Vibrant Health Advocates – Aureon runs weekly postnatal support circles in Grangemouth, offering new mothers a warm, trusted space to protect their mental and physical health, ease isolation, and feel genuinely confident in the early months of parenthood.
We work alongside NHS Forth Valley's perinatal services and the Falkirk Council health visiting team to make sure every new mother in this town has someone she can turn to — every week, not just at appointments.
Becoming a mother is one of the most transformative experiences of a woman's life — and in a busy industrial town like Grangemouth, that transformation can feel startlingly lonely.
Vibrant Health Advocates – Aureon was built precisely for this community, by people who understand it from the inside. Every week we bring together new mothers at different stages of the postnatal journey: some just weeks out of the maternity unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, others navigating the slow return to work, all of them discovering that the practical and emotional weight of early parenthood is easier to carry when you are not carrying it alone.
We provide evidence-based wellbeing information in plain, honest language; we create safe, non-judgemental circles where real questions get real answers; and we work alongside NHS Forth Valley's perinatal services to make sure no mother in this town falls through the gaps between appointments.
Learn our storyOur programmes are small, consistent, and grounded in what Grangemouth's new mothers have told us they actually need.
Weekly facilitated gatherings where new mothers share experiences, ask questions freely, and build lasting friendships with women who genuinely understand. Our circles are small enough to feel intimate and consistent enough to build the kind of trust that changes things.
Find out moreFrom infant feeding and sleep to postnatal mental health and pelvic floor recovery, we translate the evidence into clear, compassionate guidance rooted in current NHS Scotland and SIGN recommendations. Mothers leave knowing what is normal, what to watch for, and exactly who to call.
Find out moreGrangemouth's shift-work culture means many new mothers spend long stretches alone at home with a newborn. Our trained volunteer befrienders visit, listen, and bridge isolated mums into the wider Aureon community.
Find out moreAureon's origins lie in a conversation in the car park of a Grangemouth community centre. Two local mothers comparing notes on what had helped and what had not — and realising that the most valuable thing had always been other women.
Every development here has followed the same logic: listen carefully to the women in front of you, and let their lives shape what you do.
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