We often associate collaboration with business. But in baby classes across St Albans, it takes on a far more human form. Mums are collaborating.
They are sharing advice, passing on reassurance, offering a knowing look across the room, and sometimes providing a shoulder to cry on. They’re celebrating tiny wins and holding space for hard days, often without even realising how much they’re helping one another.
At Basking Babies, we see it every week.
The quiet collaboration happening in the room
In our classes, babies come for massage, movement, and connection, but mums arrive carrying their whole week with them.
One mum might be proud because her baby slept through for the first time. Another might arrive exhausted, unsure, or overwhelmed. By the end of the session, those stories have been shared, highs and lows spoken out loud, and nods of understanding exchanged. This is collaboration in its truest form, with women supporting women.
Why mums need each other
Early motherhood can feel isolating, even when surrounded by people. Friends without babies move on with their lives, family may live faraway and suddenly, the person who understands you is another mum sitting next to you in class.
In these moments, support doesn’t look like perfection - it looks like honesty. It’s admitting that things are hard, sharing what worked and what didn’t, crying, laughing, and feeling less alone because someone else gets it.
These connections don’t happen by accident. They happen because there is space for them.
The role of baby groups in building that support
Baby groups aren’t just about development, routines, or milestones. At their best, they are safe spaces, places where mums can show up exactly as they are.
Whether it’s Basking Babies or one of the many other wonderful baby groups across the city, every class offers something special for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Each one has its own personality and strengths. What they all share is something deeply important, a space for mums to connect, feel supported and find their community. Basking Babies nurtures that connection.
Different settings, different styles, but the same underlying truth. Mums supporting mums, in rooms where they feel welcome and free from judgement.
From mums collaborating to businesses collaborating
Just as mums don’t compete with each other in these spaces, I don’t believe baby businesses should either.
No single group meets every need, just like no single mum has all the answers.
When I collaborate with beautiful local businesses like Love Montessori, Tappy Toes or Drama Tots, we’re simply reflecting what already happens in our classes - we share support, respect differences, and recognise that families benefit when we work together.
It’s not about competition. It’s about creating a stronger, more visible village for local parents.
Building a village, together
Motherhood isn’t meant to be navigated alone. When mums collaborate, communities grow stronger. When businesses collaborate, those communities become easier to find and safer to land in.
So whether you come for calm bonding, gentle movement, creativity, learning, or simply a warm cup of tea and adult conversation, know this: you’re not just attending a class. You’re stepping into a village - one built on shared experience, shared honesty, and shared care.
And that kind of collaboration changes everything.
