Meet Brittany
Hi, I’m Britt! (officially Brittany Chambers, MS, IFSS)
I was the baby that didn't sleep. My parents — high school sweethearts and compassionate, bright people — didn't know what to do. Desperate for sleep and unaware of another option, they deployed the cry-it-out method.
And It didn't work.
Here's the thing no one tells you about sleep training: since babies’ brains don't have the architecture to regulate on their own (the myth of self-soothing!) until they're 3-5 years old, sleep training doesn't actually teach sleep. Instead, the infant brain shuts down.
But for some babies — like me — methods of extinction and controlled crying don't quell the signaling either. So there I was, screaming in my crib night after night until I fell asleep from sheer exhaustion - an implicit memory my nervous system still carries as an adult.
I like to say that I work for babies: I advocate for their needs before they can do so themselves. And of course, I work for mothers. For families. I provide evidence-based information so people have the full-scope of information needed to make aligned decisions. My life's work is to to protect infant and maternal mental health and reduce the stress of early motherhood by normalizing biologically normal infant behavior.
Helping babies avoid this experience through educating and empowering their parents is transformational work. It's revolutionary in a culture that prematurely urges separation and independence. Your nighttime nurture sets the stage for life-long mental health. Your parenting can break cycles of generational trauma. I find tremendous joy in empowering parents to trust their instincts so they can realign with their values and make informed decisions about sleep and parenting: something I wish existed for my parents 30+ years ago.
I'm a mama to a three-year-old girl and almost-one-year-old boy, a wife, coach, writer, and lifelong learner. It was becoming a mother that prompted me to shifted away from a ten-year professional fundraising career working for a renowned global nonprofit and begin exploring everything relating to infant psychology. I was magnetically pulled to uncover the truth about infant sleep and examine the intersection of infant, maternal, and societal mental health.
I spent much of my fundraising career being a voice for the voiceless and much of my early schooling studying developmental psychology and education. I've spent hundreds of hours in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, have managed nonprofit boards, raised tens of millions of dollars for social justice causes, and have served as a leadership coach for C-Level executives. But studying infant sleep was like coming home to myself; aligning my deepest passions and my natural inclinations in service of babies and families.
In addition to my sleep education, I've spent hundreds of hours hands-on in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, participating in the unfolding of early childhood psychology. I’ve explored meditation, energy medicine, nutrition, herbalism, movement, breath, astrology, CBT, perinatal psychology, and somatic therapy as healing modalities and often incorporate components of each into my work with new parents.
I’m curious, open-minded, and intuitive. I love comedy, good matcha, good books, and deep connection with other humans. When I’m not counseling families on sleep, I’m playing with my daughter somewhere outside under the California sun.
Credentials
Infant and Family Sleep Specialist, BeboMia. Studied under Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum, renowned neuroscientist, doula, and infant sleep specialist.
Parental Brain Educator (certification in progress, studying under Dr. Rocio Zunini)
Mindfulness for Parents Course Completion, UCSD
B.A., SUNY Cortland
M.S., Keuka College
Certified Shoden Reiki Practitioner
Board Member: Children's Sleep Foundation
