TESTIMONIALS

Our now 4 year old twins, Cailyn and Aidan, have been great sleepers since they were infants, with help from the strategies Suzy supplied us with. From an early age, they were regularly sleeping 10-12 hours a night and napping 2-3 hours a day, a fact which continued to amaze our pediatrician.

In the early going, it was a challenge to protect their sleep time, but we did it, knowing that it was the best thing for all of us. We always got them to bed on time, they always were home for their naps, and they were more well-behaved for it. Now that they are 4, they have dropped nap time, but they still sleep about 10 hours a night. They wake up happy, rested, and ready to start the day. Equally as important, my husband and I do, too!

There have been only a handful of occasions when they slept with us or vice versa, and that's been when we have been visiting or on vacation and not home, or when one of them has been really sick.

We are often complimented on how sweet and well-behaved our kids are, and I really give a lot of credit for that to their good sleep habits. The early work with Suzy has paid off immensely for us. Not only did we get the sleep we so badly needed then, but we have two very well-adjusted kids who are rested, don't fight us at bedtime, and know when they're tired and they want to go to bed. There are so many challenges to parenting twins, but in our case we are so thankful that sleeping hasn't been one of them!

from: Kathy

On learning I was pregnant with twins, the best advice my husband and I received was "GET A NIGHT NANNY". My search lead me to Suzy Giordano and hiring her was one of the best decisions we ever made.

Suzy was a big advocate on getting the twins on a schedule. She started working with us the first day we brought our new babies home from the hospital and it in less than three months she had them both sleeping a solid 12 hours a night. She also helped us to become relaxed and confident new parents. My husband and I joke that our family graduated from Suzy. There was much to learn on how to establish a schedule for the kids, but once we got it, it was great! We all worked together to put our newborn twins on a schedule that worked best for our family. What emerged was a sort of blue print for the coming days and months of what we could expect as they grew. We were not at the mercy of a haphazard schedule. I felt that I could handle anything, and a confident mother is a happy one.  

Having the kids on a schedule enabled me to go out with the babies by myself when they were just a few weeks old. It was healthy for us and fun too! We were soon in a play group, joined a gym, and would visit friends who also had young children. We were usually the only set of twins and my kids were always the "good ones." Mothers with only one infant were amazed at how we were always on the go and wanted to know our secret. My kids were rarely grumpy; always well rested and, thanks to our schedule, I could easily anticipate their needs and adjust outings to fit around their feedings and naps. I could tell a friend to telephone me at three o'clock in the afternoon and be reasonably confident that both kids would be napping. This was very freeing.

There is nothing "easy" about having newborn twins, but having them on a schedule definitely gave us a good foundation. I cannot imagine what it would have been like with one child sleeping and the other needing to be fed - day in and day out. &nbs p; It certainly was an incentive to stick to the schedule! It was something that we had to teach ourselves as well as the babies and for it to work, we had to stick with it. We did, and it was a positive experience that served us well throughout their early years. Allison and Jack are now six, and have reaped the benefits of being on that schedule more than we'll ever know.

I look back at those first months with my new babies as happy and full of new and wonderful experiences - not sleep deprived and stuck at home wondering when the next feeding would be.   Most of this is due to Suzy's coaching to keep on a schedule. It was a learning experience that I consider a gift from her to both us and our kids.

On a personal note:

Suzy is warm, caring and exudes confidence. But her best quality, to me, is her positive outlook on life. Her happiness and joy spreads to all who come in contact with her - including my newborn twins.

She was a great cheerleader - Always telling us what a great job we were doing with the twins, but quick to gently correct us if we she knew a better way to do something. Her expertise on newborns is astounding.

from: Lisa

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