One appointment. Two individual assessments.
Time for you and your baby, shaped around what you both need
Sometimes you have questions about your baby and would also value dedicated time to look at how your own body is recovering after pregnancy and birth. Sometimes you’re the one who needs more support, while you’d like your baby to have an osteopathic assessment too. And sometimes there are things you’d like to explore for both of you.
Your Mum & Baby Session gives you 105 minutes together, without dividing the appointment into a set amount of time for each of you. You’ll both be assessed individually, and we’ll shape the session around what you need on the day.
For you, this may include postnatal osteopathic assessment and treatment, elements of a Mummy MOT® assessment, rehabilitation or scar care. For your baby, it includes an individual osteopathic assessment with treatment where appropriate.
Care for you
Looking at your recovery after pregnancy and birth
Your assessment considers how your body is recovering and adapting after pregnancy and birth, including your posture and movement, abdominal wall, pelvic floor, breathing, scars and wider musculoskeletal system.
We’ll also consider the everyday physical demands of caring for your baby — including feeding positions, lifting and carrying — and how these may relate to how you’re feeling and moving.
Care for your baby
Gentle osteopathic assessment, led by your baby
Your baby will have their own osteopathic assessment, considering how they move and how their musculoskeletal system is functioning, with treatment offered where appropriate and adapted to their individual needs.
The appointment stays flexible around both of you. Your baby can be fed, changed or cuddled whenever needed, and there’s no expectation for them to stay still or quiet. If more of the appointment needs to focus on you — or on your baby — that’s absolutely fine.
Is a Mum & Baby Session right for us?
When you’d like time for both of you
A Mum & Baby Session can be a good option when you’d like both you and your baby to be assessed, but don’t feel that you need two completely separate appointments.
If you already know that you’d like an appointment focused specifically on your own postnatal recovery, you may prefer to book a Postnatal Care appointment. If your main reason for booking is your baby and you don’t need an assessment yourself, a Baby & Child Osteopathy appointment may be more appropriate.
If you’re not sure, get in touch and we can help you choose.
Specialist care for both of you
Bringing postnatal and baby osteopathy together
Michelle’s postgraduate training spans women’s health, postnatal care, Mummy MOT®, pelvic health, scar therapy and osteopathic care for babies and children. Her background in infant feeding support also informs the way feeding, positioning and the practical demands of caring for a baby can be considered within the wider picture.
The Mum & Baby Session brings those areas together in one longer appointment, while still recognising that you and your baby are two individuals with different needs.
You don’t need to decide beforehand who needs more of the appointment. We’ll work that out together on the day.
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