It’s Homeopathy Awareness Week! I’m very passionate about natural healing and part of my mission is to bring awareness of the benefits of homeopathy during pregnancy to as many people as possible via my blog. I’ll also be Including some introductory offers on treatment with me during the month of April. Happy reading 🌺
Am I Allowed? has been SUCH an important book for pregnant women and families for so many years. It covers everything from understanding your basic rights to explaining where to go for more information. There’s information on how to get your needs met and, if you need it, on how to complain. Beverley Lawrence Beech the author, was a passionate birth activist, international speaker and this book is based on 40 years’ experience challenging the over-medicalised, hospital-based, model of childbirth. Most women, trust the medical system to provide them with the best of care. ‘What is must be best’ and discover, too late, and to their cost, that the care was often based on outdated routines and ‘rules’ to which they were expected to conform. I tell all my clients that decisions should always be based on feelings…not facts!
Exploring Active Birth is a way to prepare your body and mind to awaken your natural ability to give birth physiologically
It’s a celebration of the miraculous unfolding of the hormone driven processes of pregnancy and birth
Active Birth has really evolved for me, in my own understanding, of the intricate process of natural undisturbed birth after I had a euphoric experience in labour when I gave birth to my youngest child in 2012. But globally, three ideas have been present since the beginning: encouraging mothers to use instinctive upright birthing positions; facilitating natural hormonal responses during labour; and empowering women to make their own choices about their births.
PGP (Pelvic Girdle Pain) in pregnancy….The main symptom that women report when they have pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PGP) is pain in and around their hips and pelvis, especially when:
walking/standing for long periods,
bending down,
climbing stairs, and turning over in bed. This means that it can affect virtually everything you do in a day, which has a major impact on your life!
Homeopathy has fascinated me since I had my first baby in 2009. The Homeopathic remedy Arnica offered me incredible natural healing post birth and boosted my recovery, by reducing the bruising, bleeding and nerve pain I was experiencing. I also had the classic sore coccyx after an upright squatting posture I enjoyed in labour and arnica taken regularly can really ease that horrid, bruised coccyx pain (which is no fun when you need to sit and feed baby in a comfy, restful position but your tailbone won’t let you!)
Pregnancy and childbirth are incredibly personal and life-changing experiences, and having the right support during this time can make all the difference. A birth partner is someone who plays a key role in providing emotional, physical, and practical support during pregnancy, labour, and even postpartum. But what makes a birth partner so vital? And how can they best offer support, especially during the often overwhelming preparation for a first baby? Read on for my top tips …..
Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the hypothalamus and secreted by the pituitary gland. The name is derived from the Greek; ‘oxus’ and ‘toxkos’, meaning quick childbirth. It’s known as the hormone of bonding, love, intimacy, trust and connection.
