At Nest Beginnings, we believe the earliest years of a child's life are the most important and that the wisdom to nurture them well already exists in your culture, your heritage, and your community. Modern life is fast, disconnected, and full of conflicting advice. For many families especially those who have moved far from home this can make the already challenging job of parenting feel even harder. The result, too often, is children who miss out on the kind of deep, consistent nurturing their developing brains genuinely need. Rates of developmental delay in speech and language, social and emotional development, and conditions like ADHD are rising. We believe much of this is linked to the erosion of the natural, community-centred ways of raising children that protected previous generations. Nest Beginnings exists to reverse that trend: one family, one baby, one community at a time.
Nest Beginnings was founded by a specialist nurse and health visitor with over 36 years of experience working with babies and families in both the UK and Africa. She has spent her career at the forefront of parent-infant mental health, working with families as a specialist, delivering trainings and developing training programmes such as Bonding Beginnings delivered across Manchester. She delivers several other perinatal and infant mental health across the UK and at internationally front. She is actively involved in research and she has worked with numerous families both as a health visitor and as a lead for perinatal and infant mental health and as an early years Sunday School leader and she has seen first-hand what makes a real difference in children’s lives.
She founded Nest Beginnings out of a deep commitment to families from diverse and migrant communities, who are too often underserved by mainstream services. We are passionate about celebrating cultural heritage and identity as a strength in parenting not something to be replaced.
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With over 36 years of experience as a Nurse, Midwife, and Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor), this practitioner offers a wealth of expertise garnered across the United Kingdom and Africa. Her career is defined by a deep commitment to specialist leadership in parent-infant relationships, child development, and perinatal mental health.
A highly qualified healthcare professional with a foundational background as a Registered Nurse (1990), Midwife (1992), and Health Visitor (2006). This clinical practice is supported by advanced academic achievements, including: MSc in Health Visiting MSc in Healthcare Senior Leadership Masters-level education in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
As a Senior Trainer at the Brazelton Centre UK, she delivers Newborn Behavioural Observation (NBO) and Newborn Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) training. Her work bridges the gap between clinical evidence and cultural practice, helping parents and practitioners recognize the unique contributions infants bring to the relationship.
Dedicated to supporting families from pregnancy through the first years of a child’s life, she is a certified practitioner in several evidence-based relational tools: Certified NBO, NBAS, and VIG Practitioner NSCAP 0 to 3 (Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy) Watch, Wait and Wonder trained, alongside extensive infant mental health programs.
Bonding Beginnings: Developed and delivered this parent-infant relationship training across Manchester’s entire early years workforce as part of the Best Start for Life initiative (DHSC England). Nest Beginnings: Created this comprehensive training framework covering early childhood development and intervention
An active researcher and frequent conference presenter, she speaks internationally on healthcare leadership, parenting, and infant mental health. Her work focuses on preventive health and early intervention, ensuring that both practitioners and caregivers have the tools to foster healthy, responsive environments for the next generation. She has supported numerous families and organisations to improve the parenting journey for parents and babies, to set up and run early years classes for parents and children aged 0 to 5 including setting up sunday school classes. She has worked with thousands of parents and care givers to achieve better outcomes for themselves and their babies.
Testimonials
Just wanted to pass on my thanks for the training on Monday. I’ve done lots of training since I started in the role and I found yours to be by far the best. So useful. Looking forward to the next time our paths cross
Just wanted to connect to say thank you again for the very impactful training today. I came home to my son and even though he’s 6, I was thinking differently about how I do things. Not many trainings do that for you!!
At the age of two, Anulika noted her client son's lack of eye contact and delayed speech, recommending increased social interaction and nursery enrollment for peer engagement. By age five, he has shown significant improvement, exhibiting excellent eye contact and speaking capabilities.
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