Premium 1:1 Overnight Baby Sleep Coaching & Newborn Specialist Care. Byron Bay · Gold Coast · Canberra · Sydney · Melbourne · Regional NSW, ACT & QLD.

I am trying to find the words to describe the extent of gratitude and utmost respect we have for what Raquel has given our family. Her expertise, patience and nurturing approach surpassed every expectation I had of her. We had tried everything. Or so we thought. I told Raquel I didn’t like our chances of success, and she reassured me that if we were willing to trust her and the process, she was certain she could help us turn things around. So we did. And our family feels brand new. Thank you, Raquel. You have a very special gift and we are so lucky that you share it.

Leading Australian Baby Sleep Consultant — the original Celebrity Sleep Nanny, and has helped elite athletes, celebrities, doctors, teachers, and coaches both-in Australia and abroad for 20+ years.

Raquel is known for her popular premium FIFO overnight service where she travels to you home—wherever you are in Australia—and does most of the sleep training for you, while you get the sleep you need. 

Raquel offers an individualised holistic approach with the goal of not only reclaiming the sleep your family deserves, but also nurturing your confidence in your abilities as a parent.

Overnight Support
2+ Nights with Raquel + 2 Weeks Support
$ 2777
  • Work In Person in Your Home with Australia’s Most Experienced Baby Sleep Consultant Raquel Tara
  • Raquel stays overnight the first 2 nights to settle and feed (bringing baby to you for breastfeeding) where necessary while you take 2 nights of respite — you sleep while your baby sleep consultant establishes respectful and holistic sleep training the first two nights. Raquel does the initial sleep training with your baby at bedtime and overnight + 5 Hours In Home Consulting with you across those initial nights as well, as Realtime Standby Support the third evening.
  • Unlimited Phone, Text, Video & Audio Support for 14 days after Raquel Leaves your home
  • Option to upgrade to 3 or 4 nights for $777 per additional night
  • Rate includes up to 60 minutes travel from Ballina Byron Shire NSW Additional travel fees from $60 per hour thereafter. Primary Service Areas: Byron Bay, Northern Rivers, Gold Coast, Sydney and Canberra. Raquel is a FIFO baby sleep coach and is willing to travel anywhere within Australia. Travel fees are based primarily on airfares, car hire and accomodation at time of booking.
  • Most Suited to babies 12+ weeks
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People will tell you — as I was told to tell people — to just do whatever works to get you through the newborn stage before you can help your baby to sleep through the night. I'm here to tell you that's not only bad advice, I have 20 years of maternity support experience proving that's simply not true. You can set yourself up for a baby that sleeps through by and beyond the end of the newborn stage without the need for intensive, corrective or reactive sleep training strategies.
Raquel Tara
Newborn Care Specialist

About Raquel Tara – Baby Sleep Consultant & Mothercraft Night Nurse

Responsive & Respectful Baby Sleep Support

Extensive Experience Matters

I created my 1:1 baby sleep support programs after 20 years of working closely with new parents & their babies. I’ve helped doctors, teachers, celebrities and coaches both-in Australia and abroad. I can help you too. With my In Home or Online Programs, I can be your baby sleep consultant in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Byron Bay & anywhere in between. All of my baby sleep programs offer unlimited support for 14 days. In Home Overnight Sleep Support available throughout Australia.

I began working with babies in London as a mothercraft nanny night nurse. I fully developed my skills as a baby sleep consultant in Sydney & Melbourne where I provided overnight baby sleep support home visits exclusively. I launched my baby sleep services into the online space when I was became based in Bali in 2016.

Today I’m not only a baby sleep consultant, I’m also a passionate parent and infant advocate. I support parents across Australia with my intensive 1:1 support baby sleep support programs. I love the feeling of helping parents not only get the sleep they deserve – but also understand how they got there. And how to maintain healthy sleep hygiene in their lives for themselves & their child permanently.

I’m more than a baby sleep consultant — I support parents in their transition into parenthood with my newborn baby sleep programs where parent’s can typically enjoy their baby sleeping through the night at the end of the newborn stage.

My experience has taught me that the inherent wisdom we all have to evolve as humans is what drives a loving adult into wanting to become a parent. With the first 3 years of an infants life imprinting crucial feedback that influences the trajectory of their lives; it’s incredibly beneficial to understand how to model ‘certain leadership’ for babies as early as possible.

While working directly with families for so many years, I studied early parenting psychology. As a baby sleep consultant, I found that most overlooked aspect of solving baby sleep issues – is the tapestry of the parent’s childhood psychology. A baby’s cry and what it means and how it is understood and received is going to be influenced by not only our evolution but also by the parent’s early childhood experiences. So every family’s experience of their baby’s communication is going to be unique.

I work with pregnant couples and new parents in identifying, understanding, and supporting them in this therapeutic process. Once identified, this process of conscious expansion presents itself organically as a part of the mentor process within my baby sleep programs.

In addition to co-regulation education, mentoring parents in identifying these aspects is an integral part of the support I offer in my programs. And you can see from the baby sleep success stories how much of a role this mentoring aspect plays in the satisfaction parents get from working with me.

The early parenting transition is challenging enough. And the mental health benefits of getting the sleep a young family needs cannot be overstated. The newborn stage doesn’t have to be a period that you just struggle through. With my support and education, you can learn about helping your baby to sleep and relax from the very beginning, fostering the possibility of your baby sleeping through the night by the time the newborn stage is over.

I have created this program because I believe in the beauty of pro-active approaches when it comes to baby sleep. For the first 20 years of working as a ight nanny, I was leaving families with their babies sleeping through the night by the time they were 12 -16 weeks old.

From Night Nurse to Specialist Baby Sleep Consultant

In 1999, for all intents and purposes still a kid myself, before baby sleep consultants were a mainstream service, I became a mothercraft maternity nanny in London…

 

Baby Sleep Consultant Advice: Raquel Tara’s Sleepy Time Essentials

4 tips to create a holistic baby sleep routine

Include these 4 elements in your sleep routine to help your baby sleep deeply and confidently, whether at night or during the day.
Sleeping Sack

Remember to use it for daytime naps too. Sleep sacks become holistic sleep cues. Just the action of changing into her sleep sack signals sleep to your baby.

Woolino Sleep Sack – World’s #1 Merino Wool Baby Sleep Sack – They will last you from 3 months until baby is 2 years old!

Baby Board Book

The same book forever at every bedtime. My two favourite sleep cue books are Sweet Dreams, Peter! and Goodnight Moon.

Goodnight Moon Board Book

100% Cotton Comforter

Ensure it is made of 100% cotton quality breathable fabric. Be careful as most have polyester in them – make sure you check the materials.

Cuskiboo Comforter is
MY FAVOURITE since
I worked in London
20 years ago.

An Authentic Lullaby

And that anyone can sing. A calm lullaby that talks of sleep. I teach a very special lullaby to all of my clients called the ‘Sleepy Time Song’ . You can learn it too.

Learn my sleepy time lullaby

The Sleepy Time Essentials: Full Article

 
Download The Book Audio Book: Your Self Confident Baby

Magda Gerber’s approach will deepen your understanding of your baby and help you truly appreciate the complexity, competence, and amazing capacities of the small human being for whom you are caring.

Your Self Confident Baby Audiobook Download

 

Raquel Tara Baby Sleep Consultant Australia