Postnatal Mums Group

From our years of experience of teaching prenatal classes, we realised that pregnant couples can feel overloaded with information in their pregnancy, and a lot of it isn’t important until after their baby is born (the postnatal period). In addition to the steep learning curve of parenthood, many mums can feel isolated during the first few weeks with a baby.

The Beloved Bumps Postnatal Course was designed to not only give you the tools to help you smoothly transition into mummy-hood, but to also help you meet new mums with babies around the same age. Each week, an experienced health professional will talk to you about a different topic. These course topics were chosen by asking real mums what they wished they knew in the early days with their child, as well as what our experts get the most questions about.

In true Beloved Bumps style, there is great emphasis on the social side – we will ensure that you get to know the other mums in your group to help build your all important support network of friends. Our classes are held at our beautiful baby-friendly space, so you can stay afterwards, play, chat or even get lunch down the road in Robertson Quay – which many of our mums do on a weekly basis!

We offer two groups depending on your baby’s age:

IMC’s Paediatric Doctors

The International Medical Clinic Paediatric Department is dedicated to child and adolescent health. With internationally trained paediatric doctors, their patients get the same level of care and expertise that they would expect in their home country.

IMC has five internationally trained Paediatric Doctors:

Board Certified in Paediatrics from USA

• Dr Leo Hamilton
• Dr Judy Schmidt
• Dr Bernadeta Wibisono
• Dr Arti Jaiswal

Specialist accreditation from the UK

• Dr Gina Dahe

Over 89% of IMC’s patients report their overall experience at IMC to be ‘Excellent’ and 95% described their Doctor as ‘Excellent’. One of the reasons patients can trust their doctor’s advice is because IMC is NOT incentivized by drug companies. The dedication to quality of care and expertise make them the leading provider to the international community of Singapore.

Sally Connell

Certified Breastfeeding Specialist 
(IBCLC Certified Lactation Consultant in Fall of 2020)

Sally Connell is an Australian educated Registered Nurse  with over 20 years of experience. Over that time, she has worked with mothers, babies and young children in various different settings. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, The United Kingdom, Australia, but currently calls Singapore her home.

Sally is also a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, whose greatest passion has always been working with mothers and babies in a community setting. She has spent thousands of hours helping families achieve their breastfeeding goals and will be completing her International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) exam in the fall of 2020.

Sally has two children herself, and developed her passion for breastfeeding after giving birth to her first child, who she struggled to breastfeed initially. After finally achieving success, she went on to breastfeed both her children long term and became determined to help other struggling mothers, too.

Lisa Sanders

MA Clinical Psychology, BSocSc (Hons) Psychology, Registered Psychologist (HPCSA)

Alliance Counselling Pte Ltd

Lisa is a qualified clinical psychologist from South Africa, with a passion for working therapeutically across various ages, genders and cultures. She has varied work experience and is deeply committed to promoting mental health, a basic human right, amongst all populations. Lisa has developed areas of special interests and skills throughout her academic, research and working experiences. Here are two of these areas:

Maternal and child mental health

• Both her honours and masters dissertations focused on women’s experiences during high-risk pregnancies and childbirth. She has worked with the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP) where focus was given to women’s mental health in the prenatal, antenatal and postnatal period. This was then followed up in terms of child outcomes. Maternal and child mental health continues to be a passion of hers and coincides well with her mindfulness approach, which is beginning to place more focus on early interventions with mothers and children.

Mindfulness Based Interventions

• Over the past six years Lisa has personally been engaged in one-on-one Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) training and has experienced the varied benefits of Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs). She is formally trained in Mindfulness Based Wellbeing Enhancement – another type of MBI – which focuses more on strengths-building and positive psychology principles.

Lucie Lamprey

B.Sc. (Hons) Physiotherapy, Masters Manual Therapy, Clinical Exercise Specialist & Womens Health Physiotherapy

UFIT Singapore

Lucie started her career in physiotherapy working in London for 3 years. Since 2011 she has been living and working in Singapore in the management and rehabilitation of injuries with a keen interest in the pelvis, spine and lower limbs. More recently Lucie developed a special interest in Women’s Health and Pelvic floor dysfunction. She has done numerous post-graduate professional development courses that focus on treating pre-and post-natal women for incontinence, rectus diastasis (abdominal separation/DRAM), pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic pain disorders such as dyspareunia (pain with sex). Her passion is to help women maintain a healthy, active pregnancy and return to sport. She works with a wide range of clients from those who are new to exercise, with pre-existing medical conditions, to recreational and competitive elite athletes.

Shubhra Venneti Shastry

Sleep Sense Consultant & Adult Solve Your Sleep Consultant

Trained under Dana Obleman’s methodology in the US

Motherhood is amazingly fulfilling, and it is also one of the toughest soul-shaking journeys a woman can embark on. Laboring to be a first-time mother with overwhelming feelings of helplessness and confusion, compounded by massive sleep deprivation, Shubhra made it her mission to learn everything she could to make her first year of parenting that much easier. Being armed with the right knowledge changed everything, and she decided she never wanted others to feel as lost as she did.

A culmination of her expertise as a sleep consultant, as well as a Kanga training and Baby Signs instructor, her pride and joy is the Giggle Wiggle Sleep club – a unique year-long parenting support programme that helps new mums from day one tackle their baby’s sleep and regain wellness through fitness.