Join Mum and Stacey for a comedy trivia podcast full of weird news, unusual facts, and a wonky cat! Twitter @RoughGiraffePod.
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Stacey Solomon has just had a baby...several years after her last baby! What's changed, how are things different, what's acceptable, what new stuff is there to make the process less daunting? In each episode Stacey sparks debate around all subjects surrounding childbirth and what it means to be a new mum in 2019. From friends popping in, to famous faces and even the possible inclusion of the man who got her into this mess (Joe Swash)....the conversation will flow and the topics will be cover ...
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Baby + toddler sleep consultant, mum and founder of Little Nest Sleep, Hannah is on a mission to debunk the myths and mistruths that are fed to exhausted parents who just want to get some decent rest. Using a gentle, holistic approach to night-time parenting, the Sleep Like A Baby? podcast helps mums and dads navigate the nonsense of baby sleep without cry-it-out, or strict rules and routines. Speaking to experts from the worlds of psychology, paediatric healthcare, midwifery, mental health ...
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Lisa Clegg is a mum of 3, Nanna to 1 and author of The Blissful Baby Expert and The Blissful Toddler Expert. She works as a Maternity nurse helping parents all over the world work to a gentle yet effective routine to have happy, sleeping babies.This podcast is to join together parents and discuss the good and tough sides of parenting so that we can reach out and help even more enjoy what is, the hardest job in the world!
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This podcast celebrates diversity, positivity and having fun. Join your host Aza (Della Katessen) as he chats to a tonne of amazing people. Follow Della's journey into becoming a world famous Drag Queen with some tips and tricks from some professionals. This podcast is better with you... Join in and become a guest! This podcast celebrates all of us as individuals and gives us a great platform to share our story. So it's time to join the Crossy Posse and never look back xo
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The intent of this podcast is for you to be inspired by people just like you that have effectively discovered and used digital tools to create the life they want. They don’t just use digital tools through obligation (e.g. I have to have a website, I have to be online....). They have discovered the real power of digital, they see it clearly for what it is intended, to make their lives and those that are connected with them, better. Each podcast is an interview with someone doing great things ...
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Do you have an orchid or a dandelion? How do you know if your baby is highly sensitive? And how can you parent with your own specific sensory needs? As mentioned in the episode, you can do a HSP test here: https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/
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The advice about over-tiredness is always changing when it comes to babies... is it a thing? is it the end of the world? is there any science involved in this whole concept that a person can be TOO tired?
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Nobody talks about how lonely it can be if you're the only one with a child who continues to be wakeful when everyone else around you seems to be getting more sleep. And then you might feel the pressure to sleep train if you ever talk about how tired you are. Perhaps your partner or someone else close to you is trying to get you to make changes in …
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Do you have to sleep train in order for this regression to end? Why is your baby suddenly more wakeful? Why is there so much fearmongering out there about this stage? In this episode I talk about the sleep science at this age as well as all the other reasons why it can be a tough patch. If you want to know what you can do to improve the situation (…
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Yes that's right, more Lucy! We had so much to say about second babies that we had to make it into a 2-parter. What if you can't imagine loving. your new baby as much as your first? How does the bond work? How do you do bedtime with two children (and one parent?) Are nap times always a disaster if your older child doesn't understand the concept of …
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Second Babies! Part 1 with Lucy Bagwell from Second Star To The Right Sleep
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Are you ever ready? What might sleep look like the second time around? Is there such a thing as a 'perfect age gap'? How do you keep your sh*t together when sleep deprived AND looking after another small human? I talk to my very good friend (and fellow sleep consultant) Lucy Bagwell about what she's learnt since having her second baby and try to ta…
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Uspávání: what if supporting infants with sleep was just considered 'normal'? With anthropologist Lenka Medvecová Tinková
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What if there was no word for self-settling? How different would your parenting experience be if nobody expected your baby to sleep in a cot in their own room? This week I'm joined by Lenka Medvecová Tinková from the Durham University Infancy and Sleep Centre to talk about how our cultural expectations shape parenting decisions and ultimately how w…
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Is sleep training "always wrong"? Kaitlin Klimmer on grey areas and maternal mental health
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A controversial question this week! There will be people who say that cry-it-out is always wrong/cruel/avoidable. And others that believe it is the best thing ever. But what about the space in between these two polarised stances? Kaitlin Klimmer and I are both sleep specialists who offer alternatives to sleep training, but where do we stand on the …
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Why are we so hard on ourselves in motherhood? Perfectionism explored with Catherine Counihan
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Are you holding yourself to the highest standards as a mum? Have you noticed a cycle of self-criticism creeping in? What happens when perfectionists and people pleasers have babies? This week's guest, Catherine Counihan, is an Integrative Psychotherapist working in private practice in London. Cath specialises in complex trauma, perfectionism, nervo…
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Just fill their tummies and they'll sleep all night, right? Is food under one just for fun? And what about adding rice or cereal to a bottle at 4m... where do these ideas come from?My guest today, Stacey Zimmels is a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist as well as a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). She offers feeding therapy plus breastfeeding and…
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Low sleep needs with Paula Morales McDowell
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Is your baby sleeping less than their peers? Are they cat-nappers with late bedtimes but... actually thriving? You might be surprised to learn that this is actually A Thing! The idea that all babies need long naps and 12hrs overnight is totally outdated and not backed by science. But if you have a low sleep needs kid, you might be struggling to fin…
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Sex after having kids - with Catherine Topham Sly
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My guest today is the relationship therapist and coach, Catherine Topham Sly who you may know from her Instagram account Insight and Connection. She is the expert in happy relationships after kids – and this is a subject that I have been desperate to cover for so long.In my opinion, how our relationships and partnerships change after becoming paren…
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The Importance of Imperfection - with Olivia Hinge
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Making her very welcome return to the Sleep Like a Baby? podcast is the one and only midwife and lactation consultant Olivia Hinge! You may well know her from much-loved Instagram account (@olivia_lactation_consultant), I know I am a super-fan. In this week's episode we talk a lot about the pressures that mothers put on themselves and celebrate the…
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Is gentle parenting a trend? How social media is letting parents down with Essential Parenting's Helen Davies
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Helen Davies is a health visitor, PICU nurse and sleep specialist as well as a mother of four. She has 22 years of parenting experience and also runs the very funny, very real Instagram account @Essential_Parenting. TW: domestic abuse and mental illness In this week's episode Helen shares her story of overcoming a toxic relationship and mental heal…
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Maternal guilt + shame - and how we can let it go - with Motherkind's Zoe Blaskey
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This was one of the most enlightening, inspiring episodes I've ever recorded. Zoe Blaskey's Motherkind podcast is one of my favourite things to listen to and I just knew she would be the best person to talk to about maternal guilt and shame. We covered the intricacies of disagreeing with your partner over different parenting choices (what do you do…
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Double Trouble: Twins and Sleep with Kathryn Stagg IBCLC (and sleep coach)
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Can you be a responsive parent when you've got more than one baby? How do you get two or three babies to sleep at the same time? Do they 'have to' self-settle? Is it possible to co-sleep with twins? And what happens if you've got a big family and the youngest is a highly sensitive soul that needs a lot of extra support? Kathryn Stagg is an Internat…
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Ever since I had my mum on this podcast, I've been desperate to ask her mum more about parenthood. Did she choose to cry-it-out? Was she obsessed with how her baby slept? What were her generation's expectations of infant sleep? This episode is a super special one to me as my 90 year old grandmother and I reflect on early parenthood - what do we hav…
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Sleep training, shaming and seeing through the baby BS: with Rachael from HeySleepyBaby
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We really don't hold back in this week's episode! Is it ok to live sleep train a 4 month old baby on Instagram? Do paediatricians have the right to tell new parents they should leave their baby to cry it out? Are we shaming other mothers by saying controlled crying isn't for us? Rachael runs HeySleepyBaby - the largest biologically-normal infant sl…
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Making peace with your baby's sleep: Ana from The Octopus Club shares her son's sleep story
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Sometimes the biggest change we can make to our family's sleep situation is to find acceptance and surrender to the present. I sat down with Ana from The Octopus Club to talk about how she found peace and patience over her own son's sleep (and frequent waking) over the last 3 and a half years. If you have a very wakeful baby or toddler, it can feel…
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What cosleeping really looks like, with Tiffany from Cosleepy
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If you co-sleep with your baby now, will you have to do it forever? Are you holding your child back from independence? And what if you WANT to do it long-term - how do you cope with other people’s opinions about that? We also get into sex and bed-sharing, cosleeping when you have a baby as well as older children and establishing your own boundaries…
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Gender + Baby Sleep: Kirstie Beaven from Sonshine Magazine on how we raise girls and boys differently
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Have you ever wondered if your child's sleep is influenced by their gender? Do baby boys wake more? Do little girls take longer to fall asleep? To explore this I sat down with Kirstie from Sonshine Magazine, a proudly feminist quarterly publication that explores the challenges and the joys that come with raising boys in the modern world. If we want…
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How nurture shapes your child's brain: Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD
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Greer Kirshenbaum is the world's first neuroscientist doula and in this episode she shares her expert knowledge about the superpower that is nurture. We cover so much: How sensitive, attuned caregiving meets a growing brain's needs Why your baby or toddler settles differently in a childcare setting compared to home Why you don't need to feel guilty…
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A chat with my mum: how the previous generation's babies' slept
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This week's chat is super personal! My mum, Jan, shares her experience of having four very different babies (born in the 70s, 80s and 90s) - we discuss breastfeeding, bed-sharing and responding to cries in the night. In 1978 my mum was 21 years old and had just given birth to her son. Six weeks later she found herself moving from a small town in NW…
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Attachment and Sleep with Charlotte Inskip AKA The Holistic Sleep Mama
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Do you have to bed-share, breastfeed and baby-wear in order to have a securely attached child? Can your little one be TOO attached? Are you making them clingy by contact napping and feeding on demand? Is it your fault if your baby or toddler has a strong preference for one parent over the other? These are really common questions that come up all th…
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Have you experienced unwanted intrusive thoughts as a new mum? Why does the arrival of (very normal) maternal rage feel like such a shock to so many of us? I sat down with perinatal psychologist Dr Caroline Boyd who has written a beautiful, incredibly helpful book called Mindful New Mum as an antidote to all the parenting manuals out there currentl…
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How carrying creates independent children
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Have you been warned against making a rod for your own back by carrying your child? Has someone told you that slings and carriers are just a new trend or something used only by a certain 'type' of parent? What about the idea that they won't ever learn to walk if they are always carried? Zoe Woodman from The Sling Consultancy joins me for this week'…
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Sam Meachin is a hypnobirthing coach with a difference and in this week's episode she shares her two very different birth stories that lead her to creating The Wonderhood's online courses. We talk about how birth can lead to feeling like we have lost control over ourselves and how this can then impact how we feel about sleep, feeding and other area…
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Sleep challenges that sleep consultants face: Lucy Bagwell and I recap all our toddler challenges of the last year
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What kinds of sleep challenges do people with training in infant sleep face? The same ones as anyone else, of course! In the last year Lucy and I have navigated dummy drops, cot to bed transitions, separation anxiety, parental preference, dropping naps and bedtime battles. So we wanted to get together and talk about how we have personally figured t…
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Kerry Secker has one of the most successful holistic infant sleep companies in the UK and ever since this podcast started I have been itching to sit her down and find out more about why she went down the care-it-out route when all her peers were putting their kids on naughty steps and leaving babies to settle themselves. We talk about what crying m…
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Reflux & Baby Sleep
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It might be common for a baby to spit up, but if you're the parent of a little one who is super unsettled with reflux or colic, being told it will pass isn't good enough. I spoke to holistic reflux specialist Faye of Rockabye Reflux all about the emotional cost of reflux and what we need to understand about digestive discomfort in babies. Reflux is…
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Re-Parenting Ourselves with Stephanie Beucher of Holistic Babies London
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Becoming a parent for the first time brings up a lot emotions and memories for us all... and yet this doesn't get talked about a lot. In this episode I speak to Stephanie Beucher who is a lactation consultant, midwife, maternity nurse and currently studying for her Masters in Psychology. Her company Holistic Babies London supports and empowers fami…
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Understanding the Parental Brain with Rocio Zunini
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Neuroscientist, infant sleep specialist and mother of two Rocio talks to me all about the enormous changes in our brains that take place when we become parents. We learn a lot about how our babies' brains develop but know very little about our own enormous neurological shifts. Rocio is on a mission to correct that! As she says: "when a baby is born…
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Good Babies and Perfect Mothers with Suzanna aka @RealKindParent
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Is she a good baby? Is he sleeping through the night yet? These questions can unintentionally fill a new parent with dread and anxiety. My guest today, Suzanna aka @RealKindParent, and I talk about all things motherhood: the quest for control over sleep, the illusion of the perfect baby, the freedom of surrendering and accepting you are where you a…
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This week we chat to Loren who has had all 3 of her babies suffer with varying degrees of Reflux and she tells us about her experiences of each child and how she got through it as a parent.Lisa Clegg
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Tongue Tie Truths with Carmelle Gentle
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Feeding and sleep are completely intertwined for babies and toddlers. And regardless of how you get milk to your baby, whether that's boob, bottle or a bit of both, tongue ties can and do impact little ones. Carmelle is an independent midwife and IBCLC infant feeding specialist as well as a tongue tie now expert on a mission to raise awareness of h…
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This week we chat with a mum who has had 3 babies with Hip Dysplasia and all had to be treated with a Pavlik Harness. https://hipdysplasia.org/developmental-dysplasia-of-the-hip/Lisa Clegg
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Still Awake: toddler sleep with Lyndsey Hookway
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Lyndsey Hookway is one of the UK's leading infant sleep experts and is a passionate advocate for gentle and responsive parenting. Lyndsey's third book, Still Awake: responsive sleep tools for toddlers to tweens is out this month so I decided to pick her brains all about bedtime boundaries, wants versus needs and how to tackle early rising with verb…
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This week we chat to Stacey about constipation and how cranial Osteopathy really improved things with her baby.Lisa Clegg
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What exactly IS separation anxiety and how does it impact sleep and bedtime for little ones? I speak to clinical psychologist Dr MDC about what it means throughout infancy and childhood, how we can handle it and why separation is actually a good thing for parent and child. If bedtime has become a battle, or you are anxious about how childcare may i…
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This week we chat to Zara about Tongue Tie-what signs to look for, how to get a diagnosis and have it cut and the challenges of feeding with a TT baby. https://www.tongue-tie.org.uk/Lisa Clegg
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An honest, raw account of perinatal mental health with Emily from Fox & The Moon
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Emily was kind enough to share her story of pre and postnatal mental health struggles and how this led her to become a holistic sleep coach and help families who have been through tough times. A word of warning though, some of the subjects are a little heavy and may be triggering for some people, so best to avoid if the following things are difficu…
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This week we chat with the ‘Queen’ of baby and toddler weaning, Annabel Karmel, who is giving lots of tips and advice on how to encourage your little ones to eat healthily. https://www.annabelkarmel.com/annabel-karmel-baby-toddler-recipes-app/Lisa Clegg
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Matrescence, Milk and Melt-Downs: welcome to motherhood
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This week I'm speaking to midwife and lactation consultant Olivia Hinge (aka @olivia_lactaction_consultatant on IG) about the adjustment we all go through into motherhood, whether that's with your first baby or your fourth. We discuss the process of matrescence and how unrecognised it is in society, even though it is as significant a change for a w…
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Newborn twins and a 10 month old, birthmarks and Autism- chat with our guest KellyLisa Clegg
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"Just put your baby down drowsy but awake" "Never feed to sleep" "Infants don't develop properly unless they get 12hrs of unbroken sleep every night" Are you overwhelmed by the number of people telling you that you're creating a rod for your own back by responding to your baby or by supporting them to fall asleep? Why do well-meaning family members…
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This week we chat to Ellie about IVF treatment and the difficulties couples face when they can’t conceive a baby naturally. Ellie has a support group for anyone wanting advice and support on IVF treatment which can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ivfchatLisa Clegg
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Cry It Out or Wait It Out: how did we get here?
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When did it become mainstream for parents to go down the Cry It Out route? Why do all the parenting 'experts' insist on telling mothers and fathers to ignore their instincts and focus on self-settling instead? And why do so many of us feel like failures if our babies don't yet sleep through the night? To find out how we got here, I spoke to anthrop…
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This week we are chatting with Anna Williamson, who is one of the agents on Celebs Go Dating. She is a trained therapist and is giving tips on mental health in pregnancy and how to cope with PND afterward and telling us about her experience with it. The link to her podcast is here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/breaking-mum-dad-the-podcast/i…
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The Sleep Like a Baby? podcast is coming soon. This preview episode lays out what the series will be all about. Find out more on Instagram @LittleNestSleep or via www.littlenest.uk
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Breastfeeding with a routine and tips for long haul flights with this weeks guest Emma.Lisa Clegg
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