Little Pips, Caldicot (2026)

30/12/2025

Me and my kids are total bookworms, but as they've grown older, I've noticed more and more screen time sneaking in - including for myself. So we went to pick up a notebook today to mark the start of our family book club 📖 The idea is that whenever each of us finishes a book, we will write about it in our book club journal and give it a rating out of 5 ⭐️ - at the end of the year, we are going to look back on all of the books we have read, and gift each other a new book to start off the next year 📖💫

With the Elf days now behind us it's time for a new tradition, which I hope will take them into adulthood and keep their spark for reading alight through these tricky teenage years 💫 xx

30/12/2025

✨️ Pips Baby Massage & Wellbeing Circle ✨️

With the new term starting next week and just a few spots remaining on Tuesday at Portskewett and Sudbrook Recreation Hall, Pips Baby Massage is just the most perfect first class for you and your little one from around 6 weeks of age to crawling. It is especially lovely if you're feeling nervous about attending your first class ♡

Each session goes a little like this...

💛 You walk into a lovely, bright & airy space, with mats and freshly laundered blankets. I bring you a drink whilst you get settled and relax...

💛 We start the session with a good natter, sharing the ups and downs of the week and offering support and solidarity to one another without judgement. We laugh, we may cry, and all feelings are valid ♡

💛 We then slow dance with our babies, offering them some gorgeous gentle vestibular input whilst letting go of our own tension to calming music...

💛 Then we come down to the mats and enjoy some beautiful face strokes whilst having a chat with our babies, introducing early communication skills whilst helping to alleviate signs of congestion, teething, and even wind!

💛 We gently move into our body massage section, building our routine each week. If baby doesn't feel like a massage, that's ok! You can relax and listen to the music, and enjoy a pre recorded class at home via the class Facebook group - babies are welcome to cry, poo, feed and snooze through the class, there is no pressure here!

💛 At the end of the session (if anyone is awake!) we lay the little ones in the centre of the mats and waft a starry net over them, supporting the development of their visual tracking and hand eye coordination... blissful!

Each 4 week course is £48 and includes:

✨️ 4 face to face sessions.

✨️ A pot of Grapeseed Oil.

✨️ A photo week on the final week of term, where you are able to have a photo taken with your baby against my floral backdrop and a photo of your little one in the seasonal flower hoop.

✨️ Access to 4 pre-recorded classes to enjoy at home as a family.

✨️ Access to a class WhatsApp group to chat with other parents.

Come join us!

I would love to welcome you along xx

29/12/2025

Merry Twixmas you lovely lot 💫 the days have all rolled into one here & we are in a blissful bubble of blankets, books, hot drinks, fairy lights, & chocolates... I don't want it to end 🥹

If you're feeling the same, let's gently step forward into the new year together - I know a lot of people dislike January, but if you lean into that cosiness, the gentle glimmers of light returning, & nurture your soul whilst the earth slumbers, it's actually pretty magical ✨️

Classes return start next week, & I have a few spaces left for a gentle January...

✨️ ️Pip'nobirthing Antenatal - Sun 11th January, 6pm - 7.30pm, £90

A 6 week course for mums to be suitable from 20 weeks of pregnancy. A perfect blend of birth education videos & resources to enjoy at home, combined with weekly meet ups to enjoy a cuppa, birth chat, & guided relaxation... bliss!

✨️ Pips Baby Massage & Wellbeing Circle - Tue 6th January, 10am - 11am, 4 weeks, £48

The perfect first class for you & your baby focused on connection, solidarity, & beautiful baby massage. There is no pressure here - babies can sleep, feed, cry, poo, and do all the things thay babies do! Suitable from 6 weeks to crawling, this class is as much for you as it is for baby. Supported with videos to enjoy at home, too!

✨️ Piplings Sensory Stretch and Sing - Mon 5th January, 11.30am - 12.30pm (Tuesday fully booked), £48

Suitable from a minimum of 16 weeks to 12 months, enjoy baby yoga, tummy time, developmental play, & free play time in the themed messy & non messy play areas! Also supported with videos to enjoy at home.

✨️ Pips Play Toddlers - Fri 9th January, 12.30pm - 1.30pm (Monday fully booked), £48

Suitable from 1 - 3 years & focused around a weekly theme, this child led OT approved developmental play class is perfectly tailored to support your tots development. This class gets messy, so messy clothes are a must!

☕️ And the Little Pips Cuppa Club returns on Friday 9th January from 10am - 11.30am, no need to book, just pop along for a cuppa & a natter - a £2 voluntary donation helps towards the running costs of the group, but your presence is more important to me than your pennies 💛

www.littlepips.org/book-online

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25/12/2025

Nadolig llawen 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎁

However you have spent your Christmas today, I hope you have had a gentle one ❤️ xx

24/12/2025

If you have older kids who aren't into the NORAD Santa Tracker anymore (although this is crazy to me because I'm 41 and still love it 🤣), Flight Radar 24 are also tracking and you get the added bonus of nerding out at where the other planes are all headed! 🛩🎅

23/12/2025

...and just like that, the babies of the family have turned 11 💫

This age is all kinds of beautiful, but also, it's hit me like a sledgehammer that whilst professionally I am still very much in the baby bubble, personally I am in a completely different stage of life now.

This phase is all about navigating a world of hormones, boundaries, balance, and independence, and for me, the main difference is that at this stage of life, people just assume you know what you're doing!

Well, let me tell you now, I don't 🤣 just like I didn't know now to change a nappy, wean a baby, or potty train a toddler. It's a learning curve. And just like with babies, one approach doesn't suit every child, and with teens and tweens, I've learnt that an approach that might have worked once might not work so well the next...

But what these phases do have in common is that as parents, we are ALWAYS learning. We never truly know it all. We are just putting one foot in front of the other, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, hoping that we are doing enough.

So whatever stage you're at, I am sending solidarity - we are all just doing our best ❤️ ###

21/12/2025

There won't be any January blues for my lovely families after Christmas! Cosy Sunday evenings with mums to be and their beautiful bumps... baby massage by fairy lights... new year parties for the Piplings and Pips Play Toddlers... all at Portskewett and Sudbrook Recreation Hall 💫

✨️ Pip'nobirthing Antenatal - A 6 week course for mums to be suitable from 20 weeks of pregnancy. A perfect blend of birth education videos and resources to enjoy at home, combined with weekly meet ups to enjoy a cuppa, birth chat, and guided relaxation... bliss!

✨️ Pips Baby Massage & Wellbeing Circle - The perfect class for you and your baby, focused on connection, solidarity, and beautiful baby massage. Suitable from 6 weeks to crawling, this class is as much for you as it is for baby! Supported with videos to enjoy at home, too!

✨️ Piplings Sensory Stretch and Sing - Suitable from a minimum of 16 weeks to 12 months, enjoy baby yoga, tummy time, developmental play, and free play time in the themed messy and non messy play areas! Also supported with videos to enjoy at home.

✨️ Pips Play Toddlers - Suitable from 1 - 3 years and focused around a weekly theme, this developmental play class is perfectly tailored to support your tots development! This class gets messy, so messy clothes are a must!

And in February...

❤️ Valentines parties are open to book!

✨️ Newborn Workshop - A 90min session full of tips, tricks and knowledge to support you and your little one through the 4th Trimester. We look at the womb to world transition, and explore calming holds and massage techniques to ease common newborn ailments such as wind, constipation, and congestion. Group and private sessions available.

✨️ Tummy Time Workshop - A 1 hr session suitable from birth to 6 months, written by Paediatric Occupational Therapist Carly Budd. Packed full of education, positions and play inspo, I particularly love supporting babies who seem to dislike tummy time! Group and private sessions available.

Book online at www.littlepips.org/book-online

I can't wait to make more memories with you all in 2026 💫

Claire ###

21/12/2025

As the festivities begin, feel free to save and print off my Christmas scavenger hunt to enjoy with your little ones - how many can you spot over the next couple of weeks?! 🎄 xx

20/12/2025

Some of you who have been following me since the start of my journey 12 years ago will remember my eldest being just 3 years old, sitting next to me during classes in my living room taking part with his teddy bear 🥹

Now he is taller than me, growing up into an incredible young man, and I actually think this is my favourite stage of parenting him yet ❤️ xx

18/12/2025

End of year car chat with Claire 😂

🎄 Thank you
💫 January Classes
❤️ Valentines Parties
💙 Heti the Little Hygge Caravan

I will now be slower responding to messages, and my autoresponder is officially on 🥰 xx

18/12/2025

Head into the new year with something to look forward to because these Love Bubble Valentines Parties were so beautiful last year, and I'm so excited to run them again!

🩷 BABY LOVE BUBBLE 🩷

A slower pace to my usual seasonal parties with a real focus on love and connection, these special sessions include story time, movement, baby massage and yoga, craft, photos, and messy and non messy play - a beautiful way to spend a special 90 minutes together away from the to do list 💕

Suitable for babies aged from 6 weeks to 12 months.

The Monday and Tuesday morning parties are almost fully booked, but there are a few spots left for the Monday afternoon session if you would like to join us by grabbing a spot over on the website at www.littlepips.org/book-online 🎀

(The toddler party is fully booked 🩷) xx

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