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 the hard part of 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.
Most families find that meaningful and lasting improvements in sleep require several days of consistency.
For this reason, Raquel works with families over 4–5 nights of in-home overnight support, allowing changes to be established, repeated, and integrated before parents take over.
This is a comprehensive sleep coaching program, including preparation, in-home support, and follow-up guidance.
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.
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…
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.
Baby Board Book
The same book forever at every bedtime. My two favourite sleep cue books are Sweet Dreams, Peter! and Goodnight Moon.
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.
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.
Premium 1:1 Baby Sleep Coaching Programs and Newborn Specialist Overnight Care. Byron Bay · Gold Coast · Canberra · Sydney · Regional NSW, ACT & QLD.
Raquel Tara is a highly experienced newborn care specialist & overnight baby sleep coach with 20+ years experience working with parents and their babies.
Raquel has helped elite athletes, celebrities, doctors, teaches and coaches both-in Australia and abroad, and she can help you too!
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Average wait time for Raquel’s overnight home visit service is 21 days. Urgent midweek spots are occasionally made available.
