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Are we being misled by the labelling of ‘High Needs’ babies when they just need sleep?

By | 2018-07-05T21:45:48+00:00 5 July 2018|Advice, Featured|

Are we being misled by the widespread labelling of “high needs” and “fussy” babies, when really these babies just need sleep?

Harry is our second child. He is now three years old and he is sweet, caring, shy at times yet loud and cheeky when he wants to be too. When Harry was around 12 weeks old, I was told Harry was a “High-Needs” (HN) baby and that was the reason why he was so unsettled and had been since birth. I was told that was his temperament, that’s just who he was, and we needed to get used to […]

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Taking the emotion out of baby sleep

By | 2018-06-26T11:33:02+00:00 26 June 2018|Advice, Featured|

The more work I do as a sleep consultant, the more I realise how important it is that we look at sleep from a scientific stand point and not from an emotional one. Sleep, especially baby and child sleep, has become such an emotional topic of discussion. I completely understand why people get emotional about sleep because when your struggling to get your child to sleep and your feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, it’s hard not to get emotional about it. When you go day after day, week after week, month after month battling to get more than a few […]

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Well meaning advice doesn’t always hit the mark

By | 2018-06-26T11:33:13+00:00 26 June 2018|Articles, Featured|

As a baby sleep and routine support consultant, one of the comments I hear all the time when first working with a family who are having issues with their baby’s sleep is: “We were just waiting for it to get better” or “People were telling us it would all work out” or “Friends were telling us to just do what we needed to do and don’t worry about trying to establish a routine”.

I absolutely understand and appreciate the good intentions (REALLY good intentions actually) of those offering advice in trying to stay positive for the family involved and feeling […]

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