I’m Milos. I built Sleep Ready.
Scientist by training. Certified paediatric sleep consultant. Potty training specialist. 10+ year CPR and First Aid instructor. Twin dad. The practice I wished existed when my own kids were four months old and nothing was working.
I’m a Canadian-certified paediatric sleep and potty training consultant based in Ontario, with four specializations from the Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. Before any of that, I trained as a scientist — an Honours BSc in Immunology, Genetics and Microbiology from the University of Toronto — which is where my habit of reading the actual research, instead of the internet’s summary of it, comes from. I’ve been a CPR and First Aid instructor for over a decade. I run two businesses — Sleep Ready for paediatric sleep and potty training, and Life Safe for family-focused First Aid and CPR training. And I’m a dad to 10-month-old twins who have taught me, in real time and at 3 a.m., the difference between how paediatric sleep is supposed to work on paper and how it actually works in a real household.
Why this practice exists
My twins were born at 37 weeks. A boy and a girl, both small at birth — 5th percentile — and both home within 48 hours of delivery because the hospital needed the beds and our pregnancy had been, by the numbers, uncomplicated. For the first two weeks they cluster-fed around the clock and my wife and I slept in 90-minute fragments. This was expected. What wasn’t expected was how little of the advice I’d prepared with — the books, the podcasts, the Instagram accounts — actually applied to the specific children sleeping (or not) in front of me.
By the time they were four months old, we’d hit what the internet calls the sleep regression and what is actually a permanent neurological shift in how infants consolidate sleep. I had all four of my certifications from the Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting at that point, and I’ll tell you honestly — it still took me three weeks to figure out how to apply what I knew to my own household. Not because the certifications are weak. They’re not. Because the gap between the evidence-based frameworks and the actual living-room reality of two specific babies is wider than any book can cover.
Most of the sleep advice I read as a new parent wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t built for real families. The books assume one baby; I had two. The programmes assume one parent on parental leave and one working; my wife and I were sharing both. The methods assume a textbook child; the children in our house were already asserting themselves in ways that required a calibrated approach, not a template. Every parent I’ve worked with since has described some version of the same experience. The advice isn’t wrong. It’s just not theirs.
Sleep Ready is the practice I wished existed when my own twins were four months old. It takes evidence-based frameworks seriously — Canadian Paediatric Society guidance, the research on infant sleep consolidation, the work on child-centred potty training, the specialized literature on sleep in neurodivergent and medically complex children — and it translates that seriously into plans calibrated to your actual family, your actual home, and your actual child. Not a template. Not a script. A plan.
That gap is the reason this practice exists.
What I believe about paediatric sleep
Every child is specific.
There is no universal sleep method that works for every child, and the ones who claim to be universal are usually just the loudest. Your baby’s sleep is a function of their temperament, their developmental stage, their neurology, your household’s structure, your home’s sleep environment, and your own parenting philosophy. A good plan accounts for all of those; a template accounts for none.
Parental sleep is the currency.
Most paediatric sleep practices focus exclusively on the child. That’s incomplete. The reason sleep training matters, ultimately, is that parents who haven’t slept in four months cannot function — cognitively, emotionally, medically. Parental sleep is not a side effect of the work we do; it’s often the entire point. I write plans that account for what you can actually sustain.
Evidence matters. So does judgement.
I align with Canadian Paediatric Society guidance, SickKids clinical pathways, and the peer-reviewed paediatric sleep research. I’ll also tell you when a piece of research isn’t yet settled, or when it applies to study populations that don’t look like your family. Good clinical judgement means knowing what the evidence says and knowing where its edges are.
No cry-it-out unless you ask for it.
Extinction-based methods work for some families. For many families, they produce an outcome at a cost the family quietly regrets. I don’t do cry-it-out unless a family specifically asks for it, and even then I want us to have a real conversation about whether it’s the right fit before we start.
Canadian paediatric care is world-class. Use it.
We have one of the best paediatric health care systems in the world. I complement it; I don’t replace it. For every family I work with, the paediatrician comes first, the specialists come before me in their lane, and I stay in my lane. That’s not humility — it’s how you actually help a child.
Credentials
The honest framing matters more than the listing — here’s what each one actually means.
Pediatric Sleep Consulting — General
Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. The foundational certification covering infant and toddler sleep from 4 months through 3 years. Evidence-based, clinically supervised training, recertification required. This is the credential most paediatric sleep consultants hold. It’s table stakes for doing this work professionally.
Newborn Sleep (0–3 months)
Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. A specialization in the fourth-trimester period, when most advice is wrong because most advice assumes the child has a mature circadian rhythm (they don’t) and a mature sleep architecture (they don’t). Newborn sleep work is about survival, shaping, and foundation-setting — not sleep training.
Special Needs Sleep
Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. The most demanding of the four certifications. Covers sleep in neurodivergent children (autism, ADHD, sensory processing differences), medically complex children (epilepsy, Down syndrome, congenital conditions), and rare-disease presentations. This is the work where generic methods fail most dramatically and where specialized training matters most.
Child-Centred Potty Training
Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. A readiness-based, developmentally-informed approach to potty training, distinct from the three-day internet methods that circulate on social media. The work is about assessing readiness accurately, building a plan around the child’s actual developmental stage, and pushing back on artificial daycare-timeline pressure without destroying your relationship with your daycare.
10+ years as a CPR & First Aid instructor
Life Safe (sister practice). Before Sleep Ready, there was Life Safe. I’ve been certified to teach paediatric and adult First Aid and CPR for over a decade. This credential is the reason Sleep Ready and Life Safe operate as sister practices — and the reason the bundled programmes genuinely work as integrated engagements rather than as bolt-ons.
Honours BSc — University of Toronto
Immunology, Genetics & Microbiology. Not a sleep credential, and not a medical licence — but it’s the reason this practice runs on primary research instead of recycled advice. It’s where I learned to read a study, weigh the evidence, and tell a strong finding from a shaky one. Everything Sleep Ready publishes traces back to guidelines and peer-reviewed research; that habit started here.
Life Safe — the other practice I run
I started Life Safe before Sleep Ready. For more than a decade I’ve been teaching parents, grandparents, nannies, and family caregivers the specifics of paediatric First Aid and CPR — the parts of emergency response that are different for a choking 6-month-old than for a choking 36-year-old, the steps that matter most when a febrile seizure is happening on your living room floor, the precise depth and rate of compressions for an infant versus a child versus an adult.
Sleep Ready exists because of Life Safe. Most of my earliest sleep clients were families who had taken Life Safe First Aid training and asked, later, whether I knew anything about sleep. I did. That’s how this practice started.
Today, Sleep Ready and Life Safe operate as integrated sister practices. Four bundled programmes combine sleep consulting with family First Aid certification at a meaningful cost savings versus booking them separately. For most families who need both, the bundle is substantially the right choice.
How I actually work with families
Every engagement starts with a free 15-minute discovery call. It’s genuinely free, genuinely 15 minutes, and genuinely costs nothing. The purpose is to make sure the package you’re about to buy is the right one. About 10% of discovery calls end with me recommending a different resource entirely — a paediatrician, an IBCLC-certified lactation consultant, an OT, a feeding specialist — because Sleep Ready isn’t the right fit for that specific family’s question. I consider this the most important filter in the whole business.
Once we’ve confirmed fit, we book an initial consultation. For families within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and the Niagara Region, this can be in-home. For families elsewhere in Canada, it’s virtual over secure video. Outcomes are functionally equivalent for most presentations — and for many families, virtual is genuinely preferable for scheduling flexibility.
The initial consultation runs 60 or 90 minutes depending on the package. It includes a full sleep environment audit, a detailed conversation about your child’s developmental stage, household structure, medical context, and whatever presenting concern brought you to me. At the end, I commit to delivering a written plan within 48 hours.
Then the real work begins. Packages include follow-up calls (typically weekly for the first few weeks, then tapering) and text-based support during the active engagement window. The text support is important — because the work happens between sessions, and the specific 2 a.m. question about whether to go in at the 4-minute mark or the 8-minute mark is often the question that most affects the outcome.
Engagements typically run 2 to 12 weeks depending on the package. Special Needs engagements run longer. Every engagement ends with a clear wrap-up: what we did, what worked, what to watch for, what to do if something regresses in 3 months.
Who I’m not the right fit for
I’m not the right consultant for families who want someone to tell them exactly what to do without any input from them. Paediatric sleep is a collaborative engagement, not a prescription.
I’m not the right consultant for families looking to execute a strict extinction-based (full cry-it-out) protocol as the first and only option. It’s not that I think extinction methods are inherently wrong; it’s that I don’t lead with them, and families who lead with that request are usually better served by a consultant who specializes in it.
I’m not a substitute for paediatric medical care, mental health therapy, feeding and lactation support, occupational therapy, speech therapy, or developmental assessment. I complement those professionals; I don’t replace them.
If any of those describes what you’re actually looking for, I’ll tell you on the discovery call, without charging you for it, and point you toward the right resource.
A short note on the parenting advice industry
The paediatric sleep and parenting advice industry has a volume problem. There are too many people offering certainty where there isn’t any, too many methods sold as universal when they aren’t, and too many three-day transformations promised to exhausted parents who deserve better. Some of this is well-intentioned. Some of it is not.
I can’t fix the industry. What I can do is run a practice that does the opposite — admits the edges of what’s known, respects the specificity of each family, charges honestly for the work, and refers out when it’s the right thing to do. I’d rather have 50 clients a year who were the right fit than 500 who weren’t.
If you’ve read this far, you probably want the same kind of practice. I’d be grateful to help.
A 15-minute call costs nothing.
A 15-minute discovery call costs nothing and tells us both whether we’re a fit. Most calls end with a clear next step within about seven minutes.
Book your free 15-minute callRested child. Prepared parent. That’s Sleep Ready.