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Suffolk Woman's Wellness NHS Midwife Woman's Health Practitioner. Massage, Scar Therapy, Core Pelvic Floor Recovery, Exercise My drive has always been to care. Nina x
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Hello and welcome to my page, a place where I aim to keep you informed about what is happening and how I can help you in your health and wellness. I feel that women are exceptional in what they achieve and how they can make a positive difference to everyone around them, when they are feeling empowered and in control of their lives. I feel that the groundwork of happiness is health, and that is why I am committed to supporting women physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually through the feminine life’s cycles. My philosophy for caring for women during pre-conception, pregnancy, postnatally and through the menopause is that:
I care about the mental and emotional health of women. I hold the space for the women I support. I show kindness and compassion to women in my health community. I transform live using simple solutions that create powerful change. I create nurturing environments in which women feel safe to share and express themselves freely. I love to learn and grow from each other through constructive peer support. I embrace a supportive and collaborative community. I offer a wide range of massage therapies, fitness courses, classes, and workshops. Check out the website to find out more. www.swwcuk.com I hope to meet you soon.

A little nourishment for the chapter you’re in 💚I’m so pleased to share something I have been working on over the summer...
29/09/2026

A little nourishment for the chapter you’re in 💚

I’m so pleased to share something I have been working on over the summer. My four Nourish & Nurture guides have been created to help you turn “I know I need to look after myself” into simple, everyday choices.

When life is full and nutrition advice feels overwhelming, having practical ideas in one place can make feeding yourself well feel so much easier.

🌿 Pre-conception
Preparing for pregnancy? Explore ways to nourish yourself as you get ready for this next chapter, with practical food choices to support your nutritional needs.

🌿 Pregnancy
Nourishment for you and your growing baby. Feel more confident about everyday food choices and find manageable ways to eat well as your needs change.

🌿 Postnatal
Some care for you while you care for your baby. Discover nourishing ideas to support recovery and make feeding yourself easier through busy days and broken nights.

🌿 Menopause
Nourish yourself through perimenopause, menopause and beyond, with practical guidance on eating to support your bones, muscles and longer-term wellbeing.

Each guide brings together clear explanations, nutritional tips and everyday inspiration to help you put your own wellbeing on the menu.

✨ Introductory offer: 25% off
Usually £8 each — just £6 each until 1st October.

📩 Your downloadable guide will be delivered by email after purchase, ready to save and return to whenever you need a little inspiration.

Choose the guide for your chapter at this link here:

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=13384105&category=Products

and give yourself something useful to come back to, meal after meal.

With love,
Nina x

Have you had a baby in the last year and feel uncertain about what you are able to do or want the all clear before you r...
27/09/2026

Have you had a baby in the last year and feel uncertain about what you are able to do or want the all clear before you resume your usual workouts, active lifestyle?

Then a Postnatal Mummy MOT is the perfect solution.

If you are currently pregnant and would like to book in your comprehensive postnatal check then please get in touch for bookings [email protected]

The postnatal check that you deserve.

Do you ever feel as though your body is still holding everything, even when your mind says, “I’m fine”?Perhaps you…🌿 str...
22/09/2026

Do you ever feel as though your body is still holding everything, even when your mind says, “I’m fine”?

Perhaps you…

🌿 struggle to truly switch off
🌿 carry tension in your jaw, shoulders, hips or pelvic floor
🌿 feel restless, irritable or easily overwhelmed
🌿 wake feeling tired, however much you sleep
🌿 notice yourself holding your breath or constantly bracing
🌿 keep pushing through because other people need you
🌿 know you need to slow down, but don’t quite know how

Sometimes talking and thinking are not enough. Our bodies need their own opportunity to soften, unwind and feel safe again.

TRE®—Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises

This modality uses a gentle sequence of movements to invite the body’s natural tremoring response. You remain in control throughout, learning how to listen to your body, regulate the intensity and allow deeply held muscular tension to begin to ease.

You do not need to have experienced a significant trauma to benefit. Life itself can be a lot: work, motherhood, caring for others, hormonal changes, illness, grief, responsibility and years of simply carrying on.

You are worthy of the same time, care and attention that you so readily give to everyone else.

You are worth investing in, not because you need fixing, but because your body deserves to feel supported. You deserve space to pause, breathe and reconnect with yourself before you reach complete exhaustion.

During this two-hour, women-only workshop, you’ll be gently guided through the TRE process in a small, welcoming and supportive space. You’ll leave with a practical, body-based tool that you can continue to use to support your nervous system and wellbeing beyond the workshop.

My next Beginners’ TRE Workshop is now open for booking:

✨ Women only
✨ Saturday 7th November 2026 3-5pm
✨ Two-hour workshop
✨ Investment: £45
✨ No previous experience needed

You do not have to wait until you are completely depleted before giving your body some support.

Perhaps what you need is not to try harder, but to give your body permission to let go.

Places are limited. 💗Book using the link in Bio or here https://swwc.as.me/tregroupworkshop

A little “hello” from me… and a few things you probably don’t know. 💗I’m Nina — a women’s health practitioner, midwife, ...
18/09/2026

A little “hello” from me… and a few things you probably don’t know. 💗

I’m Nina — a women’s health practitioner, midwife, holistic therapist, movement teacher and antenatal educator, and most of my working life has revolved around supporting women through pregnancy, birth, recovery, hormones, pelvic health, movement and all the beautifully messy bits in between.

But away from the treatment room and studio…

I moved to Suffolk when I was 9 — which probably explains why I never quite acquired the Suffolk accent! 😂

A lot of my formative teenage years were actually spent in North Norfolk, where I learnt to drive, had my first serious relationship and made plenty of memories.

When I went to London to study for my degree, I lived for FOUR YEARS in the tiniest little room in the grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital — literally opposite Big Ben. 🇬🇧

And when I later worked as a midwife, one of the surgeries I worked from was actually on Lambeth Walk. 🎶

One of the best adventures of my life was travelling with one of my besties around the entire eastern side of Australia over five weeks. Proper girly road trip, ridiculous amounts of laughing, and still one of my favourite memories ever. 🇦🇺

I LOVE dancing and if you put on 90s music, there is a very good chance I’m going to know every word. 😂

I’ve been to Ibiza FIVE times — and somehow managed to experience it as a single woman, in a couple, married AND pregnant. I feel like that deserves some sort of achievement badge. 😂☀️

I’ve also been married twice — life definitely hasn’t followed one neat little straight line.

And perhaps the thing I’m most grateful for is that reaching my 50s has felt less like getting older and more like finally coming home to myself.

I understand myself more.
I trust myself more.
I care far less about fitting into somebody else’s version of who I should be.

And I think that whole life journey — the relationships, the motherhood, the career changes, the mistakes, the adventures and the growing — is probably a huge part of why I love working with women so much.

Because none of us are just one thing. 💗

So… that’s a little bit about the woman behind Suffolk Woman’s Wellness Centre.

Now tell me one completely random thing about YOU that I wouldn’t know… 👇😂

✨ NEW FOR JANUARY — POSTNATAL PILATES ✨Please share, share, share Reconnect • Rebuild • StrengthenHaving a baby changes ...
16/09/2026

✨ NEW FOR JANUARY — POSTNATAL PILATES ✨Please share, share, share

Reconnect • Rebuild • Strengthen

Having a baby changes your body — and postnatal recovery is about much more than trying to “close the gap” in your abdominal muscles.

It’s about how your body functions now.

How you breathe.
How you manage pressure.
How your core and pelvic floor work together.
How you move, lift, carry and gradually rebuild strength.

My new Postnatal Pilates class is designed to help women rebuild those foundations after pregnancy and birth, so you can feel stronger, more connected to your body and more confident returning to the things you love.

We’ll focus on:

✨ Core and pelvic floor rehabilitation
✨ Breathing and effective muscle engagement
✨ Reconnecting with your abdominal muscles
✨ Progressive whole-body strength
✨ Posture, mobility and movement
✨ Building confidence in your body

One thing I really want women to understand is that the size of an abdominal separation does not tell the whole story.

Rather than becoming fixated on how many fingers your abdominal gap measures, we’ll focus on something far more useful:

How well your abdominal wall functions.

Can you breathe freely while you move?
Can you create support when you need it?
Can your pelvic floor respond appropriately?
Can you manage load and pressure without pain, leaking, heaviness or excessive doming?

These are the foundations we can build on.

💗 POSTNATAL PILATES

📅 Starts Wednesday 6th January
⏰ 10–11am
📍 Sproughton Church Hall

👶 Babies very welcome

Suitable for women in their postnatal recovery and up to around 18 months after birth.

Book individual sessions, or block book six sessions to use over six weeks and save.

📆 Booking opens in early December

Spaces will be limited, so pop the date in your diary now.

This is about understanding and supporting the body you have now, rebuilding your foundations so you feel strong, capable and confident in motherhood and beyond. Love, Nina x

I had a conversation recently in clinic that made me think about something we don't talk about nearly enough. Every mont...
12/09/2026

I had a conversation recently in clinic that made me think about something we don't talk about nearly enough. Every month, around menstruation, some women describe feeling almost flu-like:

✨ overwhelming fatigue
✨ feeling hot or feverish
✨ aching or generally unwell
✨ headaches
✨ digestive changes
✨ itchy throat, skin or other allergy-type symptoms
✨ a feeling that their immune system has suddenly gone into overdrive

And then, as that part of their cycle passes, it settles again. So could hormones be involved? Potentially, yes.

Oestrogen and progesterone fluctuate considerably across the menstrual cycle, while inflammatory chemicals such as prostaglandins increase around menstruation. There is also an interesting relationship between reproductive hormones, histamine and mast cells, the immune cells involved in allergic and inflammatory responses.

For some women, the issue may therefore not be that they are genuinely “catching something” every month, but that hormonal changes are triggering or amplifying an inflammatory or histamine-type response. You might hear the informal term period flu, although it isn't a medical diagnosis.

What's fascinating is that we don't actually have a reliable figure for how many women experience this particular pattern. PMS and menstrual symptoms themselves are incredibly common, but cycle-related histamine-type symptoms haven't been studied well enough.

Women can spend years being told that seemingly unrelated symptoms , fatigue, headaches, digestive issues, feeling feverish, itching or just feeling dreadful are separate problems, without anyone asking Does this happen at the same point in your menstrual cycle every month? Keeping a symptom and cycle diary for 2–3 months can be incredibly useful.

And importantly, recurrent symptoms shouldn't automatically be blamed on hormones. Persistent fever, significant throat swelling, breathing difficulties, severe pain or feeling genuinely medically unwell always deserve proper assessment.

Our hormones don't work in isolation, they communicate with our nervous system, immune system, gut and the rest of our body. Sometimes joining those dots changes everything. love, Nina x

Can supplements really “balance your hormones”?“Hormone balancing” is everywhere now. Powders, gummies, herbs, menopause...
08/09/2026

Can supplements really “balance your hormones”?

“Hormone balancing” is everywhere now. Powders, gummies, herbs, menopause blends, fertility supplements and “adrenal support” products all promising to bring the body back into balance.

But hormones do not really work like that.

Some supplements can genuinely influence hormone pathways, which is why “natural” does not automatically mean harmless.

Ashwagandha is often used for stress and cortisol support, but it may also affect thyroid hormones in some people.

Iodine and kelp can support thyroid hormone production, but too much can actually disrupt thyroid function.

DHEA is even more interesting because it is not simply a vitamin. It is a hormone precursor that can be converted into androgens and oestrogens in the body.

Red clover and concentrated soy isoflavones contain phytoestrogens, which can interact with oestrogen receptors, while Vitex, or chasteberry, may influence dopamine and prolactin pathways and therefore affect menstrual cycles.

That does not mean these supplements are “bad”. It means they are biologically active.

The problem comes when we start taking several products because we feel our hormones must be “out of balance”, without really knowing what we are trying to treat.

Fatigue, poor sleep, anxiety, weight changes, irregular periods, hair loss, low libido and mood changes can all have many different causes.

Supplements absolutely have a place, particularly where there is a genuine deficiency or clear clinical reason for using them.

But before buying something that promises to “balance cortisol”, “boost progesterone” or “detox oestrogen”, it is worth asking:

What am I actually trying to change, and do I know that this is really the problem?

Because hormones are a complex communication system, not something we can simply “rebalance” with a supplement. Love, Nina xx

How TRE can heal unconscious patterns of stress, tension and trauma.Sometimes the body is protecting us before we even r...
08/09/2026

How TRE can heal unconscious patterns of stress, tension and trauma.

Sometimes the body is protecting us before we even realise it.

I was reminded of this recently while working with a woman who had scar sensitivity. She could touch her own scar with very little discomfort, but when I touched the same area, using a very similar pressure, her body responded differently.

Pain and sensitivity are not always just about the tissue itself. Of course scar tissue, fascial restriction, pelvic floor tension, hormonal changes and local sensitivity can all play a part, but sometimes the nervous system has also learned to become protective.

And when the nervous system anticipates threat, the body can respond incredibly quickly.

The breath can become shallow.
The abdomen can brace.
The pelvic floor can tighten.
Touch can feel more intense.
S*x can feel uncomfortable or painful.
The body may seem to “close down” even when mentally you feel safe and want to relax.

This does not mean the pain is imagined. Quite the opposite. It means the body is doing exactly what it believes it needs to do to protect you.

For some women, this protective pattern can develop after surgery, birth trauma, painful examinations, difficult sexual experiences, ongoing pelvic pain or simply after months or years of expecting something to hurt.

This is one of the reasons I find nervous system work so valuable alongside hands-on treatment.

TRE® is one tool I use that may help some women gently release held tension through the body’s natural tremoring response. The aim is not to force the body to relax or push through discomfort, but to give the nervous system repeated experiences of safety, choice and control.

Sometimes healing is not only about changing the scar or relaxing the muscles.

Sometimes it is also about helping the body slowly learn:

I am safe here now.
I can soften.
I can let go.
I can trust my body again.

And that can be such an important part of recovery. Dates to follow for my next workshop.

Love Nina xx

We’re back!After the summer break, classes resume from Saturday 5th September and I’m really looking forward to seeing e...
06/09/2026

We’re back!

After the summer break, classes resume from Saturday 5th September and I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Whether you’ve been coming for years, you’ve had a little break, or you’re thinking about joining for the first time, you are so welcome. These classes are about so much more than exercise, they’re a chance to move your body, build strength, improve mobility, switch off from everything else for a while and enjoy being part of a friendly group of women.

Our September to December timetable is:

Saturday
Body Conditioning 8.00–8.45am
Stretch & Relax 8.45–9.45am

Monday
Barre 6.45–7.30pm
Pilates 7.30–8.30pm

Tuesday
Pregnancy Pilates 6.30–7.30pm

All classes are suitable for different abilities, and beginners are always welcome. You don’t need to be “fit enough” before you come, you just come as you are and build from there.

Classes are held at Sproughton Church Hall, Lower Road, IP8 3AS.

Booking is online at www.ninaparnham.com

I can’t wait to get moving with you again
Nina xx

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Fen View Washbrook
Ipswich
IP83EU

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 9:30pm
Wednesday 7pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 9am - 9:45pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+447985220333

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