Why do I do what I do, and how does that shape the way I work with children and parents?
I began my career in the NHS as a Registered General Nurse, later training as a Mental Health Nurse and then a Health Visitor. Working across physical and emotional health, I saw a recurring theme: countless families arriving at clinics utterly exhausted, overwhelmed and desperate for rest.
In those early days, the sleep advice available to parents was limited and often harmful. At best it was rigid, at worst it encouraged leaving babies to cry alone or treating sleep challenges as behaviour to be punished. From both my clinical experience and my own journey as a mother, I knew there had to be a better way. This is why I developed an interest in sleep medicine for babies and children.
