Baby Sleeping

Having trouble with your baby sleeping?

Our resident Sleep Expert Natalie Ebrill of Sleep and Settle is available for advice on the following areas:

• Sleeping and settling, moving from bassinette to cot, cot to bed
• Breastfeeding/formula, solids
• Floorplay for babies and play for toddlers/children
• Wrapping/sleeping bags/dressing baby
• Behaviour/tantrums, what's normal?
• Bedroom environments, music, lights, entertainment, mattresses, mattress protectors, sheets
• Unsettled babies and the 0-12 week afternoon arsenic hours
• Reflux/colic
• Teething
• Worms!
• Toilet training
• Night terrors/nightmares
• The older child issues 5-10 years
• Single parenting/separation/divorce

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Our resident Sleep Expert Natalie Ebrill of Sleep and Settle is available to answer your questions.

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Example Reader's Question for Natalie

Should my baby be rolling by now (20 weeks) and should I be doing something to help her develop this milestone?...
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How Does it Work?

Using the form below, post your question to our resident Sleep Expert Natalie Ebrill and she will endeavour to answer you as soon as she can. Depending on the time she has available, Natalie will answer a selection of readers questions then post her answers for everyone's benefit.

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About Natalie and Sleep and Settle

About Natalie Ebrill

• Natalie Ebrill RN CFHN Baby Sleep Consultant 0-5 years
• Sleep and Settle®
• Mother of Three Daughters
• RN Diploma in Applied Science (Nursing) University of Newcastle
• Post Grad Diploma in Health Science (Health Promotion) University of Newcastle
• CFHN Post Grad cert in Child and Family Health University of Western Sydney/Karitane
• Breastfeeding Counsellor

Natalie lives in Merewether a beachside suburb of Newcastle NSW with her three daughters Lauren, Jennifer and Rebecca. Her life revolves around 'wearing out' her girls at the beach, summer and winter (to encourage sleep), homework and assignments (times three!), lots of 'pink' in the house (we are girls after all), music (to dance to), laughter (the best medicine), great meals and good wine with friends and family (my lifelines). After growing up in a family with three football playing brothers, having three daughters is a bit of a shock and each day is a learning curve involving lots of deep breathing and negotiating, especially for bathroom time and to wear her own shoes!

About Sleep and Settle
Natalie's business Sleep and Settle® was established in Newcastle in 2004 in response to a lack of in-home services for local parents of children with sleeping and settling problems. After working happily as a Child and Family Health Nurse Natalie realised that parents were requesting more information and support than what was practical in the clinic environment.

Natalie now provides personal in home consultations, national and international telephone and email counselling and has developed a range of age appropriate downloadable Sleep Packages for sale on her website. Natalie runs regular seminars in NSW for the public and health professionals, pre-schools/daycare centres, volunteer organisations and has many published articles and newsletter contributions.

For more information on Sleep and Settle visit www.sleepandsettle.com.au.

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