It is both exhausting and very worrying to have an unsettled baby.  You may spend much of the day trying to find reasons for the crying, desperately trying to find solutions, or to get some sleep.  This can create a cycle of anxiety and worry which can then lead to your baby being even more unsettled.

The unsettled baby consultation looks at the whole picture of what is happening for you and your baby including:

• Feeding Issues (including gas/wind, constipation, mucous in stools, weight gain issues, constant feeding or feed refusal, leaking milk while feeding, or stressful feeding)
• Reflux
• Colic / Excessive Crying
• Queries around Food Sensitivity / Allergy
• Sleep (both baby and you)
• Your Mental Health (managing anxiety / low mood when dealing with a crying baby)
• Co-regulation (how you and your baby are regulating each other's feelings of calm or of anxiety)
• Baby Calming strategies
• Therapeutic Tummy Time

The aim of this consultation is to find possible reasons for your baby's crying, and to concentrate on resolving those issues while also concentrating on your mental health in order to give you a sense of confidence in your ability to calm and regulate your baby so that you can enjoy them and enjoy parenting.

After looking at the symptoms the consultation will focus time on 5 main areas: 

1.  Feeding Patterns / Feeding Issues (including looking at possible causes of reflux / allergy / GI Upset)

2.  Sleep Patterns 

3.  Unsettled Behaviours / Baby Calming Strategies / Caregiver mental health

4.  Therapeutic Tummy Time 

5.  Building a sense of confidence in parenting your baby

This is an initial 2 hour assessment appointment.  After that appointment follow up appointments of 1hour are available to check on the progress of the resolution strategies and to adjust them if necessary.