Manisha Sheth - Baby Loss & Perinatal Counsellor

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Manisha Sheth - Baby Loss & Perinatal Counsellor

Counsellor & trainer supporting parents and professionals with baby loss, perinatal mental health, and culturally aligned care.

20/11/2025

🦋 Lately, more neurodiverse individuals have been coming to therapy during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. Their stories have echoed something I’ve witnessed in my own life too.

Watching my son, who’s on the spectrum, move through “simple” transitions like the pandemic, making new friends and starting secondary school has shown me just how deeply change can be felt in a neurodivergent mind and body.

🍂 And it’s made me reflect on how pregnancy and parenting can be uniquely intense for neurodivergent parents.

Not because they’re doing anything wrong, but because so much of the world isn’t built with their sensory, emotional, or cognitive needs in mind. From overstimulating environments to systems that expect one “normal” way of coping, the perinatal period can amplify the mismatch between a person’s needs and the world around them.

🍂 Whether you’re a parent navigating this or a professional supporting families, over the next two posts I’ll be sharing practical ways to honour these experiences with understanding and attunement.

Because neurodivergent parents deserve support that truly sees them, without judgement, without assumptions, and without asking them to “mask” their way through one of the biggest transitions of their lives.

🌿 If you’d like future posts to include specific themes or questions, feel free to share below.

~ Manisha 🦋

19/11/2025

🦋 Men need care too, today, and every day.

International Men’s Day is a reminder that men’s mental health deserves space, compassion, and real support.

🍂 Men often carry their stress in silence. They protect, support, and hold so much, yet rarely feel able to ask for the same in return.

🍂 Many men are quietly struggling with overwhelm, anxiety, identity shifts, and grief. And because society teaches them to keep going, keep strong, keep quiet… too many never reach out.

🍂 It’s no surprise that men remain at significantly higher risk of su***de, especially in those moments when no one knows they’re hurting.

🍂 And for fathers, particularly those navigating loss or early parenthood, the emotional load can be even heavier, yet almost invisible.

This day is about reminding the men in our lives, and the men reading this, that they deserve care, softness, and support too.

🌿 If you’re a man who rarely gets asked how you’re doing, consider this your check-in:
How are you, really?

🌿 And if you support men, work with men, or love men, make space for the truth behind the silence.

Men need care too.
Not just today, but every day.

~ Manisha 🦋

16/11/2025

🦋 Autumn is often described as cozy and calm… but for many new parents, it’s actually a one of activation.

Shorter days, colder weather, disrupted routines, isolation creeping back in... All of these changes quietly affect the nervous system, especially when you’re already running on limited sleep and constant alertness.

Here’s what tends to happen this time of year:

🍂 Less daylight = lower energy + heavier mood.
Your circadian rhythm shifts, which can amplify irritability, fatigue, and emotional overwhelm.

🍂 The world slows down, but your baby doesn’t.
The mismatch between your body wanting rest and the reality of parenting can create frustration, guilt, or overstimulation.

🍂 Memories surface when seasons change.
For many parents, autumn evokes past transitions, losses, or stressful life chapters, and the body remembers even when the mind isn’t consciously thinking about them.

🍂 Isolation increases.
Colder weather often means fewer walks, fewer social interactions, and more time homebound… which can quietly heighten anxiety.

If you’re feeling “off” right now, it’s not you being dramatic. It’s your nervous system recalibrating to a new season while you’re already navigating the biggest transition of your life.

🌿 Give yourself margin. Gentle routines. Light exposure. Connection where you can get it.
Your body is adjusting. You’re not doing anything wrong.

~ Manisha 🦋

13/11/2025

🦋 So often, emotions from our past spill into the present without us realising.

🍂 You get angry at someone for doing something that reminds you of how someone once hurt you.
🍂 Or you feel frustrated when someone doesn’t respond the way you wish you had, back when it happened to you.

These feelings often resurface during pregnancy or parenting, because those experiences take us back, to our childhoods, to our early relationships, to the parts of us that still need healing.

🌿 The work isn’t about suppressing these feelings. It’s about placing them.
🌿 About saying: this belongs to then, not now.

Once we process the pain from our past, it stops controlling how we respond in the present.
And in that space, you can start to reflect on what mattered, what helped, and what gives you hope.

~ Manisha 🦋

11/11/2025

🦋 BOOKING NOW FOR 2026 🦋

Thanks to , is opening up a few more dates for our online training workshops, and we’d love to have you join us!

🍂 These workshops are for anyone working in maternity services or supporting families who have experienced the loss of a baby, or who are navigating pregnancy after loss.

🍂 Midwives, doulas, counsellors, student practitioners... you are all welcome.

🍂 We’ll explore real experiences, culturally safe practice, trauma-informed communication, and how to support families with confidence and compassion.

We can’t wait to learn, reflect, and grow together, and to continue shaping care that holds families with dignity and kindness.

~ Manisha 🦋

10/11/2025

🦋 Are you a Muslim female counsellor interested in supporting mums and families through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood?

Or a trainee counsellor (Level 4 and above) looking for a meaningful placement?

Support Me CIC is launching an online Perinatal Counselling Service specifically for Muslim women, and we’re looking for counsellors to join our team.

Why this matters:

🍂 Too many Muslim women face barriers when trying to access mental health support, cultural stigma, lack of representation, or fear of not being understood.
🍂 Your presence could be the difference between someone staying silent and someone getting help.

You’ll receive:
🌿 Training in perinatal mental health
🌿 Training in baby loss and grief support
🌿 Experience working with families across the UK
🌿 Supervision and community support

If this aligns with your heart and your values, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 Email: manisha@supportmecic.com
📝 Apply here:
https://forms.gle/iVXWjERSCVGUxSwJ7

Let’s build culturally safe spaces together.

~ Manisha 🦋

07/11/2025

🦋 We all have an inner voice, but not all inner voices speak the same language.

Your inner critic pushes, shames, and compares.
Your inner kindness supports, encourages, and accepts.

The goal isn’t to silence the critic completely.
It’s to strengthen the voice of kindness, the voice that reminds you:

🍂 You’re doing the best you can
🍂 You’re allowed to be human
🍂 You don’t have to earn softness

Today, pause and ask yourself:

🌿 Which voice am I listening to?
🌿 What would my inner kindness say instead?

If you feel comfortable, comment below:
Which voice is louder for you today, the critic or the kindness?

Save this for the days you need the reminder.

~ Manisha 🦋

05/11/2025

🦋 Stress Awareness Day reminder 🦋

Some parents don’t look stressed, but they are carrying stress in silence.

Especially parents with trauma histories.

When you’ve had to hold everything together for years, hyper-independence becomes a reflex.

🍂 You become the one people rely on.
🍂 You become the one who copes.
🍂 You become the one who “manages.”

And somewhere along the way… you learn to hide your stress even from yourself.

If nobody has told you lately:
You don’t have to wait until burnout to give yourself permission to rest.

🌿 Your stress is valid.
🌿 Your story matters.
🌿 You deserve support, not because you’re falling apart, but because you’re human.

Save this for the days you need the reminder.

~ Manisha 🦋

31/10/2025

🦋 As we move into autumn and winter, darker mornings, slower pace and more time indoors, emotions can surface in ways we didn’t expect. Many people feel more overwhelmed, more tired, or more reflective at this time of year.

🌿 For the first time, I paused and asked myself:

“Does this give to me, or does it drain me, as a person, a mother, a partner?”

🌿 And when the answer leaned towards depletion, I said no.

Not from avoidance.
But from self-respect.

Check in with yourself today:

🍂 How does this season feel in my body?
🍂 What is one thing I can soften or let go of?
🍂 What would support me, even in a small way?

You are allowed to follow the rhythm of this season, to slow down, rest, and choose gentleness over pressure.

🌿 Your mental health deserves care every day, not just the ones marked on a calendar.

If you're honouring your pace today, drop a 🍂 so I know you're with me.

~ Manisha 🦋

29/10/2025

🦋 Grief doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

🍂 For many Black, Asian and minoritised families, perinatal loss is intertwined with the weight of systemic inequity, where experiences of being unheard, dismissed or treated unequally deepen the pain of loss itself.

This is systemic grief.

🍂 It’s the grief that lives in stories of mothers who were not believed, families who were not supported, and care that was not culturally safe.

🍂 When we talk about improving perinatal outcomes, we must also talk about justice, accountability, and the need for culturally responsive care that honours the whole person, their story, identity and lived experience.

🌿 Change begins when we start listening, not just to statistics, but to the people behind them.

~ Manisha 🦋

26/10/2025

🦋 Some nights feel darker than others, when sleep won’t come, your thoughts spiral, and nothing feels safe or steady. In those moments, grounding isn’t about fixing how you feel. It’s about finding something to hold on to.

🍂 Try starting with one small anchor:

🌿 Feel the texture of your blanket or the weight of your body on the bed.
🌿 Name five things you can see, four you can touch, three you can hear.
🌿 Press your feet into the floor or hold something cold in your hands.
🌿 Remind yourself... I’m here. I’m safe enough right now.

🍂 Even the smallest act of connection brings you closer to calm.
You don’t need to feel okay to deserve peace. You just need a place to begin.

~ Manisha 🦋

24/10/2025

🦋 Last Friday, I had the privilege of attending the Changemakers Conference on behalf of .

🍂 It wasn’t another conference about what’s wrong. It was a room full of people determined to do something about it.

🍂 We explored what real, culturally aligned, and equitable change looks like when Black and Brown families are at the heart of the conversation.

I left feeling deeply inspired and hopeful for what’s ahead.

🌿 Change is already happening, and it’s led by those who care enough to keep showing up.

~ Manisha 🦋

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https://nurturingmama.co.uk/

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