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About Rachel

As a mother and grandmother with over forty years experience as a maternity nurse, child-care expert, parental adviser and author, Rachel is one of the country’s most sought after ‘gurus’ in the care and well-being of babies and young children.

Neither a die-hard disciplinarian or a zealous ‘liberal’, Rachel believes in love and care within a structured routine which suits the natural patterns of both the mother and the baby.

Rachel says....

I am the eldest of six children and my youngest sister is ten years my junior, so I grew up in a home where it seemed that there were always babies and young children around. I helped my mother look after my younger siblings, so caring for babies and children came naturally to me from a very early age!

When I was seventeen, I attended a Doctor Barnado’s residential nursery training college in Kent to train for my National Nursery Examining Board Diploma. I began my training in the 1960s, before the Abortion Act and before the Pill was widely used, and therefore a number of babies were brought into the unit to be placed for adoption. I also spent time in St Thomas' Hospital maternity unit, so much of my life then was immersed in newborn babies which I loved.

Having completed my training, I went to London to take up my first job as a maternity nurse, looking after babies for twenty-four hours a day.

I married a farmer and we had three children of our own. Whilst raising my own children, I also helped and advised friends with their newborns. Demand feeding was becoming popular at that time and I could see that friends’ babies weren’t settled and they were struggling with sleeping and feeding problems. This confirmed my deep feeling that babies and young children actually need a loving, but flexible routine and structure in their lives from an early age.

After moving to Devon, I returned to work as a nanny and maternity nurse and have now gained over forty years experience in this field!

I continue to work as a maternity nurse and also now run a Baby and Childcare Consultancy business called ‘Rachel’s Babies’ from my home in Devon. I have written two books ‘The Baby Book – How to Enjoy Year One’ and ‘The Toddler Book – How to Enjoy Your Growing Child’. I can also speak at many different events around the country as well as running Corporate talks, seminars and workshops.

Please contact Big Ape Media if you would like further information.

 

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