Kornelia
Maternity Nurse in London: Camden
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Female Member since Oct 2022 Last Updated Feb 2024 Last Login 11 Oct 2024
My Summary
About Me
Hello,
My journey began almost 20 years ago when I stepped into childcare. I earned my qualifications in postnatal care, care of multiples, developmental psychology, child psychology, nutrition, and many others. While my experience built up my confidence in caring for babies from various cultural, religious, and health backgrounds with a wide variety of unique requirements.
As a maternity nurse, I am highly trained, but training and education only cover the general basics. Being open to taking on roles other more seasoned specialists were hesitant about, made me a calm and very skilled professional.
I had the privilege to support parents with special needs newborns requiring oxygen monitoring, changing catheters, physical therapy, GI tube feeding, seizure monitoring, etc I was trained by other healthcare professionals specific to each baby and their needs.
I also have loads of experience with "typical" issues like reflux / silent reflux, allergies, circumcision aftercare, colic, and jaundice.
The most enjoyable part of my job is to see how my presence transforms new parents. Building up their confidence in newborn care. Helping them adjust to parenthood. Including siblings in everyday life with a baby. Eventually leaving them well equipped to tackle the next chapters of their lives as a growing family.
I love every aspect of my job. Caring and supporting. Educating and empowering. My superpowers are understanding non-verbal communication and the behavior of babies combined with empathy and a naturally warm personality.
Part of my job is:
- Educate parents on complete newborn care
- Help with settling in at home
- Care for multiples and preemies
- Help and assist with breastfeeding
- Support mothers during postpartum depression
- Monitor infant nutritional intake
- Umbilical care
- Circumcision care
- Changing diapers
- Bathing
- Bottle feeding
- Educate on burping techniques
- Educate on infant cues and communications
- Soothing and safe swaddling
- Encourage and monitor physical, emotional, and intellectual development
- Document sleep patterns and offer advice on healthy sleep
- Observe natural behavior and create routines appropriate to the age
I also create schedules/routines that fit the baby and family.
I am so fortunate to do what I truly love.
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
?I am looking forward to working with you!
Kornelia
My Experience
I have been a 24/6 private maternity nurse in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, San Francisco, Geneva, Basel, Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich, etc...
Positions were mainly providing general newborn care.
Including:
- bringing baby to mother for breastfeeding
- bottle feeding
- diaper changing
- sterilizing pumping equipment and bottles
- washing and organizing baby clothes
- taking baby for walks
- settling baby for sleep
- winding baby
- implementing daily routines
- encouraging development through age-appropriate activities
- keeping daily / night journal
- accompany baby for doctor appointments
- administering medications
- implementing the feed-sleep schedule
- encouraging independent sleep development through healthy sleep patterns, positive associations, and minimizing wake times throughout the night
On numerous occasions when working with SPECIAL NEEDS newborns I followed the specialists' instructions which included:
- changing catheters
- extracting stool
- physiotherapy to prevent muscle atrophy
- oxygen monitoring
- Gastric-tube changing
- seizure monitoring
- wake-night support
- adjusting positions throughout the night for optimal spine development
- watch out for infections and spinal fluid build-up
and much more.
While I cared for the newborn baby/ies I also cared for and supported new mothers:
- after c-section with reduced mobility which included helping to stand up and sit down, use of stairs, bathroom, shower, food preparation...
- offering hands-on breastfeeding support
- vaginal and c-section aftercare tips
- building new parents' confidence in newborn care
- helping siblings to be part of newborn care and inclusion
- advising on routine changes
- advising on teething
- advising on weaning onto solid foods
- leaving parents with tips on how to encourage further physical development after my departure
- offering information on a voluntary childhood vaccination plan
- preparing for a newborn baby's first travel and how to manage the short or longer journeys
My Qualifications
Certified in Post-natal Care,
Care of multiples certificate,
Breastfeeding Certificate,
Child psychology level 5,
Positive psychology cert.,
Bilingual Brain cert.,
Diet specialist level 4 cert.,
Child nutrition cert.,
Baby Massage cert.,
Intro to Midwifery cert.,
Life Coaching cert.,
CACHE childcare cert.,
Autism cert.,
First aid up to date cert.,
My Availability
available immediately for max 2 - 3 weeks of 24h/5 or 24h/6 or long term rota
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Morning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Evening | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Overnight | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Last Updated: 13/02/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Maternity Nursing from £25.00 per hour (gross)
My Documents
- Training Certificate: Midwifery (added 07/10/2022)
- Training Certificate: Baby Massage (added 07/10/2022)
- Training Certificate: Nutrition (added 07/10/2022)
- Training Certificate: Multiples Care (added 07/10/2022)
- Training Certificate: Maternity Nurse cert (added 07/10/2022)
- Full CV (added 07/10/2022)
- First Aid Certificate (added 07/10/2022)
- EU Passport (added 07/10/2022)
- DBS Check (added 07/10/2022)
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