The Birth and Baby Space

17/01/2026

Our 2025 full year of UHW Maternity and Neonatal Service Activity.

14/01/2026

.healthyfamilies training completed! Working with families to improve infant nutrition creating a healthy, happy start for children!

Starting solids and weaning workshops coming soon! Watch this space!

05/01/2026

Kicking the new year off with a new blog of all the top things people ask during classes and the most asked about…..what to pack on a hospital bag! Check out my blog I’ll be updating new topics regularly!

https://www.thebirthandbabyspace.co.uk/post/guide-to-packing-your-maternity-hospital-bag-for-you-and-your-baby

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from my babies to yours!

15/12/2025

Our Maternity & Neonatal Service Activity for November 2025.

05/12/2025

Support this Christmas through their online gift shop!

18/11/2025

Glasgow antenatal classes for couples in our beautiful Park Circus venue where you’ll be able to come back once baby is here for our baby classes!

Check out the website for available course dates and baby classes.

12/11/2025

Could you donate a gift for a child this Christmas? 🎄

I work for and run all the antenatal, baby cafe and baby massage classes for families in the local area. We are looking for gift donations for local families in need this Christmas.

It may be hard to believe but we work with and support many families that are unable to afford gifts for their babies this year. If you are in the position to help you can drop gift donations to any of my classes or any of the charity collection points and we will ensure your gifts will go directly to local families in Cambuslang and Rutherglen.

Thanks in advance for your generosity this Christmas! 🎄

03/11/2025

Last grandparents workshop of 2025! Hosted online on Monday 24 November at 8pm so you can get all the latest baby info and safety guidelines. Get the grannies signed up now!

Book your space and register for this free workshop at www.thebirthandbabyspace.co.uk

03/11/2025

Reading to your baby and the amazing science backing up the importance!

26/10/2025

Let the Halloween 🎃 fun begin!

We would love to see you and your babies dressed for Halloween at all baby cafes, breakfast clubs and massage classes this week!

14/10/2025

The APGAR we talk about in class and its namesake Dr Virginia Apgar

In 1952, inside a New York City delivery room, a baby was born blue and silent. Doctors hesitated, unsure whether to keep trying. Then a calm voice broke through the panic.
“Let’s score the baby,” said Dr. Virginia Apgar.

That moment changed medicine forever.

Apgar had once dreamed of being a surgeon, but in the 1940s few women were allowed into the operating room. Told that no hospital would hire her, she turned to anesthesiology instead — a decision that would save millions of lives.

Working in Columbia-Presbyterian’s maternity ward, she saw newborns die within minutes of birth because doctors had no system to judge which babies needed help first. So one morning in 1952, she grabbed a pen and paper and designed a five-point test measuring heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and skin color. She called it the Apgar Score.

The idea spread faster than anyone expected. Within a decade, almost every hospital in America was using it. Infant mortality fell sharply. Doctors finally had a language for newborn care — and babies once thought lost were suddenly being saved.

Apgar never stopped pushing forward. She earned a public health degree, joined the March of Dimes, and became a global voice for mothers and infants. When asked how she had thrived in a man’s world, she laughed, “Women are like tea bags — they don’t know how strong they are until they’re in hot water.”

Dr. Virginia Apgar passed away in 1974, but her test still guides every delivery room on Earth. Every two seconds, somewhere in the world, a baby takes its first breath — and someone quietly calls out a number that honors the woman who refused to give up on newborns or on herself.