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Self Care Workshop for Mums to Be (The Fourth Trimester) – Brighton

Following on from the release of our book last year, we are super excited to introduce our new ‘Mother Box Fourth Trimester’ Workshops - starting in May! Having supported hundreds of women through birth and the postnatal period we know all about the importance of...

Coping with Sleep Deprivation

Coping with sleep deprivation is one of the hardest challenges that new parents have to face. When we are sleep deprived we feel rubbish and unwell. We suffer with brain fog, low mood, physical healing is more difficult, mental health can suffer and everything feels...

Tips for Managing Pelvic Pain After Birth

Ladies, please don't put up with pelvic pain! Contrary to what we are told, it isn't just something we need to put up with in pregnancy, there's a lot we can do to help it! 1. When possible keep knees and ankles together. This lessens the pressure on the pubic...

Caring for Mastitis & Engorged Boobs

This Mother Box "Top Tip Tuesday" is to offer advice for caring for mastitis and engorged, lumpy boobs! Taken straight from the pages of our book "The Little Book of Self Care for New Mums" - we’re sharing this again because we’ve been showing lots of our lady clients...

Self Care For New Mum Aches & Pains

OK, so we know that those early weeks of baby arriving are wonderful, but they don't half wreck havoc on your back, neck and shoulders. Carrying baby around and feeding baby - bottle or breast makes us sit slightly hunched over for extended periods of time. And the...

Stay Calm Help for New Parents

This tip was taught to us by a psychotherapist we worked with years ago and is a fab coping technique for any new mamma with a baby that's prone to having a good old scream up! Babies cry for many, many reasons and whilst we want to hold and reassure them whilst they...

The Little Book of Self Care for New Mums – Three Month Anniversary

Wow, doesn't time fly? We just can't believe it's already been three months since we published our book "The Little Book of Self Care for New Mums". Here at the Mother Box, life since the book launch has been completely surreal - we've been lucky enough to be invited...

SheerLuxe – Book Launch Interview

Being first-time authors, we knew there would be a certain amount of promotional work required to get our book out there, but we had no idea that would mean promoting the "Little Book of Self Care for New Mums" with huge YouTube influencers! The good news was that...

Importance of Rest for New Parents

Today's #motherboxtotiptuesday is all about getting some more sleep when you really need it! We all know that having a baby means having less sleep, napping when we can and generally functioning daily a little tired, but what can we do when we hit a wall...

New Mum Advice on the First Postnatal Poop

Let’s talk about that all important and sometimes nerve wracking postnatal poo! We all have to do it! And most of us dread it, even if you haven't had an episiotomy or tear it can still feel a bit tender and inflamed and lots of women fear putting any...