Experts List

Pregnancy and Parenting

Clare Byam-Cook

Clare Byam-Cook trained as a nurse and midwife. She has worked as a breast-feeding specialist in Christine Hill's antenatal practice for sixteen years and previously worked as a midwife at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in London. She also carries out home or hospital visits to any mother who is having feeding problems. Clare has written articles for various baby magazines, is a regular guest expert for Junior Pregnancy and Birth magazine and has made appearances on television and radio, including This Morning and Gloria Hunniford. She is also an expert on Gina Ford’s website.

Simone Cave

Simone Cave has been health editor at the Daily Mirror for six years, prior to which she was a freelance journalist covering health and medical issues for national newspapers and magazines. She lives with her husband and two children in South London and, as a mother, knows only too well the trials and tribulations that babies can bring.

Dr Carol Cooper

Dr Carol Cooper is a practising GP and mother of twins. An experienced writer, she is the author of several parenting books as well as medical adviser to the Sun and consultant editor of Baby & You. Her columns also appear in Top Sante, the Lancet and other titles and she broadcasts on both TV and radio.

Dorothy Einon

Dr Dorothy Einon is a lecturer in Psychology at University College London. She has researched the psychology of learning, has studied and taught child development and has worked as an advisor to Fisher Price Toys. She appears regularly on radio and television.

Dr Caroline Fertleman

Dr Caroline Fertleman is Consultant Paediatrician at the Whittington Hospital, London, and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London Medical School. She is also Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She lives in London with her husband and three children.

Janice Fisher and Topsy Fogg

In 2001 Topsy Fogg and Janice Fisher launched Truuuly Scrumptious Organic Baby Food Ltd. Certified by the Soil Association the company is dedicated to producing a range of delicious and nutritious baby food. The business started by supplying a few local shops and now supplies over 60 outlets as well as offering home delivery nationwide. Before founding Truuuly Scrumptious, Topsy worked as a Norland Nanny for over 12 years and Janice worked for a food manufacturer developing new products before becoming a buyer for supermarkets.

To find out more visit www.bathorganicbabyfood.co.uk

Gina Ford

Gina Ford has over twenty years' experience of looking after babies and young children. For many years she was regarded as one of the most sought-after maternity nurses in the world, specialising in caring for babies and toddlers with serious sleeping and feeding problems. Gina’s first book, The Contented Little Baby Book, was a runaway success that caught on through enthusiastic, word-of-mouth recommendation and since then it has consistently been the bestselling parenting book in the UK. As well as being the author of nine other childcare books and several children’s books, she also has her own extremely popular website, www.contentedbaby.com

Dr Yehudi Gordon

Educated at Witwatersrand Medical School and the University of London, Yehudi Gordon went on to become one of the pioneers of active and water birth in the UK. He is an internationally respected figure and now runs the Birth Unit in North London which is widely recognised as the model for effective, alternative but integrated, safer birthing practice.

Ian Grant

Ian Grant is one of New Zealand's best-known parenting experts. With his wife Mary, he runs Parents Inc., which hosts parenting seminars and programmes. Married for 42 years, they have three adult children and five grandsons.

Paula Hall

Paula Hall is an Accredited Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapist, experienced in working with couples, individuals and young people and has been a Relate counsellor for over 10 years. She currently works as a Young People’s Counsellor. She provides regular professional comment on divorce and separation and young people’s issues to the national press, women’s magazines, teenage magazines, websites, national and local radio and television and runs her own website: www.familytherapyonline.org.

Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer is the author of two parenting skills programmes and four bestselling practical books on parenting; all of which are published in the USA. She is a freelance journalist and writer in the UK, writing for leading national newspapers such as the London Times (parents page), The Independent (education features), the Observer (comment and focus pieces on social policy) and the Daily Telegraph (education). She has also contributed seminar papers on various aspects of children's mental health and learning to London University's Institute of Education and the Institute for Public Policy Research, a leading UK think tank.

Christine Hill

Christine Hill is a chartered and state registered physiotherapist. Peter Hill is consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. They are much sought after professionally and have worked with over 5,000 new mothers.

Tracy Hogg

Tracy Hogg trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital and continued her education in midwifery and caring for newborns at St James' Hospital in Leeds and St Catherine's Hospital, Doncaster. She migrated to the US in 1993 where her uncanny ability to understand and calm babies led to her nickname 'The Baby Whisperer'. Although Tracy died in 2004, her advice and tips still proves invaluable for parents.

Charlotte Hume

Charlotte Hume is a freelance television correspondent and mother of two children. After another dinner table drama involving her seven year old son and peas, Charlotte started a blog called the Great Big Vegetable Challenge and opened it to 'all of you parents out there who have tried and succeeded to introduce your offspring to the joys of carrots, peas, lettuce, spinach, asparagus, beetroot, green beans - in fact any vegetable. Any idea gratefully received.'

Her strategy was going to introduce her son to the entire alphabet of vegetables cooked in a variety of original and tempting ways and post the results - successes and failures on her blog.

To find out more, visit http://greatbigvegchallenge.blogspot.com.

Annis Garfield

Phonics Annis Garfield was a GCSE and A level examiner in English Literature and Classical Studies for nearly 30 years. Educated at Cambridge University, she regularly appears on television, speaks on the radio and writes for national newspapers on her passion for literacy and continually campaigns for a return to phonics. Annis is also the author of Teach Your Child to Read.

Cassandra Jardine

Cassandra Jardine is a very successful Daily Telegraph features journalist who has been writing about parenting for over 10 years. She has five children, aged from six to 15, and lives with her family in Brixton, London.

Sandy Lewis

Sandy Lewis was born in Singapore in 1964 and then raised and educated in Wiltshire and Somerset. She worked in finance for nine years before becoming a full-time mother. She lives in North London with her husband and two sons, Max and Charlie. This is her first book.

Dr Helen Likierman

Dr Helen Likierman is a school counsellor and a clinical psychologist in private practice. She is a parent of two teenage children and so has hands-on experience as a parent.

Dr Valerie Muter

Dr Valerie Muter is a clinical and research psychologist with a special interest in children’s early cognitive development, particularly in relation to language and literacy.

Dr Richard Newton

Dr Richard Newton is Director of Clinical Services at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. He has a son with Down's syndrome.

Paul Sacher

Paul Sacher BSC (Med) Hons SRD is a highly qualified and experienced Specialist Paediatric Dietitian at the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He is a childhood obesity researcher and is currently researching the MEND (mind, exercise nutrition and diet) programme, a childhood obesity treatment, designed to improve health and fitness for the whole family. Paul is regularly invited to speak both nationally and internationally at scientific conferences and apart from two previous books on childhood nutrition, has also published his research in scientific journals. Paul has studied and worked on three different continents, where he has developed his unique, integrated clinical style.

Chantal Sicile-Kira

Chantal Sicile-Kira has over twenty years' professional experience in ASD throughout the world and is uniquely qualified to write on this complex subject, being the parent of an autistic child. Chantal currently hosts a weekly radio show, is active in many charitable autism organisations and, with the help of her son, trains college students to be future autism professionals. Her son has been the subject of an MTV documentary and they are both winners of a Local Hero award. Her website is www.chantalsicile-kira.com.

Juju Sundin

Juju Sundin, a practising physiotherapist for 35 years, conducts labour pain management programs for pregnant women. She is a regular contributor to a range of parenting and women's magazines and has been Chairperson of the Australian Physiotherapy Association's Women's Health Group. She lives in Sydney.

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