About the Parent and Baby Coach

Supporting and empowering families for over 18 years

As a Baby Sleep Coach, I now have over 9 years experience in working one to one with families and a total of 18 years childcare experience! I truly understand what it means to become a parent and am passionate about families being able to enjoy those precious first few years. By empowering you with knowledge, I want to enable families to make the right decisions, creating calm and contented children and confident parents.

I work with families either one to one through my 1-1 parenting packages or via my online parenting courses which cover topics such as baby sleep, behaviour, weaning and potty training.

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Toddler Tantrums

Toddler Tantrums are one of the biggest topics that I am asked about in my 1-1 and workshop work. To help you – and your toddlers – remain cool and[…]

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A re-post but a goodie! Here’s my biggest newbor

A re-post but a goodie! Here’s my biggest newborn sleep secret and it really is a game changer…for some reason it’s the one bit of information that is often missing in both antenatal and postnatal care but makes the biggest different to your experience with sleep as a new parent...
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Your newborn baby is only really able to stay awake for an hour before they will want to fall back to sleep again. It’s true! Obviously they can stay awake longer and nothing bad will happen if they do stay up, but they do become overtired very quickly and this can affect both their temperament and feeding too.
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I had both of my babies into a 2/3 hourly cycle very quickly post birth, not by forcing them but just by following their lead and knowing that they needed to sleep regularly - it is honestly a bit of a game changer I promise! By 6 weeks they were pushing on 1 hour 10/15 minutes of awake time - such happy memories of their play-mat time 💕.
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A baby who is not overtired is a lot easier to settle and get to sleep, so even though they may appear to be wide awake, be confident at trying to get them to sleep after around one hour and you’ll have lots more success than if they’re up for hours on end! You can check out my Newborn Sleep Course for lots of other useful early day sleep tips💪🏻 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We know that way the that we speak to our children

We know that way the that we speak to our children becomes their inner voice too, so throw praise around like glitter (it gets everywhere!). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Praising your toddlers efforts and the smaller things that they do has a huge impact on their overall self esteem and confidence, meaning they may even sleep better too! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌟 Try & focus on the positives rather than the negatives ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌟 Use descriptive praise to help explain to your child everything they’re doing that’s great, it shows that you are noticing them! 🙌🏼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌟 A ratio of 6 positive statements to every 1 negative has been found to be the optimal ratio of praise! No one will get this perfectly but it’s a great goal to have in the back of your mind. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It’s sometimes difficult to see the positives when it’s been a tough day Parenting, but praise praise and more praise is one of my top parenting tips and works wonders on turning around tricky behaviours at home 🙌🏼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🍾 100k 🍾 ....no not followers, but even bet

🍾 100k 🍾 ....no not followers, but even better! Tonight I’m celebrating 100k downloads of my podcast and that feels rather EPIC! When I started my podcast, I had no clue how it would go and wasn’t even sure what I’d cover. Two series later and I’ve reached 100k downloads 🙌🏼 Thank you so much to everyone who has listened to an episode! I’d love to hear which episode was your favourite AND what else you’d like me to cover. Would a third series be useful? 🤔 Tell me, tell me!

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Travel, visiting family...whatever it is that you’re doing this year, I’m covering this week on stories.
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Pop your questions below & ask me anything about getting out & about with your little ones - whether it’s flexible sleeping, eating, stuff to pack...
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I’m going to try & cover as much as I can across this week so that you feel even more relaxed about your upcoming family adventures.
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Happy Holidays 🙌🏼

I think we can all relate to this one 🤪 Kindne

I think we can all relate to this one 🤪 Kindness, especially to a sleep deprived mum, can go a long way. She’s expected to work, look after kids or sometimes both, after waking up multiple times in the night. It can be totally exhausting and trivial things can easily become overwhelming. I think we’ve all been there but it will get better, I promise. In the meantime, you might want to share this as a subtle reminder to those around you 😅 Post credit to Kate Lawler - she wrote this under a post recently and it really made me smile.