Pediatric Sleep Coaching: Help Your Whole Family Sleep Soundly
Healthy sleep patterns and rest are so important for your child’s development, learning, and emotional regulation. Restful nights also means rested parents. Ollie’s certified Sleep Specialists in Miami will work with you to create the right sleep strategy for your family.
Personalized Sleep Plans that Work
- Customized sleep schedules for children of all ages
- Gentle, child-centered strategies for building healthy sleep habits
- Support for sleep transitions like sleeping through the night after last feeding, crib-to-bed progressions, self-settling, and dropping naps.
- Ongoing assistance and adjustments as your child grows
What Actually Keeps Families Up
Almost nobody books sleep support over one bad night. It is usually something that has been going on long enough that you have stopped expecting it to fix itself.
A baby who will only sleep on you
Naps on your chest, nights in your arms, and a cot that has started to feel decorative. You have read that this passes. It has not yet.
Four months in, and worse
A baby who slept reasonably well has stopped. Everything that worked last month has quietly stopped working.
Night waking that never stopped
Your child is two, or three, or five, and still up in the night. At some point it became normal, and you would like it not to be.
Naps falling apart
Fighting them, skipping them, or taking them so late that bedtime collapses. Knowing whether a nap is being dropped or disrupted is most of the answer.
Cot to bed, and the fallout
The move looked simple and turned into a nightly negotiation with a toddler who now has the freedom to leave.
Parents running on empty
Back at work on broken sleep, short with each other, taking turns at being the one who gets up. This counts too, and it is treated as part of the problem.
Sleep and Feeding Are One Conversation
Daniela Otero is a certified pediatric sleep consultant and a breastfeeding counselor. In the first year that combination matters more than it sounds.
Night feeds, weaning, whether a two o'clock wake-up is hunger or habit, whether dropping a feed will cost you the night: these are sleep questions and feeding questions at the same time. Most families end up asking two different people and receiving two sets of advice that do not quite agree, then having to referee between them at midnight.
Here it is one person, who also happens to be an early childhood educator and a mother of two, and who came to this work through her own experience of exactly these seasons.
No Cry-It-Out
If you have put off asking for sleep help because you assumed it meant shutting the door and letting your baby cry, that is not what happens here.
Cry-it-out is not part of our approach. Healthy sleep gets built through understanding your child's development, temperament and emotional needs, using gentle, evidence-informed strategies that keep the bond between you intact. You are not handed a method and left to endure it.
Plans are built around your family's values as much as your child's needs, which means you are allowed to rule things out. Most parents have a line they are not willing to cross, and saying so early makes the plan better, not weaker.
When sleep turns out to be tangled up with anxiety or a wider behavioral picture, our child psychologist is already part of the same team rather than a referral somewhere else.
How Support Actually Works
Sleep support at Ollie starts earlier and more gently than most families expect.
It can start before the baby arrives
Guidance begins as early as the prenatal period, and for a lot of families simple education and small adjustments are all that is ever needed.
Formal coaching from around six months
That is when babies are generally developmentally ready. Before then the work is about expectations, routines and protecting your own rest.
An evaluation, not a template
When individualized support is right, it starts by looking at your child's sleep patterns, temperament and medical history alongside your family's routines and goals.
Honest expectations
Some families see meaningful change within a few nights. Others need several weeks of consistency and adjustment. You will be told which is likely for your child rather than sold a number.
Every Ollie member receives age-appropriate sleep guidance as part of their concierge pediatric care, from pregnancy through childhood. More comprehensive individualized coaching may involve additional support depending on your membership and your child's needs, and the options are walked through with you on your discovery call.
Meet Your Sleep Specialist
Daniela Otero
Hi, I'm Daniela Otero, a certified pediatric sleep consultant and breastfeeding counselor. As a mother of two, I help families navigate sleep and feeding with practical, evidence-based guidance...
Sleep Support for the Whole House
A sleep plan that only considers the child tends not to survive the first week. The people carrying it out are exhausted, and that is usually why plans fail rather than because the plan was wrong.
So support here covers whoever in the family needs it, for as long as the sleep journey takes.
The adults count
Who gets up, how the nights are split, and what is realistic when one of you is back at work on Monday. A plan nobody can sustain is not a plan.
Siblings in the same room
Shared rooms, different ages, and a toddler who wakes the baby. These need a different plan from a first child sleeping alone, and they get one.
It carries on as they grow
Sleep changes at every stage. Support does not stop once the first problem is solved; it adjusts as naps go, schools start and bedtimes shift.
When worry is underneath it
Bedtime resistance and night waking often have as much to do with anxiety as with routine. Our child psychologist and sleep consultant work on those together rather than separately.
When feeding is underneath it
Night feeds, weaning and growth all pull on sleep. Because this is the same person, you are not sent elsewhere to ask.
Your pediatrician stays in it
Reflux, allergies, ear infections and apnea all affect sleep. A sleep plan built without the medical picture is guesswork, and here it is not built that way.
Frequently Asked Questions
What ages do you provide sleep coaching for?
Our support begins long before what most people think of as “sleep coaching.” We start helping families build healthy sleep habits as early as the prenatal period, providing practical guidance and education that evolves with your child’s development.
For most families, simple sleep guidance is all that’s needed. When more individualized support is appropriate, we begin with a thoughtful evaluation of your child’s sleep patterns, temperament, medical history, and your family’s routines and goals. Formal sleep coaching typically begins around 6 months of age, when babies are developmentally ready, using a personalized approach tailored to your family’s values and your child’s unique needs.
How does sleep coaching work at Ollie?
We believe better sleep starts with understanding your whole family — not following a one-size-fits-all program. For many families, simple guidance and small adjustments are all that’s needed. When more personalized support is appropriate, our Certified Sleep Consultant begins with a comprehensive evaluation of your child’s sleep patterns, temperament, development, medical history, and your family’s routines and goals. Together, we create a personalized plan and provide ongoing guidance and adjustments until your family is sleeping more confidently.
Do you use cry-it-out?
No. Cry-it-out is not part of our approach. We believe healthy sleep is built through understanding your child’s development, temperament, and emotional needs — not by leaving them to cry alone. Our Certified Sleep Consultant uses gentle, evidence-informed strategies that help children learn healthy sleep habits while preserving the parent-child bond and giving parents confidence every step of the way.
How long until we see results?
Every child and every family is different. Some families notice meaningful improvements within the first few nights, while others require several weeks of consistent support and adjustments. Your sleep consultant will set realistic expectations based on your child’s age, sleep challenges, and developmental stage, and will continue refining the plan as your child progresses.
Is sleep coaching included in membership?
Every Ollie member receives age-appropriate sleep guidance as part of their pediatric care — from pregnancy through childhood. For families who need more comprehensive, individualized sleep coaching, additional support may be recommended depending on your membership and your child’s needs. We’ll review all available options with you during your discovery call.
