{"id":400,"date":"2026-08-04T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babysleepoptimizer.com\/blog\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:32:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/babysleepoptimizer.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>About Susan Hawkins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Susan; the person behind Baby Sleep Optimizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This site didn&#8217;t start as a business. It started at 3:14 a.m., staring at a baby who would not sleep, with a shelf of contradictory sleep books and a group chat full of well-meaning advice that didn&#8217;t work. I did what I always do when I&#8217;m overwhelmed: I started reading the actual research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the following years, that turned into a genuine specialty. I&#8217;ve spent countless hours in the peer-reviewed literature on infant sleep: how sleep cycles mature, why the 4-month regression happens, how wake windows change month by month, and what the evidence really says about sleep training methods from gentle to cry-it-out. I don&#8217;t have a lab, but I approach this the way a researcher would: source-first, skeptical of viral claims, and honest about what we don&#8217;t yet know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What I believe:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Every baby is different; templates should be starting points, not rules.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parents deserve the &#8220;why,&#8221; not just the &#8220;what.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guidance should be gentle on the baby\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0on the parent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will never pretend to be your doctor. 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