Angel The delicious little Tilly Belle was a complete angel up until three and a bit months old and then it went a bit Pete Tong (as in wrong). She was being breastfed (as was my first daughter...

Parental exhaustion We were suffering from exhaustion, on the verge of losing our sanity before Karen helped us with Oscar when he was a very unsettled 3.5-month-old. Oscar was refusing to sleep in his cot...

Birth of 2nd baby The birth of our second bub, Harrison, brought much joy and enthusiasm to learn from the mistakes we’d made with our first son, Daniel. Daniel at 2.9 yo had never been a...

Tongue-tie diagnosis My little man and I haven’t had an easy start in life. With a diagnosis of a tongue-tie at around 2.5 months and reflux at 3 months, the first few months had been...

Karen & Nurture Parenting I first met Karen at Archie’s 6 week check up and immunisations at my GP’s in Alexandria. She very helpfully asked how everything was going and mentioned she wrote a parenting...

My sleeping angel turned into an early morning waker. Yes, I was one of those annoying mums at mother’s group who said her baby slept through the night and had decent sleeps during the day....

Settled baby “I again would like to thank you for your help with Luca over the last couple of months. He is much happier and a more settled little man.So the sleep training…where do I...

After returning from a lovely holiday overseas visiting family it was as if Vogues' cot had caught a virus!She just became petrified of it and as such after trying every other method we knew we...

"I'm a modern day Mary Poppins. I give parents their confidence back and bring sleep and calm into families."Karen Faulkner established Nurture Parenting in 2011. She is a trusted baby whisperer who knows so much...

Dummies/pacifiers can be a lifesaver for a lot of parents especially for babies with reflux and colic. As a baby whisperer I'm often called to help parents when the dummy has caused the 40 minute wake...