Brenda The Nanny

Expert help to settle baby

My wife and I have a 5 week old baby boy who we had been struggling to settle and put to bed in the evening. We reached out to Brenda, due to her excellent reviews, who was very communicative and was able to help us at short notice. In one night, Brenda taught us several techniques to calm and settle our baby. On the night she was here, he slept the longest he had slept and was the quietest he had been! We have since put those techniques into practice and his sleep (and ours!) have certainly improved. We wouldn't hesitate to hire Brenda again to help us down the line.

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by James on 10/06/2025

Response by Brenda the nanny on 10/06/2025:

Thank you James :-)

Highly experienced and effective

Brenda has been an incredible support to us, her guidance and advice has helped us immensely with the routine and sleep of our 3 month old. She has decades experience and can anticipate every situation. Don’t think twice and reach out to Brenda for help!

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by KarenS on 23/10/2024

Response by Brenda the nanny on 23/10/2024:

Thank you Karen for your kind words.
Speak soon :-)

Weekend saviour!

Brenda looked after our 12 week old baby over 24 hours whilst my husband and I attended a wedding. Our little girl was so settled and happy in Brenda’s care and she used the time to help settle her into a sleep schedule. She’s followed up with schedules for us to follow at home and shared loads of helpful tips and tricks for getting our girl sleeping not only through the night but in her own crib in the day too!

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by Liam on 01/10/2024

Response by Brenda the nanny on 01/10/2024:

Thank you for your kind words :-) I am glad the weekend was a success.

Sleep and structure in a helpful way!

Brenda came to help us in the first few days after we came back from hospital and continued her fantastic support until our son was happily sleeping through the nights (and she still checks in now to see how we are doing). I was impressed with how accommodating she was to our family needs and my preferences (e.g. she knew that I really wanted to breastfeed and she built our plan around this). We found her approach very clear and well adapted to our son’s age and stage. Thanks to Brenda’s help and structure, we’ve been able to navigate the inevitable ups and downs that come with being first-time parents and having a newborn. Investing in this way in our son’s sleep and daytime routine, and in helping us parent with greater confidence is already paying off in so many ways. Thank you!

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by Gillian on 08/07/2024

Response by Brenda the nanny on 08/07/2024:

Much appreciated!

Helpful sleep training

Brenda has helped with sleep training my baby boy from when he was 8 weeks old, providing us with a detailed sleep schedule to follow and subsequent guidance on implementing it. He now has far more settled nights than he did before and wakes less frequently, which was achieved in a short space of time. Brenda checked in frequently as to his progress and was very responsive with any questions I had. Would definitely recommend.

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by Vanessa on 22/04/2024

Response by Brenda the nanny on 22/04/2024:

Thank you for writing a review Vanessa.
Keep in touch if you need any more help x

Highly experienced maternity nurse

Brenda came to help with my premature new born twins. She was able to look after them in the night as a night nurse (feeding them as I requested) and then as they grew up help us to get them into a routine and good habits to get them sleeping through the night as quickly as possible. She was happy to be flexible with her timings to suit me and was always available for extra support over the phone if required. The girls are nice and settled and sleep well through the night thanks to her help.

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by Xanthe on 12/07/2023

Response by Brenda the nanny on 12/07/2023:

Thank you Xanthe x

Great support

We had our baby girl during lockdown and our families don’t live close by either so we found the first few weeks pretty hard going as we had no support. After 6 weeks we were pretty frazzled so we sought Brenda’s help to come and look after our girl for a couple of nights a week to give us a break and re-charge.

Not only did Brenda look after our girl exceptionally well, she has also helped guide us with a day and night routine which has helped us all immensely. She also continues to help answer any queries that we have.

Brenda is very experienced, trustworthy and brings a wealth of practical support - I highly recommend her services and support.

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by Jem on 23/01/2021

Response by Brenda the nanny on 24/01/2021:

....we will keep going until she sleeps 7pm to 7am :-)
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Gamechanger!!

Brenda has been a godsend for us. She took the time to analyse our situation and tailor a schedule for us. My baby sleeps so well now. When we called her, we were at a stage where we thought a good night's sleep wasnt going to happen for us but Brenda gave us a plan and confidence to follow it through. She made herself available whenever we had a question or needed her suggestions. I cannot recommend her enough!! She changed our lives after 4 months of sleep deprivation.

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by Jessica on 03/10/2020

Response by Brenda the nanny on 04/10/2020:

Thank you Jessica for the lovely review. ☺️

No nonsense!

When our son was born, we were keen to have an expert give us no- nonsense advice and to start good habits from the outset. Brenda came to help us on Josh's second night at home and has been a couple of night's a week since then. I'm delighted to say that he is now sleeping seven hours through the night, rarely cries and is a happy little boy!
Brenda's experience and confidence have hugely helped us - thank you Brenda!

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by Sarah on 09/03/2020

Response by Brenda the nanny on 09/03/2020:

.....sleeping a 7 hour stretch and still only 9 weeks! What a good boy. It’s been a pleasure to look after G 😊 x

Life changing for the whole family

I am the mother of four gorgeous and very active little ones (6, 4, 2, and 3 months old baby) and I thought by now I would be able to manage with the non-sleeping of the first few months. I had done it before anyway, right? But I was wrong. I was so exhausted with the broken nights that I could not cope with the days and the huge demands of my other little children. I was desperate when I contacted Brenda with a long list of issues I thought she could help with. The number one: could she make our 8 weeks old baby sleep through the night? She explained the importance of getting things right from an early start and the different ways in which she could help. She also gave me the contact of a mother of three she had just started working with so I could check her references, which was very kind, as she already has lots of great references, but I wanted to check how her methods worked with big families.
Brenda came home for a three hours consultation and stayed with us for one night, starting the sleep training with our baby. She set up a strict routine that we implemented from day one and our baby went from waking up 3-5 times to feed in the night to sleeping through the night (11-12 hours!) in just 3 days! But probably the most helpful thing was to have her on the other side of the line to share any difficulty or anxiety during the first weeks of the new routine. She would answer promptly telling me how to tweak the routine on those days when things did not go as plan. Our baby is now 3 months old has been sleeping through the night most nights for the last month. She is such a happy little thing and I feel like I have a life again.
We were reluctant to spend the money on this as, for us, a night nurse is something only rich people have, but looking back, I would do it again and again and again. Everything is easier when you sleep, so we can now cope better with our other kids' needs too. I recommend anyone considering getting help to talk to Brenda on the phone at least, then you can make a call. And if you have already decided to get help, I cannot recommend Brenda highly enough!

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by Paula on 16/07/2019

Response by Brenda the nanny on 16/07/2019:

Thank you Paula, written word for word just the way it was and how it has changed things for the better. Love to all x