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Our Mission
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The Nest Club
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Expert. modern. non sugar-coated.

The real scoop on birth and beyond

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Our Mission

to revolutionise postnatal care for families in the UK

 

the postnatal period is one of the most neglected periods of a woman and babies' life and our aim is to change this through...

  • empowering families through modern day education across the antenatal AND postnatal period

  • championing 'self-care' for parents

  • campaigning for positive change in language used in maternity care

  • ensuring that postnatal planning is adopted as routine 

  • providing practical tailor-made support at home in the postnatal period

  • Creating an urban 'village' of peer supporters. parents supporting parents in their local area

 
 
 
 

so, what makes The Nest Club different?

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our courses run across the antenatal and postnatal period. we support you before and after baby arrives.

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we start at the beginning with our baby care abc And Speak Candidly About The sticky stuff. 

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designed by leading experts. 100% evidence based, 100% balanced, 100% for modern life, 110% feel good.

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everyone at the Nest club gets their own local 'mum-buddy' to offer support for the whole of the first year!

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We believe in Self-Care and baby care in equal measure. nurturers need to be nurtured. you matter. fact.

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We help you build your postnatal plan and offer practical Tailor-Made care and support at home.

 
 
 
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Our offer

modern-day Courses, expert led workshops and help at home

 

 

  • our expert 'birth and beyond' course runs across the antenatal aND postnatal period and offers support for whole of year one. 

  • our 'workshops' cover the essentials around baby care, self-care and parenting to ensure you get the help and advice you need.

  • 'the nest 24/7' online tutorials are bitesize, helpful and cheerful, Designed to take you from 'zero to hero' on any parenting topic

  • Postnatal Care at home offers invaluable tailor-made, practical help and support at home when baby arrives. 

 
 
 
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Friends of The Nest

Little nuggets of joy for you and your loves

for us, balance wins over perfection every time, especially when it comes to parenting.

we've curated a collection of 'joy makers' that we've tried, tested and loved, to make your time as a new parent a bit easier and a little more joyful. 

friends of the nest club are like-minded; performance, sustainability and affordability are as important to them as they are to us.  

 
 
Now that the chocolate egg frenzy has calmed (and the remaining ones are stashed safely in the mummy’s emergency supplies cupboard), it feels like a good time to talk about why our kids learn more about the Cadbury’s variety than they do about their own fertility in their education. 1 in 6 couples have problems conceiving and the conversation about our journey to becoming parents or not, can still feel like the elephant in the room. Knowing the facts around fertility, understanding family history and making life choices based on all of this would be really empowering. My son’s biology text book just talks of ‘sexual reproduction’, where the sperm meets an egg and bang, a baby in 9 months 🙄 We all have a different journey to becoming parents or not and this is something we’re really mindful of at The Nest Club. There’s no one size fit all. #fertility #infertility #fertilityjourney #egghealth #biologytextbook #sexeducation #sexed #fertilitynetworkuk #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
Let’s face it the there are many buttons pushed in a day in the life of a parent 🥴 but the escape button isn’t usually one of them! Self care is a big theme at The Nest Club as we’re real believers in nurturing the nurturer, as difficult as it can be to find the time. If you had one chance to push the 🌈 escape 🌈button, to have some time for you and it could be doing anything, anywhere, what would it look like for you?????? #escape #youtime #lookafteryou #relax #timeout #selfcare #parenting #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
I love a good statistic. Saying that I’m not sure how @simbasleep arrived at this mega-stat 😂😂 I can though see how easily the shuffles, jiggles, pacing, rocking, trips up and down the road could amount to a fair number of marathons completed in the early days of parenthood. So many marathons with no expectation of reward, medal or a glass of something fizzy at the finish line 🥇 If that isn’t testament to the love of any parent for their child then I don’t know what is 💕 #parenting #parentingmarathon #unsungheroes #rocking #shushing #pacing #sleepdeprivation #newbornbaby #buggylife #thenestclub #thenest #nestbirthandbeyond
As a mother, woman and human being, it offends me no end to hear the expression ‘birth brat’ used to describe a woman (in this case Megan Markle) who is exercising her right to decide how and where to give birth. Pregnancy brings out the spectators, commentators, touchers and of course the tut brigade, but suggesting that there’s anything brat-like about exercising basic human rights is not on. Grrrrrrrr. Over and out 😤 #birthrights #womensrights #humanrights #empoweringwomen #consent #yourchoice #yourbody #pregnancy #birth #tabloidfail #royalornot #meganmarkle #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
Holding your whole world in your hands can be a frightening prospect. Will I drop her, squish him, he’s so tiny, should I hold her like this or like that, is her head ok, he’s crying, he mustn’t like me holding him. The cocktail of exhilaration, exhaustion and absolute fear when picking up your teeny tiny baby for the first few times is just so real, until you find your groove. At The Nest we think it’s useful to get a bit of ‘baby’ holding in before the big day and we practise different types of hold including ones that can help to relieve trapped wind and tummy pain (babys not yours 😊) just like magic 💫 #holdingbaby #babyholding #supportthehead #newborn #newparents #baby #worldinyourhands #yourway #feelempowered #theresnorightorwrong #babycareabc #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
This was one of the big themes of the day at the @birthbetter event with the brilliant @drrebeccamoore and @mumologist 💪🏻💕 An awe inspiring line up speaking of their personal experience of birth trauma, PTSD, the frighteningly archaic system that doesn’t recognise LGBT+ parents and a system that needs to take urgent action on the loss of life in the perinatal period of Black and Asian women, currently 5 X and 2 X higher respectively than for White women 🤬🤬 It’s so refreshing to be part of something that has kindness, compassion and empathy at its heart and offers a practical toolkit it to help professionals identify and work with those who suffer birth trauma. Photo credit: Scriberia #trauma #birthtrauma #birthbetter #betterbirth #makebirthbetter #makebirthbettercampaign #traumainformedcare #perinatalmentalhealth #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
Not sure if you’ve spotted any of the @elvie boobs perched on different buildings around @columbiaroad and near @boxpark in London. Whilst making a welcome addition to what can be a grey and very concrete landscape, these giant inflatable breasts are there to make an important point. #FreeTheFeed is an invitation to stand with all those women that have felt shamed or confined when breastfeeding or pumping. Whether that’s eye rolling in a cafe because the mammary is ‘disturbing’ someone’s cappuccino time or whether, like mine, your child was thought to be too ‘big’ to still be breastfeeding. Knowing @Elvie and their attention to detail in all they do, there’s bound to be a boob or two perched in eyeshot of a corporate who really needs to help pave the way for breastfeeding and pumping to be completely accepted, welcomed and provided for at work or wherever you happen to be when your baby gets hungry #endthestigma #noshame #nooneputsmamainacorner #nomoreexcuses #cutussomeslack #breastfeeding #breastfeedinginpublic #normalizebreastfeeding #theyarejustbreasts #breastmagic #breastmilk #boobing #spacetofeed #expressing #pumping #pumpingmilk #welcomemothers #freethefeed #elvie #elviepump #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
‘I love you because you do everything’. Yep. 😂😂 Happy Mother Day all 💕💕💕 #mothersday #motheringsunday #motherhood #homemadecards #cardsofinstagram #love #heartmelter #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
Motherhood doesn’t look, sound or feel one way. To the single mum, the working mum, the surrogate mum, the midwife mum, to the mum struggling to feed her kids, to the mum with depression, to the new mum who hasn’t slept for as long as she can remember, to the mum who worries that she’s not good enough, to the blind mum who has never seen her child, to the mum that breastfeeds her toddler in the loo, to the mums who’ve lost their mums....we’re united by so much through motherhood and in a world that often doesn’t give us a break, I’m doing a big cheers (with my coffee ☕️) this morning to you ❤️❤️ #motherhood #manyfacesofmotherhood #mothersunite #mothersday #happymothersday #mumsofinsta #mumsofinstagram #mothersofinstagram #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
One of the more unusual and often inescapable little quirks of motherhood. Hearing your baby or small child cry whilst you’re enjoying what might possibly be the only 5 minutes (if you’re lucky) of ‘you’ time in the day 🚿🚿Only to find that in actual fact, the baby isn’t crying at all. 👀Cue spooky music👀 👀 So how can this be explained?? It is thought to be related to Oxytocin release during birth that can alter the nervous system and heighten mum’s hearing in order to respond to baby’s cries. In the shower it’s harder to hear which can make us anxious, put us into a state of high alert and unable to switch off. Some swear by having the baby in the bathroom in a bouncer or the baby monitor nearby to reduce the anxiety and the spooky phantom cries 👻 #cryintheshower #phantomcries #motherhood #babycrying #babycry #mindtricks #postnatalanxiety #maternalanxiety #anxiety #newbaby #newborn #nurturethenurturer #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
The first few times you take a pee after having a baby can feel like the impossible task and can sting like hell 🔥🔥Not to get too graphic (as it’s only Monday) but pouring luke warm water onto the perineum as you pee can help lots, as can sitting in a shallow bath of water then peeing in the bath. Pat dry gently or if you can’t face that then a hairdryer on ❄️ COOL❄️ really works (yes it may look a bit odd but who gives a stuff 😊) #peeinginthebath #perineum #ouch #childbirth #postnatalrecovery #postnatal #lookafteryou #thenest #thenestclub #nestbirthandbeyond
Over a million people...kids and their little legs walking miles, handcrafted banners (one we saw was knitted!) and all in all a day that filled our hearts with love, togetherness, positivity and hope. A group of people there in the main not to push their own personal or political agenda but united by desire to find a way to make a better future 🌈✌🏼#lovenothate #peoplesvotemarch #peoplesvote #peoplesvotemarch2019