Coaxing a love of sleep through attachment, trust, respect & fun.

Katie Cortés 

Sleep consultant and Registered Midwife; background in community care & home-birth

The go-to infant sleep coach for mindful parenting and secure attachment.

Thanks for dropping by.

Let me share a little about the people who seek my support and how I am able to help them.

The type of parents who seek my support...

are often touched-out, running on empty and sometimes assume they must have done something wrong because sleep has become so hard for their little ones. They're loving, devoted and doing everything they can to meet their children's needs, but the nights feel endless and the mainstream sleep advice out there...well, it just doesn’t sit right with them.  Sometimes they have been through multiple rounds of sleep training only to feel even more confused than they did to begin with.

Sound familiar?

How my approach differs to sleep school and sleep-training

I like to begin by gently untangling the guilt and fear that so many parents carry. Too often, they whisper their 'confessions' of co-sleeping, rocking or feeding their babies to sleep, as though everything is their fault and they've made big mistakes in being 'too responsive'.  

But here’s the truth: NOT one of these behaviours is a bad habit. They’re some of the most time-tested, instinctive ways of nurturing babies and provide a strong foundation for a child's enjoyment of sleep and secure attachment.

If this is you, please know you have been showing up in all the right ways and you should feel incredibly proud.  I’m here to tell you it is possible to improve sleep in ways that feel respectful, non-coercive & calm, while also safe-guarding the deep trust & connection that you have worked so hard to build with your child. 

  • No cry-it-out

  • No spaced soothing

  • No timed responses

  • No leaving baby upset & alone

  • No avoidance of eye-contact 

  • No 'disappearing chair'

  • No insistence on cot settling

  • No feed-play-sleep rules

  • No power struggles

  • No disconnection

  • Not even reward charts

Just small, natural steps that optimise tiredness, build trust, support development, & nurture sleep confidence through freedom, choice, autonomy & play.  It's all about inviting change by surrendering control and providing opportunities that we know our little ones will WANT to take.

What people are saying...


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“Katie helped us so much when our child was sleeping in mere 45 minute bursts for much of the night. I thought nothing could be done that would align with my parenting and meet my child’s needs AND improve sleep, and had just kind of resigned myself to waiting bad sleep out ...." read more

Jen Sheridan

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“Katie is the most lovely person and genuinely gentle sleep consultant. She was so accomodating of our values around cosleeping/breastfeeding/attachment which meant at no point did I feel out of my comfort zone..." read more

Julia Coote

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“Katie assisted us with our toddler twins’ sleep and helped enormously where other sleep consultants had not been able to. We went from wake ups every 3-4 hours (sometimes with both twins) to maybe one or two a night. She took a holistic approach and provided helpful new ideas....” read more

Sophie Hoffman