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Dorothy Waide

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Dorothy Waide qualified in 1973 as a Karitane Baby Nurse. Since 1990 she has been working around the world helping new mums and dads with their newborns, including some A-list celebrity clients, like Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones and Russell Crowe. She has now returned home to New Zealand to help pass on her extensive knowledge to NZ families by empowering them with 'mother-craft' skills

Scared of cot Scared of cot

My daughter is 21 months old and has previously been a very good sleeper. She had her first tummy bug this week and vomited in bed a few times. I think this may have scared her. At night she ...

Occasional waking Occasional waking

For quite some months now my 14 month old has been waking in the night and usually takes about two hours to get back to sleep. Occasionally she will let me tuck her back in and will go straig...

Dummy Dummy

My 11 month old uses a dummy to fall asleep. He lets it slip out once he falls asleep and will sleep for most of the night without it. If he stirs (he "sings", "talks" to himself, whines or c...

A full nights sleep please A full nights sleep please

I have a three year old and seven-and-a-half-month-old who is breastfed. My baby has been sick constantly for the past four months. She has a constant runny nose and rattly chest, has had ant...

4 month old was sleeping through... 4 month old was sleeping through...

My four-month-old was the perfect night sleeper until she got sick with a cold. For a few weeks she was waking once or twice a night and I'd feed her. She is now well but still usually wakes ...

Kicking off blankets Kicking off blankets

My nine month old has just recently started moving about in his cot and consistently gets out of blankets and into all kinds of weird positions, which usually wakes him up. He doesn't use a s...

Getting 1 year old to sleep in own cot Getting 1 year old to sleep in own cot

We have a one-year-old boy who, until recently, went to bed at night without problems. Since then he has learnt to stand up in his cot, as soon as we put him in his cot at night he rolls over...

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