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About Patricia...
My journey to becoming a sleep specialist and researcher started with my own experience as a parent.
Being a paediatric occupational therapist, I believed I should have all the answers and before they were born I had great plans for where, when, and how my babies would go to sleep.
When my babies arrived, however, they had different sleep plans – to mine and each other!
I found that there was little to no evidence-based, unbiased guidelines that really recognised our reality, efforts, or individuality. When faced with all the contradictory advice and strong opinions from professionals, friends, and family, I felt totally confused and lost.
What was best for my baby’s sleep? How do I get some sleep so I can stay at my best for my baby??
The only professional advice provided to me as a new mother was on safe sleep and being told that there was a “right” way to settle my infant to sleep and that I was doing it the “wrong” way. This experience, I now know, mirrors that of many other new parents.
The Integrated Family Sleep® approach to supporting babies and children's sleep, within their unique family context, is the result of subsequent years of research and learning! approach is the result of subsequent years of research and learning!
Workshops, webinars, and interactive training!
Patricia is an accomplished professional trainer with extensive experience in curriculum development, teacher training, university lecturing, participatory and active learning strategies, adult learning, conference presentations, professional workshops, webinars, and is committed to adapting content and delivery according to participants' needs. Her research has been published in the influential international academic journal SLEEP ®: Sleep, zsaf169, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaf169
