From Water Birth to Baby Swimming

Turtle Tots Swimming

 

Water Birth

Some how it is a natural progression to follow a fantastic water birth with baby swimming classes. Babies have a natural affinity with the water, a water birth gently brings them into the world and swimming in a warm pool is a comforting reminder of the amniotic world they came from. Most babies love it!

Swimming Babies

Babies become totally liberated, as water is a free environment for them. Natural birthing focuses on our instincts as women - babies have many instincts too. The 'gag reflex' and 'mammalian dive reflex' which enable babies to hold their breath underwater and continue to supply oxygen to the main organs - Most prominent in babies under 6 months old. They also have primitive swimming stroke actions up to 6 months of age and can propel themselves through the water - early swimming classes can help support this natural ability.

Turtle Tots

Vicky Hill runs Turtle Tots Fylde and Preston. She is passionate about swimming and believes babies should be introduced to the water as soon as possible, not only for the safety aspect, but because of the special bond it provides and the fun you can have in the water. Her own experience as a mother to two girls and love of water have driven Vicky to run her own successful Turtle Tots baby swimming lessons across Preston, Fylde and greater Lancashire area.

Aqua-natal Classes

Aqua-natal is a great form of exercise for pregnant women providing fantastic mental and physical relaxation and toning. Vicky is considering running aqua-natal classes subject to demand - providing a complete package for both mums-to-be & their babies. Not only will mums be gaining health benefits & baby bonding, but this is an excellent opportunity to build life long friends - continuing classes together both before and after birth.

For more information please contact:

Vicky Hill: 07584 354090

From the end of June you can swim with Turtle Tots at The Chadwick Hotel in St Annes on a Tuesday and Friday morning. Vicky will be running a FREE taster session on Tuesday 24th June at The Chadwick Hotel – spaces are limited so please get in touch asap.

The Chadwick Hotel, South Promenade, St. Annes, FY8 1NP

vicky.hill@turtletots.com
http://www.turtletots.com

Scared of Giving Birth in Hospital

Natural Birth & Hypnosis for Birth

 Lancashire

East Lancashire’s birthing units are ‘setting the standard’ for the rest of the country in terms of natural birthing including:

• Midwife-led Births

• Water Birth

• Hypnobirthing

• Home Birth

Instinctive and normalised births are becoming strongly favoured as national guidelines state that more women 'should opt to give birth at midwife-led units, or at home'.

"The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said more women should be encouraged to give birth with the help of midwives, rather than being admitted to a traditional doctor-led labour ward...The three midwife-led units (Burnley, Blackburn & Rossendale) are now delivering almost a third of East Lancashire’s babies." Lancashire Telegraph. Thus moving birthing away from a hospitalised setting.

The East Lancashire birthing units are championed by leading midwife Sheena Byrom OBE, Beverley Turner TV Presenter & Health Campaigner, Maggie Howell founder of Natal Hypnotherapy™, Pan Wilde Independent Midwife and countless others who are in favour of supporting women in their choice to have a normalised birth.

As more women explore their options for natural/normalised birth it is fantastic to think that more women will discover and use hypnotherapy for birth. 100,000's have already used Natal Hypnotherapy™ with fantastic results.

Are Epidurals Dangerous?

Finding out about Epidurals...

The following article is really valuable if you are planning to have an epidural. It looks at:

 

  

 

1. What is an epidural?

Before you have one learn exactly what it is and how it works.

Epidurals are widely used for pain relief in labour and involve an injection of a local anaesthetic into the lower region of the spine close to the nerves that transmit pain. Epidural solutions are given by bolus injection, continuous infusion or using a patient-controlled pump. Lower concentrations of local anaesthetic are needed when they are given together with an opiate, allowing women to maintain the ability to move around during labour and to bear down. Epidural analgesia may sometimes give inadequate analgesia, which may be due to non-uniform spread of local anaesthetic. Combined spinal-epidural involves a single injection of local anaesthetic or opiate into the cerebral spinal fluid for fast onset of pain relief as well as insertion of the epidural catheter for continuing pain relief. – See more at: http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD000331/epidurals-for-pain-relief-in-labour#sthash.DVa9XP6u.dpuf

2. How Epidurals will medicalise your labour

3. The fact that sometimes it doesn’t work

4. What the side effects to an epidural are...

5. What the benefits to an epidural are...

6. The fact epidurals can be great for very high blood pressure

7. The are risks associated with epidurals

8. Helping Mother Nature with an epidural in place

You can still have an epidural and use Hypnosis during birth.

9. Whether it's right or wrong to plan for an epidural in labour

10. How having an epidural in labour is viewed by you.

 

If you are considering an epidural it helps to know all the facts. The following article fills in most of the blanks in our knowledge of epidural. 10-things-you-need-to-know-about-epidurals

Home Birth Lytham St Annes, Wrea Green & Preston

Thinking of Home Birth?

If you are planning a home birth there is further guidance published by NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) to 'go for it' - if you are having an uncomplicated pregnancy. Guidelines state that a home birth may be just as safe for low-risk pregnancies.

Choices

"Every woman should ultimately have the freedom to choose where she wants to give birth and be supported in her choice."
 
"We're pleased we are now able to propose more definite advice to help pregnant women choose the best option for them. We now want to hear what others think so that we can ensure the final, updated guidance will promote the safest possible care for women and their babies."


For full article see: Home Birth

Natal Hypnotherapy Classes Fylde, Wyre & Preston

The Natal Hypnotherapy™ program is supportive of women wherever they choose to birth their babies.

The workshops look at how to create and protect the birthing environment - in the end some women choose to birth at home or in a birth centre (home from home) as this is the most comfortable and safe option with the least intervention and pressure from medical procedure.

If you are planning a home birth - Natal Hypnotherapy™ will help you to understand the impact of environmental factors as well as the influence the people you meet along the way can have upon your birth experience and outcome.

Natal Hypnotherapy™ courses are now available in Lytham, St Annes, Wrea Green, Warton, Freckton, Preston & surrounding. For more information please see www.calmandcontented.co.uk

Best Present for your Pregnant Daughter or Daughter-in-law

Calling all Grandma's-to-be

The imminent arrival of your first or subsequent grandchildren is a truly thrilling and exciting time.

It's an opportunity to re-live time with a sweet smelling new born, lively toddler, help with school years and beyond.


You will officially have the right to spoil them rotten and hand them back when you've had enough!

You may be looking around for a perfect present for your pregnant daughter or daughter-in-law.

Some grandparents generously buy the cot or the pram - which is a totally amazing gesture, so what could beat that?

If you have a daughter who is looking to have a normalised birth or favours a more natural approach or perhaps you are the only one that understands your daughters true fears surrounding childbirth.

Natal Hypnotherapy™ could be the answer.

Natal Hypnotherapy™ is perfect for a woman that is looking for a way to experience a less painful child birth without intervention. She can achieve a more comfortable birth by learning to become truly relaxed, less fearful and having faith in her body. Natal Hypnotherapy™ mums are much more comfortable (and confident!) during childbirth. We cannot promise a ‘pain free labour’ but Natal Hypnotherapy™ will teach her how she can work with her body to birth her baby and increase her confidence about labour and pregnancy. It's great for birth partners too.

Dealing with Midwives Blackpool, Preston & Lytham St Annes

Communicating with your Midwife

Today is International Midwives Day. "International Day of the Midwife was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The idea of having a day to recognize and honor midwives came out of the 1987 International Confederation of Midwives conference in the Netherlands."


The vast majority of midwives do an absolutely fantastic job, under tiring, stressful and challenging work conditions. Every single women that walks into the maternity room has a different set of needs, expectations and experiences. Midwifery must be very challenging at times!

Many couples overlook the importance of how they are going to communicate with their midwife during birth:

If you are a expectant woman, despite having regular contractions and been caught up in the emotions of birth, the best thing you can do is keep your midwife on side. Remain calm and keep animosity out of the birth room. 

Dads-to-be may suddenly find themselves faced with the reality of their partner coping in labour and may feel powerless to help. This combined with a whole new set of emotions in an unfamiliar setting can send testosterone flying. Not helpful! Or can knock confidence meaning that the birth partner ends up providing very little birth support. Also not helpful!!!

Natal Hypnotherapy™ teaches the tools for women to stay calm during in labour as well as techniques for coping with contractions. It teaches birth partners how they can effectively support the birthing women whilst remaining confident, in control and pleasantly conversant with medical staff.

Wishing for Calmer Mothers, Birth Partners, Babies and Midwives (esp. today)