About me

My name is Clare and I am a holistic baby sleep coach and postnatal doula. I am a mother of three young adult children and I have been working with children and their families for the last 30 years.

When I had my first child, I remember the experience being more of a vertical line than a learning curve. I had no idea what I was doing with breastfeeding and my baby would only sleep on me for small chunks of time. By three weeks in I was broken, had given up on breastfeeding and ended up crying on my neighbour’s shoulder.

Not having a clue about anything was horrible and I wish I’d had someone to guide me. Baby 2 had severe CMPA and reflux, but at least I knew more about what I was doing. For me the challenge this time round was how to juggle two young infants when they both needed me at the same time.

By baby 3 I finally felt like I’d mastered the newborn phase; I’d learned how I wanted to parent and I’d learned how to ‘read’ my babies. The books had gone in the bin and I honestly felt like I was flying. At this point I vowed that when my children were old enough, I’d train as a maternity nurse so I could support parents in the newborn phase in the way I wish I’d been helped.

I’ve now worked with hundreds of new families in their homes or remotely, both here and abroad, as a maternity nurse, postnatal doula and holistic infant sleep coach.

My aim is to support you so that you can enjoy parenthood and all that it offers to the full, while keeping excessive sleep deprivation at bay. Most importantly though, I want to help you develop the confidence to recognise and listen to your own maternal instincts, so that you and your family will not only survive, but will thrive.

Life in the western world is opinionated, noisy, pressurised and fast, and often lacks familial support. It is said that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ and, while I can’t promise to be a whole village, I hope that by being a calm, warm and empathic presence in your world for a while, I can help set you on your way.