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 sleephow to become aware of when a newborn is tired, and able to sleep on their ownhow newborns can sleep “not on a parent”how newborns can learn to self settlewhy Helen thinks sleep regression isn’t really a thinghow to help with sleep regressionsdifferent needs for different weights of babies – and whyif there a difference between sleep times for formula fed or breast fed babieswhere newborns should sleephow to safely swaddlewhat newborns should wear to sleepthat parents are not taught how to look after their newbornswhen and how to move a baby to their own room overnightwhat the startle reflex is and how to help babies with thiswhen to work with multipleswhy to look at baby’s behaviour and feeding/awake periods over a 24 hour periodHelen on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/helenthecalmbabysleepexpert/?hl=enHelen on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076355500476Send us Fan MailYou can support this podcast here:https://buymeacoffee.com/motherhealSuzanne's website - podcast, blog, booking and resources:www.motherheal.comSuzanne is mother.heal on InstagramSuzanne is at Suzanne.mother.heal on Facebookmusic by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora https://www.shooglenifty.com/The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier