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Hi there! My name is Philippa, or Pip for short. Along with being a Mum who loves supporting other Mums and families through their postnatal wishes and discoveries, I get a thrill out of evidenced approaches, forging innovative, sustainable pathways for preventative infant health, all while incorporating my love for design and natural modes of healing.
My road...
Professionally...
I’m an awarded Infant Gut and Postnatal Practitioner, Certified Lactation Consultant and Nutritional Health Coach, International Baby Massage Instructor, Reiki Master, an awarded author, with foundational training in Child Development and Psychology and in 2022 I became an accepted trainer of UK Health Visitors and Feeding Specialists on the causes and natural remedial pathways of Digestive Overload.
Having been on the board of Pregnancy Help New Zealand, I was asked to be a founding ambassador for Mother's Matter NZ, and in 2018 I partnered with UNICEF to present five postnatal health policies to the New Zealand Ministry of Health, one of which called for more in-depth postnatal education in the antenatal stages for our parents. To this end, in 2017 I founded The Pudding Club. A successful piloting non-profit that taught prenatal parent’s postnatal education to uplift preventative intervention for their infants.
I am a member of the New Zealand Public Health Association New Zealand, the World Association for Infant Mental Health, American Association of Drugless Practitioners, and with a focus on attachment, I am an Attachment Parenting Professional Associate of Attachment Parenting International (API).
The seeds of…
What brought me here...
From the seedling of feeling a deep connection and delight when around newborns and children as a young girl, I knew early on that enhancing children's lives in some way was my calling.
In my early thirty-plus year career, while supporting parents in their UK and European homes as a qualified Maternity Nurse, working with royalty, dignitaries and celebrities, including Kate Winslet and Jim Threapleton, I found myself completely reshaping my understanding and responses to newborn communication as I made the discovery of what I now coin the Six-Wind-Cues.
This pioneering scientific finding, plus being compelled to play more off a part in ending the suffering I was seeing, with the incidences of colic and reflux was on the rise, I stepped into researching how our digestive biology develops in the first two years of life.
What resulted was a clear indication that some aspects of newborn care needed to dramatically change if we were to eliminate colic and reflux, or what I now call Digestive Overload, the real cause of this, along with the witching hour, lactose and dairy overload, and some cases of mis-diagnosed cow’s milk protein intolerance.
And so it was, that the guidance I now teach today in my virtual international BabyCues Clinic, and beyond, was birthed. Driven by a deep heartfelt knowing that this information could transform many lives, and it was my part to play in this world - to try and share that the best way I could.
One of those ways was my…
Awarded self-help book...
In 2014 I published my bestselling self-help parenting book ‘BabyCues - Nurture with Nature, Prevent and Remedy Colic, Reflux, Lactose and Dairy Overload.’
The journey to getting this published was a road full of perfect timing and synchronicity. I have many to thank for getting it this far, where it has sold thousands of copies worldwide. High on the list are all the newborns that have taught me SO much. I will be forever grateful for them all and this is my repayment to them - spreading all that they have taught me.
This stepping into authorship and the fast-paced changes with introducing solids to our infants, I then wrote my second book, "Bio-logical Solids Weaning Guide." With many other booklets to date.
Another way was the…
The Pudding Club...
In 2017, seeing that the remedial work I was providing in clinic came from a lack of postnatal education in the prenatal stage, I founded The Pudding Club, a non-profit pilot that offered preventative intervention through fuller postnatal education to pregnant parents. There was such an uptake of parents wanting this "training" that by the end of the first year, The Pudding Club was being offered in two locations.
Another way was the…
BabyCues Sanctuary...
From 2023 to 2025 I opened the BabyCues Postnatal Sanctuary in my hometown of Oamaru. This was a place where families could receive postnatal refuel and respite without the noise, whilst learning care practices that they could immerse into their lives at home to enable more wellbeing for their family.
another love of mine...
Speaking and events...
Being able to empower parents and professionals with the knowledge I have learnt, in order to strengthen the foundations for healthy infant development, is an honor and privilege that I step protectively but gently into, and don't take lightly.
Whether it's speaking about early infant communication and response, sharing coregulation practices or the understanding of our early digestive function, or even how best to introduce solids in a nurturing balance of digestive development, I feel opening up choices to parents and professionals through speaking at any event can only be positive for all concerned.
So, if you'd like me to speak at your event, give a keynote presentation, workshop, or provide professional development with your team, I'd be more than happy to chat further.
I believe
We are all one, and when our infants and parents are living in imbalance, it vibrationally affects us all.
My refuels
My soul-filling son, and then, in no particular order, music, dance, painting, photography, boxing, meditation, reiki, cooking, the beach and boogieboarding, loving my cat, gardening and cleaning - I know right, but I actually find that quite therapeutic.
Transformative lesson
To wholeheartedly seek your true self, and that it's more than okay to spring clean out those that distort, misjudge or use that truth against you. In fact, it's essential if one is to fully embrace the frequency of light that we all deserve to live and resonate in.
Take away
Inner peace is your birthright - we are all born with it.