Postnatal Support

Alice is a fully qualified parenting coach and postnatal doula based in Frome with over 18 years of experience. From guiding families through early milestones to tackling specific challenges, Alice offers compassionate, tailored support across Somerset. 

Kat is a qualified antenatal educator with over 15 years experience offering antenatal and postnatal support.  She believes in nurturing parent's wellbeing: in pregnancy through yoga,  providing quality evidence-based antenatal education and postnatally through baby massage and  3-step rewind trauma support. 

Margaret is an experienced maternity nurse who can provide day and night support and also help with feeding and sleep routines. Her support is designed to help create a nurturing, calm environment to help parents feel confident and rested. 

Emma offers support to clients to incorporate mindfulness activities into their everyday lives during the programme and beyond.  There is a choice between two programmes, ‘Mindfulness for mums and mums to be’ and the ‘Mindfulness for wellbeing’, which is designed for women who may be experiencing low-level mental health conditions. 

Some Mums run mum-centered, curated events and workshops across Somerset to support you postnatally and in early parenthood. Our events are a great opportunity to connect with other local Mums and local experts and services. 

Southwest pre & post-natal education is run by Georgina, a FEDANT accredited antenatal educator and hypnobirthing instructor. Antenatal and birth prep classes are starting October 2025 in Castle Cary, with the aim to support parents-to-be to feel confident in making their own informed decisions during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Frome Baby Connections CIC supports families in Frome with feeding and caring for their babies with confidence. Baby connections is run by Katherine Woodbury, a trained breastfeeding counsellor, doula and perinatal educator and Geraldine Fowler, a retired midwife and IBCLC.

If you're under 25 and having a baby then Frome Baby Link work with young parents in Frome and surrounding villages. Our aims are to give equal access for all parents to the information and support that they want in pregnancy and early parenthood. 

As well as offering support for all feeding methods, this group can also offer newborn care advice, postnatal support and mental health support. The group is run each Thursday at Braziers, Tonedale Mill 10am-12pm