Take your connection to the next level

Expert Baby Massage & Sleep Coach

End the second guessing and self-doubt and foster calm, connection and restful sleep through the power of evidence-based baby massage touch techniques.

Like-minded parents

Baby-led class

Learn by
doing

Expert Educator

Certified Infant Massage Instructor

Holistic Sleep
Coaching Certified

Bachelor Degree in
Psychology & Psychoanalysis

Masters of Science in Work & Organisational Psychology

Diploma in Business, Executive and Personal Coaching

Is Our Course For You?

  • Restless baby

  • Wind or digestive challenges

  • Feeling of overwhelm by what baby’s cues could be signalling to you

  • Lack of a sustainable wind-down routine

  • Fussiness or crying

  • Sleep challenges

  • Feeling unsupported and disconnected from other parents in your local area

  • Parental difficulty falling and staying asleep

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above book your space in our next baby massage course or reach out if you have any questions that need clarifying.

Baby Massage Philosophies

Our approach to every class and interaction

  • Baby-led

    Baby leads the experience with you as parent or caregiver following baby’s cues allowing for gentle and responsive interaction.

  • Positive touch

    Consent and permission are critical if we're to build trust with our baby from early on. By following our babies' cues we are contributing to their mental well-being and to baby feeling seen and heard from early on.

  • Co-regulation

    Focusing on calm, gentle touch and relaxation we can help your baby settle into a peaceful state together. Positive for both of your nervous systems.

  • Attachment

    Strengthen your attachment with baby through the art of touch and help baby to feel loved, safe and secure. Let’s fill the air with oxytocin (the love, feel-good hormone).

The Power of Baby Massage

What to Expect

The process explained step-by-step

Check in with your health insurance provider

Connect with your health insurance provider on your plan to see if they will provide a full or partial rebate on your baby massage course. Most health insurance providers will provide a rebate (partial or full) depending on your plan and cover. Your instructor is IAIM trained and BMI registered.

Issued with a receipt and information email

Before our baby massage course begins you will be emailed a copy of your receipt together with a welcome email outlining information that you need to know in advance of the course – timings; how to find us; where to park etc.

Weeks 5 of our baby massage course

Week 5 is our graduation week. This is a week of great celebration. We get to cover run-through the entire routine with our babies and celebrate your collective course achievement with a photo opportunity so you can cherish the memories forever.

Book your course or join our waitlist

On booking your course you will be automatically scheduled into our five-week course and will be sent weekly reminders ahead of each weekly class. Should the dates we have advertised not work for you, join our waitlist and register for our mailing list to be kept informed about future course dates.

Weeks 1 through 4 of our baby massage course

Each class is a blend of relaxation, baby yoga, massage, theory and discussion over a cacao and connect. Week 1 we start with the legs and every week we do a full recap of the routine covered the week prior.

What happens beyond this point

By this stage you will likely be beyond six weeks post-partum stage and eligible to return return to gentle exercise. To help further build on the connections you have made during our baby massage course, we offer Mum and Baby Yogalates (a blend of yoga and pilates) every Wednesday morning where the focus is on breathwork, rebuilding your pelvic floor and abdominal strength together with relaxation, followed by our cacao and connect.

What to Expect

The process explained step-by-step

  • Check in with your health insurance provider

    Connect with your health insurance provider on your plan to see if they will provide a full or partial rebate on your baby massage course. Most health insurance providers will provide a rebate (partial or full) depending on your plan and cover. Your instructor is IAIM trained and BMI registered.

  • Book your course or join our waitlist

    On booking your course you will be automatically scheduled into our five-week course and will be sent weekly reminders ahead of each weekly class. Should the dates we have advertised not work for you, join our waitlist and register for our mailing list to be kept informed about future course dates.

  • Receipt and information email

    Before our baby massage course begins you will be emailed a copy of your receipt together with a welcome email outlining information that you need to know in advance of the course – timings; how to find us; where to park etc.

  • Weeks 1 through 4 of our baby massage course

    Each class is a blend of relaxation, baby yoga, massage, theory and discussion over a cacao and connect. Week 1 we start with the legs and every week we do a full recap of the routine covered the week prior.

  • Weeks 5 of our baby massage course

    Week 5 is our graduation week. This is a week of great celebration. We get to cover run-through the entire routine with our babies and celebrate your collective course achievement with a photo opportunity so you can cherish the memories forever.

  • What happens beyond this point

    By this stage you will likely be beyond six weeks post-partum stage and eligible to return return to gentle exercise. To help further build on the connections you have made during our baby massage course, we offer Mum and Baby Yogalates (a blend of yoga and pilates) every Wednesday morning where the focus is on breathwork, rebuilding your pelvic floor and abdominal strength together with relaxation, followed by our cacao and connect.

Course Dates

Mount Merrion

€150

5 Week Course

Next Course Dates (Wednesdays):

January: 15th, 22nd and 29th

February: 12th and 19th

Sandymount

€150

5 Week Course

Next Course Dates (Thursdays):

January: 16th, 23rd and 30th

February: 13th and 20th

What Our Clients Say

Meet Your Massage Instructor

I’m Hannah. I’m a Mum of two and a qualified Baby Massage Instructor & Infant Sleep Coach. From a personal level what brought me to the work of baby massage was my first born. She had colic for the first 16 weeks and cried inconsolably for 6 hours a night. I felt utterly lost and powerless and had no idea what I could do to help. Her cry still triggers me, to this day. Knowing what I know now, I’d like to impart the super power of touch and all the good it can do for a Mothers mental health, well-being, her overall connection with her baby and the benefits that pass to baby as a result.

From a professional level, supporting people through change (transitioning from A to B) has always been my area of expertise. Drawing upon my background in Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Business, Life and Executive Coaching, together with my work in behavioural change means that I take a research and evidence based approach in working with parents.

My objective with baby massage is to be to be a warm host at a delicate party. I want clients to leave feeling like they have been held, heard, seen and empowered.   

Hannah Donovan
BABY MASSAGE INSTRUCTOR & GENTLE HOLISTIC INFANT SLEEP COACH

FAQs

  • Our massage course is suitable for babies from newborn stage up to pre-crawling stage. The first 16 weeks of a babies’ life can be a common time for tummy-related discomforts and massage can prove beneficial in helping to bring some relief to your baby.

  • All babies are fussy at different times of the day. Straight out of utero it can be a big adjustment for you and for your baby. Massage can help to alleviate fussiness but most importantly, in particular as a first-time parent, it can be good for you to see how fussy other babies can be too as a way to normalise your fear from early on.

  • I am an IAIM registered baby massage instructor. Most health insurers will therefore rebate your baby massage course by up to €100. On purchasing your baby massage course you will be sent a receipt with all of the necessary information on it that your health insurers will need to issue you with a refund.

  • For the first 16 weeks of a babies life, their digestive systems can be developing. Massage can help to alleviate symptoms of gas, wind, colic and reflux. Massage is great for helping a baby to develop healthy brain connections from early on through the art of touch. Massage can boost oxytocin levels. This is our love hormone which can help us as parents to feel connected, relaxed and happy.

  • Some mothers are not eligible to drive until six weeks post-partum (especially in the case of c-section deliveries) and can be reliant on a partner or relative for transport. Massage can be a lovely thing to do with a grandparent or partner and we would encourage you to bring someone along with you if this helps. We ask that you flag this to  your instructor in advance where you can so we know to bring extra cacao & cookies.

  • With vaccinations and GP appointments, life can sometimes get in the way. That’s why we arrange for our parents to come to a catch up session at the next baby massage class so nothing is lost and everyone is working from the same baseline of understanding.

  • By joining our waitlist you can be notified of future massage courses before we even advertise them.

  • The price quoted covers multiples too. What we suggest is that you bring a partner or relative with you so each baby can get a carers undivided attention during the class and this way each baby will benefit entirely.

Ready to Feel Connected?

Not strangers. Just friends you haven’t met yet!