Sleep, feeding, and the
first five years.
I'm Lisa Adair — IBCLC, paediatric sleep consultant, and a registered NICU nurse of 20+ years. One practice for the whole journey, because the parts of parenting that hurt at 3 a.m. are rarely just one thing.
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IBCLC lactation consultant in Dubai — latch, supply, weaning. Home visits or Zoom.
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Hi. I'm Lisa.
IBCLC, paediatric sleep consultant, and a registered NICU nurse of two decades. I treat sleep and feeding as one conversation, because they drive each other. No cry-it-out. No scare tactics. Real answers in real sentences.
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Beyond Bedtime.
All 104 articles →On going ‘home’ for the summer, and finding it isn’t quite home anymore
Nobody warns you that going ‘home’ as an expat mother is its own quiet grief — that your old life carries on without you, that you don’t quite fit the place you left, and that the baby on your hip and the life you've chosen is the reason why.
A different bed every few nights: baby sleep and behaviour when you’re moving between homes all summer
Your baby slept fine at one grandparent’s — then you moved to the next house, and the next. A Dubai sleep coach on the particular chaos of expat summers spent living out of other people’s spare rooms.
Flying home for the summer: keeping your baby's sleep alive across the time zones
What actually happens to your baby's sleep when you fly back for the summer - and how to protect it without ruining the whole trip in the name of a nap schedule.
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