She's got the magic During pregnancy many women feel beautiful, sexy, healthy - generally full of life and fun. There are other days...but keeping this positive we won't dwell on them here! This is a photographic diary of one woman's pregnancy taken by her partner. What struck me was the vision that when you think ...
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Why pay for HypnoBirthing? The true cost of healthcare
The cost of healthcare In Britain we see healthcare as something that should be free. We enjoy access to world class medics and technology simply by walking off the street into the correct building. And we defend our right to this service vociferously. But of course, nothing is actually free in life.Healthcare is only ...
World War 1 Babies
Impact of World War I On Radio 4’s More or Less programme, aired on the 10th September they discussed the impact on the global population of the first world war. Staggering numbers in relation to the death toll included the fact that an estimated 9 million soldiers and 6 million civilians were killed. The majority of ...
Guest Bloggers
Have a burning issue you want to share? Got strong views about any aspect of maternity care or parenting? Come across some information that you think people should know about?This blog is another way of circulating information. Anyone can read it and comment on it so you could be sharing important information with a wide ...
Fear of Hypnosis
What is hypnosis? I went to promote my new HypnoBirthing flyers at the local church toddlers. To my surprise I encountered serious qualms about anything associated with the idea of ‘hypnosis’ in a Christian context. After I had explained what HypnoBirthing is really about – self-induced deep relaxation – all was well. However, this ...
Baby slings: wear your baby with pride
Why wear your baby? One of the hardest lessons of parenting is realising that your life is not your own, it is subservient to the needs of your darling child. Or is it? Is it that our expectations are that the child will just be added on as an addition to our lives and we are ...
Spinning Babies: baby positioning in the womb
Fear of breech babies A lot of time and effort goes into worrying about the position of the baby in utero. Initially most scans show that baby is breech… 'oooh, might not be great come birth', 'could be bad news for mother and baby', 'might require an assisted delivery' etc, etc. For the first ...