Sally’s got sleep sussed

by dorsetbiznews.co.uk

SALLY Unterberger has always loved her sleep.

For decades she took special pride in the fact she could sleep through anything.

She said: “My Mum always said I could sleep like a log.

“At university it was a real problem. I could sleep too much and nothing would wake me. I even missed one of my final exams because I slept through about six alarms.”

But that all changed when Sally had twins 14 years ago. It was a traumatic birth and experience with her son, in particular, very poorly.

Sally, who grew up in Dorset and now lives in Colehill, said: “I suffered massive sleep deprivation when my twins weren’t sleeping. I was so scared about them crying or something being wrong with them.

“I was probably a hypervigilant mother because of the difficult birth and the difficult start so we got into lots of bad habits with sleep.

“It just got to a crunch point where I wasn’t sleeping and the twins weren’t sleeping or thriving. They weren’t getting the foundational sleep they needed to be able to grow and develop and build their immune system.

“I trawled the internet, read loads of books, came across lots of conflicting information, but then we found what worked for us.

“Sleep training them in a gentle way completely changed our lives. That’s when things turned for the better.”

Five years ago, Sally, who worked in finance for 21 years including J P Morgan Chase & Co and Merrill Lynch, set up in business as a sleep consultant, specialising in twins and multiples.

She’s since turned around the lives of hundreds of satisfied clients in Dorset and across the world including Canada, Germany and Switzerland.

She has 61 five-star Google reviews.

Sally, who’s married to Steve and has two sisters-inlaw also with twins, said: “My clients come now purely by word of mouth and lovely testimonials.

“I would say more than 50 per cent of clients are twinsrelated.

“There are quite a lot of sleep specialists but it’s different when it comes to twins and multiples.

“I have a 100 per cent success rate if my plan is followed and can guarantee it will work as long as there’s not a medical reason.

“Lives can be changed in as little as two weeks but it may occasionally go into a third week.”

Sally, 50, is certified by Baby Sleep the Night.

She has now expanded her services to include supporting women going through the menopause and those suffering from limiting beliefs or struggling with parenting.

Trained in hypnosis, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and EFT tapping (emotional freedom technique), she also coaches cancer sufferers and has started to work with men and offer meditation.

Sally said: “Working with adults and sleep is a very different thing.

“The feedback and reaction is what makes it a joy.

“I’m working with a client who has twins, seven-and-a-half months old, and she says she can’t believe the difference. She said ‘I can’t thank you enough. We’ve got our evenings back, we’ve got our lives back’.

“The feedback is what keeps me wanting more.

“There is much more I want to do. The future is looking bright.”

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Great hospital on our doorstep

I RECENTLY had a stupid accident in the garden –dropping my secateurs and stabbing my big toe!

I had difficulty stemming the bleeding, so the following day I decided I should seek medical help –following the recent guidelines, I rang 111 to book an appointment at the MIU in Swanage.

I went through the question and answer session and was told a clinician would ring me back – which she did.

She advised I should be booked into one of the ‘treatment centres’ in Poole or Dorchester Hospital but I pointed out we had an operational minor injuries unit (MIU) in Swanage and all I wanted to achieve was to make an appointment following the guidelines.

She told me Swanage MIU was for telephone consultations only and not on her list for treatments – I disagreed.

She then said she would ring Swanage Hospital, but she came back to me to say there was no reply – of course there wouldn’t be, as reception isn’t manned at weekends.

I thanked her for her time and told her I would go up to the hospital myself – the nurse who answered the door asked me if I’d rung 111, so I explained the situation.

She asked if I lived locally and would I mind returning for an 11.30am appointment and all I had to do was fill in a short form. When I returned, the service, as usual, was exemplary – thank you Judy!

This is a ridiculous state of affairs – a perfectly adequate service on our doorstep.

How many people battle in summer traffic to go to Poole or Dorchester to over-stretched departments – so we’re told.

Beware the ‘men in suits and bean counters’ – if they think the service isn’t being used it will be closed down.

Alex Gray (Mrs) Swanage

Ideal home for nesting swifts

MIKE Fry – Purbeck Gazette, Letters, June 26 – is correct to say that most fledglings should be left alone if uninjured. However, the best way to help swallows, housemartins and swifts if you find them on the ground is to place them near the edge of a flat roof to enable them to make another attempt at taking off, or to launch them gently from your hands into the air.

My son has several pairs of swifts nesting in his roof space and has used both these methods successfully.

Over the years, numbers have increased because he has made more nest entrances, so the young have returned to breed.

It’s wonderful to watch them wheeling above, knowing they will not touch the ground again until in April they return here to breed, after overwintering in Africa, even sleeping on the wing.

Geraldine Hobson

Hazelbury Bryan