For the first few weeks of my son Jesse's life, I tried to swaddle him with a square blanket - the traditional way. If you get it right, it works and it's great, but if you get it wrong, your baby wriggles its way out, releasing its arms and then wakes up by hitting itself in the head. This is not conducive to resettling or sleeping!! You swaddle a baby so it feels safe and secure. The theory is that your baby feels like it's still in the womb, to remind them of the safest pl

SET THE ATMOSPHERE Most of us are really good at noticing what’s wrong when we walk into a room. We may feel the tension or sense the negativity in conversations around us. We can tell when is not quite right. That’s what a thermometer does. It takes a reading and reports it. A thermostat does something more. It decides what the temperature should be and then works quietly to change the environment that it's been placed in. We have been given that same choice every day. We ca