S2: Ep4 Helping Babies Sleep with Helen Cummings

Helen Cummings is the Calm Baby Sleep 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 to look at baby’s behaviour and feeding/awake periods over a 24 hour period

Helen on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/helenthecalmbabysleepexpert/?hl=en

Helen on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076355500476

Suzanne's website - podcast, blog, booking and resources:
www.motherheal.com

Suzanne is mother.heal on Instagram

Suzanne is at Suzanne.mother.heal on Facebook

music by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora
https://www.shooglenifty.com/

The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier