Twenty years in the room.

I trained as a paediatric nurse in the UK twenty years ago and spent most of my career in NICU — caring for the tiniest, most vulnerable babies and walking alongside their families through the hardest weeks of their lives.

That work shaped everything about how I practise now. It gave me the clinical knowledge, but more importantly it taught me to listen — to really listen — to the parent in front of me, and to separate what the baby is doing from what the internet says babies should be doing.

When we moved to Dubai I saw how many families were navigating the early years without the support network they might have had back home. Grandparents on the other side of the world. Friends still figuring it out themselves. Conflicting advice from every direction, and no one to ring at 2am.

Lullabies is what came after. Certified as an IBCLC, certified again as a paediatric sleep consultant, and built as a practice that treats sleep and feeding as the same conversation — because they are. No cry-it-out. No scarcity tactics. Real answers in real sentences.