Slumber Baby - Fiona Carroll Sleep Consultancy

24/10/2023

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Sunday 29th October 2am

🎃 Option 1 - Slow & Steady!

A gentle transition is an great choice for a lot of us. Bedtime will slowly creep later for several days before the clocks officially go back back.

👻Start by adjusting nap and bedtimes by 10-15 or so minutes about 4 to 7 days before. They will hopefully be fully adjusted by Sunday night when the clocks have turned back

🎃Option 2 - Fly by the seat of your pants!

If you don't want to or have forgotten to prep, just go with with it!

👻Change the clocks back an hour before you go to bed on Saturday night, wake up on Sunday morning (crossing fingers and toes that the kids sleep in a little longer) and adjust the schedule immediately to the new time. If your baba is adaptable this may work quite well!

Good luck!

Fiona xx

21/06/2023

Newborn Sleep Package 😍

Are you expecting a baby or just recently had a baby!? Perfect!

It’s never too early to get the knowledge of safe and impactful sleep tools before baba is even here 🔥
A win is a win! 🏆

What’s Included ✨

🌟 Perfect for expectant parents or newborns up to 4 months old
🌟60 minute virtual meeting to educate families about newborn sleep, and how to navigate during this time, and much more!
🌟How to have daily "you-time" (yes please!)
🌟Personalised Newborn Sleep Guide
🌟Age-appropriate schedules and other useful handouts
🌟At the end of our work together, I also provide each family with additional information to help through various developmental milestones that will occur in the first year
🌟only €149
🌟Special ‘top up sesh’ 30 minute calls to all families that I have worked with previously

Fiona xx

21/06/2023

My quick fire PERSONALISED Sleep Chat is great for families who want to make changes with their baba’s sleep, however, may prefer to go at their own pace AND get LOADS of impactful sleep knowledge! 🔥

What’s included:

🌟perfect for baba’s 4 months and older
🌟45-60 minute virtual meeting to discuss sleep challenges AND solutions
🌟Personalised sleep plans
🌟Age-appropriate sample schedules
🌟Relevant Handouts
🌟48 hours support following our virtual meeting
⭐️Acquire a lifetime of sleep education and supportive tools

And more!

✨Only €149

Fiona xx

22/03/2023

🌼SPRING FORWARD 🌼

(⭐️DISCLAIMER!! Not nearly as horrific as fall-back but you may need to pull out the black-out blinds 😅)

That time again! The clocks are going forward this weekend 🥳

🌼A slow and steady transition is an excellent choice for families if you want your baba to stay on the same schedule as they are now
🌼 Bedtime will slowly creep 10-15 minutes earlier for the next few days before the clocks officially change (from tonight is perfect)
🌼 With these adjustments, hopefully baba will wake up the following morning at the same time as they normally would
🌼Example - baba normally goes to bed at 8pm and wake at 8am. If you adjust bedtime so they will be going to bed at 7pm on Saturday night, but with the clock change, their wake time will be still 8am
🌼 Pre bedtime routine, as always, is super important ie no screen time, quiet playtime and try and close your curtains/blinds at least an hour before they are due to go to sleep, to help with the production of melatonin
🌼 Black out blinds work really well, not only for ensuring your baba’s sleep space is dark enough to help them go to sleep, it stops the light coming in too early in the morning too ☀️

Fiona xx


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25/02/2023

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Be transported to the vibrant climes of Latin America with tickets to the Ritmo Latino festival, taking place in Dublin on February 24–26.

15/12/2022

Winter solstice coming up ❤️

Newgrange - 5,200 year old passage tomb, built by stone age farmers who would have prospered in the rich lands of the region. It is aligned with the rising sun on the mornings during the Winter Solstice. Why or how these early farmers built the tomb in such a way is still a mystery. It has been suggested that when the light hits the spiral motif on back slab in the chamber it opens the vortex into the ‘other world’ 🤯

Newgrange predates the Egyptian Pyramids standing 900 years older than The Great Pyramids of Giza.....and 1,000 years older than Stonehenge.

A special place in Irish mythology!

18/10/2022

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Sunday 30th October 2am

🎃 Option 1 - Slow & Steady!

A gentle transition is an great choice for a lot of us. Bedtime will slowly creep later for several days before the clocks officially go back back.

👻Start by adjusting nap and bedtimes by 10-15 or so minutes about 4 to 7 days before. They will hopefully be fully adjusted by Sunday night when the clocks have turned back

🎃Option 2 - Fly by the seat of your pants!

If you don't want to or have forgotten to prep, just go with with it!

👻Change the clocks back an hour before you go to bed on Saturday night, wake up on Sunday morning (crossing fingers and toes that the kids sleep in a little longer) and adjust the schedule immediately to the new time. If your baba is adaptable this may work quite well!

Good luck!

Fiona xx

03/09/2022

23/07/2022

The amzing Avril Flynn talking about all things bladder 🥰

03/06/2022

A quiet and calm sleep space for our baba’s is very important, especially this time of year when it’s so bright at bedtime🌞

Our baba’s can be completely overwhelmed and overstimulated by the end of the day, so it is important that we have their sleep space and living space as calm and restful as possible before sleep times to help promote a restful sleep:

✨ calm interiors
✨ recommended temperature is 16-20 degrees Celsius - temp guide to follow!
✨ proper nightwear
✨ a dark room
✨good airflow - try and open the windows everyday
✨minimise the amount of toys and flashing lights in their sleep space
✨ white noise - more about this to follow too!

Fiona xx

26/04/2022

😭🥰

“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.⁠
For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.
Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.
Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.
The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.
How cool is that?
This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.
It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive.
Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?
Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”
If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.
I find this to be so very beautiful.
Credit: Unknown

11/04/2022

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) warned parents of the potential dangers of both baby nest and baby sleep bag products in a statement released this morning.The CCPC is…