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I am pleased to announce that I have a new FREE guide available on my website titled Nick’s Brain, Picked! Five Ways to Help Your Child Sleep Through the Night.

This guide is an e-Book detailing the five primary ways you can help your child sleep all night. To get your free guide, simply fill in your name and e-mail address and push the button.

I am excited to announce that Pick Nick’s Brain will now be offering affordable sleep consulting services! We have been working hard developing custom helpdesk software that will help me streamline giving sleep advice to tired parents across the world (who speak English ;)). Now that my software is complete, I can now begin doing what I do best, helping tired parents help their baby / child get more sleep! I’ve helped hundreds of parents before this site was created, and now I want to help YOU! In the helpdesk, you fill in a profile that will help me know your child’s schedule and some other pertinent information such that I will be able to really get to know you and your child and be able to concentrate most on giving you advice and not taking precious time asking general questions. This also enables me to refresh my memory should you go long periods between consultations such that I will have our entire history at my fingertips! You will receive my responses via e-mail or you can login to your account and view everything right there.

I will be offering e-mail packages, unlimited e-mail, private chat and telephone consultations. Here’s how it will work:

• You will be able to enter as many helpdesk “tickets” as you wish and you are only “charged” for my responses. In other words, if you start an e-mail and decide to add to it later, you will not be charged. You will also not be charged for every e-mail I send to you. I get really involved in the cases brought to me and thus I would never charge you to say “That’s great little Lucy slept all night!”, for example. Honestly, I am not looking to get rich (though it would be nice!) off of your sleep deprivation. I only wish to be able to continue providing sleep advice to weary parents.
• The unlimited e-mail option will enable us to exchange as many e-mail as the length of time you purchase. In addition, if you purchase an unlimited e-mail subscription, if you purchase more services before your expiration date, you will automatically get a discount off any service! (fine print: promotions may change)
• The private chat will be by the hour where we will meet in a private chat room and have a discussion. The nice thing about the chat over the telephone is, at the end, I will be able to e-mail you our transcript for you to review later.
• Last but not least, I will also offer telephone support and consultations. You can purchase a certain number of minutes and we talk about the sleep problems your child(ren) are having. These options also come with unlimited e-mail for a specified amount of time!

Wait, there’s more! For the first 10 customers, I am offering $19 off which essentially gets you started with a 2-email package for less than $1!! You can also use this coupon for any other service package. When purchasing services, simply enter “FIRST10″ in the promo box, where indicated before you pay.

As you can tell, I’m very excited about this and can’t wait for us to get started! Come on in and create your account now!

I am pleased to announce that the FREE Quick Guide I wrote about last week is now available! You can receive this guide by signing up on our mailing list (Don’t worry, I hate spam as much as you and will never sell your information!). For those who signed up on the mailing list and have not received your guide, please sign up on the mailing list again as I had a technical problem about a week ago. I apologize for the inconvenience. The Quick Guide is a 4-page document outlining a variety of information helpful to parents with challenging sleepers. It’s a short document to give you pertinent information at your fingertips without requiring you to take a lot of time to read it. And, it gives simple instructions to start a sleep training process to help your child sleep.

Topics include quick facts pertaining to:

• How much sleep your child really needs
• Napping and schedules
• Sleep routines
• Explanation of sleep associations
• Night-weaning
• When and how to sleep train
• Descriptions of a variety of sleep training methods (No-Cry to Cry)

If you like the Quick Guide or have questions, you may desire even more detail in the above subjects and more, so please see our e-Book, Detailed Guide to Help Your Child Sleep.

You may also notice a change in the navigation of our site. After some feedback after our initial launch, we decided to make some changes. I hope you like them and I’d love more feedback!

I just wanted to share that I am in the process of writing up a document that will consolidate some useful information into one document that exhausted parents can read quickly or for all parents to have useful information at their fingertips. It will include much of the information on this website, but in an easy-to read “cliffs notes” version. It will include information such as how much sleep babies, toddlers and young children really need, why it may not be a good idea to rock your baby to sleep, useful resources to help get more sleep for you and your baby, information on how to sleep train (from no-cry methods to crying methods), when naps get dropped, and more. This information will be available via e-mail. Click here to sign up and receive your copy. The document will be available by Monday, May 19, 2008.

I am very excited to announce Pick Nick’s Brain has a new look! Thanks to iDesign Studios, the website has been re-designed with a unique look. I love the new design and really appreciate all the hard work the company did for me. It was well worth the investment. The website also has some new sections, too.

Resources

I have now included a Resources page highlighting quite a few products I recommend from books to white noise machines to breast pumps and websites for feeding and breastfeeding.

FREE Weekly Chat

I will now host a FREE Weekly Chat where you can ask me any sleep questions (or not about sleep if you really want to) and I will do my best to answer as many as I can in one hour. Every week I will post when the next chat will be and how to access it.

FAQ

I now have a FAQ page detailing answers to frequently asked questions regarding your child’s sleep.

Advertise

I am now offering Advertising on the website in the sidebar.

Stay tuned for a new Services section in the next month or so. Right now it’s under construction.

I hope you find this website even more informative and I would love to hear feedback on the design! Thank you for reading.

Hi! My name is Nicole and welcome to my blog about child sleep.

Why a blog about child sleep?!

I am a 34 year old mother of two and when my eldest was a baby, he was one of the most challenging sleepers! “Sleep like a baby?” Yeah right. You better hope you never sleep like my baby did! He would wake up every 1-2 hours all night long. We had to do soooo much to get this boy to sleep! So, I dove into numerous books and message boards about sleep. I devoured everything and once I helped him learn healthy sleep habits, I made it my mission to help other mommies and daddies make good sleepers, too. I became the leader of a message board and now have helped hundreds of parents get better sleep from their babies and better sleep for themselves. Well rested babies make happy babies and well rested parents make happy parents and happy parents make better parents.

And, so I am here now 2 1/2 years later with my second son, who is 8 weeks old today, about to embark on another journey to give another baby healthy sleep habits. My 2 1/2 year old is now a wonderful sleeper and so far his brother is better than he was at his age, yet will still need my guidance, I can see.

Unfortunately, some people think babies grow out of it only to find they have a 6 year old who still wakes up at night and studies have found adults with sleep problems that trace back to their childhood. Heck, I’m not the best sleeper either and I vowed not to pass that onto my children, if I can help it.

Let me assure you. Those of you with “easy” babies or those children that just grab a pillow off the couch when they’re sleepy and lay down will find this blog VERY boring. This is for those parents who are “at their wits end” who can’t get their child to sleep without standing on one foot in a field of daisies with the wind blowing west. I look forward to posting information you can find helpful to know you are not alone and know that you, too, can have a good sleeper!

Am I a doctor? No. Am I a sleep “expert”? No. I am a mother with an analytical mind who is an avid reader and has been told I give firm, yet supportive advice that works. So, I thought I’d branch out and try to help even more people than I already have.

How are you and your family sleeping?