Claire Maguire
BSc (Hons) Food Science, DipHE Postnatal Facilitation, Sleep training ONC Level 3
Claire is an experienced, highly qualified and award winning postnatal practitioner and mum of two young children. She is much in demand hosting postnatal courses, weaning workshops and gentle sleep coaching; gaining national awards for her innovation. Her work is about empowering parents through sharing her knowledge and experience in a gentle unbiased way.
Background and Training
As a fashion buyer life was very busy with a toddler who had not slept through the night until his first birthday, I had never been so tired. After the birth of my second child I wanted to find out more in the hope of avoiding the same problem again and swapped buying for a place back at university again studying Postnatal Facilitation. After graduating 2011, I started working for a national parenting charity supporting new parents in the transition to parenthood and all things postnatal. I still currently practice in central London. In this role I discovered that many new parents had misinformed ideas about how babies sleep. Unqualified sleep consultants were only too happy to exploit these expectations, leaving parents at best with a temporary solution that would disintegrate after an episode of teething or travelling to a different time zone. What was more usual was that parents would be left with a plan that went against their instincts, disrupted feeding and left the whole family very stressed due to long periods of crying. I thought that there was a better way to support this and as a university trained postnatal practitioner I knew that all sleep coaches were not equal. I have trained with several respected providers such as the Millpond Sleep Clinic and OCN Sleep Training. I am a member of the International Association of Child Sleep Consultants (IACSC) and a Peppy Health Approved Sleep Practitioner. My degree in Food Science and university diploma in Postnatal Facilitation both compliment sleep coaching training, offering an excellent source of support to a new parent.