Birth & Recovery

Prepare for your postnatal recovery with tips from our in-house midwives. Your body and mind need care after birth to support healing and wellbeing, whatever birth you’ve had.

Here is our one stop page for all things caesarean sections, whether you’re planning one, just had one, looking for advice or needing support for your recovery, we’re here to support you.

Take it easy, your body needs time to mend, so it needs rest and to have plenty of nourishment to do this. Eat healthily and arrange for help with normal day to day things, by asking your partner, family, older children, friends or hired help for extra assistance with daily chores and life.

A post c-section massage is one of the most important things for a women’s health after having a c-section. This step-by-step guide will provide you with the best knowledge you can use to massage your scar and help it heal.

Spritz for Bits was developed by Lesley Gilchrist, co-founder and registered midwife to soothe and relieve bits immediately after birth, however Spritz for Bits also provides relief through pregnancy and beyond whether that be pregnancy piles, or swollen and itchy bits.

Allowing yourself time to heal and recover after childbirth is not often talked about in detail. We can sometimes expect to be up and about and resuming normal life just a few days after giving birth, but this can be both physically and mentally detrimental when trying to adjust to life with a newborn family member.

A baby is considered premature if they are born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Around 60,000 babies a year are born prematurely in the UK