www.littleones.co

I bought the program(6-24 months) as it avertised there will be no leaving the baby alone to cry. But it does involve plenty of crying from my perspective and i am not comfortable leaving the little one 1 min to cry without trying to console him.also the other advice received is nothing new or special and the schedule also seems a bit off, especially the feeds.

The marketing around Little Ones lulls you into believing that this app will have all the answers. For me it didn’t but It doesn’t mean I wouldn’t recommend the programme (with caveats). The schedules are great - really great. Once you get into the swing of them, the reassurance that you child is getting enough (but not too much) daytime sleep at the right times gives you the confidence to put them down at night and know you’ve done all the right things so you can reasonably expect them to sleep through the night at the right age. I also like the troubleshooting pages which helped when things don’t go to plan. On the downside, the self-settling methods are, in my experience, utterly unhelpful. 3 of my friends who have the app have also had the same experience. The methods lead to our babies becoming increasingly distressed. My baby cried for 2.5 hours the first night and 3 hours the night after. After that ordeal, I decided I may as well opt for the cry-it-out method which the programme promised I would be able to avoid. The support from the village is also a bit hit and miss. Little Ones justifies this by saying This part of their service is “complementary”. Either it’s part of the service or it’s not and so far as I’m concerned, I paid for a package with support so it should be of a good standard. Response times are slow and so not helpful when you have an urgent query. On top of this, the app regularly sends out messages suggesting you read the guides rather than ask questions which I found condescending - if I were able to find the answer in the guides, I wouldn’t be asking the question! When the answers come they often don’t directly address the question and can also seem condescending. So for me, Little Ones has good and bad points and I think the marketing is misleading

We purchased the program to help with her daytime naps but unfortunately for us our daughters naps didn't improve. However we found the routine itself very good with a few tweaks to suit her needs. We will just keep working on the sleep part ourselves

Something to aim for but just isn't working for me and my little one

My little one (almost 8 weeks) has been on the program since week 5. She can not stay awake for 2 hours - we tried for the first week and a half and she was so overtired it was a complete disaster. We then shortened the awake times as suggested down to 1 hour and about 15 min which is all she can handle, but then the three nap day didn’t work for us - it was leading to too many nap hours during the day and then her night wakes were frequent. We are now on a different 4 nap program and it’s going well. I hope to revisit when she is older and can handle more awake times.