Welcome to Serene Sleep
A home consultation service specifically designed for parents of children who suffer from sleep problems.
Serene Sleep is a unique home consultation service specifically designed to help parents of children who suffer with sleep problems. The different approaches used help guide and support parents through a simple revised routine that will help banish bedtime blues for good.
I am a qualified Nursery Nurse (NNEB) with over 20 years' experience of working closely with families and young children. For the past 14 years I have been working in the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK alongside a team of community based practitioners.
A large part of my role involved running a busy sleep clinic, that met the demands of the local community and since then I have helped close to a thousand families both in the NHS and privately. Due to a high demand for this service Serene Sleep was set up as a private home consultation service to meet this need. Since relocating to New Zealand in 2011 with my family I can now continue the good work of Serene Sleep and help put many families' lives back on track!
Over the years I have encountered numerous types of sleep problems, some ranging from mild to moderate cases and others that are extreme.
A home consultation service specifically designed for parents of children who suffer from sleep problems.
Serene Sleep is a unique home consultation service specifically designed to help parents of children who suffer with sleep problems. The different approaches used help guide and support parents through a simple revised routine that will help banish bedtime blues for good.
I am a qualified Nursery Nurse (NNEB) with over 20 years' experience of working closely with families and young children. For the past 14 years I have been working in the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK alongside a team of community based practitioners.
A large part of my role involved running a busy sleep clinic, that met the demands of the local community and since then I have helped close to a thousand families both in the NHS and privately. Due to a high demand for this service Serene Sleep was set up as a private home consultation service to meet this need. Since relocating to New Zealand in 2011 with my family I can now continue the good work of Serene Sleep and help put many families' lives back on track!
Over the years I have encountered numerous types of sleep problems, some ranging from mild to moderate cases and others that are extreme.
Here are a few of the most common cases:
- Children who still need a bottle/ breast feed to get off to sleep
- Babies who continue to night feed beyond 7 months
- Babies who need to be rocked or cuddled to sleep
- Children who rely on parents sleeping with them to go to sleep
- Children who will only sleep in parent’s bed
- Children who Stay up late and refuse to go to bed
- Children who won’t stay in bed (night- time wandering!)
- Children who wake up too early in the morning
I have seen at first hand the devastating effects these problems can have not only on the child but on the entire family. The following are common experiences caused by sleep deprivation on the family:
- Increased resistance to sleep by the child
- Child’s loss of appetite / fussy eater
- Day time behavioural problems, poor concentration
- Parents feeling low and depressed
- Parents resentment of child
- Sense of isolation by parents
- Relationship strained with partner
- Parents lack of social life