Natalie looked after my 2 children when I returned to work after my second child. At the time my son had just turned 2 and my daughter was 8 months. I had struggled to find a childminder that my son would settle with and was quite concerned after a bad experience with another childminder Evonne Burch. Both my children warmed to Natalie instantly and there were never any tears at drop off times and at pick up's they never wanted to leave. My daughter has special needs as she had meningitis at birth and has some brain damage and scarring. Natalie was patient with her and was great at working with her to help her reach her milestones. Natalie did fun things with them and educational learning activities and they both progressed well in her care. Due to my daughters poor start in life it was always going to be hard leaving her but using Natalie made it so much more bearable, knowing that they were both happy and being so well looked after.

My son has since started nursery and after 9 months still has not settled well yet he settled almost instantly with Natalie and still asks now to go there instead.

I gave up work after a year as felt my daughter would benefit from more time with me and both children missed Natalie terribly and despite my daughter only being just over a year and a half or so at the time a year on she still remembers Natalie and gets very excited at hearing her name or seeing her.


I have recently returned to work part time and did not hesitate using Natalie again and the children are loving going there again.

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