Author Archives: Sarah Wheatley

There are many buzz words around pregnancy and parenting, and so many of them do come and go in phases, but something that is mentioned again and again is ‘bonding’. Everyone knows what this means – or do they?

We’re all aware of the term ‘baby blues’ but in her third parenting feature, Sarah Wheatley considers  what happens when this becomes the ‘one-and-a-half-year-old-mother blues’.

In the second of her three articles about parenting, Sarah Wheatley, Edinburgh-based counsellor, summarises the foundations on which her experience shows good parenting is built.

Having a baby is a joyful and rewarding experience, but it’s also an enormous challenge. Sarah Wheatley (pictured) is an Edinburgh-based registered counsellor, specialising in working with new parents. Here, in the first of three articles, she talks about why it’s … Continue reading →