Infant Massage Newcastle with Rochelle Dorman

Babies are communicating from the moment they are born.

They tell us how they're feeling through:

✨ facial expressions
✨ movements
✨ eye contact
✨ sounds
✨ changes in breathing

One of the greatest gifts infant massage offers is the opportunity to become more familiar with these subtle signals.

The more we notice, the more connected our relationships become.

Attunement starts with paying attention.

Please note the Changes to the dates for this Workshop from previously advertised

Infant Massage Awareness Week begins with the heart of IAIM — supporting parents and babies through connection.

Infant massage is much more than a relaxation technique. Through loving, responsive touch, babies begin to learn important foundations for emotional wellbeing and secure attachment.

Massage also helps parents:
• understand baby cues
• build confidence
• slow down and connect
• create moments of calm together

The relationship built through these small moments can have a lasting impact far beyond infancy.

✨Give yourself more than just another baby activity.

The 5 week First Touch Infant Massage Program offers a gentle space to slow down, connect and better understand your baby, and feel supported in your own motherhood journey.

Learn cue-based nurturing massage techniques to soothe and bond with your baby, while also carving out time to nourish yourself, connect with other mothers, and be held through the transitions of matrescence.

Because caring for your baby matters - and so does caring for you.

✨ Enrolments now open for July and September 2026. Ideal for pre-crawling babies.

Contact Rochelle to enrol.
[email protected]

Welcoming a baby this year?

Give yourself more than just another baby activity. The 5 week First Touch Infant Massage Program offers a gentle space to slow down, connect and better understand your baby, and feel supported in your own motherhood journey.

Learn cue-based nurturing massage techniques to soothe and bond with your baby, while also carving out time to nourish yourself, connect with other mothers, and be held through the transitions of matrescence.

Because caring for your baby matters - and so does caring for you.

✨ Enrolments now open for July and September 2026. Ideal for pre-crawling babies.
Contact Rochelle to enrol.
[email protected]

The Hunter Women’s Centre is pleased to continue offering our Mums & Bubs Pilates classes every Wednesday in partnership with Female Focus Physiotherapy 🤍

These gentle, supportive sessions are designed to help new mums rebuild strength and confidence while bonding with their babies 🤱✨

Each class focuses on:
🤍 Postnatal recovery and core strength
🤍 Pelvic floor health and stability
🤍 Gentle movement and stretching
🤍 Relaxation and wellbeing
🤍 Connection with other local mums

Led with care by Female Focus Physiotherapy, these sessions provide professional guidance in a safe and welcoming environment 💛

📍 Location: Hunter Women’s Centre
📅 When: Wednesdays
👩‍⚕️ Facilitated by: Female Focus Physiotherapy
📩 Bookings: Link in bio

Babies are always welcome — come as you are and move at your own pace 🌿



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Plans are coming together for this year’s , themed “Seeing the Baby” ❤️👶

We hope you will join us in celebrating the week as we raise awareness among parents, professionals, and wider society about the remarkable ways babies are born ready to communicate and connect, and the importance of taking time to notice and understand them ❤️

Find social media assets and resources to download for the week on our website: www.brazelton.co.uk/baby-communication-week-2026/

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Matrescence and the transformation of parenthood | PANDA We explore what happens during matrescence and how to find yourself again if you’re feeling lost after baby.

In infant massage, interaction is not something added to the relationship—it is the relationship itself taking shape in a specific context.

The baby does not passively receive the massage: they participate, interrupt, adjust, observe. Even silence or withdrawal are forms of communication.

The adult, in turn, is not “performing” a gesture, but entering a dialogue made of body signals, timing, and continuous adjustments.

Within this exchange, a particular quality of mutual presence can emerge. It is not linear, not always smooth, and does not follow a single pattern.

These moments can become a space where parents experience a different way of listening to their baby—less driven by the idea of “doing it right,” and more by observing what happens between them.

🧡 HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY to the beautiful mothers in my groups -

I’m constantly inspired by the way you move through the complexity of matrescence with such strength. In all the tenderness and complexity of this season, you are growing, evolving and BECOMING in the most powerful ways.

Much love, Rochelle x