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About Steph Gouin

Steph Gouin is a Registered Nurse of over 14 years and has spent most of her career in the field of Oncology. She is also a qualified Maternity and Child Sleep Consultant and the founder of her sleep consulting business, Before Baby & Beyond. She lives in Bayside Melbourne with her husband and their three young children Poppy, Harry and Edward

Are we being misled by the labelling of ‘High Needs’ babies when they just need sleep?

By | 2018-07-05T21:45:48+00:00 5 July 2018|Advice, Featured|

Are we being misled by the widespread labelling of “high needs” and “fussy” babies, when really these babies just need sleep?

Harry is our second child. He is now three years old and he is sweet, caring, shy at times yet loud and cheeky when he wants to be too. When Harry was around 12 weeks old, I was told Harry was a “High-Needs” (HN) baby and that was the reason why he was so unsettled and had been since birth. I was told that was his temperament, that’s just who he was, and we needed to get used to […]

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How personal experience affects the way we perceive baby sleep

By | 2018-06-26T11:32:57+00:00 26 June 2018|Articles|

About a month ago, I came across a post in another private Facebook group. This group wasn’t specifically for baby sleep and the post was presented in more of a health-related way however when reading through it, I very quickly realised that a lot of the baby’s struggles weren’t because of her health. They looked to be very much related to her sleep, or lack thereof. Loads of mums were replying to this mother, suggesting complex medical treatments and procedures that she should consider for her baby and not one person commented on […]

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Taking the emotion out of baby sleep

By | 2018-06-26T11:33:02+00:00 26 June 2018|Advice, Featured|

The more work I do as a sleep consultant, the more I realise how important it is that we look at sleep from a scientific stand point and not from an emotional one. Sleep, especially baby and child sleep, has become such an emotional topic of discussion. I completely understand why people get emotional about sleep because when your struggling to get your child to sleep and your feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, it’s hard not to get emotional about it. When you go day after day, week after week, month after month battling to get more than a few […]

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