Testimonials

Thank you so much, I received the book, read it and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Finally, some of the less pleasant feelings and emotions of motherhood was candidly discussed, normalised and properly explained... I think having my feelings validated of course helped and now when I have bouts of rage I know the origin and handle them much better.

I really enjoyed Babies in Mind. I was about eight months pregnant with my son when I read it the first time and I’ve read it several times over since then. He was a tough baby with colic and eczema. I found the book so helpful during the stressful times – it really helped me to see things in a different light.

I attended the Sleep workshop last month at it was absolutely fantastic and its also great to connect with other parents. I highly recommend attending!

"Babies in Mind" has some excellent advice and I use a lot of your thoughts on motherhood in my presentations, especially your mantra of "let your baby be your guide"

I really enjoyed Babies in Mind. I was about eight months pregnant with my son when I read it the first time and I’ve read it several times over since then. He was a tough baby with colic and eczema. I found the book so helpful during the stressful times – it really helped me to see things in a different light.

I have loved reading your book. Wonderful, fundamental developmental, psychological 'knowing' made so accessible to a new parent. Ithink it is the first infant book that I have read that stresses the importance of TRUST!

My little boy is now 8 months old, and we recently went through a tough time trying to get him to sleep and he was crying a lot (he had been doing so well with sleep time until a few weeks ago). I started reading your book to find out a bit more about what he could be going through and wish that I had read it from day 1! I find it very insightful and can actually relate the behaviour of some adults (specifically my father) to the way they were treated as infants - incredible! My baby is doing much better in the last few days - I'm sure we've turned a corner. After reading your book there are definitely a few things I will do differently with our next baba (God willing)! So thank you!!

I want to mention how much I enjoyed your book. I read it some time after my boy was born (he is now 4 and a half) and, luckily, before my daughter was born recently (she is now 6 weeks old). I enjoyed your level headed approach and off course the manner in which you have made deep psychological and psychoanalytic understanding available to the general public. And I myself enjoyed reading it, as I found that I had a need, as a mother, to read around the practicalities of motherhood and found that there is a gap between the theory and practice in psychology in terms of available reading. Your book definitely closed that gap for me a bit and mostly just made me feel part of a community in my own experiences. It is challenging to steer one’s way through the waters of mothering an infant with all the uncertainties (is there enough milk, should I wake a sleepy infant when she seems to be very happy going for very long stretches between feeds, is milk flow a problem when she is frustrated? etc)…there are so many variables and in some ways so little clear communication and input. And I end up concerned that my misreading of signals or misunderstanding of problems (cramps/refux/feeding issues/tiredness/overstimulation) can cause some issues around her trust in her “container”...I have found that texts such as your book and some of the articles on your website, are very containing in moments like those...