The Baby Collection
Small classes for the early months, somewhere you’ll both look forward to.
Five weeks of learning your baby through touch
Baby Massage
So much of the early weeks is brand new. Baby massage gives you a bonding, calm and soothing way to spend time with your baby, and over five weeks you get much better at reading their cues and trusting yourself. You'll start to notice when they're ready for more and when they've had enough.
Each week builds on the one before, starting with legs and tummy and working towards arms, back and face. Some strokes are for wind and tummy discomfort. Others are slower and more soothing, and they help bring your baby into a calmer state, with their heart rate and breathing settling as the parasympathetic nervous system takes over. By the end you have a full routine you can keep using at home for months.
It does you good too. Slow, skin-to-skin touch raises oxytocin in both of you, the hormone behind bonding and that warm, settled feeling, and you spend the hour sitting down while your body is still recovering. If the early weeks have felt flat or harder than you expected, a gentle hour like this, alongside other mums at the same stage, can make a real difference.
The groups are small and the room is quiet. Feeding and settling time is built into the hour, and it's completely fine if your baby feeds or sleeps through most of a session. You still go home with everything you need.
What you take home
A short demo video each week, so you can practise the strokes at home without trying to remember them
A PDF guide to the full routine to keep
Your own bottle of baby massage oil
A keepsake made just for your baby
A WhatsApp group with weekly reflections and postnatal care ideas, which stays open after the block ends (most groups keep chatting long after)
The details
For babies from 6 weeks to fully rolling
Five weekly sessions, an hour each. Wednesdays at Graft, Kings Heath, 10.30 or 12
£75 for the five weeks
Course dates on link below
Yoga-inspired physical development for babies ready to move
The Baby Yoga Workshop
Somewhere around three or four months the sleepy newborn disappears and a wriggly one takes over. Your baby suddenly wants to roll, reach and push up, and baby yoga gives all of that somewhere to go.
It looks like play, and your baby will take it as play, but each part has a purpose. The flying and balancing holds build the strength and steadiness that sitting and crawling depend on. Movements that cross the body, like one hand to the opposite foot, lay the groundwork for coordination and rolling, and we practise rolling directly too. Familiar songs give the session a rhythm your baby starts to recognise, which is its own quiet comfort. The swooping holds get a proper belly laugh out of nearly every baby, even the serious ones, and that laugh is a baby feeling safe enough to let go.
It helps with settling as well. The same handling that builds strength also moves trapped wind, and a baby who has moved and laughed often feeds and settles a little more easily afterwards.
You get looked after too. There's gentle movement for you with your baby in your arms, things like squats, hip circles and cat-cow paced to your breath, with some quiet reconnection with your core and pelvic floor. We finish with a few calm minutes for you to land before you head home. If anything needs proper postnatal rehab, I'll point you in the right direction.
The group is small, partners are welcome, and feeding and cuddle breaks are built in. If you've been to baby massage with me, your baby already knows my voice and we carry on from where you left off.
What you take home
A PDF guide to the moves, so you can keep going at home
A keepsake made just for your baby
The details
For babies from 3 months to fully crawling
A single standalone workshop, 1 hour 15
At Graft, Kings Heath
Partners welcome
£25
Workshops run through the year, including seasonal specials. You can see what's coming up and book using the link below.
A little indulgence for your baby, and for you
Baby Spa
Your baby gets their own little spa session. They start in a warm bath, then have a mini mani-pedi and a soft facial, then massage and a story under candle light. It's slow and sensory, and everything goes at your baby's pace, so there's no rush to get through any of it.
It's a treat for you too. The lights are low and the room is warm and quiet, and for once there's nothing you need to be doing except watching your baby enjoy themselves. You can feed and cuddle whenever they need it, and sit back while the session carries on around you. The groups are small so it stays calm and unhurried from start to finish.
Every part of the session is designed to fit into your own bath and bedtime routine at home. That routine looks different for every baby. Some love a long soak and others are ready to come out after a minute, and part of the session is learning to read your baby's cues so you know what works for them. Warm water and slow touch help a baby's nervous system shift into rest mode, and red light is the gentlest light for evenings because it interferes least with melatonin, the hormone that signals sleep.
Partners are welcome, and so are older siblings, who get their own gentle role so they feel part of it.
What you take home
A PDF of the routine, so you can carry it on at home
A keepsake made just for your baby
The details
For babies from 6 weeks to fully rolling
At Graft, Kings Heath, 1 hour 15
Small groups, partners and older siblings welcome
£35 a family, seasonal offer
Gift cards available
Spa sessions run through the year, including seasonal specials. You can see what's coming up and book using the link below.
The room and how a class runs
The room is set up before you arrive, warm and ready, with everything laid out for you and your baby. We begin gently and move at the babies’ pace, with time built in for feeding, changing and settling.
The classes are designed around how babies actually are at this age. If yours cries, needs a feed, or wants a cuddle partway through, none of it disrupts anything, because it’s all planned for. You won’t be the only one, and no one will mind. If you arrive having had a hard morning and need a minute, there’s always a pair of hands so you can have a drink and settle in. As your baby grows and your priorities change, so do the classes.
Groups are kept small so you see the same faces each week. After a few sessions it stops feeling like a class, and becomes part of the week you’d miss without it.
Kind Words
“Aimee’s baby massage class was the very first class I tried, and it was a big step for me. Just my baby and me, leaving the house alone for the first time. It gave me so much more than I expected: confidence, a chance to connect with my baby, and a room where everyone understood. Whether I was having a hard day or celebrating a milestone, the support was always there.”
“I started when my baby was six weeks old. We did Baby Massage and then Baby Yoga. It was his first time at a class and he was so little, but Aimee created a safe, warm space with no judgement, even when he cried and needed a feed. I made friends for life there, and we still meet up every week, doing motherhood together.”
“I take my four-month-old, Ruby, every week. Aimee gives us lovely massage techniques and activities and creates a loving, inclusive space. She’s so thoughtful, from goody bags to keepsakes that capture these early memories. The community she’s built means it’s the highlight of our week.”
“Aimee is a wonderful teacher, kind and gentle. The activities are carefully and thoughtfully planned, and the techniques help me feel close to my baby while building a toolkit for the future. I’ve really valued meeting others navigating the early days too.”
Resources and teacher training by @abby_loveyourbirth, in collaboration with artist and illustrator @marthawilliamsart Nurture & Wild branding by @meg.s.designs. Baby Massage, Baby Yoga & Mindful Mama by @thelittlerosebudsacademy. Breastfeeding training and consultancy with www.nestbaby.co.uk. Ongoing CPD through @thebirthacademybymidwifeemma