Baby Massage
The Advantages of Baby Massage with Pumpkin & Pickle
Are you interested in strengthening the bond with your little one?
Engaging in baby massage is a beautiful way to deepen the connection with your baby. Through undistracted moments, gentle touch, love, and eye contact, you can cherish precious time with your baby. The 4-week courses cater to babies from birth to crawling using a simple but memorable routine that can be replicated at home. Research indicates that regular baby massage can result in a calmer baby, stronger bonds, and may ease digestive challenges such as colic, constipation, and reflux while enhancing the immune system. Join our group to discover the benefits of baby massage.
Become part of a supportive community where your baby can enjoy gentle social interactions, you can connect with local mums going through similar experiences, and you can treat yourself to homemade cake!
Tummy Time
Playtime Sessions
A Fun and Educational Course for Your Baby’s Development
Looking for a fun and engaging way to help your baby develop their muscles and joints? Look no further than Tummy Time PlayTime sessions! With the use of nursery rhymes, props, and high-level engagement, your baby will strengthen their muscles and promote inner balance and optimal deep breathing to prepare for sitting, crawling, and walking. As an advanced TummyTime Practitioner, I’ve been taught and guided by specialist paediatric occupational therapist Carly Budd, and I provide individual advice and techniques to make TummyTime enjoyable for both baby and parent. So, let’s build confidence and promote development together!
Tummytime (prone position is recommend by the
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Find out more
Tummy Time is a crucial play position that helps babies develop strong head, neck, shoulder, tongue, and tummy muscles. It also supports inner balance, optimal breathing, and so much more. While most parents know their baby should sleep on their back, it can feel confusing to know how to do tummy time with a newborn in a fun, gentle way. Many parents also want to prevent flat head syndrome (plagiocephaly), keep their baby happy, and explore playful positions both on the floor and in safe holds.
I can show you several simple, confidence‑building positions that help both you and your baby feel comfortable, while supporting the strength they’ll need for sitting, crawling, walking — and even early school readiness.
Pumpkin & Pickle Explorers:
Intentional movement & sensory play with songs, social and support for parent and baby.
Come and experience a blend of massage, movement, songs, sensory play, and tummy time in a class tailored for your crawling explorers. This small, music-filled class provides a safe environment for crawling and rolling, focusing on pre-walkers. Through nursery rhymes, props, and interactive activities, your baby will enhance muscle strength, cultivate inner balance, and prepare for their next developmental stage.
Pumpkin Pickle Nature Play
Sticks, songs, plant shoots, Rhymes & chatter, Muddy boots.
Pumpkin Pickle Nature Play offers you a safe outdoor class where will explore nature in a way that provides calm, grounding, fun and play that has been designed to embrace nature, have fun and enrich development for toddlers who are walking, age 1-4yrs old (not at school).
The classes are suitable for toddlers who are walkers and talkers, up to pre-school, and are ready to explore the outdoors together! Our class will be outside in most weathers (come prepared) and develop social confidence, learn about the seven senses, and give you as parent/carer, ideas to take home and repeat.
Each session is 60 minutes of fun in Brackley Park where access is easy by car or foot. We will meet each Friday, and wave goodbye or come back again to explore other seasons and themes. We will repeat some elements of the class so our toddlers can remember the activities and games, plus you can build your own social network of local Pumpkin & Pickle parents. Watch out for one off sessions in the school holidays!
Sunday Sessions
Looking to include Daddy or Partner in baby massage?
Partners are important too! Many Fathers who have attended my Sunday Sessions have commented that they are keen to have some one-to-one time with baby, but it can be tricky to know when and how, with work and feeding common barriers.
Weaning Workshop
Edgerton Hall, Brackley
Friday 25th September 2026 - open for registrations!
On Friday 20th March 2026 (10:00am – 12:30pm), Pumpkin Pickle entered the world of weaning through a collaborative event with four other local businesses; Empowerment Foundation, Active Family Chiropractic, JMS First Aid and Weaning with Caz.
Due to the success of this event, we have our second weaning event - if you have a baby under or around 6 months then you are very welcome!
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