Programme structure

Three antenatal one-to-one sessions and three postnatal sessions, timed around the birth (with a pause around your due date), plus weekly community drop-ins. Postnatal support available up to 24 months after birth.

What's inside

Food guidance for pregnancy and breastfeeding, gentle physical activity, emotional health and identity, sleep and stress, weaning and infant feeding, and signposting into local services. This is not a time to diet — the programme is explicit about that.

How it's delivered

One-to-one with a specialist practitioner, face-to-face or online, alongside local midwifery care. Referral via your midwife or GP, or refer yourself. Translation services available.

Who delivers it

Specialist maternal healthy lifestyle practitioners working alongside local midwifery teams.

Patient journey

• Refer yourself (a short form) or ask your midwife or GP
• Your first session, wherever suits you
• Three sessions before baby arrives
• A pause — you've got enough on
• Three postnatal sessions plus weekly drop-ins, whenever you're ready

No. The ideal start is early pregnancy, but you can join at any point.

The programme doesn't put you on a diet. It supports healthy habits through pregnancy, designed with midwives and delivered alongside your maternity care.

Yes — postnatal sessions and drop-ins are baby-welcome.

4–17, with content adapted by age group. Junior PARS (Greater Manchester) runs for ages 5–17.

Tell us at referral — sessions adapt, and our specialist dietitians support selective eating and sensory needs.

Yes — what's shared in the group stays there, and your data is handled under NHS information governance standards.

Maintenance support: the app, drop-ins, and check-ins. Weight management is a long game and we don't disappear at week 12.