Gillian Wright

Gill has been a physiotherapist for over 35 years and has worked specifically in Women’s Health for 27 years in a variety of public and private hospitals and clinics.

Gill is a mentor to younger physiotherapists and physiotherapy students and loves to encourage them in their journey to be outstanding women’s health physiotherapists. She also works privately at Pelvic Strength Physiotherapy Clinic in Croydon and brings a high level of compassion and care to women during pregnancy, after birth and beyond.Her Babes on Board business partner Liana Johnson is a highly regarded pelvic floor physiotherapist who is also passionate about providing excellent care to women through their pregnancy journey and beyond.Liana is the clinical director of Pelvic Strength Physiotherapy.

Babes on Board classes have been running for over 22 years and initially started once a week to meet a need in a small maternity hospital in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. As demand and “word of mouth” have increased, the classes have increased both in size and frequency and now run in 2 locations. The demand for online classes during covid resulted in both face to face and zoom live classes -we’ve now returned to face to face options only. Gill is passionate about the classes being a safe and welcoming space so all women can exercise during this special time with professional consideration and appropriate modification offered to any issues presented during pregnancy and through the postpartum stage.These include pelvic girdle pain, pelvic organ prolapse and altered pelvic floor muscle function .

A number of other highly skilled women’s health physiotherapists are involved in running the Babes on Board classes-Laura, Rachel and Emily.They each work across the public and private hospital sectors both in inpatient and outpatient maternity services, and with significant training in running exercise classes.