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Teresa Fric I help moms get their baby sleeping 12h a night
Structure your days → fix your nights
Biology-based. No cry it out. No rigid schedules.

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18/09/2026

If your newborn is wide awake at 2am and sleeping all day, this is the first thing I'd work on. 💁🏼‍♀️

Helping them learn the difference between day and night.

A newborn's body clock is still developing. So from day one, I like giving it really clear signals.

During the day: daylight, normal household noise, normal life happening around them.
At night: dark, quiet and boring. Keep feeds calm, lights low and stimulation to a minimum.

You're not trying to put a newborn on some ridiculous schedule. You're simply helping their little body start figuring out this is day and this is night.

It's one of the things I did with James from the very beginning and I'll be doing again with baby no. 2.

Comment SLEEP and I'll send you the full newborn sleep framework I use from day one. 🩵

16/09/2026

Week 40 🤰🏼 and I could literally have a newborn tomorrow. Which is wiiiiiiiild. 😅

And I’m about to do the whole baby sleep thing again.

I know what I’m going to do because I’ve done it before. But I also know I’m about to meet a completely different little human with his own temperament and absolutely no idea what he’ll throw at me. 🙈🤞🏼

With James, I started with the foundations from day one. Feeding. Light. Awake time. Sleep cues. And then adjusted as he developed.

By 6 weeks, he was sleeping 12-hour nights with one feed. By 5.5 months, 12 hours straight.

Now I get to do it all over again. With a completely different baby. And this time, I’m showing you exactly how I do it.

In real time. From day one. 🩵

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14/09/2026

Week 39 🤰🏼

Still wiiiiild to me that these are our last few days as a family of three. 🙈

James knows there's a baby in mommy's belly and that it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. 😅 He pats and kisses it, but obviously has absolutely no idea what's actually about to happen.

And honestly... neither do we. 😅🙈

Any day now there'll be four of us. 🩵

But for now, life carries on as usual. 💪🏼

01/09/2026

I think “every baby is different” might be one of the most misunderstood sentences in motherhood. 💁🏼‍♀️

Because YES.

Babies are wildly different.

One baby will happily nap in a restaurant while people are talking around them.
Another wakes up because you moved your freaking elbow. 😂
One can stay awake a little too long and barely notice.
Another crosses that line and suddenly the entire evening has gone to s**t.

Different personalities. Different temperaments. Different sensitivities.

But different biology? Not really.

Their bodies still build sleep pressure.
Their circadian rhythm still responds to things like light and darkness.
Feeding and sleep still affect each other.
And their sleep needs still change as they grow.

That doesn’t mean every baby needs the exact same schedule.

And it definitely doesn’t mean something that works for one baby will work exactly the same way for another.

It means the principles underneath what we’re looking at are the same.

And I think that distinction matters A LOT.

Because “every baby is different” shouldn’t mean we throw our hands in the air and assume baby sleep is completely random. 😂

You learn the biology.
Then you learn your baby.
And you use both.

That’s the whole point. 🩵

01/09/2026

Your baby suddenly starts waking at 2am every night.

So naturally you start trying to figure out what the hell is happening at 2am. 😂

Are they hungry?
Teething?
Was bedtime wrong?
Is this another regression?

And sometimes the answer IS something happening overnight.

But sometimes...

that 2am wake actually started hours earlier.

Maybe they didn't get enough daytime sleep.
Maybe they spent too long awake and went into bedtime overtired.
Maybe they didn't get enough milk during the day.

Because baby sleep doesn't reset every time you put them down.

What happens during the day affects what happens at night.

That's why when James's sleep suddenly went sideways, I didn't just look at the moment he woke up.

I looked at the whole 24 hours.

Feeding. Naps. Awake time. Light. Bedtime. Night wakes.

And THAT is one of the biggest shifts I wish more moms understood about troubleshooting baby sleep.

Stop looking at each wake as an isolated event.

Start looking at the whole system.

I put the framework I use to figure out what's actually going on into a free guide.

Comment SLEEP and I'll send it to you for FREE. 🩵

31/08/2026

Baby sleep gets talked about like it’s mainly about the parents getting their nights back.

And yeah... obviously I wanted to sleep too. 😂

But I also cared A LOT about James getting enough sleep because I started understanding just how much was happening in his little brain while he slept.

Their little brains are developing at an absolutely insane pace.

They’re learning
new faces,
sounds,
movements,
skills...
basically figuring out how to be a human every single day. 😂

And sleep plays a huge role in all of that.

In learning and memory,
emotional regulation,
growth,
and recovery.

So wanting your baby to sleep well isn’t selfish.

And tbh I wish more moms heard that.

Send this to a mom who needs the reminder. 🩵

28/08/2026

I think the second pregnancy is basically realizing how much s**t you worried about the first time that absolutely did not matter. 😅

With James, I researched EVERYTHING.

What to buy. What not to buy. What to eat. What not to eat. What the baby was doing every week. What I should be doing every week. Which pram. Which cot. Which bottles. Which absolutely essential baby item the internet had decided I couldn't possibly survive without.

I wanted to know everything and be prepared for everything.

Second pregnancy?

Is baby #2 healthy? Amazing.
Do we have somewhere for him to sleep? Yep.
Do we have nappies and some clothes? We'll survive. 🥳

And I think part of it is obviously just having done this before.

But I also know now how much of motherhood you simply cannot prepare for in advance.

You figure s**t out as you go.

Half the stuff you thought would matter doesn't. And something you never even considered suddenly becomes the thing you're Googling at 2am. 🙈

I'm definitely more relaxed this time.

Not because I care less.

I think I just have a much better idea of what actually deserves my energy.

And at 37 weeks pregnant with a toddler, that energy is a VERY finite resource. 😭

Second-time moms, what did you obsess over with baby #1 that you completely stopped giving a s**t about with baby #2? 💁🏼‍♀️

James was sleeping 12 hours a night with one night feed at 6 weeks.And by 5.5 months, he was sleeping 12 hours straight....
27/08/2026

James was sleeping 12 hours a night with one night feed at 6 weeks.

And by 5.5 months, he was sleeping 12 hours straight.

No cry it out. No leaving him screaming until he “learned” to sleep. And no magical unicorn baby either. 😊

But here's the part that matters for YOUR baby:

I didn't treat nighttime sleep like something that only happened at night.

Feeding, light exposure, wake time, naps and bedtime all affect each other.

So if your baby is waking constantly at night, the answer isn't necessarily at bedtime.

I started building those foundations from the beginning. Not by putting a newborn on some ridiculous rigid schedule, but by understanding how baby sleep actually works and adjusting as James grew.

Because babies upgrade approximately every five freaking minutes. 😅🙈

What worked at 6 weeks wasn't what worked at 3 months. Or 5 months.

The point was never to follow one perfect schedule.

It was to understand what I was looking at so I knew what to adjust when something stopped working.

I've put the framework I used into a free guide.

Comment SLEEP and I'll send it to you. 🩵

26/08/2026

I want to be present with my baby.

But I also want energy for the other parts of my life that make me feel like me.

To train. To work. To see my friends. To have dinner with my husband without feeling like a zombie. To actually enjoy motherhood instead of just surviving it.

I never understood why becoming a mom was supposed to mean accepting permanent exhaustion as part of the deal.

Getting James sleeping well wasn't about having some “perfect baby.”

It meant I could be the mom I wanted to be without every other part of me disappearing in the process.

And honestly, I think those two things can coexist.

Moms, what was the thing that made you feel most like YOU again after having a baby?

25/08/2026

One of the first places I'd look is feeding.

With younger babies, night feeds can obviously be completely normal and necessary.

But as babies grow, I also want to know what's happening during the DAY.

Are they getting good, full milk feeds?

Are they distracted and barely eating?

And once they're 6+ months, are they actually getting enough from their solids too?

Because if they're genuinely hungry at night, the waking isn't the problem. The hunger is.

And that's one of the biggest things behind how I approach baby sleep:

Don't immediately try to stop the waking. Figure out what's driving it first.

I'm breaking down more of the things I look at when a baby isn't sleeping well over the next two weeks.

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I’m sharing more of the things I’d look at over the next couple of weeks.

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