Re-assess all your assumptions
Find out the facts before making any decisions
Cut all negatives out of your life, especially negative birth stories
Remember that the best environment for giving birth to a baby is the same as the best environment for conceiving a baby
Do everything you can to ensu…
1. Make sure you have a healthy lifestyle and diet 6 months before you are pregnant.
The health of both mother and father before your baby is even conceived is important for a happy healthy pregnancy. When asked, everyone, without exception, maintains that they eat a healthy diet, but this can va…
If only we could let go of the “due date” in our nation’s approach to birth and look at it more as a “birth window”. In my vocabulary there is no such thing as a late baby; only women who have different lengths of pregnancy. And it would be strange if it were otherwise. During pregnancy, you will…
For thousands of years, herbs have been used to ease a woman’s path through pregnancy, labour and birth. Recently much research has been done, and herbal remedies are still effectively used in childbirth:
1. Morning Sickness
Ginger Root, Lemon Balm, Chamomile
Ginger Root can be grated into a cup …
Most people will fill out a birth plan with their midwives midway through their pregnancy. It is a way of registering your preferences for the process of your labour so that your wishes can be carried out whilst you concentrate on relaxing, breathing and focusing on the birth of your baby.
Our …
That is what scientist have recently been claiming, the popular misconception of a women’s brain turning to mush during motherhood has been disproven. In fact our grey matter increases in size.
Research carried out in America included scanning the brains of new Mothers at periodic times aft…
