Mindful Mums offers award-winning, free wellbeing groups that help pregnant women and new parents look after their mental and emotional wellbeing during pregnancy and their baby’s first year.
Our Mindful Mums Service
September-October Early Autumn Postnatal Peer-Support Group
We are now taking registrations for our Late Autumn postnatal wellbeing peer-support group programmes. These will start in early November and run for a block of five consecutive weeks until early December, with two separate groups running at two different venues.
The next options for our Nov-Dec, five-week postnatal peer-support group programme are as follows:
Mindful Mums Danson Aut2 group
Danson Children’s Centre – on Welling/Bexleyheath borders (waiting list only)
Mondays from 10.00am till 11.30am
Dates: 3/11, 10/11, 17/11, 24/11 and 1/12
or
Mindful Mums Erith Aut2 group
West Street Erith Family Hub – in Erith
Thursdays from 10.00am till 11.30am
Dates: 6/11, 13/11, 20/11, 27/11 and 2/12
Please use the contact form in the blue button above to register your interest in our Mindful Mums groups.
NEW FOR 2025 – Online Pregnancy Support Groups
Register now for our five-week online, antenatal peer-support group for any Bexley-based mums-to be who might be feeling nervous, anxious, lonely or overwhelmed, or experiencing some emotional challenges linked to their pregnancy. This service will be available to any mums who are between 12 weeks and full-term and the sessions will run:
Online from 7pm till 8pm on Tuesday evenings in September and October
Dates: 16/9, 23/9, 30/9, 7/10, 14/10
We keep our groups small and safe, so places are limited; if you’re interested to know more about our groups or would like to book a space on one of the above 5-week programmes for September/October, then use the blue Contact Form box at the top of this page to contact us and we’ll confirm when we have a space available for you to join the antenatal programme. Then in the weeks/days before your group starts, we’ll make contact again to check-in with you and share some bits and bobs that might help you with logging into our online space or knowing what to expect.
If you are not yet 12 weeks into your pregnancy or know you can’t commit to many weeks in our Sept-Oct block, but you would still like to know about future pregnancy wellbeing groups which are being planned for November-December and beyond, then contact us via the contact form. and we will store your details and can share that info with you too as soon as we have it all confirmed and our timelines next align.
Our spaces are baby friendly so of course you can bring your baby with you to the group, but please understand that unfortunately for health and safety reasons we cannot have children over 1 year in attendance at our Mindful Mums sessions.
Alternatively questions about our groups can be answered by emailing mindfulmums@mindinbexley.org.uk
When everyone wants to know about the baby, but no-one asks how YOU are…
Having a baby isn’t easy at the best of times, especially with the modern-day demands of work, health and relationships, and traditional family support networks not always being an option. Our Mindful Mums wellbeing groups will help you navigate the path of new parenthood.
The Mindful Mums Wellbeing Group is a supportive, wellbeing group for mothers of babies 0-12 months old. Co-delivered by peer support volunteers and staff with their own lived experience of motherhood and mental health, the group offers emotional and wellbeing support and provides a safe space for you and your baby, where you can share experiences, ask questions or give advice, learn tips and techniques for looking after your wellbeing and connect with other new mums in your area.
In-person Drop-ins
We sometimes run in-person drop-in sessions for mums with babies and/or bumps. These are scheduled during times when our regular groups aren’t running e.g during school holidays. This page will be updated when our next drop-in support sessions are scheduled. Please keep checking back, or use the contact form to register interest in our service and be updated when drop-ins return, or you can email: mindfulmums@mindinbexley.org.uk
Online Drop in
We are temporarily pausing our regular online drop-in sessions, but if you would like to know more about the Bexley Mindful Mums service, please email: mindfulmums@mindinbexley.org.uk
This page will be updated when our next online support offer is available, so please keep checking back, or use the contact for to register interest in our service and be updated when online support returns.
Volunteer with Mindful Mums
Are you a Bexley mum with some free time and an eagerness to help other women? Perhaps you have lived experience of perinatal mental health challenges you feel you have now overcome? Can you remember how your motherhood journey began and empathise with those who are pregnant or have babies under a year?
The Mindful Mums Bexley service is opening up our next cycle of volunteer recruitment in hope of expanding our pool of volunteers in the coming months; we’re looking for local women who could help new mums build hope, confidence and resilience in themselves through attending our peer support programmes and being part of our amazing service.
We’ll be hosting 2 sessions in mid-October where you can meet members of our team to find out more about our service, plus how to apply to join us, hear what being a Mindful Mums volunteer can involve and see what volunteering your time with us can bring to your life.
Our Mindful Mums Volunteer Information sessions will run:
Tuesday 14th October from 10am till 11am using this Teams link
Thursday 16th October from 7pm till 8pm using this Teams link
Please note we will begin each meeting promptly, with a short presentation to start (same content shared at both meets) and then there will be opportunities to ask questions afterwards and request a copy of our application form.
If you have any questions about these information sessions, please email mindfulmums@mindinbexley.org.uk for further information.
Why volunteer for Mindful Mums?
- Feel like you are giving something really worthwhile back to your community.
- Many of our volunteers go on to paid employment, or use the experience to support their studies.
- Volunteering is also great for your own mental health and wellbeing.
- Other benefits of volunteering with Mindful Mums:
- Flexible – all groups are term-time and during the school day.
- Local – venues are local children’s and family centres.
- Use your own experience to help other mums – peer support is invaluable in helping new mums feel less isolated and more confident.
- You’ll be invited to attend regular events where volunteers have the opportunity to socialise and input into the project.
If you are interested in finding out more about volunteering for Mindful Mums, please email us at: mindfulmums@mindinbexley.org.uk
Mindful Mums Participant Testimonials
I don’t have a lot of family or friends around, and navigating motherhood is difficult even with support so meeting this amazing group of women really has saved me.
Mindful Mums has been life changing for me.
We frequently say how lucky we are to have met each other at Mindful Mums. There’s never any judgement and it is a safe and sacred space for us.
Mindful Mums is incredible, a beacon of light in the darkness.
For me the group has been great in terms of meeting other women who understand the particular struggles I’m facing as a mum and I feel like I’ve made some friends for life.
Even though our group programme has ended, we still keep in touch. This week a few of us from Mindful Mums met for coffee and I also met up with another Mindful Mum friend today.
I have really enjoyed this experience; I knew I would need it to start getting me out the house after the C-section birth and the timing was perfect for me to start getting about at 6 weeks post-partum. Meeting other Mums was so nice, sharing tips and ideas was really helpful and the comfortable setting felt safe to be yourself and seek help.
