I love to share my knowledge on all things pregnancy, birth, babies, breastfeeding and early parenthood to families wanting to learn more or needing support during challenging times.

With my credentials, I am able to offer support to families from pregnancy all the way into parenthood - It’s a fantastic thing to create these professional relationships with wonderful families and support them in different ways from when their baby is in the womb up and throughout the formative early childhood years.

For me as a new mum in 2016, I was already an experienced Midwife but I struggled with aspects of breastfeeding that didn’t include just my baby’s weight. He gained beautifully, but I could not articulate why it didn’t feel like it was all functioning the way I felt it should! We experienced quite the spectrum of challenges, but the responses I would receive from health professionals were dismissive to my concerns and made me feel like my experience of breastfeeding wasn’t valuable.

Alongside the breastfeeding challenges, I had a baby that didn’t value sleep the way I was told babies “should” sleep. After seeking professional sleep help I quickly realised that the words “evidence-based gentle sleep” was a marketing term that didn’t fit my own definition of those words. I knew sleep training was not for me as I wanted to respond to my baby and breastfeed on demand, so when I had the time and space (after my boys left babyhood!) I sunk deep into studying holistic sleep approaches and became accredited in Neuroprotective Developmental Care. The challenge I faced as a Mother wanting to both breastfeed and optimise sleep drove me to offer all that I have learnt to help families like my own. I am now that space in between sleep training and “doing nothing”.

I have continued my studies to offer holistic perspectives on all the challenges I help families troubleshoot. Craniosacral Therapy Foundations course Level 1 with Upledger Academy was completed in 2023 and compliments my clinical background well. I’m excited to start chipping away at the list of courses I have lined up for 2024 which include LLLT Laser Safety, Holistic Mastitis Care and many more.

My goal is to provide the type of support for families that I needed as a new Mother. Non-judgemental and approachable, sharing information and advice that can be added to the parenting toolkit to make any transition a little bit easier.

I was genuinely blessed to meet and work with an experienced IBCLC Mentor - Felicity Hughes (even though I met her years too late!) - the way she spoke, her knowledge and the direction she helped me find was exactly the answers I needed. With her background of knowledge, she was able to educate me on not only what I experienced, but ways of supporting families with a holistic approach that thinks “outside the box” and why all motherly instincts are trustworthy!

As my education around babies, biology and breastfeeding continues to grow, it allows me the space to offer holistic family-focused lactation and parenting consulting services in a way that I am very proud of. The more I study lactation, the more I love it. Our bodies are truly amazing!

Harriet