Anonymous Father
It has been nearly two months since Lisa’s last night watching Jackson, but here I am, feeling compelled to write about Lisa because she left such an amazing and long lasting impact on our family. Lisa came to us at a time when we were struggling to establish a reasonable sleep schedule with Jackson. You see, my wife is an executive and I am a trial lawyer, so sleepless nights are a real problem for our day jobs. At the same time, we truly wanted to raise our child first hand and not be absent parents. We went without any support for nearly three months and hit a breaking point because we were constantly up throughout the night with Jackson and, thereafter, faced grueling days with our jobs. Around that time, I had lunch with one of my partners who was the father to twins born two years earlier. He explained that he never would have survived without the nurse he used from your service to establish sleep schedules for his boys. I think that we called you about two hours later. After receiving a few candidates from you we selected Lisa. She came to us and quickly assured us that she would have the baby sleeping 12 hours a night very soon. At the time, Jackson was sleeping for 4 hours at a time, with the exception being 6 hours if we were lucky. Candidly, I had serious doubts about Lisa’s representations concerning how long Jackson would eventually sleep if we implemented her schedule. Lisa quickly formed a plan for feedings and sleep