Jo grew up in Nottingham and knew from a very young age that she wanted to work with babies and has spent the last 24 years doing so. By the time she had left school she had already volunteered at a Family Centre for 2 years during her school holidays and done her qualification in Childcare. She then spent the next 3 years attaining further qualifications with the Nursery Nursing Education Board (NNEB) at Basford Hall College. Her placements saw her working in Baby Units and specialising in babies with breathing difficulties including extremely premature ones at the City Hospital. She then worked as a Nanny for 7 month old twins, and later took a position in a school working with children with learning difficulties. Jo realised she wanted to go back to working solely with babies and started working as a Maternity Nurse for newborn twin girls. Their American Mum asked Jo to put her babies on a “Schedule”, soon after the twins were sleeping and feeding well. Jo soon realised the importance of getting babies into a good feeding and sleeping routine.
After gaining a brilliant reputation for understanding parents and babies everywhere, Jo wrote her book Baby Secrets with one of her twin’s Mums. Jo soon became the lady to see if their baby couldn’t sleep. She has been on many TV shows including spending a week with Doctor Hilary as a presenter on GMTV for Twins week, as an expert on ‘ITV’S Baby House and also on Richard and Judy talking about her spaced soothing technique. She has been on countless radio shows and in most major newspapers. She has also been on TV and in magazines in Australia, New Zealand and China. Jo now has many followers around the World asking for her advice, she offers in your home’ Rescue Packages’ for single and twin babies, email support and now a new phone advice line and Home consultations. You can even hire her to speak to your NCT group or Mother and Toddler meetings.
Every month Jo writes a column for Prima Baby magazine as their Sleep Expert, she also is a guest speaker at all the Clarion Baby shows around the country, and also writes for internet sites and other media outlets. Jo also heads the company Baby Secrets Ltd. Baby Secrets is a trusted name within the parenting sector based primarily on the solid foundation of providing expert advice, products, literature and the professional services of Jo Tantum. It is Jo’s compassionate, understanding attitude that gets amazing results with babies who hadn’t slept for more than an hour at a time to sleeping a 12 hour night, without babies or parents getting distressed which is why Jo has become the UK’s leading sleep specialist. She isn’t a miracle worker as many parents will swear by, she just understands and their babies and wants to make a difference to all the sleep deprived parents out there - That is her mission!!! |
She began to pore through every parenting book she could get hold of and throughout the time she spent as a Maternity Nurse tried out every technique suggested as well as other people’s advice and old wives tales. She soon worked out her own unique formula that worked EVERYTIME and helping countless mums around the world.  |
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