I felt a real sense of Spring today – amazing blue skies, bright yellow daffodils waving in the wind, and my first client of this year enquiring how best to cope with the impending clock change! British Summer Time begins on Sunday 27th March and we move the clocks forward one hour at 1am. So […]
Archive | Routines
Happy New Year 2016!
By Sarah Wheeler on January 10, 2016 in Advice, baby sleep, Routines, Sleep solutions, Toddler sleep
Happy New Year! It is almost a year to the day that I set up my Facebook page as part of my New Years Resolutions for The Maternity Nanny in 2015. It has proved a great success, with over 170 likes and 13 reviews, with some of my posts reaching over 1,000 people – which […]
An Ideal Bedtime Routine
I am often asked by parents for my ultimate bedtime routine, the one which will guarantee parents a good night’s sleep. Clearly I cannot ever categorically promise a good night’s sleep – if I could I would be writing this sitting on a beach in the Caribbean, rather than sitting outside my daughter’s gymnastics class […]
Bedtime Stories from The Maternity Nanny
I was recently contacted by a very tired mummy, Catherine. Her 6½ month baby Freddie was a very happy baby, who was fit and healthy. He had always needed a lot of help to settle to sleep, including being fed to sleep – breastfed in the early weeks and more recently bottles. He was also […]
Early Risers
By Sarah Wheeler on January 12, 2015 in Advice, Early risers, Routines, Sleep solutions, Toddler sleep
I have been contacted by a client who would like some advice about early risers! I worked with this family in 2013, as a night nanny, for their twins, who are now 15 months old. This is what their mother has asked me:- “Sleep on the whole is good – they go to bed and […]
A Gentle Start – a guide to establishing a routine for you and your baby.
When mentioned to new parents, the word “routine” often conjures up images of clock watching, only feeding a baby when the book tells you to, leaving a baby to cry and putting a baby to bed when perhaps you feel they are not ready for sleep. You may also have read more than one baby […]