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pepsi 
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Posted: 30 April 2007 at 8:14pm |
This story was on the tv show Sunday last night..thought some of you might be interested. The TVNZ website has the whole story, just click on the link in the "related video" section.
Baby Whisperer
What do you do if your newborn baby won't stop crying? You call the baby whisperer. Janet McIntyre talks to a New Zealand woman who has an extraordinary talent for settling the most troubled of babies. She is in demand all over the world.
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fattartsrock
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Posted: 30 April 2007 at 8:53pm |
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It was a great story, I thought.
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The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P
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Posted: 30 April 2007 at 10:15pm |
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Yeah I think even though the stuff she does is pretty much what you are told will help settle your baby, the lady does seem to have a real magic touch. I would have loved to have her live with me the first 6 weeks of Alyssa's life!
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Posted: 30 April 2007 at 11:42pm |
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i think what she was doing was simple common sense and also what any midwife or nurse would have done back in the 70s - aka my mum!!!
altho - i did not like her idea of swaddling then placing on side....it needs one arm out and a tilt...pretty dangerous i felt the way she was doing it!
otherwise simply common sense
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Posted: 01 May 2007 at 5:54am |
I never saw it, if I had still been a nanny I would have been glued to the screen!
From what I saw on the ads, its mostly just common sense. Maybe she is just one of those people who project calm to the baby. It makes sense tho, in my experience, it is easier for an outside person other than Mum or Dad to calm a little one since it is less distrssing for them. it isnt their child and they havent been up with them all night long. They are fresh to the scene, so can act objectively. Thats what I would say to the family of the kids I was nannying. Its just a fresh perspective, they werent doing anyting wrong, they were just dog tired!
Will have to follow link and have a look...
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Posted: 01 May 2007 at 7:29am |
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I enjoyed it, thought it was a great story. How cool to go to Dubai. I would love to go there...
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Millie1976
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Posted: 01 May 2007 at 8:34am |
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I thought it was a great documentary. I think she is going to get lots of offers from men wanting to go out with her after she mentioned she was single - she will make a great mother one day.
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Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:11am |
it was a great story 
i had to sleep charli on her side as she wouldn't settle on her back. my mw suggested it, with rolled up towels in front and behind her so she couldn't roll over anyway. bit like a sleeping wedge situation
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Posted: 01 May 2007 at 2:20pm |
it was a lot of common sence although my babies hated being swallded. but if you come in from the outside having had no sleepness nights and not totalty stressed out from a screaming baby, baby can sence that and will naturally feel calmer. but it is a cool idear to have someone to come in and let you get some sleep so you can be calm and not stressed around baby. 
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