For many of us the last year has involved spending way more time online than we would normally wish to. And whilst it has provided us with a great way to stay in touch, we feel it often lacks something compared to “real life”, in-the-same-space interaction (I am in a choir and we can’t wait […]
Category Archives: Baby Massage
Lockdown Birthdays and Different Paths
Today is Nurture’s 3rd Birthday! And, like many lockdown birthdays it is not what I expected! When I first started the business, I was often told to expect to take 2-3 years to properly get it going. And that advice seemed to be about right in my experience – year 1 was investment, getting the […]
Kitchen Aromatherapy
Many of us are dealing with a multitude of feelings during lockdown, and most of us find we have days where we feel a little bit “wobbly” emotionally. You may find that being at home more is making you feel more fatigued, even if you are doing less; or you may be juggling working from […]
And Breathe….
Have you ever been in a situation where you’re particularly stressed or upset and someone has told you to stop and take a deep breath? I imagine most of us have at some point in our lives. Whilst it may not always seem helpful, it’s usually really good advice. Often is it good purely because […]
Learn Baby Massage with us in 2020
Baby Massage has so many benefits! It’s a wonderful thing to learn, and a great activity for you to do with your baby. We want to make learning baby massage easy for parents, so we offer a number of different ways you can join in: Group courses: still our most popular way to learn baby […]
What is the best age for baby massage classes?
When I’m having initial discussions with parents interested in baby massage, the one question that nearly always comes up is: when is the right age for their baby to come to classes – will their little one be too young or too old? As with so many decisions in life (especially parenting!) there are no […]
The Benefits of Baby Massage
What if there was an enjoyable way to spend time with your baby, which has also been shown to help babies sleep better, improve their development, gain weight, cry less and feel less stressed? Wouldn’t it be fantastic if at the same time you could be improving your own mental health, increasing your confidence as […]
Nurture – the value of touch
We are all born knowing the value of touch. When we hurt ourselves as a child, our parents would “rub it better”. We rub our cold hands together to bring warmth. When someone is upset we reach out with a comforting hand. nurture is about making the most of that instinct. Nurturing our babies, helping […]