InHale - Antenatal & Baby Classes - Nottingham & Grantham

04/09/2025

Join any of my classes this autumn term to enjoy warm welcomes & hot drinks.
Cosy hours spent with friends.
Calm bonding time with bump or baby.

🎃 Blissful Bumps Pregnancy yoga - Suitable from first scan until birth. All abilities welcome. Pay per session or block book. 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Tuesdays in Upper Saxondale, Nottinghamshire NG12.
Thursdays in Barrowby, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31

☕ Birth to Baby - The most comprehensive antenatal & Baby Care education course around.
All aspects of birth and early parenthood covered during this 16+ hour long course taught over 6 weeks.
Suitable for mum and her birth partner to attend from 25+ weeks gestation.
6:45pm to 9:30pm Wednesdays in Upper Saxondale, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire NG12 2JQ

🍂 Newborn Calm & Care or Infant Feeding workshops
One off workshops teaching you everything you need to know to care for your newborn or understand what is needed in order to breastfeed or formula feed your baby.
Select Wednesday nights 6:45pm to 9:15pm in Upper Saxondale, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire NG12 2JQ

🍁 Tiny Daisies - Baby Massage, Mummy Movement & Postnatal Relaxation Classes. Suitable from birth to around 6 months.
A friendly class that feels like a warm hug. Supporting you through the early weeks of motherhood.
All sessions run 11:30am to 12:30pm
Tuesdays in Barrowby, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31
Thursdays in Upper Saxondale, Nottinghamshire NG12

🍰 Wriggly Daisies - Baby Yoga, Songs, Sensory Story & Play classes. Suitable from around 20 weeks until confidently toddling.
A fun class to help your baby to develop while you spend bonding time together.
All sessions run 10am to 11am
Tuesdays in Barrowby, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31
Thursdays in Upper Saxondale, Nottinghamshire NG12

Go to https://www.inhalebirth.com for more information or to secure your space.
Or contact me anytime with any questions you may have.

I can't wait to meet you.

Hayley xx

03/09/2025

I've seen so many gorgeous back to, or first day of school post this week from some of my previous clients.
It is so wonderful to see all of these children that I met as bumps or newborns, grow up and thrive.

But I have been reminded through these pictures, that my very first antenatal class babies are turning 11 over the next few weeks and are entering year 6!

Where on earth has that time gone? I can't be that old can I 🤣

Good luck to all of my inHale (or Daisy for you oldies) babies whatever year of school you are starting. I know you will all be fabulous 🥰.

Hayley xx

01/09/2025

I'm probably late to the party on this. But I am visiting the new Starbucks on the A52 just outside of Radcliffe, as a last day of holidays treat for my daughter.

And look at all the beautiful space 🥰. How amazing would this be as the venue for the post baby class coffee meet? So much room for your prams, while mums enjoy a caffeine based treat and a natter.

Perfect for when my Saxondale classes return in two weeks time.

Hayley xx

29/07/2025

One week out from surgery and my recovery kit looks suspiciously like it did after my births.

My new must have for any hospital stay are the ear plugs and lavender filled eye mask. They made sleeping on the ward so much easier.

Hot and cold pads for body and perineum have been amazing once more.

A peri bottle is an absolute must have if you have external stitches in intimate places.

Incontinence pants work so well instead of (or as well as) sanitary pads in the early days as they feel so much more secure (although these ones smell so badly perfumed I'm not sure if would recommend this exact brand 🤢).

I will start the arnica to help clear up my bruising just as soon as I have finished my course of blood thinning injections.

Oh and an honourable mention to Lactulose (not shown here), but it's a god send for keeping the post birth or surgery poos comfortable.

Let's help fellow mums to be out.... what were your ride or die recovery tools?

Hayley xx

23/07/2025

I been placed on a ward in the maternity unit of City hospital after my hysterectomy and prolapse repair surgery yesterday.
It's taking me all of my restraint not to pop downstairs and offer to be a free doula to any birthing or newly postnatal mums as I am a little bored stuck in bed 😆.

The curtains here take me straight back to 15 years ago during my own birth that caused the damage they fixed yesterday. This is why I am so obsessive about teaching you guys how to protect your own pelvic floor during pregnancy and birth 😊.

Perinatal education and preparation matters for the long term not just for the big day.

Hayley xx

19/06/2025

So sad to see this. I really hope it is a very temporary measure.

Pause of births and inpatient postnatal care at St Mary’s Birth Centre, Melton Mowbray

From 7 July 2025, births and inpatient postnatal care at St Mary’s Birth Centre in Melton Mowbray will be paused due to safe staffing challenges and low birth numbers.

💬 Community antenatal and postnatal care will continue

🏡 Our home birth team is still available

🏥 Midwifery-led care also continues at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Leicester General Hospital

We are contacting those directly affected to discuss alternative care arrangements and are supporting all impacted staff.

Detailed work with partners to determine next steps will now take place and is likely to take up to six months.

Read more: www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/our-news/press-release-centre/2025/pause-of-births-and-inpatient-postnatal-care-at-st-marys-birth-centre/

16/04/2025

Hayley, Did you need a new speaker for your Antenatal & Baby classes?

No, I didn't 🤭, although in my defense my current speaker has been through a lot in the past 11 years 😬.
But how could I not be influenced to buy a new speaker? Not only because it produces a great sound and is robust enough to face anything the babies can throw at it... But mostly because it is in my brand colours 😍🤩

What has been your most recent impulse buy?

Hayley xx

02/04/2025

In 2017 this was the day my Wriggly Daisies pirate ship inflatable was delivered. My kids absolutely loved testing it out for hours.
I can't believe that it is still going strong in my baby classes 8 years later.

Hayley xx

27/03/2025

You know you are an Antenatal teacher when....
..Your kitchen sink looks like a hot tub party in the morning.

Last night was week 5 of my comprehensive Birth to Baby course. We moved on from all things birth to all things newborn and we were having fun bathing, dressing, grooming and changing the babies before getting them ready for bed.

As well as taking part in this session during the full 6 week course. You can also join this and my infant feeding class by booking them as stand alone workshops. This is especially useful if you have already had your birth education elsewhere or if you want a quick refresh of these skills if this isn't your first baby.

I have another Birth to Baby course coming up on the 16th April perfect for those late may to late July due dates.
I have an infant feeding workshop next Wednesday where you can learn all things breast, bottle & formula feeding.
And my next Newborn workshop, to play with this little baby gang and their friends is on 14th May

I also have pregnancy yoga classes that can be booked as a block or on a pay per session basis in both Nottinghamshire and Grantham.

And a range of friendly, supportive baby classes each week if your little one is already here.

Hayley xx

11/03/2025

I still adore this picture of my daughter at 11 days old on this day in 2013.
I think the screaming was in protest to the headband - she has never appreciated the way I dressed her 😁.

What are your favourite baby photos?

Hayley xx