Scottish School of Child & Baby Massage

22/10/2025

Wow. Hope it is better in the UK

22/10/2025

So very true! Would you let your best friend cry themselves to sleep in a room on their own?

20/10/2025

It takes the body time to calm — not just a few deep breaths.

When a child is overwhelmed, their nervous system can take 20–60 minutes to fully settle after a surge of stress hormones. That’s why calm can’t be rushed. They need safety, patience and connection — not pressure to “get over it.”

Understanding this is at the heart of brain-based parenting. Regulation isn’t instant; it’s built through co-regulation and trust.

This also demonstrates why a child needs longer than 5 minutes out of class after an incident.

There is a full range of calming strategy prompts in our toolkit below.

NOW AVAILABLE IN THE RESOURCE STORE - to accompany our series on social media.

The Child Brain Explained: How the Upstairs & Downstairs Brain Shape Behaviour, a Toolkit for Parents & Educators - available for only £3.75 until 3 November 2025

Electronic download available at link in comments ⬇️ or via our Linktree Shop in Bio.

19/09/2025

Such a great organisation!

Weekend Update! 📣
This weekend our groups are on Saturday in Glasgow and Dundee (no Edinburgh Group on Saturday)
Both groups on as usual in Edinburgh and Irvine on Sunday.

See you there! 🥁

19/09/2025

Another amazing group of women have passed their Baby Massage Instructor's Course. I am so honoured 💗 to have taught and continue to teach so many dedicated, caring women whose main wish is to help parents be more at ease & relaxed - and for babies to do all the usual stuff! Gain weight, p**p better (!!) - be more settled. And the simple joy of creating a nurturing space for beautiful bonding.

From the bottom of my heart, Thank-you ✨🙏🏻✨to one & all. You are wonderful 💗

19/09/2025

“Many parents share sleep, intentionally and unintentionally, due to factors such as infant needs (e.g., nighttime feeding, comfort) and exhaustion, despite being aware of associated risks in some circumstances. Acknowledging parental fatigue as a separate driver for shared sleep is an important addition to Salm Ward’s (2015) earlier findings. This finding highlights the common and consistent occurrence of unintentional shared sleep due to parent exhaustion, a phenomenon not adequately addressed by safe sleep approaches that assume shared sleep is always a conscious choice.

Human sleep physiology dictates that we will sleep and in the postpartum context, breastfeeding-induced hormones also promote sleep. Given our human biology, it seems appropriate that sleep safety policies should educate parents on the likelihood of falling asleep with their baby, regardless of intention, and provide strategies for how to prepare the environment to make it safer if it occurs. Simply having a separate sleep space, and an intention not to share, is likely to be insufficient.

Providing universal, neutral guidance on how to minimise risks when sharing sleep can help prevent sleep-related accidents, including among ‘accidental bedsharers’. Preparing families with this information is not a promotion of bedsharing, nor an endorsement. Rather, this ✨prepare to share✨ approach recognises that many parents do- and will-bedshare, and ensures they have access to evidence-based safety information regardless of intent or circumstance.”

~Some of the crucial discussion in our newly published integrative review-
✨ Grubb C, Young J, Downer T and D’Souza L (2025) Beyond the rules: an integrative review of parental perspectives on safer infant sleep in shared environments. Front. Public Health 13:1629678. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1629678

🔥It’s Open Access and hot off the press, so spread the word -

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1629678/full

03/09/2025

Would you like to join our team?

First Step are looking for a Relief Early Years Practitioner to cover staff absence within our Early Learning and Childcare provision.

Please see below for further information and how to apply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etEmP9_jJ3o

28/08/2025

Lovely summer class! Even had the room cool in the heat and a sneaky wee glass of Noseco at the end to celebrate parenthood 🥂

New baby massage course starting early Sept. Get in touch to book a space. Our courses are more than just baby massage. You don’t know what, you don’t know, till you know! If you know what we mean 🥰

21/08/2025

Steve Biddulph AM is one of the world’s best known parent educators. A psychologist for 30 years, he is now retired but continues to write and teach. His books, including The Secret of Happy Children, Raising Boys, The New Manhood and now 10 Things ...