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Should Dad’s be allowed to catch their babies?Your Birth, Your way #Hypnobirthing #Bumpstobabbas
So this month has been incredibly busy for me from moving house to preparing the nursery. But the biggest achievement for me personally was getting published in this month’s MIDIRS for a subject I feel highly passionate about. As a hypnobirthing teacher I believe that parents should have the best possible birth, their way…
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The Loneliness and excitement of early pregnancy
The first symptoms of pregnancy are completely exciting. They fill you with this reassurance of hope that things are going well – that you really are pregnant and that peeing on a stick and having a positive result means nothing in comparison. But as time goes on, the pregnancy symptoms can make you feel like…
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The Postnatal bits people forget to tell you
So the baby is born, he/she is in your arms and you are wondering about the miracle of life and how this baby ever grew and lived inside you for this long. Not long after you birth the placenta – the tree of life and the many things that people forget to tell you about…
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Right’s and Wrong’s
I facilitated a parent craft class last week and what hit home the most was a comment from one Mum to be. She was most worried about making ‘the wrong choices’ in labour and following birth. My heart went out to her but I know hand on heart that she isn’t alone in this feeling.…