Father’s Day miniseries – Helping Dad Bond with Baby
Hi, welcome to the Baby2Sleep Father's Day miniseries. Over the next week, I will be sharing some top tips with you on how we can encourage and support new dads on the journey into parenthood. For mums, it often comes much more naturally, one reason for this is the oxytocin which is released while we're in labour. This is the love
Setting boundaries – giving your toddler limited choices
Today I’m talking about setting boundaries by introducing choices with limits for our toddlers and children. It may seem like quite a scary prospect to start letting our child choose and have some kind of control - that can seem quite terrifying. However, we need to allow our little children to have some freedom, and this will make other things
Top Tips on Bedtime Routines for you and your baby
Today I'm looking at Bedtime Routines - how to put together a sleep-conducive routine that will help your baby understand it's time to wind down and get ready to drift off to sleep. There isn't a one-size-fits-all for baby sleep routines - if there were then the midwife would tell you about it in the hospital and there would
All about Dream Feeds
Hello, and welcome to a new series of video posts, where I will be sharing all kinds of hints and tips to do with babies and sleep. Today's video is all about dream feeds - you can watch the video below (with subtitles if you can't have sound where you are), you can listen to the sound only, if you
Top Bedtime Tips from Baby2Sleep Village
I have two Facebook groups, where mums who are working with me can ask questions and I do my best to help with their problems. The first group is called Baby2SleepVillage and it is open to anyone who is struggling with getting their baby or toddler off to sleep, so if that's you, please do come and join us.
Autumn Clock Change Tips
It only seems like yesterday that I was seeing everyone posting about the fear of losing an hour on Mother's Day. Little did anyone realise that
2 days into expressing, and it’s looking good.
So, the first 2 days of expressing have not been as bad as I thought they would be. Yesterday, I gave Alyssia an open cup top with water in with her lunch and she got very excited, so I decided to quickly sterilise the cup and see how she went with some breast milk in it, and she was just
Expressing – The next step in my breastfeeding journey
So today sees the next part in my breastfeeding journey. Expressing. I can’t say this is something I want to do, and luckily with Sofia, I only had to do it at the beginning when we had some weight gain problems. This time though, it’s different. This time, I am having to do it for my own health. It has been an