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Family Support Service Provider of the Year - Lots for Tots Awards 2026

Infant and child sleep consultant

Exhausted by night wakes, bedtime battles or contact naps?

Gentle, evidence-based infant and child sleep support from Laura, a paediatric nurse, former health visitor and mum of three. Personalised guidance that respects your child, your parenting style and your family.

Free for every family

A clearer picture of your child's sleep.

Record nights, wakes and naps in a calm, private sleep tracker built with Laura for tired parents.

  • Free to use on phone, tablet or computer
  • A simple daily timeline without scores or judgement
  • No diagnosis, AI advice or automated sleep plans
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Start where you are

What does sleep look like in your home?

Choose the support that best fits your child’s age and the challenge your family is facing right now.

4m+

Infant sleep

For frequent night wakes, feeding or rocking to sleep, contact naps, dummy reliance and early rising.

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1y+

Toddler sleep

For bedtime battles, repeated waking, co-sleeping struggles, early starts and moving into a bed.

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Antenatal to 6 weeks

Newborn Sleep Foundations

A 30-minute on-demand antenatal masterclass with trusted guidance and a downloadable handbook.

Explore newborn support

A real family result

“Everything felt gentle, supportive and realistic. No judgement, just really kind guidance that actually worked for our family.”
Amie, Google review

Why Laura?

Clinical knowledge, personal experience and no generic plans.

Sleep advice can feel noisy and contradictory. Laura brings together more than 20 years of paediatric nursing experience, her background as a health visitor, her OCN Level 6 accredited holistic sleep coaching training and her own experience of severe family sleep deprivation.

  • Evidence-based advice and clear professional boundaries
  • A plan shaped around your child’s temperament and needs
  • Responsive support that reflects your parenting values
  • Appropriate medical signposting whenever it is needed

Meet Laura and read her story

Common sleep struggles

You do not have to simply survive it.

  • Waking every hour
  • Only sleeping when held
  • Feeding or rocking back to sleep
  • Short or unpredictable naps
  • Bedtime resistance and stalling
  • Starting the day far too early

How it works

Support, without the pressure.

1

Tell Laura what is happening

Start with a free 30-minute call about sleep now, what you have tried and what you would like to change.

2

Receive a tailored plan

If one-to-one support is right for you, Laura will assess the whole picture and create a plan for your child and family.

3

Make changes with support

Laura stays alongside you with practical guidance, reassurance and adjustments as your child responds.

Google reviews

Trusted by tired families.

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Bethan
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Laura has made such a positive difference to our little one's sleep. She was regularly waking during the night and needing to feed back to sleep, but with Laura's support, guidance, and encouragement, bedtime and overnight sleep have become so much more manageable. The techniques Laura taught us have given us the confidence to continue building healthy sleep habits, and we know they'll benefit us for a long time to come. We would absolutely recommend her to anyone looking for help with their child's sleep
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Hannah Rhead
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Before we asked her for help, our daughter was waking every 30 minutes to an hour over night, only sleeping on me during the day and every nap time and bedtime was a fight. Within 2 days of starting Laura’s plan, our daughter slept through the night (except for her feeds which we woke her for). Laura is also incredibly kind, responsive and knowledgeable. We are so glad we asked for her help and recommend her to anyone struggling with their child’s sleep!
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Eleanor Hutchinson
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I honestly can't recommend Laura highly enough. She completely transformed our daughters sleep, and it has genuinely been life-changing for our whole family. It is without a doubt the best money we've ever spent. Before working with Laura, our daughter (9 months old) was waking most nights and could be awake for up to two hours at a time. The only way we could get her back to sleep was by bouncing her or giving her bottles of milk. Bedtime had become so stressful that we genuinely dreaded it every evening. I booked a consultation mid meltdown at 4am one night for the morning after and even the consultation i felt a massive sense of relief that something could be done. From the very first night of following Laura's bespoke sleep plan, she slept through the night 12 hours WITH NOT 1 WAKE UP. It had been about 3 months since she had done this! I honestly couldn't believe it. Laura also guided us through some huge changes, including me returning to work and my daughter starting with a childminder, making sure her sleep stayed on track throughout. Laura was so supportive, knowledgeable and always there to reassure us if we had a struggle that night. You do have to be willing to make the changes she recommends, but if you commit to the process, it is absolutely worth it. Our changes were quite subtle but made all the difference! I no longer have anxiety or PTSD-like feelings about bedtime, and our whole family is happier and more rested because of Laura's help. I wouldn't hesitate to use her again or recommend her to anyone struggling with their little one's sleep. Thank you so much Laura!
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Amie
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One of the best decisions I’ve made as a parent has been taking the leap and working with Laura. Going into this, my baby was waking basically every hour over night and needed help every single time to get back to sleep by feeding, holding and a dummy. Me and my partner were completely at our wits end, taking shifts through the night just trying to survive. I felt exhausted, anxious and constantly overthinking sleep. I dreaded bedtime. I dreaded being stuck contact napping in the day. My days were spent sleep deprived and I felt like I couldn’t be the mum I wanted to be because the sleep was so poor. I was also SO sceptical at first - I remember asking Laura what happens if it doesn’t work because I genuinely couldn’t imagine our baby ever sleeping any differently. I honestly never would have believed that just 3 weeks later we’d be where we are now. Now not only is she sleeping through the night, but my confidence around her sleep has completely changed too. I used to feel so stressed about naps, bedtime and every little wake up, whereas now I actually feel calm and confident. I know my baby now has the skills to sleep without needing me to support her to transition between sleep cycles. She now happily goes to sleep independently in her cot which has honestly given me my evenings back a bit as well as having time in the day to either get things done or have some time to myself. One thing I wasn’t expecting going into this was that we would be able to also remove the Dummy!! No way on earth would I have had the faith to do that on my own without Laura’s support. One of the biggest reasons I chose Laura was because of her background as a nurse and former health visitor. It made me feel like I could completely relax and trust her advice, especially in such a vulnerable stage of motherhood. For me, that level of knowledge and experience is absolutely worth paying extra for compared to other “sleep consultants”. Laura’s personalised plan for my baby included information on safe sleep and was always with my baby’s best interest at heart. She was always very conscious my baby was fed through dream feeds to ensure every aspect of our plan was done safely. Laura is so professional at every step and very enthusiastic which is so needed when you are sleep deprived and need that support to stick with it and believe in her. Everything felt so gentle, supportive and realistic. No judgement, no making me feel like I was doing things wrong (even at times where it didn’t go exactly to plan), just really kind guidance that actually worked for our family. If you’re already considering it - take the leap. I haven’t once left my baby to ‘cry it out’ and in 3 weeks my life has been completely changed. Thank you Laura, and sorry again for the daily voicenotes (podcasts) 🙏🏻🧡
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Mark
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I was skeptical thinking we needed a sleep nurse, but Laura has absolutely transformed our baby, she now sleeps full nights after months of broken sleep! The help and advice and analysing our baby’s specific naps/sleeps were great and she kept in touch with us throughout backed up with plenty of reassurance. We couldn’t recommend her more! Thank you!!
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Claire Williams
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Before working with the Sleep Nurse we had battled every single sleep, and usually ended up resorting to tag teaming contact naps throughout the night to allow her to get some form of sleep. My partner and I had no time together and we were at breaking point. Three weeks later and our lives are so very different. Through working with the Sleep Nurse we understand our daughters sleep needs so much better and have a much more calm response to sleep, which in turn is rubbing off on our daughter. We can put our daughter down in the cot awake and she can self settle herself to sleep with no crying within 10 minutes. Her day time naps are much more consistent in the cot and she is sleeping solid blocks in the night (sometimes even all the way through!). We know there will still be rocky times with sleep to come but we feel we have a tool kit of techniques to help us through these. We can't thank the Sleep Nurse enough for giving us our lives back. Her enthusiasm and positivity is contagious, and from the first 30 minute call we could tell she was the person we wanted to work with. Even though it may sound unbelievable at the start, if you trust the process and commit fully to the journey it is well worth it. We would 100% recommend reaching out and working with the Sleep Nurse.
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Joanne Pockett
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It has been such a pleasure to work with Laura over the past month - we can't thank her enough for the changes we've experienced as a family. When we reached out to her, we had reached breaking point - up most of the night with a very unsettled 7 month old baby, no-one getting any good quality sleep. Within a few weeks, he's moved in to his own room, is only having two feeds a night and is sleeping for four hours at a time. We all feel so much calmer about bedtime, as opposed to dreading the nights. She's so lovely to work with too - always on hand on what's app to make you feel supported throughout the journey, with regular calls for more in-depth conversations. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her support to anyone that is struggling.
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Reece Winch
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The best money that we ever spent! My wife and I cannot recommend Laura enough. Laura takes the time to understand your babies personality and habits to ensure the support and guidance is completely tailored to reflect your baby and the parents routine. Taking the time to explain step by step, day by day what are next steps in the process and more importantly why. Laura was never pushy the process was able to flow at a speed that suited us and our baby. We now have a much happier well rest baby and its all thanks to Laura, absolutely invaluable.
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Laura McWha
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Honestly couldn’t recommend Laura enough. We had exhausted all options before chatting to Laura and we really thought we couldn’t be helped as our little one simply didn’t sleep anywhere but on us, every single nap and night sleep with endless rocking and pacing in between it all. We were so exhausted so took the leap of faith working with Laura and we are so happy and thankful we did. Laura went at our pace but really understood our little ones sleep needs recognising her as an individual baby, not a one size fits all. She understood we needed this to work around our oldest daughter too which was a bonus. She listened, shared knowledge and cheered us on throughout our journey, making our house actually get sleep and become happier again! I have no idea when things would have improved without Laura, I’m so pleased with the results not just for our littlest but for everyone in the house! Super grateful for you Laura.
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Joe Summerhayes
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Laura was amazing. We were apprehensive going into sleep training but after our initial call with Laura our minds were at ease. It was very clear that Laura really takes the time to understand your situation and the temperament of your baby and works with you to create a schedule that feels comfortable for you. Her methods worked so well, and we always felt like she was there to answer questions. Would recommend, 100%.
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A calm first step

Let us make sense of sleep together.

The call is relaxed and no pressure. If Laura thinks she can help, she will explain what support could look like. If something sounds medical or outside her role, she will signpost you appropriately.

Online sleep consultant support

Baby, toddler and child sleep support across the UK

Sleep Nurse UK supports families online across the UK, including Derby, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire and the wider Midlands. Laura’s work is not an adult sleep apnoea clinic or NHS sleep clinic; it is personalised infant, toddler and child sleep consultancy led by a paediatric nurse and OCN Level 6 trained holistic sleep coach.

Professional trust

Qualifications and accreditations

Holistic Sleep Coach, Professional Member
Graduate of the OCN Level 6 accredited Holistic Sleep Coaching Programme
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
OCN Level 6 accredited Holistic Sleep Coaching Programme
Enhanced DBS Check
International Association of Child Sleep Consultants

Award-winning family support

Family Support Service Provider of the Year

Winner at the Lots for Tots Awards 2026, recognising trusted support for infants, children and their families.

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