Welcoming a new life into the world is a monumental and empowering experience, and creating a birth plan or writing down your birth preferences can be a valuable tool in ensuring that your birthing experience aligns with your preferences and desires. As expectant parents, it’s natural to feel a mix of excitement and anxiety aboutContinueContinue reading “Navigating your childbirth journey: Using the Circle of Control to Write Your Birth Plan”
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Navigating Stress in Pregnancy: Understanding the Sympathetic Nervous System
Navigating stress in pregnancy: Understanding the Sympathetic Nervous System. How to spot the signs of stress and how to combat stress during our pregnancy. Your pregnancy is a beautiful and transformative journey for many women, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges and stressors. Stress during pregnancy is not uncommon and canContinueContinue reading “Navigating Stress in Pregnancy: Understanding the Sympathetic Nervous System”
Umbilical Cord Ties or Clamps what do you prefer?
In the process of giving birth, even the smallest things are important, like how the umbilical cord is managed after the baby is born. Lately, there has been more interest in using umbilical cord ties instead of the plastic clamps that doctors have been using for a long time. Umbilical Cord Clamps Umbilical cord clampsContinueContinue reading “Umbilical Cord Ties or Clamps what do you prefer?”
When to do a hypnobirthing class?
What is hypnobirthing? When to do a hypnobirthing class? What are the benefits of hypnobirthing? What is hypnobirthing? Hypnobirthing is a type of childbirth education. It focuses on relaxation techniques and self-hypnosis to help expectant mothers experience a more calm and comfortable birth. In addition to that, hypnobirthing, especially Mindful Hypnobirthing can help you dealContinueContinue reading “When to do a hypnobirthing class?”
Floppy Face Floppy Fanny
“Floppy Face Floppy Fanny” a magic technique to make childbirth easier, more enjoyable and reduces tearing. How? During childbirth, the process of delivering a baby can be both physically and emotionally intense for the expecting mother. It is natural to feel some level of fear, tension, or discomfort during this journey. However, there is anContinueContinue reading “Floppy Face Floppy Fanny”
Free Pregnancy Checklist
You are pregnant! Congratulations. Now is the time to get organised. This pregnancy checklist is a gentle reminder of your options, recommendations and appointments… WhatWhenThe recommendation is to start taking Folic Acid and Vitamin D supplementsAs soon as you found out that you are pregnantRegister with your community midwife. Check with your GP surgery onContinueContinue reading “Free Pregnancy Checklist”
Top 9 Childbirth Affirmations
Before I share my personal top 9 childbirth affirmations, I’d like to explain a little bit more about them. What are affirmations? Affirmations, aka positive affirmations, are phrases that you repeat to yourself over and over again to change your mindset. You can say them out loud our in your head. Receive them as partContinueContinue reading “Top 9 Childbirth Affirmations”
Birth Partner Do’s and Don’ts
You are going to be a birth partner? Here are some Birth Partner Do’s and Don’ts! Well do’s really. You’ll get the don’ts from looking at them! To be a supportive, confident and well-informed birth partner try the following: Attending childbirth preparation classes with your partner will help with your understanding of what is going on andContinueContinue reading “Birth Partner Do’s and Don’ts”
Informed decision-making for birth
Why is Informed decision-making for birth so important? Often, pregnancy is a woman’s or pregnant person’s first significant introduction to the healthcare system. Suddenly, you have to make all sorts of decisions for you, your baby and your family unit. You’ll be faced with difficult choices around your healthcare during your pregnancy and birth. OftenContinueContinue reading “Informed decision-making for birth”
Your Birth Plan
Your birth plan or better birth preferences can be an important part of your journey into parenthood. You may have heard people talking about their birth plan going out of the window or saying it is not worth writing one… In my opinion, as a doula and mother of 4, it is worth thinking aboutContinueContinue reading “Your Birth Plan”