Help, Advice and Support for New Parents On becoming a parent, it becomes near impossible to prioritise ourself. As parents we need to know quick, effective ways to self soothe and re-group. It helps us be the best patient, loving parent we know we can be. So, here at Parents Guide Illawarra, we turned to […]

Your baby is born with its own individual temperament – the way your child responds to the world and to their own body. Temperament helps to explain how children in the same family often have such different personalities and why parents sometimes find it tough to raise certain children but not others. (with many thanks […]

The Illawarra Early Parenting Centre is well known for helping families with sleep and settling problems, but sleep is really just one piece of the puzzle. Often dietary factors can play a large role in behavioural concerns and sleep disturbances. Constipation or hard stools is a common complaint among infants and toddlers, particularly from 6 […]