One thing that parents hate is to hear their baby cry. It can send the most confident parent into a total tailspin. You end up trying ANYTHING to fix it. You'd pay a million dollars...

How very exciting...Nurture Parenting is having a competition on Facebook to win 2 GroBags from the Gro Company.Like me on Facebook Terms & Conditions for Facebook Competition - GrobagThis promotion is being conducted in the form...

It's that time of year again and babies are getting cold at 3-5am and waking up early. We worry about SIDS and overheating but often I find we are under dressing our babies.  Safe bedding for...

Catnapping Catnapping is one of the biggest sleep problems for parents of young babies. It confounds, frustrates and drives a lot of mums demented. I get asked a lot, 'Why can't my baby sleep for...

Hello peoples, the wet weather has put a mini jinx on uploading my FB video's so I'm going to try and load them on the blog! There's always another way I figure :-)And this is...

Purple crying I came across this term purple crying quite recently and it made me go, "What the?!" As a midwife and baby whisperer of 26 years I've heard a lot of crying in my...

This is a blogpost from the US Kentucky PostPioneer. It's in response to a blogpost from Amy Molloy in Motherlode a USA NYT Blog and sleep training an 8 week old baby. Yes it is...

I spend a lot of time in nurseries and children’s bedrooms with my work as a baby sleep guru. So I think it's timely that I looked at the bedtime routine. Routines create security and reduce...

Many new mums ask me, "My baby sleeps through the night so why can't I?" I get many mums telling me that once their baby is sleeping through the night it can take them a couple...

As many of you know I really struggle with the Baby Whisperer thing. I know that parents will Google me, Karen and add Baby Whisperer to the search engine too. Why do I struggle with...