About Rest Easy Mama
Rest Easy Mama is a Gentle Sleep Consultancy, providing exhausted parents with truly gentle, holistic, and effective sleep solutions for getting the sleep they—and their littles ones—need. Informed by extensive training in sleep science, attachment theory, and child development—and with a proven track record of helping families sleep soundly again—Rest Easy Mama is a tired parent’s go-to-source for sleep solutions that don’t involve crying-it-out.
About Kaila, the Well-Rested Mama
It wasn’t long ago that I was where you are now—tired. Like, can’t remember what I was saying tired. Middle-of-the-night rage tired. “Please. PUH-LEASE. I BEG YOU. Please, child, just go to sleep” tired.
Our oldest daughter slept fairly well as a newborn, but when the 4-month sleep regression hit, sleep went downhill fast. She would only fall asleep in my arms while rocked and nursed and was up every 38 minutes throughout the night needing bundles of TLC to get back down. I was on the verge of a total breakdown. Sound familiar?
Being a tear-averse mama of a spirited baby, I knew cry-it-out wasn’t the right fit for us and wasn’t likely to work for my baby. Desperate for sleep and feeling I had no other options, I brought her to bed with us at four months, and we slept soundly… until we didn’t.
Around 12 months, co-sleeping stopped working for us. My daughter was nursing and thrashing throughout the night, and I was starting to feel that desperately exhausted feeling again. None of us were getting the sleep we needed. This time, a trusted family friend recommended a gentle sleep approach—an option I didn’t know even existed months earlier. Within a few weeks, we had transitioned our daughter out of our bed and into her crib, helped her learn to self-sooth at bedtime, night weaned, and taught her to sleep through the night—all using gentle, attachment-focused, and customized sleep techniques with her unique personality and (highly sensitive) temperament in mind. What struck me the most was that unlike with other sleep training approaches, I wasn’t at war with my mother’s intuition—I was in sync with it.
This experience was life-changing. Not only were we all sleeping well and thriving (finally!), I had discovered my life’s passion: helping families and little ones rest easy with as few tears as possible. Rest easy literally, but also in knowing that there is a way to help your baby or toddler sleep through the night without crying-it-out. Rest easy in knowing that with a little support, you can lovingly equip your child with an essential, life-long skill they need to thrive. Rest easy in knowing it’s not too late to teach your older child independent sleep. And rest easy in knowing that sleep is just around the corner.
About Kaila, the Gentle Sleep Coach
A millennial mom of three little ones, I am no stranger to the depths of exhaustion that parenthood can bring. I work with families from a place of deep understanding—using gentle, proven strategies for teaching your little one the sleep skills needed to reach your big picture sleep goals (including, but not limited to, feeling human again).
I have been consulting with families since 2018, and in 2023, I completed the Gentle Sleep Coach® Training & Certification program—the most extensive, research-backed sleep training and certification program available. In addition to being a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach®, I am a member of the International Association of Child Sleep Consultants and served on the board of Postpartum Support International’s Oklahoma Chapter—an organization dedicated to promoting awareness, prevention, and treatment of perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD). I am also trained in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®), an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children, including those who have experienced adversity, early harm, toxic stress, and/or trauma.
Drawing on my experience and training in sleep science, secure attachment theory, and age-appropriate techniques—and always, always tailored to your specific child and family—I provide parents with a step-by-step plan for:
maximizing sleep through adjustments to daily rhythms and sleep environments,
teaching your little one to fall asleep independently with as few tears as possible,
helping your baby, toddler, young child, or twins sleep through the night,
maintaining secure attachment through sleep training,
transitioning to independent sleeping while maintaining nighttime feeds,
night weaning (either partially or entirely),
weaning from the bottle,
transitioning from the SNOO, bassinet, or family bed to the crib,
transitioning from the crib or family bed to their own bed,
safely co-sleeping (if a family bed is the goal),
extending, dropping, or adjusting naps,
and getting back on track after a milestone, illness, holiday, or major life event.
A firm believer in a holistic, whole-person approach, I am trained to recognize any underlying issues that may be contributing to sleep challenges, including reflux, allergies, asthma, obstructive sleep apnea, and sensory processing disorder, among others. If I suspect there is something more going on, I will point you to the appropriate supports before we do any gentle sleep training.
I am a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and have worked in publishing for over 15 years before founding Rest Easy Mama. I live in Oklahoma City with my family and am truly honored to work with families around the country as a gentle sleep consultant—from Texas to Virginia, Missouri to Connecticut to North Carolina, and of course across Oklahoma.
I would love to help your family get the sleep you all need to thrive.
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