Stroud Gentle Sleep Support

Stroud Gentle Sleep Support Supporting families to navigate sleep without sleep training

We're meeting online today due to the heat - which means you get a chance to come have some sleep chat and solidarity ev...
24/06/2026

We're meeting online today due to the heat - which means you get a chance to come have some sleep chat and solidarity even if you live outside Stroud!

Come join us to normalize normal, explore transitions and changes, and get tips for making whatever season you're in just a bit more survivable 👌🏻

Meeting on Zoom, 2pm-3pm.

Link in stories to book your place.

Oh, hi there! We missed a year of updates while I waded through a sticky morass of burnout. But here's where we're at wi...
15/06/2026

Oh, hi there! We missed a year of updates while I waded through a sticky morass of burnout.

But here's where we're at with sleep. She's twice the age her brother was when he started sleeping through the night.

Am I worried? Nope. She's so little. And we're finding ways to make it as sustainable as possible.

The main challenge has been moving to a new house where she's up a steep flight of stairs from me. She can't get to my bed at night so I was going up to her every night. That got knackering so she's in her "camping out in mummy's room" phase.

This current set up means I get some quality sleep at the start of the night (I don't sleep deeply if I bedshare all night so that's not a good option for me) but my sleep is minimally disrupted when she needs a cuddle in the night. Nights that don't involve getting out of bed are a win in my book.

20/01/2026

Book your spot at bookwhen.com/stroudmotherhood ❤️

20/01/2026

Head to bookwhen.com/stroudmotherhood to book your place ❤️

Ready to say goodbye to night feeds? Come join us online next week!
03/03/2025

Ready to say goodbye to night feeds? Come join us online next week!

A couple of spaces left for this small group - for parents of babies over 12 months old. Message me if you'd like to joi...
17/02/2025

A couple of spaces left for this small group - for parents of babies over 12 months old. Message me if you'd like to join us!

Imagine a transition into motherhood where you are seen, held, and heard in the full complexity of the experience. Where...
31/10/2024

Imagine a transition into motherhood where you are seen, held, and heard in the full complexity of the experience. Where you have a space to voice the thoughts that come into your head at 3am and you feel scared to say out loud.

Where you have space to explore and express the messy mixture of the dozens of emotions that you might go through in a single day.

Where someone will make you a hot cup of tea and hold your baby so you can sit in silence and do something just for yourself.

This is what we've spent the past 18 months creating at Stroud Motherhood Collective. We run a series of therapeutically-informed peer support groups, with creativity and wellbeing at their heart.

After a hugely successful first year, we're now fundraising to expand our range of groups so that more women can attend them free of charge, finding community and validation when they need it most.

We're crowdfunding to expand, and there's a chance of recieving a grant from Stroud District Council if we can evidence the community support for the project. So we need you! A pledge as little as £2 could make the world of difference. We'd love your support in growing our range of offerings - www.spacehive.com/stroud-motherhood-collective ❤️

What have I missed?? In a culture where shared parental leave is dire and rarely taken up, when the common model is for ...
25/09/2024

What have I missed??

In a culture where shared parental leave is dire and rarely taken up, when the common model is for one parent to stay home with a baby while another works (often elsewhere) for most of the day, it's no surprise that in two-parenr households one of us quickly becomes the "default parent".

This often leads to overwhelm, resentment and burnout for the default parent, and disempowerment, loss of confidence, and resentment for the non-default parent. It's rubbish.

Our society sets us up for this to happen. It's nobody's fault as individuals. But once it happens, and we notice it, we all have a responsibility to work to shift this dynamic if it isn't working for us.

Starting solids has been a reminder in our house of just how easy it is for me to slip into default parent mode. We've consciously tried to share more of these tasks with our second child - with greater and lesser success 😅

How has starting solids been for you, if you have another parent at home?


So excited to be offering a weaning circle as part of the gathering at Sladebank Woods, very soon! It's a circle for an...
05/06/2024

So excited to be offering a weaning circle as part of the gathering at Sladebank Woods, very soon!

It's a circle for anyone thinking about coming to the end of breastfeeding, or who has recently finished. A chance to reflect on your journey, to share and be heard by others at a similar point. To celebrate, to grieve. Whatever comes up around this huge transition is welcome.

Spaces are limited and offered for donation on a sliding scale. Get in touch to book a place ❤️

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Field Rd
Stroud
GL5 2JB

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