i'm emma liuzzi, and i'm a pediatric sleep consultant

i'm CPSM-certified, a credential from the center for pediatric sleep management. i work with families in new york city and, because the practice is virtual, in a lot of places that are not new york city.

i also have an infant at home right now.

that last part isn't a line in a bio. it means the four month reorganization isn't a chapter i revised, it's a thing that happened in my apartment recently. when i tell you that overtired looks like wired, that a tired baby runs on cortisol instead of winding down, i'm describing something i watched at 7pm on a tuesday.

why the reasoning and not the schedule

anyone can hand you a schedule. there are a hundred of them online and several of them are approximately right for your baby's age.

what a schedule can't do is tell you what to do when the night doesn't match it, which is most nights. so the thing i actually sell is the reasoning underneath. a parent who understands why the plan says what it says can hold the line where it matters, bend where it doesn't, and stop relitigating the whole approach every time something goes sideways.

that's the difference between a plan that survives a growth spurt and one that dies the first bad night.

how i work

approach is chosen together, after i know your baby's age and temperament and what your household can actually sustain. parent present first. nothing gets named as the method before anyone has asked about your child, because a method picked before that conversation is just a guess with a name on it.

you won't be judged for what you've been doing to get through. contact naps, feeding to sleep, the bassinet you finally gave up on at 4am. those were tools, and at the time they were the right ones.

where i hand off

every plan i write contains a section with that title, and i mean it literally.

feeding volumes, weight, reflux, tongue tie, apnea, medication, whether an overnight feed is still needed. those are your pediatrician's, not mine. sleep work pauses during illness.

i provide sleep coaching and education, not medical advice. i'd rather tell you where my expertise stops than let you find out later. trust the people who tell you where their expertise ends.

the safe sleep part, which doesn't bend

firm, flat, non-inclined surface. on the back, for every sleep. nothing loose in the space. sleeping alone on that surface, in your room for at least the first six months, and up to a year if it works for you. keep the room cool, somewhere around 68 to 72F, and dress him one layer more than you'd wear yourself.

room-sharing yes, bed-sharing no. that's the one place in this work where i don't offer nuance, and i won't soften it to make a plan more comfortable.

working together

everything starts with the intake form. it asks about your baby, your nights, and what you've already tried, and it's what the first conversation is built on. nobody books cold, because a call before i know anything about your child is a call where i'm guessing.

you get two weeks of live text support, from me, the person who wrote your plan. i'm not on your phone at 2am, and i'd rather say that plainly than let you find out. at 2am it's the plan that's with you, which is exactly why i explain the reasoning behind every call in it.

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