NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
Stopping a baby's cry and training newborns to sleep through the night is Mickie Quick's specialty.
She is known around the Nashville area as the "Baby Whisperer."
Quick told Nashville's News 2 she got her first experience with kids while growing up in foster care and then going on to work in a daycare.
"I nannied for a couple of families in town, and then I helped out a lady and then everybody just started calling me and then before I knew it, I was booked up," she said.
Over the past 10 years, Mickie has grown her nighttime nanny services Mickie and Me into a business with demand so high she has 53 employees.
"We are solid booked, there's a waiting list. My second time clients call me as soon as they know they're pregnant," she said.
Mickie said she and her employees work to have newborn babies sleeping through the night by eight weeks old by teaching healthy sleeping habits.
"A newborn is a newborn. They're the boss at the beginning, but then a couple of weeks later, you need to teach them that you're the boss," she said.
Mickie said she and her employees have a few secrets to end nighttime awakenings such as giving the baby a large feeding at 10 p.m. and keeping the infant tightly swaddled.
"We're trying to teach them that not a lot's going to happen at nighttime," she explained.
Mickie charges $19 per hour for one child and $20 per hour for twins.
Her company is expanding its services to New York City and Aspen, Colorado.
Read more at MickieAndMe.com.
Mickie Quick is known around the Nashville area as the "Baby Whisperer."
