Meet The Team
Marina Fogle, Co-Founder of The Bump Class
Marina is a co-founder of The Bump Class and continues to teach occasional classes in Chelsea alongside Dr Chiara Hunt. Over the years, she has supported hundreds of expectant parents, combining practical guidance with the insight and experience she has gained as a mother.
Marina has two children, Ludo and Iona. Following the stillbirth of her son Willem in 2014, she has become a passionate advocate for mothers and families, speaking and writing openly about pregnancy, loss and motherhood.
Alongside her work with The Bump Class, Marina has contributed regularly to publications including The Telegraph, The Times, Baby London and Nurture Magazine. She lives in Notting Hill with her husband, television presenter Ben Fogle, and their family.
Dr Chiara Hunt, GP & Co-Founder of The Bump Class
Dr Chiara Hunt is a GP based on Sloane Street in Knightsbridge and a co-founder of The Bump Class. She continues to teach selected medical classes on the Eight Week Antenatal Course in Chelsea, sharing her clinical expertise and practical guidance with expectant parents.
Chiara has worked on the labour wards at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, as well as in paediatrics. She cares for many young families across central London and has a particular interest in women’s health and paediatrics. She is a mother of two and lives in Notting Hill.
As Managing Director of The Bump Class, since joining the team in 2026, Bee Anais leads the strategic growth of the business, oversees partnerships and helps shape the educational experience for expectant parents across London.
With more than 15 years' experience spanning music management, commercial leadership and coaching, she has supported artists, founders and high-performing individuals through periods of growth, change and reinvention.
Having attended The Bump Class herself during her own pregnancy, she brings a unique perspective to the role. Now mum to a 20-month-old son, Bee understands first-hand the value of feeling informed, supported and connected throughout pregnancy and early parenthood.
Her professional experience, combined with lived experience of motherhood, has sparked a growing interest in Matrescence and how antenatal education can better prepare parents not only for the arrival of a baby, but for the transformation that becoming a parent brings.
“We spend months preparing for the arrival of a baby, but rarely prepare for the arrival of a new version of ourselves. It's a privilege to support women through that journey and to play a small part in the experience of every family who attends The Bump Class.”
Bee Anais, MD of The Bump Class
Kira West, Client Experience & Ops Consultant
Kira is a global brand marketer, community builder, and mum. After taking The Bump Class herself in the autumn of 2025, she experienced firsthand the confidence, connection, and support it provides to new parents. Today, she combines her passion for creating meaningful experiences with her expertise in building communities to help ensure every family feels welcomed, supported, and cared for throughout their journey with The Bump Class. Outside of work, Kira loves strength training, running, travelling, and sharing the realities of motherhood and wellness with her online community.
Ali Lineham, Midwife
Ali has over 20 years of midwifery experience, including more than 13 years working in a leading private maternity unit. She is passionate about supporting women and their families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period. For the past three years, she has also been a specialist teacher at The Bump Class, helping parents feel informed, confident, and well prepared for their journey into parenthood.
Alongside her work at The Bump Class, Ali runs The Postnatal Package, a private postnatal midwifery service providing personalised home visits and ongoing support for mothers and babies throughout the fourth trimester. Her focus on continuity of care offers families reassurance, expert guidance, and a familiar point of contact, both at home and over the phone, during one of life’s biggest transitions.
Over the years, Ali has cared for many women from The Bump Class community and, on occasion, has even had the privilege of delivering Bump Class babies.
Cait Jefferson, Midwife
Cait is a midwife and women’s health sonographer specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. She has worked as a midwife since 2013, gaining extensive experience across all areas of maternity care, particularly on the labour ward and in maternity triage.
Alongside her midwifery work, Cait qualified in medical ultrasound and also works as an obstetric sonographer, supporting women throughout pregnancy with both clinical care and specialist scanning.
Cait has taught with The Bump Class since 2019 and is passionate about sharing clear, practical and evidence-based information to help women feel informed, confident and prepared for birth. On returning from maternity leave, she will begin a new role as a Pelvic Health Midwife, undertaking further specialist training in the assessment and support of pelvic floor dysfunction.
As both a healthcare professional and a mother, Cait brings warmth, reassurance and a wealth of practical experience to her teaching.
Qualifications:
Registered midwife with the UK NMC
Registered NLS (Newborn Life Support) instructor with the UK Resus Council
Trained PMA (Professional Midwifery Advocate)
Trained NIPE midwife (Neonatal and Infant Physical Examination)
Trained Hypnobirthing and Aromatherapy instructor
MSc in Midwifery with Distinction 2025
Megan qualified as a midwife in 2018, following a previous career in editorial and journalism. She now works as a midwife at St Georges Hospital in London and is experienced across all areas of maternity including previously working as a caseloading midwife
providing continuity of care to women throughout pregnancy and birth. Her passion and where she currently works is on the midwife led Birth Centre, and she also has a role in training and development within the maternity unit, especially with junior midwives.
Megan has formerly travelled to the remote, mountainous, jungle of Chin State, Burma with the charity Health & Hope to work in a volunteer role upskilling and educating the Traditional Birth Attendants in key midwifery skills. She is also qualified as an NLS
instructor with the UK Resus Council and a Hypnobirthing practitioner. She has a real passion for antenatal education and helping to prepare women and couples for their journey through pregnancy and into parenthood. Outside of midwifery Megan loves hiking, wild swimming, skiing and generally embracing the outdoors and travel.
“What I love about teaching with the Bump Class: Empowering women with knowledge and information so that they can approach this next chapter of their lives feeling enlightened and confident.”
Megan Jenkins, Midwife
Dr Charlotte Mildmay-White, GP
Dr Charlotte Mildmay-White is an NHS doctor specialising in women’s health. She hosts and teaches the Eight Week Antenatal Course in Holland Park, supporting participants throughout the course and helping them feel informed, confident and prepared for birth and early parenthood. She also continues to teach selected Partner Evenings alongside her husband, who is also a GP.
Charlotte spent several years working in obstetrics and gynaecology, caring for women throughout pregnancy, labour and birth, before moving into general practice. Her clinical interests include postnatal recovery, maternal wellbeing, birth trauma, contraception, menopause care and sexual health. Having delivered many babies both vaginally and by caesarean section, she brings extensive clinical knowledge and practical, first-hand experience of birth in all its forms.
Charlotte is passionate about providing clear, evidence-based and accessible information, while ensuring that every family feels supported and respected in the choices they make.
She is also a mother of two and has experienced her own journey through birth choices, pregnancy loss, neonatal intensive care and the realities of motherhood. These experiences have shaped her perspective as both a doctor and a parent, reinforcing her belief that every family deserves compassionate, non-judgemental support throughout pregnancy, birth and the transition to parenthood.
Fran Smith, Family Psychologist
Fran teaches our 'The Next Bump Class' alongside Jo Hooper. She is a Counselling Psychologist and has over 15 years of experience in the field. She is a therapist, trainer, researcher, lecturer, supervisor and author. In her academic and clinical work Fran specialises in supporting individuals, couples and families through adjustment to change and life transitions. Fran’s clinical practice offers one to one and couples’ therapy in her rooms in Marylebone and online (it’s not always easy to get to appointments with a baby!). Fran is passionate about supporting parents in the adjustment to life with children and has three young children herself.
“I love meeting parents at this time of enormous transition. The early months of parenthood are filled with profound change and it’s a real honour to support women and couples as they navigate this new chapter.”
Lucy Burrows, Physio
Alongside working at The Bump Class Lucy is a Specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapist and has worked for Six Physio in Parsons Green since 2016. Lucy enjoys facilitating recovery of pre- and post-natal ladies to get them back to doing what they love to do! Lucy also works as part of a breast service for post-natal ladies and takes bespoke equipment-based Pilates classes, certified with the APPI.
Prior to life in London, Lucy worked in private clinics and hospitals in Australia where she had the opportunity to work alongside some of Australia’s outstanding Women’s Health physios.
When not at work Lucy enjoys any activity outside! Tennis, hiking, horse riding and scuba diving to name a few. You will often see her in Richmond Park running with her pal Darcy Dog.
Geraldine Miskin, Breastfeeding Specialist
Geraldine is a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist who has been running a successful private practice in London since 2003. Geraldine’s unique approach to breastfeeding focusses primarily on the practical elements of breastfeeding, enabling mums to find breastfeeding solutions, according to their unique anatomy, physiology, delivery and lifestyle choices. Her unbiased, non-judgemental approach ensures mothers find a solution which best suits them.
Geraldine’s book, Breastfeeding Made Easy, is the first full-colour, clearly illustrated, step-by-step breastfeeding book that illustrated how breastfeeding can be accessible, even easy, for all.
Jo Hooper, Midwife
Jo is a midwife working at Kingston Hospital. She has experience in all areas of midwifery and currently working in the community and on the hospital labour ward. She is passionate about caring for women in all birth settings as well as helping them adjust to life with a newborn once they are home. She has three young children and lives in Surrey.
Alexa is a highly experienced physiotherapist with more than ten years in practice and a specialist focus on pelvic health. She teaches pelvic health and pelvic floor education with The Bump Class, sharing clear, evidence-based guidance to help women feel informed and supported throughout pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery.
Her areas of expertise include pregnancy and postnatal rehabilitation, chronic pelvic pain, menopause-related concerns and men’s pelvic health, including erectile dysfunction and rehabilitation following prostate surgery. She has completed extensive postgraduate training through the Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy organisation, alongside the Mummy MOT certification, specialist men’s health training and an APPI Pilates qualification.
As Pelvic Health Development Lead at Six Physio, Alexa oversees and supports the pelvic health team across 14 clinics nationwide. She is passionate about compassionate, patient-centred care that improves quality of life, with an emphasis on prevention, long-term wellbeing and sustainable movement rather than symptom relief alone.
Alexa also teaches Reformer Pilates and incorporates movement-based approaches into her clinical work, particularly when supporting antenatal and postnatal clients. She has worked closely with The Bump Class for several years and brings both clinical expertise and practical insight to her teaching.
She is also a mother to her daughter, Carlotta, an experience that has further deepened her understanding of pregnancy, postnatal recovery and early motherhood.
Alexa Jovanovic, Physiotherapist (Six Physio)
Alexandra, First Aid Trainer
Alexandra has educated (and entertained) The Bump Class from the beginning. She has a wealth of experience in Accident & Emergency, Paediatrics and Educational nursing. She is also an instructor on the Advanced Life Support courses (ALS, APLS, EPLS, ILS, PLS and GIC). Alexandra has worked in most major London Teaching Hospitals Emergency Departments, from the most junior nurse up the dizzying heights of management but her heart has always been in clinical work. She is currently working as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in South London. She also works in Sports Medicine; working at RFU Twickenham, the Tough Mudder obstacle courses and was Nurse for Team England at the Commonwealth Games Gold Coast 2018. Her keen sense of humour and presence allowing those who she trains to relax, enjoy and get the very best out of first aid training. In her down time she loves to go to the ballet (and dreams of being able to touch her toes!).
Karina Murphy, Physiotherapist (Six Physio)
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Hayley Lord, Physio
Alongside teaching at The Bump Class, Hayley heads up the team at Six Physio Parsons Green. She is part of the fabulous Women's Health service there supporting and treating pregnant and postnatal ladies. She focuses on educating and empowering women to resolve common niggles that are too often normalised during or post pregnancy.
Having previously worked in the NHS - including the Lindo wing at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington - she has a wealth of knowledge. She has various post graduate qualifications including strength & conditioning, acupuncture and is a trained Pilates instructor.
Hayley is passionate about exercise and wellbeing at all stages of life. Outside of work, she can be found cycling, running, yoga-ing at her beloved functional fitness gym in SW London.
Dr Hugh Coyne, GP
Hugh teaches our Partner's Evening class in Parsons Green. As a father to two young girls, he is particularly interested in child and family health. Hugh is also passionate about sports medicine and using fitness for health promotion. After graduating in Medicine from Imperial College London, Hugh gained the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and a postgraduate Diploma in Child Health from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Hugh runs Coyne Medical practice in Fulham with his wife Dr Lucy Hooper.
Outside of work, Hugh provides specialist medical support to the Irish Exiles Rugby Team and enjoys cycling and tennis.
Dr Lucy Coyne, GP
Dr Lucy is GP at Coyne Medical, a private GP practice in Parsons Green. Having been at Medical School with Chiara, Lucy has worked in the labour ward and paediatric department at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. In her practice she loves seeing mums and newborns, particularly those who she’s met previously on The Bump Class. She has plenty of personal experience as a busy mum of two young girls and lives locally to her practice in Fulham.
Dr Sarah Zimmerman, GP
Sarah is a GP and mother of two little boys. She works part of her week as a private GP at Sloane Street Surgery alongside Chiara Hunt and part of her week at an NHS practice in Camden. She undertook a diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology after enjoying her hospital training post in the field. Sarah feels she can relate well to new parents due to her own recent personal experiences and really enjoys being part of a family's journey from pregnancy to parenthood. She lives with her family in Queen's Park.