Maternity nurses

What people are saying about Happy Babies.....

Testimonials

Catrina worked for us caring for our new born premature baby boys. Catrina was extremley helpful in helping us to establish a good feeding and sleeping routine for the boy's and her experience has provided invaluable throughout the time she has been with us. She coped extremley well with feeding two hungry boy's on her own through the night enabling us to get some much needed sleep. We highly recommend her as a maternity nurse.

S. Thomas (Essex)

Thank you so much for the help and advice, Alice is now in the best routine she has ever been in, Joanna was a great help and a lovely Night nanny.

C.Goldstein (London)

Catrina worked as a night nanny for our daughter for four weeks, during this period, not only did she allow us to catch up on some much needed sleep, but she also helped our daughter to establish more regular eating and sleeping paterns. If we were to need help again in the future we would not hesitate to call on Catrina again, her help and advice was very much appreciated and we would highly recomend her as a night nanny.

L. Dilorio (Hampstead, London)

Rachel worked for us as a maternity nurse, looking after our twin boys for 2 weeks in March 2008.

Our twins were 7 weeks premature and spent the first 3 weeks in hospital. Their first few weeks at home were made so much more pleasant with Rachel’s help! Rachel has introduced order and a routine that I would not have thought possible for such young twins.

Rachel is a pleasure to have around and I would not hesitate to recommend her to other parents. We will miss her!

S. Maulie (London)

Lydia has been an Angel in disguise. She not only helped get william into more workable routine, she also gave us lots of advice on imroving his digestion as he was suffering terribly with colic. Thank you so much Lydia. Should we need a Maternity nurse in future we would certainly use happy babies again.

Claire Lewis (Finchley)

Catrina has been nothing short of brilliant, we found her friendly, capable and reliable. Both my husband and I felt totally relaxed and confident about leaving our very new baby in her care. She has been flexable and helpful with all areas we wanted to improve upon with Olivia's sleeping and feeding patterns, as well as being supportive and understanding about some of our concerns as new parents.

Catrina helped us to get through the difficult first weeks of little to no feeding and sleeping routine, and with her help and guidance, olivia is now going 5 to 6 hours between night feeds, and has a more defined sleeping routine which makes the more noctural aspect of looking after her more enjoyable and managable.

I would not hesitate to recommend Catrina to anyone else, and in short, we could not have asked for a nicer person to come into our home. Were we in a position in future in which we needed a night nanny in the future I would be sure to call upon Catrina again, We will miss her!

Lizzy Stephenz (Colchester, Essex)

Reference for Maggie  Swarts

August 2008

Maggie came to us in the sumer of 2008 to help sleep train Miles.   
Miles is 20 months old, an angel by day, somewhat devilish by night!   
In his entire life he has slept through the night only a few times and  
was becoming increasingly reliant on milk and nighttime visits to  
settle back to sleep.  A habitual night time waker (and moaner). This  
of course meant that the whole family were sleep deprived, and had  
pretty much lost all sense of humour!  The household had become  
fractious and, lets be honest, miserable!

Maggie arrived and immediately made us feel at ease.  She was very  
intuitive to the family dynamic and fitted in really well.  She had a  
great impact on both our boys instantly!

It can be completely awkward inviting a total stranger into your  
house, into your life, into your problems and giving them such  
responsibility.  Maggie was very discreet and unassuming yet made  
everyone feel at ease. She really gave us the confidence to go forward  
and get sorted. It felt very natural to let her take over.

We started off by reviewing Miles' day time routine, his eating  
habits, his diet and napping patterns.  We were given sound advice on  
what to tweak and change and Miles easily fell into his new daytime  
routine. After the five nights, Miles had showed great improvement.   
He had given up his milk, given up water, had not required a nappy  
change and was beginning to settle himself without the need of any  
night time visits.  Now, a couple of days later, he has successfully  
managed to sleep through the night (not even a peep!) and we are  
hopeful that this will continue and soon become natural to him.  His  
new habit.

During her time here, Maggie gave us invaluable advice and tips to  
help with our elder son too.  A veritable 'Super Nanny' indeed!

Thank you Maggie.


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Steve and Leila Denning
leiladenning@googlemail.com

Catrina worked for our familly as a maternity nurse for four weeks following the birth of my son Oliver. During this time I was going through a difficult time with Oliver as he was suffering from chronic digestive discomfort and was crying all day and night which was affecting my confidence as a new mother.

Catrina was an invaluable aid in me gaining my confidence with Olly, giving advice guidance and enabling me to get plenty of rest. I would highly recommend Catrina as a maternity Nurse to any future family, she is kind caring and extremley understanding.

G. Minter Chelmsford,

We employed Catrina as a maternity nurse for a six week period for our seven week premature twins (boy and a girl). Catrina was with us from the first week that the twins came home from the neonatal unit at which point they were four weeks old. We chose Catrina because she had previous experience with twins and this was very importaint to us. It turned out that we could not have made a better choice.

We are new parents and so Catrina has proved to be an invaluable help to us both from a practical point of view and also from the advice she has given us. She is capable and caring and from the outset we felt confident putting the care of our precious babies in her hands.

We were keen to establish a routine for thw twins and Catrina was happy to be flexible and worked with me to create one that worked for us as a family. What was most importaint to us is that she clearly loves babies and she was always warm and loving to our twins.

Catrina is a lovely person and it was a real pleasure to have her live with us during her employment. She is easy going and good company, however she also went out of her way to make sure we had time together as a couple too.

We would highly recomend Catrina to anyone looking for a maternity nurse. It was not until she left that we appreciated how much she had done for us and how much we missed her.

Sarah Fothergill (chelmsford)

Catrina was employed by our familly as a maternity nurse for a three week period, caring for our two month baby girl. We were having problems with Sarah sleeping at night and she seemed to sleep more during the day and less at night. Catrina was extremley helpful and gave lots of advice and help with regards to getting Sarah into a more efficent sleeping patern. We highly recommend her to any future parents wishing to employ a maternity nurse and we wish her all the best for the future.

M. Cohen (Golders green/London)

Catrina first came to work with us when our twin boys were 9 weeks old. We were struggling to get into a routine during the daytime that worked for both of our boys but very quickly Catrina helped us to establish a 4 hour feeding routine and really helped me to get in control. With Catrina's help and guidance I was able to cope with having twins far more quickly that I would have done without her help - I don't think I would have been as relaxed and confident with my twin boys without Catrina's support.

Catrina returned to work with us when the boys were 5 months old, spending 2 days a week with us whilst I recovered from an illness. Catrina's help was invaluable at this time, providing lots of advice and guidance on weaning.

Catrina was incredibly loving towards our boys and they clearly enjoyed having her around, as we all did. I would definitely recommend Catrina.

Jennie Thrower (Chelmer village, Essex)

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