A fierce consumer advocate for families and babies, Carly challenges dominant paradigms relating to perinatal mental health and infant sleep, promoting progressive, evidence-based changes through charity Little Sparklers. She works to educate parents on the biological, physiological and social needs of the whole family and to shift parenting approaches to align with the needs of infants and children. This is underpinned by a free online community, The Beyond Sleep Training Project, with over 150,000 members. This unique peer-based approach aims to prevent perinatal mental illness by providing high quality information and social connections to support parental resilience.