About Us
Founded in 2010, Let Mommy Sleep provides structured, overnight in-home care and evidence-based education for newborns and their families. Our core model is intentionally straightforward: we connect expecting and new parents with vetted Newborn Care Providers (NCPs) and Licensed Nurses (RN/LPN) who provide in home teaching and check-ups and overnight support.
Celebrating 15 Years of Newborn Care
Why Postpartum Care Matters
The first12 weeks are among the vulnerable periods of life for both newborns and parents. Yet in the United States, postpartum support remains inconsistent, privately financed and largely unaggregated. Let Mommy Sleep was built to meet the needs of new parents who don't otherwise have postpartum support. We've evolved however, to establish clear standards for in-home newborn care that prioritize infant safety and aid in maternal recovery and parental education. Our model emphasizes screening, credentialing and ethical oversight with the goal of helping families make informed decisions as well as elevating and protecting professional caregivers.
Our Story
Let Mommy Sleep was founded by CEO Denise Iacona Stern after the birth of her twins and a bout of pre-eclampsia in 2009. At the time, she was also caring for a one-year-old and recovering from birth complications. Even with extended family help, managing 2 newborns and a young toddler while ordered on bedrest! quickly proved to be unsustainable.
With a background in small-business and firsthand experience navigating postpartum care, Iacona Stern created Let Mommy Sleep to help deliver the kind of structured, overnight support that proved critical to her own family’s health. The first location opened in Washington, DC in 2010. Demand grew rapidly as families sought qualified, accountable newborn care providers, and caregivers sought a professional framework grounded in training, licensure and responsibility.
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National Leadership and Growth
Within its first year, Let Mommy Sleep gained national attention and has since been consistently cited by media outlets as a trusted authority in postpartum and newborn care. Local owners are regularly called upon as subject-matter experts in infant safety and early parenting education.
Early partnerships including a local government contract to teach newborn care helped establish a foundation for responsible national expansion. Today, Let Mommy Sleep continues to grow through licensing; bringing standardized, evidence-based postpartum care to communities across the country.
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Commitment Beyond Business
In 2012, after witnessing the measurable impact of postpartum support on family health, Iacona Stern founded the nonprofit Mission: Sleep. The organization provides free overnight newborn care to military and first-responder families whose newborns arrive during deployment, injury or loss. Together, Let Mommy Sleep and Mission: Sleep are guided by a shared belief: when families receive
meaningful support early outcomes improve for both families and the communities that surround them.
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Let Mommy Sleep is dedicated to evidence-based care and safe sleep practices. Read The State of Newborn Care, Policy Paper (2026) for more information.
