Dawn
Maternity Nurse in Shedfield
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Female Member since Jul 2011 Last Updated Dec 2024 Last Login 24 Dec 2024
My Summary
About Me
I am a highly experienced, qualified and fully insured Maternity Nurse / Night Nurse from Hampshire with over 35 years experience in the childcare industry.
My passion is working with newborns.
I am a hardworking, caring and an efficient practitioner who is enthusiastic, as well as someone who uses initiative and has the ability to adapt to their surroundings.
I have found that it is important to develop strong bonds with the parents to assist the family as a whole, communicating effectively and providing daily/nightly routine diaries.
My main roles are to teach and guide new parents on how to look after their baby on a daily basis giving breast feeding support if required, setting workable routines that suit the family, sterilising and bottle preparation if necessary, bathing, nappy changing, winding and settling after feeds day and night.
Sole charge of night feeds if bottle or expressed feeding.
I also provide the client with details of what to expect going forward with the development of their baby ( babies).
I am available for FaceTime consultations.
All bookings are under contract with a deposit taken upon confirming required dates.
Ad hoc and emergency bookings are also available depending on my diary.
I have excellent references and full CV with career history available to share.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind regards
Dawn
All counties covered.
My Experience
As a Maternity Nurse / Night Nurse, I hold a MNT Level 4 certificate
I originally trained as a nanny (NAMCW)
I have over 35 years experience in the childcare industry.
I had my first Maternity position in 1988 and worked solidly until 1994. I then worked as a part time nanny to 6 month old twins from 1994 - 2000 whilst I had my own children and returned to a previous client as a maternity nurse for her 2nd baby 1995.
I had been Childminding, Ofsted registered since Dec 1994 until April 2013 for babies from 2 months to 2 years old, plus continuing to consult on breastfeeding issues and sleep behaviour whilst my children were young.
2013 - present I work solely as a Night Nurse/ Maternity Nurse.
Many of my previous clients were HNWI
I have many excellent references available on request and uploaded in my documents.
I have currently been a Maternity Nurse / Night Nurse to over 150 babies.
Multiple sets of twins.
Multiple premature babies
Reflux/ Silent Reflux
CMPA
Colic babies
Sleep behaviour
Trouble shooting
Emergency bookings
My Qualifications
MNT Level 4
NAMCW
Paediatric First Aid
Essentials of Safeguarding for Child Abuse
Safehands Child Protection
DBS
My Availability
various dates throughout the year. Please call for an update on my availability.
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| Before School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Morning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Evening | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Overnight | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Last Updated: 10/12/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Maternity Nursing from £25.00 per hour (gross)
Fees vary depending on whether the booking is for singletons or multiples or trouble shooting
Please call or message to enquire.
My Documents
- Reference: Maternity Nurse Gledhill Jul 24 (added 29/09/2024)
- Reference: Night Nurse Harding-Gelbard Aug 24 (added 29/09/2024)
- Full CV (added 28/09/2024)
- Reference: Maternity/Night Nurse Miles Apr 24 (added 27/05/2024)
- Exam Certificate: Essentials of Safeguarding from Child Abuse (added 23/02/2024)
- Reference: Night Nurse Hooper Jul 23 (added 18/01/2024)
- Reference: Night Nurse Foden-Pattinson Dec 23 (added 18/01/2024)
- Reference: Night Nurse Bennett Jun/Jul (added 05/09/2023)
- Reference: Maternity Nurse Baring/Coombe Mar 23 (added 04/09/2023)
- Reference: Maternity Nurse Maspero Oct 22 (added 13/10/2022)
- Reference: Maternity Nurse Chandler Aug 22 (added 27/09/2022)
- Reference: Night Nurse Davies Apr 22 (added 26/08/2022)
- Reference: Night Nurse T Mar 22 (added 20/04/2022)
- First Aid Certificate: First Aid February 22 (added 11/03/2022)
- Reference: Night Nurse Travessolo Higham Dec 21 (added 09/02/2022)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Cassavetti Dec 21 (added 05/02/2022)
- Reference: Night Nurse Eagles Nov 21 (added 29/11/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Pople Nov 21 (added 27/11/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Howson Oct 21 (added 05/11/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Hepburn Jun 21 (added 12/08/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Lamb Jul 21 (added 27/07/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Crosthwaite Eyre Jul 21 (added 26/07/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Quazzo-Zinser Mar 15 (added 29/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Privett Jul 18 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Cousins Oct 19 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Winser May 17 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Crawford May 21 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Hackett Apr 21 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity and Night Nurse Toogood Mar 18 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Giles Jun19 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Randall Oct 19 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Lady Hay Nov 18 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Wilkes Sept 18 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Spice Jul 19 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Bastian Mar 20 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Night Nurse Prof Wakefield Aug 19 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Nurse Hazlerigg Jun 18 (added 28/06/2021)
- Reference: Maternity Reference Leach (added 22/06/2020)
- DBS Check (added 03/05/2019)
- Training Certificate: MNT Level 4 (added 28/03/2018)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Dawn. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk users and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
2nd June – 31st August 2024
Returned 6th – 11th October 2024
Dawn arrived the night we got home, having been in hospital for a week with our little son. As soon as Dawn arrived, she instantly made us feel at ease, and helped settle us into life with a newborn with her calm approach.
Dawn helped our son get into a routine by week two, which was incredible, so we knew when to feed him and when to let him sleep, which therefore enabled him to sleep well at night and eventually sleep though! As she was with us during the day (as well as nights), she was so helpful teaching me various tips, and the constant reassurance was invaluable. Whether it was help with breastfeeding, bottle feeding, how to bath our baby for the first time, or even coming with us for our first lunch out of the house, Dawn couldn’t have been more helpful and gave us the confidence we needed.
I can’t imagine where we would be now if we hadn’t had Dawn to help guide us through those early days. Having a baby who sleeps through the night and in a structured daily routine is something we had wished for, and Dawn has made it happen.
I would highly recommend Dawn to any new parent looking for some guidance and help with their newborn.
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mlpott
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on 14/11/2024
Response by
Dawn
on 15/11/2024:
Thank you for your lovely reference. I loved every minute helping you all x
I found Dawn when my baby was 9 days old and I felt completely lost as to what I should be doing!
After an initial 45 minute call with her where she offered advice to help out straight away - which worked! She came and gave my husband and I ‘baby school’. We had Dawn for daytimes only, to help set up a routine, to build our confidence and to be a friendly face to hold the baby so we could also catch up on an hour or two’s sleep.
I could not have done these first few months without Dawn, and credit her completely for the routine and structure she gave both to us as new parents but also to our baby, who now feeds and sleeps very well, and generally has a relaxed demeanour.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Dawn to anyone, she really has been a life saver when we were feeling quite in the dark. We will continue to use her as various developmental stages hit.
If you’re feeling lost, or struggling, Dawn is the person for you!!
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Response by
Dawn
on 18/09/2024:
Thank you for such a lovely review 😊
My husband and I found Dawn when our little girl was only 3/4 weeks. We are new recruits into parenthood and lets just say we found the early days harder than expected!
From the moment Dawn arrived we instantly felt more at ease, not only did she introduce a nighttime routine that improved our sleep from day 1 but also her wealth of knowledge and experience in all things baby allowed us to start enjoying the experience of parenthood.
There is far too many 'wins' for me to list them all; I have listed below the reasons why we will be calling on Dawns support if we ever have a little brother or sister:
- Instant bed time sleep improvements. I always remember Dawn saying your baby can sleep for 12 hours through the night from 4/5 months ... I can now confirm we have a baby that sleeps for 12 hours at least 5 nights a week (the other 2 nights she may wake up at 4/5am and settle herself back down)
- Introduction of day time sleeping patterns that compliment night time sleeping.
- Bottle preparation
- Key milestones to look out for/be comfortable with during your babies early days
- General advice / company when you are having down days (feeding, clothing, environment etc).
If I'm honest, we would not be where we are today without the help of Dawn.
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Amy
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on 08/01/2023
Response by
Dawn
on 08/01/2023:
Thanks you so much for the lovely review.
I have loved watching you become confident, relaxed and enjoying parenthood. Xx
Dawn spent two months helping us with our second baby who was born a week early.
She was very helpful with some breasfeeding issues we had initially and helped us get into a day and night time routine. She had answers for all of our questions and was full of practical solutions.
We will certainly be looking to hire her again in a few months when our baby goes through the inevitable sleep regression stages.
She always arrived on time and was a delight to have around and made us feel at ease.
Cannot recommend her enough.
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BYaz
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on 24/11/2022
Response by
Dawn
on 25/11/2022:
Thank you so much for the great review and for being such a lovely family. 😊
My baby girl arrived two weeks early after a very difficult pregnancy. From one day old, Dawn cared for baby during the nights for 4 months.
Dawn was excellent in all aspects of her role as a maternity nurse, helping me with feeding and putting in place a routine that worked for my family (I also have a 3yr old).
Dawn was first to suspect that my daughter had a cows milk protein allergy (doing so before the midwives and even the GP!), which I am sure is due to her experience caring for newborn babies, as well as her natural intuition.
Dawn always arrived punctually and was willing to answer questions and give advice over the phone, even when she was not “at work”. This made me feel supported and confident in my new role as mother of two.
I would be pleased to recommend Dawn to any expectant Mother, or for those who are needing extra support with their baby.
I wish Dawn all the best in her future jobs. She will be very much missed.
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Jessica
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on 17/06/2022
Response by
Dawn
on 26/08/2022:
My pleasure, absolutely loved being you all x
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