Meet Our Founder: The Unexpected Journey Behind the Qudo Calmer

 Why we do what we do — and the woman who started it all

“I wanted to be a marine biologist… but life had other plans.”

That’s how Nicky Bateman, founder of Qudo, often begins her story. A story that spans continents, disciplines, and thousands of babies — all of them her teachers.

Born in Nigeria and raised across the globe, Nicky always saw the world through a wide lens. From the moment she took to the water at 18 months old, something in her was drawn to nature, connection, and flow. But as she says, “Sometimes the detour becomes the destination.”

By her mid-forties, she wasn’t cataloguing coral reefs — she was treating crying, unsettled newborns in her chiropractic and cranio-sacral therapy clinic. And what she saw, over and over again, changed everything.

“After 25 years treating thousands of babies, I kept seeing the same struggles. Traditional soothers weren’t addressing the root cause – so I created one that does.”

In 2010, Nicky began the first work on what would one day become the Qudo Calmer— a calming, therapeutic tool designed not just to pacify, but to support babies. Babies with colic. With reflux. With feeding difficulties. Babies who, for reasons big and small, just couldn’t settle. Babies who cried a lot for no apparent reason and nothing else was helping them.

And most importantly, it wasn’t just the babies who transformed. It was entire families. Mums finally able to breathe. Dads able to hold their child without tears. That, Nicky says, is what kept her going through the hardest seasons.

“The babies always led the way — they showed us what worked, and what didn’t. And the universe always provides, often in the most unexpected ways.”

Qudo is grounded in Nicky’s global perspective and her whole baby, whole family approach. Her toolkit is unlike any other: science and spirituality, reiki, healing modalities and research, chiropractic care, craniosacral therapist and cross-cultural baby wisdom. In her words:

“Western medicine meets ancient wisdom. Every culture has baby widsom – I’ve studied them all and continue to learn.”

That blend — compassionate, curious, and deeply practical — is at the heart of every Qudo product.

Because when you treat a baby, you’re not just calming a cry. You’re supporting development, bonding, feeding, and family life. And that takes more than just a plug-it-in-and-hope kind of solution. It takes vision. Experience. And love.

The Qudo Calmer is the result of everything Nicky has learned across decades, countries, and healing disciplines. A small but powerful tool, created by a woman who never stopped listening — especially to the littlest voices.