Article Category - "Pregnancy, New Mums & Babies"
Preparing for Birth : Positive Birth Workshop for Partners
The birth of your baby is one of the most important moments of your life!
Prep for birth and make sure you and your partner are fully prepared and informed with our one-day, antenatal workshop.
This comprehensive antenatal course will pass on years of wisdom and experience and give a practical toolkit of techniques to mothers and their birth partners.
You Will LearnUnderstanding the different stages of labour and their hallmarks
Labouring at home safely and comfortably
When is the right time to go to the hospital
Being a useful and calming birthing partner
Finding comfort and calm during labour and birth
Positions and breathing for all stages of labour and birth
What to expect in the hospital
How to reduce medical intervention and keep labour progressing
Protecting your perineum
Making informed choices in birth and feeling empowered during all stages
Included: 1 free prenatal yoga class – bring a partner to the workshop for free.… Read more
Creating an Eco Friendly Nursery – Guest Post by FamilyLivingToday
When you are preparing to have a child for the first time, you receive a lot of advice from a myriad of people. Some of that advice is useful for the kind of parent you want to be a parent but unfortunately, a lot of it is not.
If you want to do your part to help the environment as a parent, it can be hard to figure out what exactly works while making your life easier as a parent.… Read more
How Having a Doula Affects Positive Birth Outcome
With professional Doula Services on the rise, partly thanks to celebrity praise from well-known names such as Meghan Markle and Nicole Kidman, one has to wonder what really are the benefits of having a Doula by your side in the delivery room and beyond? We’ve gathered up the statistics so you don’t have to!
Firstly, what is a Doula?
A doula is somebody that provides non-medical support for mothers throughout pregnancy, birth and beyond.… Read more
Drop The Botox! How Facial Acupuncture Can Slow Down Ageing
Can Acupuncture really replace Botox? The desire to slow down the ageing process is common to all. Interventions like Botox work well for filling in lines but leave the ageing of the body and skin unaffected. What we really want is to put the brakes on the ageing process in the whole body.
Facial rejuvenation acupuncture works directly on lines by making the skin produce keratin and collagen to plump out wrinkles.… Read more
Calm Mama : Breathe, Relax, Birth
Learn deep relaxation & hypnosis techniques for a calmer pregnancy and an undisturbed birth.
Calm Mama is a perfect way to help your body rest, relax, Prepare for birth and bring forth life.
Using breathing, visualisation and deep relaxation techniques, take a rest from the stresses and anxieties you may be feeling during pregnancy and in preparation for birth.
This workshop, suitable for any stage of your pregnancy, will help you gain an insight into how to use relaxation, breathing and hypnobirthing techniques in pregnancy and during birth.
A Woman Centered Birth Plan: Plain and Simple
Lisa Wilkinson talks about the need to create a birth plan. Have a look at her plans below. If you are planning on trying for physiologically normal birth, I do recommend looking into The elbowrooms Prep For Birth Workshops with Krysia Lynch who also hosts our Advanced Pregnancy Teacher Training Module 2 which teaches how to teach these workshops to soon to be familys!
Lisa wilkinson – Birth Plan 2003 & 2009 Version 1Keep me at home to birth my baby.… Read more
