I have always had an innate way of relating to babies and young children. As a child I made a bee line for any mother with a baby wanting to cuddle and play with her baby. I was always playing with children and when I reached my teens I always knew I wanted to care for children. I went to collage to gain my Btec National Diploma in Early Years Care and Education passing with a distinction level in all subjects. I threw myself into all of my work placements gaining more and more experience to involve babies and children of all ages in all types of settings. It was then that I met my first set of triplets whom I loved to be involved with and still keep in touch with now. My interest in newborn babies and multiple births developed dramatically from here and I became a keen reader of other multiple stories and loved talking to mothers of twins and triplets. I gained my qualifications on Caring for Multiples and continued to care on a daily basis for sets of twins. I have since gone on to gain qualifications in Sleep Training and Psychology and am currently studying a Foundation Degree in Early Years Care and Education through the Open University with the aim to achieve Early Years Professional Status. I have gained an OCN Maternity Practitioner Award, furthering my knowledge and skills with young babies including issues such as breast feeding and sleeping. I have a keen interest on keeping up to date with relevant courses and childcare development ideas. My experience with babies and children has been consistent throughout, I have cared for numerous newborns, toddlers and pre-schoolers and caring for them has enabled me to hone my childcare skills to ensure I provide the highest standard of childcare. I have worked with newborns with varying needs and have many references to support this. Alongside working as a night nanny I run a childminding setting with my co-childminder, Emily James, providing a high standard of day care for children aged from birth upwards.