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The latest posts from @hellobaby_brighton on Instagram...

Saw that @themindfulbirthgroup reposted this and I love it so wanted to, too! Home birth kit. Ready for anything ❤️💜 Posted @withrepost • @homebirthkh Ever wondered what we bring to a homebirth? The #tetrischallenge is all the rage so we thought we’d join in. Here’s what’s available at every birth - including 2 lovely midwives of course. Most of it doesn’t get used. What’s most important is having that dedicated, safe care from someone kind and attentive. A straightforward birth involves very little “kit”. But if the need arises, there’s everything we need to ensure mother and baby are safe and healthy. And yes it all magically fits in our boot (not the midwives obviously!) #homebirth #midwives #safebirth #positivebirth
❤️ Posted @withrepost • @from_the_other_chair This week for Baby Loss Awareness Week, I am going to be posting a few things that I hope will be helpful for those finding it a bit tough. I know that so many of us are feeling a bit overwhelmed by prospect of the volume of content this week. And with the publication of Out of Sight, Out of Mind confirming the complex impact of baby loss on mental health, it is even more important that we take things at a pace that feels right and safe for us individually. Therefore, I wanted to offer something slightly different. Some thoughts or tools to navigate the days ahead. Things I use at work as well as personally. Awareness weeks are so important – during my first one in 2016, I immersed myself completely. I needed to feel connected with a community of other parents who I felt understood and I needed to know that there were people out there in the world who wanted to listen. Because this week is about both of these things – to feel less alone and to help others to know that baby loss happens. It happens a lot and it is life changing. However, it often falls upon the shoulders of those who have experienced the trauma of loss to do this work. And this work can be incredibly depleting. In addition, when flooded with so many stories, we can sometimes feel that ours doesn’t matter. That there are others who are ‘worse off’. That this week is not for us. And yet it is for all of us, no matter what our unique experience is. So today, I invite you to honour your own baby or babies. Engage in an old or new ritual that gives you the space to honour your own story. Write their name, say it aloud, buy a flower that reminds you of them. Take a moment to connect with your own individual experience. No matter how, or at what age or gestation, you lost your baby or babies, your story matters. They matter. You matter. Today I chose to spend a little longer engaging in my daily ritual of writing Orla’s name in the shower steam. I did it over and over again. I said it out loud. I took time to notice how it felt to trace the curves of the letters in her name. Our story matters. #BabyLossAwarenessWeek
My May group Mamas! Such a lovely morning meeting these four absolute dreams of babies (Erin, Hugo, Basil and River - all the coolest of names!) with their superstar mums who did my May group course. One described her four day labour (born at 42+4) as a “wonderful experience” and another spoke of how calm she and her birth partners felt even through tricky baby positioning and interventions she hadn’t planned. That’s Hypnobirthing. Not a type of birth, but a feeling. And I love the camaraderie of new mums; lots of “me too!” and so much empathy for each other and the stage they’re at. Excited to see these babies for massage soon! 💜🧡💛💚
The days are long but the years are short - that’s what they say! And this year seems to have been extra short! It seems fitting that a year to the day that I trained with Hollie @theyesmummum, that I was up in her London studio today teaching six gorgeous couples the @theyesmumbirthproject way! Without sounding Oscar-acceptance-esque, I simply could not have done the last year without my hashtag girl gang in the form of these seven awesome teachers @themindfulbirthgroup @thebirththing @midwife_mama_me @tutumbirthing_ @thehypnobirthingbabe @doula_jess_slender and @mrs_aliceliley. There’s not been a week go by when we haven’t all needed each other and the support - as a self employed teacher! - has been invaluable. 🌟🥰
I’m incredibly lucky that my mum held my babies (and is still chief babysitter now) - I know not everyone is so fortunate. This poem is so lovely and bought tears to my eyes ❤️ Posted @withrepost • @positivebirthmovement Sharing for #nationalpoetryday . "My mama, with worn hands from years of tending and loving, Laid eyes on my baby for the first time. And in a moment, melted fully around her, Scooped her up and was lost in a moment, as if she’d found her own babies back in her arms. Flooded with their memory, overflowing with their softness. And I saw in her tears how much she had missed it. And how much I would someday miss it, too." . Words @mia_carr_ Pic: Gather Birth Cooperative
I made my son pause the TV this evening so I could write down USA’s Noah Lyles’ post-world-championships-win interview word for word because he said THIS 👆🏻 and it’s the perfect quote about mindset, visualisation and altering your subconscious mind. For athletes, this is all completely normal - and essential - practice, and slowly, slowly it will become that way for birth prep too. 🙌🏼
Hello! 👋🏼 It’s been a while since I did an intro, so here we go! I’m Laura; mum of two little legends (8yrs and 2yrs old), wife to a London-commuter and I live in Brighton with my little fam. Apart from the seagulls at 5am it couldn’t be a better city! 🐦 I’ve been teaching Hypnobirthing for three years now and get emotional on a regular basis because the women (and partners!) I work with are really quite incredible. I love so much about my job, but seeing a transformation in someone who is scared, fearful and disempowered about birth - to someone who’s excited, knowledgeable, confident and in control, is just the *biggest* pleasure (closely followed by getting newborn snuggles once they’re born!). When I’m not chatting about birth, you’ll find me dancing in the kitchen with my kids 💃 , walking by the sea 🌊 , binge-watching boxsets 📺 , trying to keep fit 💪🏼 , and making lists ✏️ . I would love every pregnant woman to be able to access Hypnobirthing and the dream is that in years to come it would just be a totally normal and mainstream way to prepare for birth! I personally experienced high anxiety about pregnancy and birth in the past, and learning Hypnobirthing techniques completely changed my experience and subsequent birth. I’ve popped the link to my ‘What is Hypnobirthing’ article in my bio if you’re interested - or worried about what the ‘hypno’ bit is (you’re not alone)! Over and out for now, much love on this Tuesday night! xx
Excuse me please where have three years gone to...??! My first ever client’s baby is 3 next month! I feel mighty privileged to have worked with so many incredible couples in that time, all with one thing in common: that they want to approach birth differently. Different to their first birth, or different to how society feels they should give birth. To regain confidence; to know their options; to learn how to create calm. I’ve taught partners, friends, mums, husbands and wives how to be the best birth partner they can be, informing and empowering them to be confident oxytocin warriors of the birth room! And of course the mamas... beautiful women in every way; allowing them to believe they can be in control of how they feel about their birth, what informed choice actually is and means in birth, and teach them real techniques to cope with all that pregnancy and birth brings. To challenge the status quo and to start looking at birth differently. There have been home births, hospital births, water births, Caesareans (both in-birth and elective), epidurals, gas and air, inductions, waters releasing first, or just before birth, super short births and longer ones - as Hypnobirthing is not a type of birth, it’s how you feel, having informed choice and having a toolkit to undertake ANYthing that birth brings. Siblings have met for the first time, there have been many a birth of brand new parents, and a huge amount of love. My respect and awe for the female human body just grows and grows every day; the physical and mental ability of the women I’ve taught has been humbling and incredible to watch and be a part of. Thank you mamas and your wonderful supports for letting me be a part of your story. Bring on the next three years!
Absolutely love this from another of my @theyesmumbirthproject sisters @doula_jess_slender. Visualising a fantasy birth place is much much more than just dreaming 😍 What would your fantasy birth place be if there were no restrictions on it being a reality?!
I’m only a third of the way through, but please, if you are pregnant, thinking about being pregnant, have ever been pregnant, know any pregnant people, or even if you don’t: this is a must read! Full review to come when I’m done, but @milli.hill has gone and done it again. A second absolute blinder of a Birth book with such an important message. 📚 📖 💜
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