Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help When you have a baby one of the first things you want to know after gender and time of birth, is their weight. The weight of the baby gives you a clue as to their future growth and trajectory. It also gives you information about how healthy your pregnancy was. At birth your baby will be given a child health record, in New South Wales, Australia this is known as the ‘blue book’. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/kidsfamilies/MCFhealth/Pages/child-blue-book.aspx In the UK it was a red book. And other countries will have their ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help Reflecting on Childhood Before you even think about having a baby you will start to reflect on your own childhood. You will find yourself examining the ways in which your parents raised you. There may have been ways you were parented which are in direct conflict with your own desire to raise a child. Some of these thoughts and decisions are brought about by the conscious mind. These are thoughts and experiences which we readily recall and sit not far from the surface. The Subconscious What is far more interesting and fa ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help Cacao is the unsung hero of the modern healthy diet however few people know why it is such a superfood. And out of all the superfoods this is the one most deserving of this accolade. Many parents ask me why cacao is in so many of my recipes for babies and toddlers. I’m going to explain the ins and outs of why this is. Cacao vs.cocoa These sound very similar but their nutritional differences are vast. Raw cacao is the purest form of chocolate you can consume, meaning it is raw and unprocessed compared to chocolate in bar ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help During the early weeks following birth a mum will often have more milk than her baby needs. She may experience leaking and/or breast fullness/engorgement — this is simply a period of adjustment as the mum’s body adjusts to the amount of milk her baby actually needs. In exclusively breastfed babies, milk intake increases rapidly during the first few weeks, then stays about the same between one and six months. Although it usually increases short term during a growth spurt. Sometime between 6-12 months (as solid ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help The Psychology and Science behind the NO stage The stage of saying no to everything can drive the calmest of parents a little bonkers! So why does your toddler do this you ask? This is a question I get asked so many times so it makes sense too write a blog on the very topic. And If your toddler responds to seemingly reasonable requests with the word “no,” you can rest assured: your child is very, very developmentally normal. If a little infuriating!! The psychological and scientific word for your child’s fascination wit ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help You’ve found out you’re pregnant and probably preparing lists of things you’re going to need for the new baby. Wouldn’t it be helpful to know what is a need and what you can do without? I’ve been a registered midwife for over 30 years and I can help you navigate all of this parenting malarkey like a totalpro. And save you a heap of money . A Cot This is a must buy and it’s something your baby is going to use for up to three years. It needs to be SIDS (red nose) safe and conform to safety guidelines. If you buy a second ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help Worry About Baby and Breathing Parents spend hours just watching their babies breathe whilst sleeping. They can’t resist one last look before going to bed just to make sure they are OK. Worry and responsibility are two issues emerging as soon as the baby has been born. And it naturally goes with the territory of being a new parent. But what if you could take away some of the worry by using a high tech baby monitor? I can totally understand the temptation to buy and use one. All babies in special care and neonatal units ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help https://business.facebook.com/NurtureParenting.BabySleep/videos/3247643485349468/ COVID has been disastrous for many families. To everybody that’s going through these really challenging times, I know it is really hard. This situation that we find ourselves in, when we have to go into lockdown and quarantine, it’s not a natural way of living. Even my sister has her issues with her kids who are much older. The oldest is seven, and she’s found it really, really hard. I got this message from a mum … “Alex turned two in Apr ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help Cows milk protein intolerance or allergy is one of the most common causes of constipation in toddlers and children. Yet, I hear about so many children who have been prescribed stool softeners and bowel preparations to treat the problem. In Australia we don’t know or understand about prevention in our current healthcare paradigm. It is literally a foreign concept. The problem with treating this problem is the childs body gets used to the stool softeners and this creates a lazy bowel and then the bowel forgets how to work ..read more

Nurture Parenting - Baby Sleep Help, Baby Sleep Consultant, Parenting Help Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome is also known as FPIES. It is an adverse food reaction involving the immune system. And mainly affects babies and young children. It is caused by an allergic reaction to one or more ingested foods. Resulting in inflammation of the small and large intestine.  It is typically a non-immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated gastrointestinal food allergy. And manifesting as profuse, repetitive vomiting. Often 2-4 hours after ingesting a food. Sometimes with diarrhoea, leading to d ..read more