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BOB fitness tips with Laura Williams – during pregnancy
To help support and protect the body during this time, it is also important to maintain a healthy lifestyle and a good fitness regime during pregnancy. This will help to prepare for a delivery and also make life much easier when it comes to getting back into shape post birth. Fitness expert, Laura Williams recommends…
Posted in Exercise in pregnancy, Pregnancy Tagged BOB Fitness, Britax, Childbirth, Laura Williams, pilates, pregancy, pregnancy exercise, walking, Yoga Leave a comment
Know your Birthrights
Almost as soon as you find out you are pregnant, friends, family, even the nice lady on the bus seem to feel the need to share their birth experiences, or unfortunately tell unsettling accounts of how things went wrong. Giving birth is surely the most important and lifechanging thing you will ever do, yet all…
Doulas work to reduce fear during labour
A study into labour has found that between five and 20% of women have a fear of childbirth and that those women will labour on average for an hour and 32 minutes longer than those who don’t feel afraid as well as experiencing more intervention during birth. “It is unsurprising that women who feel frightened…
Posted in Labour and Birth, News Tagged charity, Childbirth, Doula, Doula UK, Fear, Labour, labour and birth, News, oxytocin, pain Leave a comment
50% of Tranceforming Childbirth CD
Tina Taylor is a Licensed Trainer of NLP and a Clinical Hypnotherapist; whilst studying NLP and Hypnosis one of the things that intrigued her was the way that the mind creates our thoughts, beliefs and responses to situations, and she was drawn to the minds ability to control various sensations or our perception of sensations…
Transforming childbirth by Tina Taylor
Whilst studying NLP and Hypnosis one of the things that interested me was what you could do once you set your mind to it, and I was drawn to the minds ability to control pain. How some people had different pain thresholds, how is it that what someone finds unbearable another will say is OK. …
Posted in Labour and Birth Tagged Childbirth, contractions, Hypnosis, Labour, NLP, pain, pain relief, Tina Taylor Leave a comment
Question: Joint pain after childbirth
Q: “My baby is four months old and, since delivery, my wife has started to get joint pain. I have been trying to find out about this. Our GP believes it may be arthritis and, although this is uncommon, that it was caused by the pregnancy. My wife is only 32 and is very concerned that,…
Posted in Post natal-pregnancy, Pregnancy, Question & Answer Tagged Baby, Childbirth, feeding, joint pain Leave a comment
Stillbirth
Stillbirth happens very rarely, but a few parents are faced with the awful prospect of having to give birth to a baby that they know is dead. If you’re pregnant, the idea of stillbirth may be too painful for you to contemplate. But parents whose babies have been stillborn often say that it would have helped if they’d been…
Dads at the birth
Fathers are now encouraged to be present at the birth of their baby. Some dads, though, have doubts about being present throughout the labour and birth, and these doubts should be respected. It’s important to think about and discuss whether you want to be present and how you see your role during the pregnancy. It can be much…
Support during labour : birth partners
Labour can be frightening, and most women find it very reassuring to see a familiar face or partner with them when they are giving birth. Having a supportive labour companion can make a major difference to both the experience and outcome of labour and birth. Research has shown that social support: Reduces a woman’s need for pain-killing drugs Reduces…
Posted in Labour and Birth, Natural pain relief Tagged Birth, Childbirth, Dad, Labour, labour and birth, Midwife, partner Leave a comment
Hypnotherapy for labour : A midwife’s view
Why is it that many women seem to fear their baby’s birthday rather than look forward to it? Midwife, Tania Pearce, has trained in Hypnobirthing a course that has been devised by a hypnotherapist, Marie Mongan, who could see the benefits of using it for birth. Her method is called Hypnobirthing the Mongan method. Tania descibes how she…
