Louise Unwin OT

I’m Louise, a Children’s Occupational Therapist based in Cheltenham, specialising in early intervention for babies and toddlers aged 0-2. After more than a decade working in large NHS Children’s hospitals, I set up Louise Unwin OT to give families the timely, personalised support they often wait too long for. I offer home and clinic-based developmental assessments, blocks of one-to-one therapy, and IAIM baby massage classes. I help with everything from tummy time, movement and hand skills to sensory regulation and reaching milestones. I also show parents simple ways to build that support into everyday play and routines. The baby massage classes follow the International Association of Infant Massage programme. Please see my website for dates and further details. 

Suzy – Women’s Health Osteopath

After having a baby, so much attention naturally turns to your little one – and it can be easy for your own recovery to slip down the list.

Suzy is a registered osteopath with over 15 years’ experience and postgraduate training in women’s health and paediatrics. She offers calm, unrushed osteopathic care during pregnancy and after birth, including Mummy MOT assessments.

Appointments can support you with general aches and pains, including back, neck and joint pain, as well as the physical demands of feeding, carrying and lifting your baby.

There is also space to discuss pelvic floor function, bladder or bowel changes, abdominal separation, and ongoing symptoms around healed C-section or perineal scars. Suzy’s whole-person approach recognises that postnatal recovery is not only physical, and may include breathing, relaxation and self-care advice where appropriate.

Suzy also welcomes babies and children for gentle osteopathic and cranial care, with techniques carefully adapted for their age. Dedicated Mother & Baby appointments allow both of you to be considered together in one relaxed session.

Appointments are available in Gloucester. Visit the website for current locations, availability and booking.

Holding Mumma

Holding Mumma was created to help put mums first and help them find their village beyond pregnancy and into motherhood.
Based across Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds, we host relaxed coffee mornings, brunches, seasonal events and mum meet-ups designed to bring local mums together in beautiful settings. Whether you’re navigating the newborn days, looking to make new friends, or simply craving a hot coffee and adult conversation, Holding Mumma offers a welcoming space where both you and your little one can feel at home.
Our events are designed with mums in mind. Expect expert guests on hand to answer questions, delicious food you don’t have to cook or clear away, welcoming venues, and a supportive community who understand the realities of motherhood. Need someone to hold your baby while you eat your brunch with two hands? We’ve got you.
Professional photography is included at many events too, allowing you to step out from behind the camera and be part of the memories you’re creating.
From bump to baby and beyond, Holding Mumma is here to help you find your people, your confidence and a little piece of yourself again.
Instagram account @holdingmumma

Tot Health

Developed and delivered by Alex, a GP and mum of two, Tot Health delivers in-person newborn and baby health courses in your own home. Covering everything from temperatures to rashes and choking, and everything in between, Tot Health aims to give you the confidence to appropriately manage whatever health problem your little one can throw at you.

Restorative Massage Therapy

Amy is a Midwife and Massage Therapist based in Cheltenham. Her bespoke treatments, using Raynor Massage techniques, focus on relieving deeply held physical and emotional tension.

As a Midwife she has a deep understanding of the changes pregnancy brings both to the physical body and also the transitions that effect emotional wellbeing. Treatments during pregnancy are adapted to allow comfortable positioning for the massage and can support you to feel at your best by easing physical and emotional tension and to approach your labour and birth with a relaxed body and mindset.

Amy also specialises in treating women during the initial postnatal period and beyond, helping with recovery from the birth itself, coping with disturbed sleep and also adapting to the repetitive movements involved with feeding and caring for your newborn.

Your Village

Rooted in the belief that no mother should navigate the juggle alone – Your Village offers group and 1:1 coaching support for professional women throughout the maternity journey.

• 84% of UK mothers report struggling with the return to work
• 36% leave their jobs within 18 months of returning
• 96% are moving to find better-supported roles

We knew knew there had to be a better way, so we built Your Village around what working mums actually need.

Our sessions are warm, honest, grounded in practical tools and relatable. We work through challenges together using shared experience, open conversation and guided coaching activities.

Your Village is a space to be open, to feel understood and to connect with others who are walking the same path.

Cheltenham Kinesiology

At Cheltenham Kinesiology, I offer gentle, non‑invasive support for both mums and their little ones. Using light muscle testing, I help you understand what might be unsettling your baby—whether it’s digestive discomfort, colic, restlessness, feeding challenges, rashes or eczema. Babies can’t tell us what’s wrong, but their bodies can, and kinesiology provides a calm, safe way to listen.

For mums, sessions offer a chance to check in with your own system. Pregnancy, birth and early motherhood place huge demands on your body, so I look at hormones, nutrition, digestion, stress and overall balance. When your system feels calmer and more supported, it often has a positive ripple effect on your baby too.

Revive

Revive specialises in Caesarean scar therapy, supporting women in pregnancy and throughout their postpartum journey. With a focus on comfort, mobility, and recovery, Revive helps mums reconnect with their bodies and feel supported through every stage of motherhood, within a calm and nurturing environment.

Reut Sapir Naturopath & Yoga Teacher

Reut is a naturopath who specialises in pregnancy and postpartum nutrition. Her work is designed for mums who want to thrive in motherhood, not just survive, with a focus on nourishing, realistic and effective habits that suit your busy mum life.
Whether you’re experiencing pregnancy symptoms such as anaemia, heartburn, fatigue, digestive issues or you want to invest in your health, Reut helps you learn how to eat nutritious food with confidence and how to grow a healthy baby and thrive postpartum.
Reut is also a Pregnancy Yoga teacher, and runs a Mama & Baby class, and her classes combine her love of movement, relaxation and wellbeing. Join her for pregnancy yoga every Thursday 6pm or for mama & baby every Monday 11:45am at 6 Ways Yoga in Charlton Kings.

Jen Day Hypnobirthing Midwife & Reflexologist

Jen is an AOR registered reflexologist, specialising in fertility and pregnancy. Alongside her role as an NHS midwife she also teaches hypnobirthing, breathwork and Yoga. She has a treatment room in Leckhampton where she provides a tranquil space for relaxation. Treatments include reflexology, tailored to your needs; including aromatherapy foot massage, fertility and pregnancy tailored reflexology. Jen also offers a third trimester package including reflexology, rebozo massage and biomechanics for birth and a hypnobirthing and relaxation session, and a more in depth hypnobirthing workshop.

Maternology

Angie is a private midwife and specialist antenatal & postnatal massage therapist. She takes a holistic and individualised approach to her private midwifery care and massage therapies.

All antenatal and postnatal midwifery appointments will be undertaken in the comfort of your own home, to suit your needs. Massages therapies are undertaken at our beautiful therapy room in Cheltenham on a luxury Hydrotherm system, a state of the art system that is safe and supportive for massage during pregnancy.

Peace of Mind Massage & Reflexology

Pippa is a certified massage therapist & aromatherapist with over 20 years experience in pregnancy treatments. Pippa uses specialist cushions that allow a mum-to-be to lie on her front for the whole treatment. This provides instant relief in all areas of compression such as the lower back, knees, hips, upper back & shoulders. The cushions support the weight of the baby from every angle unlike many pregnancy massage couches. Pippa also offers pregnancy reflexology and Indian Head Massages. Each treatment is bespoke and tailored to suit each individual. Deep tissue massage, Facial Rejuvenation  & Reiki are all offered as postnatal treatments.

Alice Morgan Pilates

Pilates instructor
Pre/Postnatal specialist
Online Pre and Postnatal Pilates Programme

LotusBud Yoga

LotusBud is such a special place to come in pregnancy! Ann provides a safe, calm and soothing space for women.

Small and bespoke, Lotusbud Yoga classes are supportive, friendly and suitable for all expectant mothers from 14 weeks, right up to and including birth preparation, regardless of how you plan to birth your baby.

“A little haven of relaxation and stability during what can be a very stressful time of change.” Dot

Joan’s Wellness Zone

Join Joan for a safe return to activity and exercise post pregnancy and birth.  Pelvic floor and diastasis healing specialist.

Emma Attwood Photography

When it comes to your family and to your most precious memories, you don’t want to compromise. Whether you are looking for a photographer to capture your bump, to carefully pose your newborn baby, celebrate a first birthday or create portraits for your family, when you choose Emma Attwood Photography you choose the highest level of personal, bespoke and professional service.

Tumble Tots

Designed to develop children’s physical skills of agility, balance, co-ordination and climbing, through the use of brightly coloured Tumble Tots equipment.

Mini First Aid

Mini First Aid Gloucestershire provide Award Winning Baby & Child First Aid Classes,  designed especially for expectant parents, parents, grandparents and carers of babies and children.

Elin Tots

Baby Massage. Music & Movement. Dance. Fun, friendly child-led classes led by an Early Years Professional. A wide variety of sessions to suit babies and toddlers of all ages from baby massage to ballet babies.

Puddle Ducks Swimming

Teaching independent swimming from birth: That’s the Puddle Ducks difference.

Turtle Tots Swim School

Turtle Tots are incredibly proud to run our swim school in a baby-led approach and all our teacher training is based on the very latest research on infant brain development. Our ethos is gentle, non-pressured and we take everything completely at your baby’s own pace. You’ll find our classes a place to relax and enjoy time with your little one, lessons are highly sensory and an amazing experience to have together!

Cheltenham Rocks

Our guides include regular what’s on round-ups of things to do in Cheltenham with families plus relevant news and offers for Cheltenham families. You can search for places to go for a specific age group or location.

You’ll also find articles from local parents who have written about their favourite things to do with the kids in Cheltenham, and reviewed some of Cheltenham’s well-known (and less well-known!) activities.

Maternity Services at Gloucestershire Hospitals

Check out the local NHS Trust Maternity services web page to view virtual tours, find contact numbers, how to find the different locations, read a whole catalogue of patient information leaflets and lots lots more!

Gloucestershire Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership

The role of the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership is to gather and understand feedback and experiences from women, birthing people and their families who are currently or have recently used maternity, neonatal and health visiting services in Gloucestershire.

We do this through surveys, community engagement sessions, hosting interactive sessions on social media and holding focus groups. Our team attends workstream meetings and the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) board meetings to feed back the experiences we hear about.

The MNVP is independent of the NHS, but aims to work closely and in partnership with services to help inform, challenge, bring about positive change and celebrate good practice.

Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Support Network (GBSN)

The Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters’ Network (GBSN) is a charity “owned” and run by peer supporters.  We provide information, encouragement and support to families at any stage of their breastfeeding journey, from pregnancy through any challenges, to weaning from the breast and beyond.  Every week we run seven groups across the county.  There is a qualified breastfeeding counsellor at every group, as well as plenty of tea and cake and toys for the little ones.  Our groups are very social and there are always plenty of other mums around to talk to about your parenting experiences.

The Lullaby Trust

The Lullaby Trust provides emotional support for bereaved families, promotes expert advice on safer baby sleep and raises awareness of sudden infant death.

Our safer sleep advice gives simple steps for how you can sleep your baby to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) which is commonly known as cot death. It can give you the peace of mind to enjoy this special time.

Our advice is based on strong scientific evidence and should be followed for all sleep periods, not just at night.