with an immense love for this little wonder called baby.From the first night as a parent, you start valuing sleep quite a bit more than you used to. And you realise how sleep, baby's and yours, can rule your life ... It would be nice to be able to say so, but no, my knowledge about sleep has not magically turned my babies into ideal sleepers. But along the way I did use a lot of that theory, and combined it with valuable ideas from my own mom, friend-moms and my instincts. I always noted things down in little notebooks and diaries and that become my little box of sleep tricks. I would often turn to it when a friend had a sleeping issue with their babies too. In the past few years, I've been volunteering as a certified breastfeeding counselor. More often than not, sleep is an important part of the advice I end up giving along with the breastfeeding help. About me and this siteOther moms' reactions made me realise that these little notes I took and the advice I gave, could actually be interesting to others, and help them. I dreamt of writing a book first but did not see well how to reach people easily with a book. I also could not invest in the printing of a book. Then I thought of creating a website. I had created three small sites for totally different projects before and I quite liked it. But I never had the tools to make a real, working and above all visitor-friendly website. And then ... I found Site Build It! As skeptic as I was at first, is how enthusiastic I am now. They give you all you need to know and the tools to build a real serious website, whether it is for fun or business, or to share information like I wanted to do. I tried it out for free (30-day trial period), and was hooked from day one. Anyway, if you want to find out more, you can read on here. As you'll see, it is such a great all-in-one package: it must be the definition of value for money. Thank you for visiting these pages. I would love to hear from you, so you are very welcome to leave a comment or suggestion in the message box below. Kindly,  Return from About Me to Baby Sleep Advice Home Baby Sleep Advice is listed at:  YooFindit.com: Search Directory - Human edited internet search directory of business, shopping, health, travel, sports, games, computers and more. Family & Parenting Resources - Relationship advice on love and romance. Online relationship counseling and telephone advice, dating help and advice on sexual health issues. Find tips and advice on long distance relationships, divorce, infidelity and cheating, marriage, arguments and a collection relationships resources including dating services, online personals, poetry, quotes, romantic ideas and message boards. Directory World A net directory Dot Jr Parenting Directory
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