Hi, I'm Kelly - Mum of two and Founder of Happy Mama

Happy Mama launched in February 2020 - originally a weekly wellbeing session for new mums, to come and sit with their babies, enjoy a hot cuppa and biscuits and feel 'looked after' for an hour.  It was a chance for mums to meet and connect with others, feel less isolated and share their experience of becoming a new mother. 

So often new mums get asked "How is the baby doing? Are they sleeping and feeding ok?" That often people forget to ask how the mother is doing.  I wanted us to be the place where we ask "How are YOU doing?" something that I wish I had as a new mum!
 

When the pandemic hit in March 2020, we had to quickly adapt, I still wanted to continue to support new parents but had to find different ways of doing so.  I immediately set up a Facebook Support Group, weekly zoom meet ups and WhatsApp chats to help keep parents talking and connecting.  I arranged live Q&A's with local businesses and support services from the community, then when it was safe for us to do so, we started to offer FREE buggy walks.

Within a few months, everything we had done started to snowball and we found ourselves supporting almost 1000 families in our Facebook Support Group by the end of the pandemic.  During the various lockdowns, Kayleigh and I took some further training in Baby Massage, Baby Yoga and Baby Development so that we were able to offer baby classes, parent workshops and toddler sessions alongside our wellbeing sessions - a way to support parents further.
 

Since then Happy Mama has evolved and grown into the wonderful community that it is today...a community of 'mums supporting mums', something that I would have loved to have in my own early days of motherhood..

 

We now host a whole range of classes, workshops and sessions to take you from newborn right through to your child starting school. 

 

We have a host of wonderful contributors including sleep and feeding support, fitness and wellbeing specialists too.

We want every mum at Happy Mama to feel supported, be given the opportunity to meet and make new mum friends alongside taking some wellness for themselves.