Possums Clinic, Brisbane

I used the possums approach and my little happy baby turned into a gremlin , haha he was so miserable and just not himself, but I think their approach is more for low sleep needs babies and my boy clearly wasn’t low sleep needs.

I’ve not been but my GP is one of the practitioners there and she is beyond amazing so I would imagine the others would be too!

Dr Kathryn Franks at Neighbourhood Medical if you want. One on one appointment! She’ll be able to help you for suuuure!

can not agree more!! Dr Kathryn is absolutely lovely!

Geez, that doesn’t sound good do you mind if I ask what about their approach didn’t work for you? This is the first time I’ve heard anything negative about them

Thanks and
I’m not in Brisbane (Sunshine Coast) but appreciate the recommendation. What do you like about her, out of interest? 😊

We do possums with our baby and it's been a game changer! Really helped my mindset around sleep and my days in general. We all get a bit more sleep at night too!

thank you. What is it about the approach that works so well for you? I’m finding it hard to understand what “possums” actually is… is it no schedules? Watching cues? More stimulation…? Or something else?

it's trying to align your sleep with your baby's sleep as much as possible. To do this you set an early wake up time and be really consistent with it (we get up at 6) to set their circadian clock. Then you go about your day without focussing on naps (it can take baby time to get used to napping on the go if they are used to napping in dark, quiet rooms but my baby naps everywhere now). Also pushing their bedtime back which gives them time to build up their sleep pressure

Not the best summary but feel free to msg me

Thank you! Thanks really helpful we have a pretty early start already, around 6-6.30am, and our bedtime is usually between 7-7.30pm… how late do you push bedtime? And do you still pay attention to wake windows?

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our baby goes to bed between 8-10 depending on when his last nap was. Another thing with possums is using naps to take the edge off rising sleep pressure but not trying to prolongue them because long day time naps ultimately takes away from night time sleep. So we occasionally wake him up from naps if we think they've been going for too long, and later in the day (after 5/6) we only let him nap for like 10 mins max

Thanks that’s great to hear . My son occasionally has longish naps during the day (1-2 hours) but I look at overall day sleep and try to keep it from going over 3 hrs (atm). Does that sound in-line with possums? Anything after 5pm would end up being bedtime for us. How do you find the later bedtime?