Maxine

About Me

Hello, I’m Maxine—a highly experienced newborn care practitioner with over forty years of dedicated childcare expertise. I am passionate about supporting families through the early days and weeks with their newborn, offering care that is gentle, respectful, and tailored to each family’s unique style and needs.

I take a responsive approach to newborn care, working closely with parents to create routines that support both the baby’s wellbeing and the family’s preferred parenting approach. With extensive experience in establishing calm, consistent feeding and sleeping patterns, I offer guidance that is nurturing, practical, and always personalised. As a trusted professional, I support breast, bottle, and combination feeding through both personal experience and evidence based knowledge, offering reassurance and clear guidance whenever needed.

My role extends beyond newborn care—I provide advice and support during postpartum recovery, helping parents navigate each stage of their baby’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development, encouraging bonding through play and positive interaction. My approach includes the whole family, always aiming to create a harmonious, supportive environment where everyone feels confident and cared for.

I actively engage in continuous professional development to ensure my approach remains current, evidence-based, and aligned with the latest recommended guidelines and best practices.

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Testimonials

"Maxine was amazing and we would highly recommend her. She was incredibly professional, tidy, punctual, yet also very warm and loving. She took such wonderful care of our baby"

“We are incredibly grateful to have had Maxine with us as part of our growing family. She fit right in from the beginning and made a world of difference to our experience of having a new-born with a toddler. We would welcome Maxine back without hesitation for any future babies”

"It has been wonderful to have Maxine help us with our little one over this period, she is a very proactive, energetic and caring maternity nurse. She has a strong, positive and can-do attitude and is very knowledgeable and supportive. We couldn’t sing her praises highly enough”

"Responsible, punctual, very supportive and easy to live with. Maxine took her job very seriously providing full care of the baby, she was great with the baby as well as the whole family. My two boys, 5 and 6 years old absolutely loved her and were sad when she left"

"Maxine is a very warm, kind and extremely knowledgeable person. She supported first time Mom to adapt and grow confidence in her new role meaning that our first weeks at home were calm and enjoyable. We will be forever grateful to Maxine for her time with us, any family she joins should consider themselves very lucky"

“I would totally recommend Maxine as a maternity nurse. She was trustworthy, capable and experienced in her role, definitely an asset for the family”.

“As first-time parents my husband and I were inexperienced and nervous, Maxine’s gentle, friendly and hands-on approach at no point made either of us feel silly or inadequate parents. She was incredibly supportive of me, a fairly hormonal mum frantically trying to breastfeed, she ensured I was well rested and taught me a huge amount about breastfeeding. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Maxine to anyone looking for a very professional, very knowledgeable maternity nurse”.

“Kind, gentle and non-judgemental approach. Displaying depth of knowledge and experience but with a light touch. Always calm and focussed on baby but respectful of the mother’s position, building mother and fathers confidence in moving forward. Maxine tactfully managed the wider family input of a multi-generational household under Covid19 lockdown conditions – fitting in unobtrusively and discreetly”.

“Our experience with Maxine was overwhelmingly positive, she joined us when our baby was 5 weeks old, and we were exhausted. She is extremely knowledgeable, has great stamina and really enjoys babies. She really helped us in those first few weeks and taught us so much for later on. We’re grateful for all of Maxine’s help and really enjoyed having her in our home”.