Infant sleep support
Are frequent wakes, long nights, or constant crying leaving your family exhausted and struggling to know how best to support your baby?
Nicole offers gentle, evidence-based support to help you understand and respond to your baby’s sleep and settling needs with a responsive and connected approach.
Using the Possums Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC) approach, Nicole supports parents to:
Recognise that night waking is a normal part of development, but when wakes are frequent or long periods of wakefulness make life feel really exhausting and unmanageable, support can identify what's contributing and find practical ways to make nights and days easier. Together, you'll explore adjustments with Nicole that help reduce excessive or long periods of night waking and make it easier for everyone to fall back to sleep.
Explore your baby's crying and unsettled periods and help you find ways to support them through responsive care and rich, varied sensory experiences which can bring more ease and enjoyment to your days and support your baby’s development and emotional growth.
Nicole is an Occupational Therapist with over 15 years of experience supporting children and families and is an accredited practitioner in the Possums Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC) approach.
Nicole is available for clinic consults in Deakin or telehealth consults. She also offers home visits to families in Canberra’s south side.
Understanding Infant Sleep and Development
The NDC approach was developed by Dr Pamela Douglas and is grounded in over 20 years of research.
This approach recognises the wide variation in what is developmentally normal for infant sleep. Some babies naturally need much more or less sleep than others.
The NDC program does not use sleep training methods or involve leaving babies to cry. Instead, it supports families to respond sensitively to their baby’s emotional and developmental needs through a gentle, responsive, and evidence-based framework.
