Early parenting can be as overwhelming as it is wonderful - and you don't have to navigate it alone. Find local postnatal support for you and your family. From mental health support to baby groups and recovery classes. However you're feeling there's help, community and care waiting for you and your family.

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.

BRADFORD-ON-AVON & SURROUNDING AREAS
Felicity is a postnatal doula based in Bradford-on-Avon. Felicity can support you to make informed choices so that you can have the birth you want and raise your children the way you choose with confidence. She covers Wiltshire, Bath & Somerset within an hour drive of her home.

The fourth trimester is a beautiful but challenging time. Chloe offers personalized support to help you and your family navigate this transition with confidence and care. As a Norland nanny, postnatal doula and mum herself, Chloe offers a variety of services including night nannying, postnatal doula and postnatal prep sessions.

TAUNTON & SURROUNDING AREAS
Jen offers personalised birth & postnatal doula support - providing calm, nurturing care through pregnancy, labour, & early parenthood. With emotional, physical, & practical guidance, Jen helps you feel informed, confident, & supported every step of the way. Her aim is to ensure you feel heard, respected, & never alone on your journey.

SHEPTON MALLET & SURROUNDING AREAS
Based in Shepton Mallet and supporting families across Somerset, Clair provides compassionate, personalised, continuity-based birth and postnatal doula care. Clair draws on a wide range of birth experiences to combine emotional reassurance and practical support alongside evidence-based information and advocacy, to help you feel empowered, supported, and truly listened to throughout your journey, allowing you to make confident, informed choices.

CHEDDAR & SURROUNDING AREAS
Margaret is an experienced and maternity nurse offering personalised support to help families feel confident, rested and supported. From gentle sleep support and day and night-time care to breastfeeding, formula and combination feeding guidance, she provides nurturing support tailored to each family. She also offers individual and group infant massage and wedding maternity nanny services.

SALISBURY & SURROUNDING AREAS
Dawn combines her experience as a doula and therapist to provide
emotional support through fertility, birth, postnatal and parenting
challenges (New Dawn Therapy). She also offers birth preparation and
hypnobirthing as well as postnatal doula support.
Dawn is based in Salisbury, covering anywhere within an hour (incl:
Wilts, Hants, Dorset, Somerset) and also works online.

FROME & SURROUNDING AREAS
Emma offers warm, personalised birth and postnatal doula support for families across Frome and surrounding areas. Supporting mums to feel informed, calm and empowered on their journey, Emma provides nurturing emotional and practical care, helping you feel confident, supported and truly heard through pregnancy, birth and early motherhood.

SHEPTON MALLET & SURROUNDING AREAS
Lauren is a compassionate post-natal doula, supporting families for a gentle transition into parenthood. With a passion for supporting new mothers through the transformative journey of matrescence, she also offers Mother Circles, Mother Blessings and Closing the Bones ceremonies.

FROME & SURROUNDING AREAS
Amber is an experienced pregnancy, birth and postnatal doula. With almost a decade supporting parents through the perinatal period, building strong connections and relationships through genuine continuity of care. Employing an evidence based approach to sharing information and offering non judgmental support and advocacy.

SHEPTON MALLET, FROME, WELLS, BRUTON & BATH
Based in Somerset, Quelli offers warm, experienced and practical support to mothers, babies and families. From an extra pair of hands and a listening ear to cooking and light household help, sibling care and general postnatal support, I am available from a few ad hoc hours to regular days.
A mother of two and grandmother to twins girls, I have over 20 years experience working in prep school, alongside Doula training, enhanced DBS, paediatric 1st aid, food hygiene certification and public liability insurance.

CASTLE CARY & SURROUNDING AREAS
Vita Postnatal offers nurturing, personalised support for families at every stage of early parenthood. . As a parent herself , Vita understands that no two experiences are the same — and that the right support can make all the difference. From postnatal preparation and birth preference sessions to 1:1 practical and emotional support with a newborn, baby or toddler, she is here whenever you need her.

It's so important to find time and space for your own postnatal recvoery. From pelvic floor health and postnatal coaching to relaxing massages and a little well-deserved salon time, discover trusted local support in our Postnatal Wellness section.

The early days of motherhood can feel all-consuming, and sometimes getting out and meeting other Mums can make such a difference. Find warm and welcoming meet ups here to chat, share and create.

FROME
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.

TAUNTON
A Bump to Baby group, run by the local midwifery team, held each Tuesday 1-3pm in Trull Community Centre. Antenatal, postnatal and breastfeeding support available in each session.

STREET
A weekly drop-in open to expecting and new parents who want company, connection and support. On every Monday 10.30am-12pm at Little Diamonds, Street.

FROME
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.

TAUNTON, LANGPORT & SURROUNDING AREAS
A pregnancy and postnatal drop-in group on Wednesdays, run by the Village Midwife Taunton, in Langport, Taunton and surrounding areas including breastfeeding support. Check below link for times and locations

SHEPTON MALLET
A friendly and welcoming weekly drop-in offering antenatal, birth, postnatal and feeding support. On every Thursday 12pm-2pm at the Art Bank, Shepton Mallet.

FROME
Founded by Midwife Cat and Osteopath Chelsea, The Parenting Village is a non-profit community based in Frome, bringing parents together so that no one has to navigate parenthood alone. We believe that parenting can feel incredibly isolating, especially during pregnancy and the postnatal period. The Pregnancy & Postnatal Café is a supportive community gives parents the opportunity to meet others, build meaningful connections and find their village.

WELLINGTON
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
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