Where we began

In 1998 Nigel Phillips was working as a Personal Fitness Consultant, teamed up with the Midwives at the Wessex maternity centre in Hampshire and formed the Wessex Workouts – due to the demand for women having and wanting safe structured exercise classes to maintain their fitness in pregnancy and beyond. This then became BabyFit UK.

In 2003 BabyFit UK then teamed up with Debbie Howells, Ante / Post natal exercise specialist and Midwife. Debbie is registered with Guild of Post Natal Exercise Teachers and also course tutor for Aquafusion (part of Northern Fitness and Education). She had been running aqua classes and researching the area of exercise in pregnancy/ post natal for several years and was keen to expand and run these unique, specific, specialist babyfit uk courses in her area.

The classes are growing, expanding and have achieved amazing success, fitness and friendship amongst pregnant/ post natal mums.

"Listening to our new mums we discovered that many of them wanted to started exercising again but were unsure when, or how to go about it. After talking to Nigel we now have a unique and very popular class to get mums back into shape and baby relaxed and smiling. The key is the specially adapted exercises which take into account the very elastic nature of new mums tendons and ligaments after birth whilst at the same time gets mums and babies working closely together"
Kate Walmsley, Director of Midwifery, Former Wessex maternity centre