Everything You Need to Know About Epidurals: Benefits, Procedure, and Considerations
Discover everything you need to know about epidurals during labour, including their benefits, the procedure, and what to expect. Learn how epidurals can provide effective pain relief and support your birthing experience.
Understanding Nitrous Oxide: A Pain Relief Option for Labour
Explore the benefits and considerations of using nitrous oxide during labour. Learn how this safe and effective pain relief option can help you stay calm, in control, and comfortable as you welcome your baby.
Creating a Safe Birth Space: Tips for a Comfortable Birth Experience
Creating a safe birth space is essential for a positive and empowering birth experience. By carefully considering your environment, support team, and personal preferences, you can foster a space that promotes comfort, relaxation, and confidence. In this blog, we'll explore practical tips for setting up a safe birth space, from lighting and music to emotional support and communication, ensuring you feel in control and supported throughout your labour.
Understanding Antenatal Anxiety: How to Manage Worries During Pregnancy
Antenatal anxiety is common and can affect up to 1 in 10 pregnant women, often causing worry, panic attacks, and physical symptoms. While stress is normal during pregnancy, excessive anxiety can impact your well-being and relationship with your baby. Learn about the common causes, signs, and effective treatment options for managing antenatal anxiety, including counseling, support networks, and self-care techniques. Don’t let anxiety define your pregnancy experience – seek help early for a healthier, happier journey into parenthood.
Choosing the Best Way to Feed Your Baby: Important Considerations for New Parents
Deciding how to feed your baby is a deeply personal journey, whether it’s breastfeeding, formula feeding, or a combination of both. Each choice comes with its own benefits and challenges. This guide explores key factors to consider, helping you make an informed decision that supports your baby’s health and your family’s well-being
Fed Is Best: Supporting Your Baby’s Growth and Your Choices
This is not the big debate between breastmilk and formula, so if you're looking for my opinion, you're not going to find it here. Like all the knowledge and experience I share, it's just that, unbiased, giving you the information, facts, tools and references to make your own decision. It’s your right to choose how to feed your baby and you can change your mind along the way if you want. Find out more…
Natural Pain Relief - and your options.
The topic of pain in labour and birth is a hotly debated subject around the coffee table and while pain in labour can't be entirely avoided (for most people), the fear of pain can be addressed and reduced. Taking good birth education classes, working with a trusted and supportive midwife, and having good continuous support from a partner, friend, or family member all can help greatly reduce your fear of pain in birth. It also helps to know a few things about labour pain.
Feeding your baby formula.
There are many reasons a family may not breastfeed: some may be unable to produce enough milk for their baby’s needs, others may have a health condition or take medication that prevents them from breastfeeding, some may choose not to breastfeed and some may need to return to work. Others may be in a same-sex relationship or are adoptive, foster parents or carers. There are many reasons why formula might be the best option for you and your baby. Yes, breastfeeding is ideal, but that does not mean formula is bad.
Why you need to do Antenatal Classes.
Childbirth is full of wonderment, excitement, joy, trepidation and a huge dose of the unknown.... how am I going to cope? will my partner support me in the way I need? Do I actually have options, can I say no? What if I can't do this? how does my body make breastmilk, can I sleep safely with my baby next to me? What is involved with an epidural? How can I have a natural birth? Do I have to give birth in hospital? These questions and soooooooo many more will be answered during antenatal classes - there is a huge list of benefits and positives for you and your partner or support person.
Planning a homebirth?
Wondering if a planned home birth is right for you? guaranteed you have lots of questions such as, is it safe? Will you need a midwife? How do you create a backup plan? Is it messy (not as much as you think), Is it even possible?
Shave, Trim or Natural?
There are lots of things women need to do to prepare physically and emotionally for giving birth.
From eating healthily, gaining knowledge about your options, to learning how to look after your tiny human when they're born - there are all kinds of considerations and what to do, if anything about your pubic hair, may be one of them.
Natural Pain Relief.
The topic of pain in labour and birth is a hotly debated subject around the coffee table and while pain in labour can't be entirely avoided (for most people), the fear of pain can be addressed and reduced. Taking good birth education classes, working with a trusted and supportive midwife, and having good continuous support from a partner, friend, or family member all can help greatly reduce your fear of pain in birth. It also helps to know a few things about labour pain.
