Can you've a massage at home with a baby in the house?

Yes, and it's a good chunk of what I do.

The women who ring me about this have usually talked themselves out of it twice before they get as far as messaging. The house is a state. The baby might wake up. It feels like a lot of fuss.

None of that's a problem, and I'd rather say so plainly than have somebody not book.

What happens if the baby wakes up

We stop. You go and see to the baby. I sit in the kitchen and wait, and then we carry on.

It happens most weeks and it has never once been awkward. I'm not on a meter and I'm not going to look at my watch at you. If it happens three times, it happens three times, and you still get your hour.

If somebody else is in the house who can take the baby, that's easier for you, but it's genuinely not required.

The house doesn't need tidying

I need somewhere to put the bed, a plug socket and a sink. That's the whole list. I've set up in living rooms with the washing up still out and a drying rack in the corner and I haven't thought about it once since.

Nobody has ever had a house I judged. I'm there for an hour and then I'm gone, and you don't have to get in a car afterwards with your shoulders undone.

An hour is £75. Half an hour is £45 if that's all the time you've got, and for a lot of new mums half an hour is the realistic answer rather than the compromise.

If you're early on, or you had a difficult birth, or anything is still healing, tell me when you message and check with your midwife or GP. The NHS does a postnatal check at around six weeks and that's a sensible thing to have had. There's no rush at my end and I'd rather wait than have you worry about it.