As International Caesarean Awareness Month 2020 comes to a close I thought I’d share a post I originally wrote a couple of years ago. Whether your caesarean birth is planned or an emergency there can be things that happen during the recovery that take you by surprise. Here are some of the things I’ve…
Hey mama, You never signed up to birth during a pandemic did you? I know things are uncertain. I know it is scary. I don’t think anyone could ever have imagined having a pregnancy so full of such uncertainty, pressure, restrictions and fear. I know your maternity leave dreams of coffee dates with friends…
This week is UK Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week (Monday 29th April – Friday 3rd May 2019) and the theme is Mums Matter. Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness during pregnancy or after having a baby and signposting to support for all mums. Each…
The days with your newborn baby go by so fast! In the early days you’re in a delicious, fuzzy warm fog of sleeplessness and snuggles. But before you know it you’ll be walking them to school – I’m not even kidding! Whilst we’re yet to find a way to keep our babies tiny, we can…
Happy World Hypnobirthing Day! The 21st March 2019 is World Hypnobirthing Day and so we thought it was only right that we shared with you what makes this special to us. This is something that we could go on about forever, so we have tried to keep it short and sweet and just highlight a…
Written by hypnobirthing practitioner Beccy Angove I think most people have heard about hypnobirthing by now. A few people in the public eye, the most recent being Meghan Markle, have even made the mainstream tabloids with news of birth plans involving hypnobirthing, home births and doulas. I think most people are starting to understand that…
I had the pleasure of working with Laura and Clive for a hypnobirthing course last year. Whilst Laura’s birth didn’t go in the direction that she’d have chosen, I am so grateful that she was willing to share her birth story with us. It is important to remember that we can’t predict how birth will…
I can’t tell you just how excited I am to announce that Relaxed Birthing is expanding!! I am so happy to finally be able to share that the wonderful Beccy is joining Relaxed Birthing to teach hypnobirthing in Stroud, Stonehouse and surrounding areas. Beccy is mum to two children and has first-hand experience of hypnobirthing…
Hello! My name is Yvonne and I am the founder of Relaxed Birthing. I have so much to say about Relaxed Birthing, hypnobirthing and why I do what I do so I thought I’d write an extra post for anyone who wants to know a little bit more. I’m a real information person. I like…
This is the first in a series of blog posts about having a baby on the neonatal unit written by Lynne Wainwright – neonatal nurse, Senior Teaching Fellow and doctoral researcher at Kings College London. When your baby is on the neonatal unit. For most families the arrival of a new baby is a time…