On a recent visit, I encountered an extremely distressing situation. I was asked to come and see this delightful 5-month-old who was literally screaming the place down at bedtime, not sleeping day or night, not taking his breastmilk feeds properly and the whole household was at breaking point. They also have a two-year-old who had many issues that had just been dismissed as ‘normal’. Here is a list of ‘odd behaviours’ & physical symptoms that the parents have constantly questioned, but have always been ‘reass...

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Alison is not actually a Fairy, she is an Angel if Angels walked the earth. She helped with our firstborn when she was very little as I was struggling with a few things. Whilst Sunny (our Daughter) was actually quite an easy baby, Alison gave me the confidence as a Mum to implement our routine and listen to my gut as well as listen to all the signals Sunny was giving us. Within two days she was sleeping so well for all her naps and at night — Sunny has since slept 12/13 hours night, every night from 8 weeks till now at 3.5 years old. Ali...

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“We really don’t know what we would have done without Alison. She has been like the most caring mother figure to us since we contacted her. As first time parents we were at the paediatricians office when our baby was just 2 weeks old being told “everything was normal, babies are meant to cry.” We so wish we had followed our instinct… at week 7 after having heard the ‘Made by Mamas’ podcast with Alison on reflux — we knew immediately that our baby was struggling with some of the issues discussed. ...

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Baby T’s story I recently had an SOS from a mum whose baby was refusing to feed and this was her message to me; “We have a 10 week old baby with severe reflux and food refusal (he’s been in hospital on a feeding tube previously). We are currently trying our second medication (Omeprazole didn’t work) and revisiting hypoallergenic formulas. We are looking for ways to help with his pain management and food intake. Is this something you could help with?” To which the answer was of course — “YES&rdq...

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Well clearly she didn’t! This amazing little girl is now nearly four years old and was — at the age of two, labeled with ‘Global Development Delay’ as she wasn’t hitting the expected milestones.   (Read this blog post on Medium: https://medium.com/@magicsleepfairy/its-just-a-bit-of-colic-they-said-she-will-grow-out-of-it-4c18b1bb7b32)

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY TO THE SENSATIONAL BABY SLEEP PLAN! 🎈 Ten years on and book sales continue to rise, positive feedback pours in daily and The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan was recently voted, by The Huffington Post Parents, one of the TOP FIVE PARENTING books that actually works! What an amazing 10 years it has been... I remember like it was yesterday when my mother and I sat looking at a blank computer screen and asked each other “How do we write a book?” The ensuing months of extracting the information from my head, tur...

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