We contacted Brenda when our 3.5-month old daughter started waking up every 30 mins - 1 hour in the night and we’d entered into some bad habits, including needing to rock her or feed her to sleep and running to her during the night at any noise. We had no routine (even though we’d tried with some online) and life was very chaotic and sleep deprived! Brenda came to visit and gave us a routine to follow and, crucially, showed and told us how to make it successful. For the midday nap, she showed us how to put her down and how to get her to self settle - and for the first time ever, that night she went to sleep by herself in her cot (after a tough 45 mins of crying), and after only a couple of wakes for a few minutes throughout the night, slept through to 7am. After that first night, it was smooth sailing. She went down by herself with very few tears for every nap and has generally slept from 7-7 ever since with the odd wake up here and there. I can’t believe what a difference it has made to our lives - we have predictability and certainty in the day and our baby is so much happier. She smiles all day and rarely cries. She used to cry on walks or in the car and she now loves both and puts herself to sleep when she is tired without complaint.Brenda was on hand to answer any questions in the first few weeks and was always extremely responsive. We knew what we were doing wrong but it was integral having Brenda to help us execute sleep training, which we’d tried to do ourselves and failed! As others have said, Brenda was firm and direct. She believes in her methods, and how you have to teach your baby that tears will not lead to you rushing to them. This is not for everyone. I had always told myself I wouldn’t sleep train, and there have been some really really hard moments, but I’m a complete convert to the approach. We’re all much happier and our baby cries 90% less than before and thrives on the predictability of a routine and the ability to fall asleep by herself.
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A professional qualified and experienced nanny offering consultancy and advice to parents of newborn babies and children. The advice and support is non judgmental, easy, straight forward, supportive and practical.
After a lifetime of working in a career with babies and children I have a wealth of experience to share. An additional 3 years experience working in a special care baby unit with sick and premature babies and 21 years supporting parents overnight as a night nanny. This experience has enabled me to condence my knowledge and share it with parents who may have become parents for the first time.
The advice, support and practical help in most cases takes place in the parents home. If the parents are overseas the help can be shared in an online meeting or phone call.
Advice is very much a personal approach to the individual child and the uniqueness of that family life. Ethnicity and cultural backgrounds are always taken consideration as many families live overseas and parents come from diverse backgrounds.
Above all I respond well to communication and support each family with the same enthusiasm with my job today as I did the first day I became a trained nursery nurse.See more
