Clare

About Me

Hello! I am an MNT qualified maternity nurse with over 15 years experience of working with newborn twins and singletons. I am also an accredited Holistic Sleep Coach (level 6- degree level) and Postnatal Doula, and I combine all these skills when working with the babies in my care. I work up to 45 minutes car journey from my home in Shamley Green, near Cranleigh.

Right from the word go, I aim to help you establish very gentle, age appropriate sleep and feeding patterns for your baby, while ensuring we remain child responsive. As an experienced Sleep Coach, I find that gentle day routines help babies sleep in a more settled way at night, which in turn means you can enjoy your parenting journey more fully. I never leave a baby to Cry It Out.

I prefer working 'with' rather than 'for' parents, coaching on how to read babies’ communication cues. This is important because responding effectively helps develop a secure parent-infant bond and build parental confidence quickly.

I offer practical, emotional, informational and physical support to mother and baby.
In particular I help with:
~ establishing feeding (breast/bottle/mixed)
~ reflux treatment, management and allergies
~winding and calming effectively
~safe sleep guidelines
~ how to spot tired cues and settle for naps
~organising equipment
~ensuring the smooth running of the nursery
~taking care of baby laundry

When working in more of a postnatal doula role, in addition to caring for mother and baby I am very happy to:
~look after siblings
~support with playing, reading, homework etc.
~cook light meals for the family
~ run errands
~ walk the dog
~ do light housework and laundry

When not at work, I enjoy spending time with my three young adult children, walking my dogs, tending my garden, cooking and seeing my friends. I enjoy exercising and living a balanced lifestyle. Most of all though, I like being outside in nature whatever the weather.