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See how Gift of Sleep works
This guide shows how we help you record your baby’s sleep, notice what happens over time, and decide whether Sleep Discovery may help your family.
This guide does not read or save private family information.
Gift of Sleep · See how Gift of Sleep works
First, we watch.
We begin with what your baby is doing now. We do not give every baby the same schedule.
You record what happens.
For three current days, record when your baby falls asleep and wakes up. We need enough true moments before we can see a pattern.
We look for a pattern.
What we learn can change as your baby shows us more. If we suggest a next step, we tell you why. You choose whether to try it.
Your baby can show us something different.
If the next step does not fit what your baby shows us, we stop and look again. We do not force the plan.
The Independent Sleep Transition
Gift of Sleep does not exist to make a baby cry. It helps a tired baby move from being put to sleep by someone else to experiencing how their own body falls asleep.
A baby cannot understand a verbal explanation of that change. The baby learns it by safely experiencing it.
You are still the caregiver.
- Prepare a safe sleep environment.
- Meet feeding and physical needs.
- Monitor your baby and report what you observe.
- Respond when a genuine need appears.
Sleep is no longer completed for your baby.
Independent sleep is not abandonment or an instruction never to enter. It is a change in who completes the final move into sleep, while care and responsibility remain with you.
The Settling Arc
During first independent placement, strong sustained crying can change shape: the intensity lowers into fussing, droning, or silence; rises again; then reduces again. Gift of Sleep calls this movement the Settling Arc.
The movement up and down shows that your baby is no longer remaining at peak protest. Within Amanda’s governed method, it is the recognizable nervous-system transition toward sleep. Once it begins, sleep is expected within approximately 30 minutes of its reported onset—not from crib placement or the first cry.
Entering repeatedly during this phase can restart the process: a baby may expect familiar help, then cry harder when it ends. There is no promise that every sleep will take the same amount of time.
A check is for your capacity.
During the first 45 minutes, you may choose a brief check approximately every ten minutes.
Checks primarily support the parent’s capacity. They are not what teaches the baby to sleep.
What you and Grace notice
- Whether a check briefly reassures or escalates your baby.
- Whether it recreates the expectation of being put to sleep.
- Whether it reveals a genuine need.
- Whether it interrupts an emerging Settling Arc.
When the Arc is reported
Checks stop unless a genuine need or safety concern appears. Grace helps interpret what your family records and reports; Grace is not continuously monitoring your child.
Appropriate care is never withheld.
Hunger, illness, fever, breathing concerns, pain, diaper needs, teething discomfort, and unsafe conditions remain reasons to assess and respond.
After a need is addressed and your baby is reasonably comfortable, your baby returns to the crib to continue sleeping independently unless medical or safety authority requires another response.
You will understand what you are doing, what you are watching, why the response matters, and what to do next.
What is open now.
Mirror is free at every age.
Sleep Discovery is for babies 3–14 completed months.
One guided container lasts up to 14 days and costs $99 once. There is no subscription.
The supervised pilot is open to the first ten verified eligible families.
Gift of Sleep is educational sleep support, not medical care. Concerns about illness, breathing, feeding, growth, pain, development, or an urgent change belong with a pediatric clinician.
Answer a few simple questions so we can help you find the right place to begin.
Tell us what’s happeningStart a free baby record. Orientation is optional; this is not a purchase or automatic Discovery enrollment.