About Calm-a-Baby

Calm-a-Baby was established in 2002 and is the leading company for parent education of its kind in Peterborough and the surrounding areas.

Calm-a-Baby is owned and run by Alison Duff. Alison is a mother, has been a masseuse since 1994 and qualified as a baby massage teacher with the International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) in 2001. After a year of teaching parents how to massage their babies and seeing the difference it made to them, she decided to dedicate herself to the field of parent education on a fulltime basis.

The introduction of IAIM teacher training courses began in 2004 and Birthlight baby yoga teacher training courses in 2008. These courses run several times a year all over the UK and hundreds of students from all over the world including: Hong Kong, Denmark and Australia have qualified to be baby massage and yoga teachers through Calm-a-Baby.

In May 2005, Alison began her foundation training course for a certificate in baby yoga and completed the full Birthlight Baby Yoga Diploma in January 2006, whilst pregnant with her son who arrived shortly after.

The Birthlight Baby Swimming Certificate and STA Parent and Child qualifications were completed between October 2006 and November 2008. Alison has taught over 4,000 parents in various different classes and continues to introduce new and exciting services, most recently the addition of prenatal services, baby lifesaving and baby wearing workshops.

She recently undertook the Birthlight Aqua Yoga Diploma training and was successful in attaining the first part of this new qualification.

Due to the growth and popularity of the classes Alison decided to share her vision and introduced new teachers and associates in 2009: Sarah Zamorski, who is a doula, a baby massage teacher and a mother of three children. Sally Lomas who is mother of four, a Birthlight tutor and teacher of baby massage, yoga, aqua yoga, swimming and birth preparation. Gaia Morandi, mother of two, a translator and a baby wearing expert. And Julie Bickerton, mother of one and qualified in pregnancy massage, baby massage and baby swimming as well as several other massage techniques.

We all look forward to welcoming you to our classes, see you soon!