A very belated Happy New Year! I cannot believe how quickly the first few weeks of this year have gone. I have been meaning to update my Blog but just not managed until now. The start of the year has been busy for many reasons. The start of a new term brings with it […]
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Spring Time – Daffodils, Bluebells and Clock Changes!
By Sarah Wheeler on March 7, 2016 in Advice, baby sleep, clock changes, Routines, Sleep solutions, spring time
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 […]
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 […]
How can you plan for the clock change?
How can you plan for the clock change later this month? I love Autumn – especially warm ones! Cool misty mornings followed by sunny afternoons, blackberry picking and crunching through piles of golden leaves. The bit of Autumn I don’t love so much is the changing clocks – the beginning of long dark evenings, darker […]
A Sleep Solutions Case Study
By Sarah Wheeler on June 25, 2015 in Advice, baby sleep, Case Study, gentle parenting, Sleep solutions, Toddler sleep, Uncategorized
I was contacted in April by a family seeking help with their 9 month daughter. She woke every 2 – 4 hours during the night, needed to be fed or rocked back to sleep and was co sleeping for part or all of the night. Both parents were understandably exhausted, and were keen to find […]
Sleep Solutions Consultation
By Sarah Wheeler on April 28, 2015 in Advice, baby sleep, Sleep solutions, Toddler sleep, Uncategorized
I have been very fortunate this month to have met four amazing families who have booked Sleep Solution Consultations with me. I thought I would share a little bit about what is involved with a consultation and the follow up support I am able to offer. After an initial chat on the phone to get […]
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 […]
Spring is on the way!
By Sarah Wheeler on March 10, 2015 in Advice, baby sleep, clock changes, Sleep solutions, spring time, Toddler sleep
As I sit and write this, there is blue in the sky, the sun is shining and the daffodils are beginning to make an appearance in the garden. Could this be the start of spring? Another sign is the clock change that will take place on 28th March 2015 with the start of British Summer Time. With […]
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 […]