S2:Ep4 Helping Babies Sleep with Helen Cummings
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Helen Cummings is the Calm Baby Sleeping Expert.
Helen educates pregnant parents in how to care for their newborn babies. She is a maternity nurse who can help with feeding, daily caring tasks and most importantly – helping people learn how to soothe and calm their babies into a restful sleep.
Helen is a qualified nursery nurse, and began working as a maternity nurse 20 years ago. Since then, Helen has helped all kinds of parents learn how to recognise their baby’s cues for sleep, and how to help the baby self settle, which can allow parents to have a better quality of sleep themselves.
Listen to this podcast episode to find out:
what babies need for good sleep
how to become aware of when a newborn is tired, and able to sleep on their own
how newborns can sleep “not on a parent”
how newborns can learn to self settle
why Helen thinks sleep regression isn’t really a thing
how to help with sleep regressions
different needs for different weights of babies – and why
if there a difference between sleep times for formula fed or breast fed babies
where newborns should sleep
how to safely swaddle
what newborns should wear to sleep
that parents are not taught how to look after their newborns
when and how to move a baby to their own room overnight
what the startle reflex is and how to help babies with this
when to work with multiples
why looking at baby’s behaviour and feeding/awake periods over a 24 hour period is important
Helen can be found on Instagram and on Facebook
You can join Helen’s Calm Pregnancy to Calm Newborn Baby Facebook group from her Facebook page
Music by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora
https://www.shooglenifty.com/
The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier
