So you’re pregnant….and not quite sure where to start? I’m really excited to introduce The Birth Hub — a new collective offering created by Bristol-based doulas and birth workers Kim Ives, Kim Mousley and Rebecca Hunt. The Birth Hub has been established in response to the growing need for woman-centred, holistic birth preparation that centres…
A 6 week virtual space to help you stay connected with yourself over the Summer Break. I loved being on mat leave with my baby but I’d always feel a little panicked when the school holidays arrived again… Let’s be honest, looking after a baby is lovely but it can also feel like groundhog day….
Bristol has 2 major hospitals, that both have maternity care facilities. Despite being pretty close geographically, these 2 hospitals are under different NHS trusts, so have different policies and practices. Southmead hospital is under the North Bristol Trust (NBT) and is in the north of Bristol, in Southmead/Horfield (BS10). St Michael’s hospital is managed by…
Pregnancy yoga isn’t just regular yoga with a few adaptations… it is its own unique type of yoga, designed specifically for this phase of life. Yoga is so much more than just making some shapes and the Yogic Philosophy principles connect deeply to pregnancy, birth and parenting. Pregnancy yoga provides holistic preparation for mind, body,…
How do you feel about your pregnant and/or post-natal body? I’m going to bet many of you will label negative feelings toward your body quite easily… I wonder why it is so easy for us to feel ‘negative’ feelings toward our bodies? By which I mean, anger…disappointment…disgust… well, those are several feelings that sometimes crop…
Another day, another scary birthy headline. If you’re pregnant right now, your algorithm probably knows it and you’ll be being exposed to all the same clickbait headlines I am as a birth worker. Pregnancy and birth are making the headlines at a rate I’ve never witnessed before. And the media have not been painting a…
Inspired by Valentines day, and the wonderful Sara Wickham’s love letter to midwifery students, here’s my own love letter… to all the wonderful mothers I get to work with. Motherhood can feel such a huge shock. The transition begins in pregnancy and is never really complete…yet it feels that in a moment, everything changes. Over…
No-one told me… I hear this so often from new parents. They were looking forward to the end of pregnancy and meeting their baby. They had one of the most momentous experiences of their life (childbirth!) and emerged on the other side. Hurrah! And now… all is not what they thought it would be. “Why…
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