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Harnessing Your RAS: The Secret to an Easier Birth

Being in Charge: Making RAS work for you. RAS stands for Reticular Activating System and helps determine what information your brain pays attention to and ...
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Hypnobirthing Birth Plan

The following Hypnobirthing birth plan was created by a hypnobirthing midwife; you may find this useful when creating your birth preferences. HYPNOBIRTH PLAN FOR______________ I ...
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Letting Go of your Birth Plan: Embracing the Beauty of Flexibility

When the best-laid birth plan goes awry Welcoming a new life into the world is a momentous occasion that often comes with a meticulously crafted ...
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Harmonising Birth: The Power of Prenatal Yoga and Hypnobirthing Together

Healthier Pregnancy and Easier Birth Combining prenatal yoga and hypnobirthing can provide a holistic approach to preparing for childbirth, offering a range of physical, mental, ...
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Remarkable Benefits of Hypnobirthing

Empowering Birth Experience: the Remarkable Benefits of Hypnobirthing Hypnobirthing is an alternative childbirth preparation technique involving relaxation, breathing techniques, visualization, and self-hypnosis to promote a ...
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Nurturing Both: The Incredible Benefits of Prenatal Yoga for Mum and Baby

What are the benefits of Prenatal Yoga during pregnancy? Using yoga during pregnancy can offer numerous benefits for both the mother and the baby. It's ...
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Best Hypnobirthing Online Course

KGH Hypnobirthing Online Course KGH is a complete antenatal education programme that supports you and your birth partner to explore, empower and discover how calm, ...
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Award Winning TENS Machine

Award-Winning TENS Machine For Pain Relief During Labour If you are looking for a safe drug-free kind of pain relief that you can use in ...
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#1 Positive Birth Story

As a teacher ( hello ), I am always grateful and truly inspired when our expectant mums and their birth partners are willing and commit to ...
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Best 10 Exercises Pelvic Pain

Pelvic Pain - what causes this and what you can do to help the problem During pregnancy, the effects of relaxing hormones and additional baby ...
14 Amazing Benefits from a prenatal class

14 Amazing Benefits from a Prenatal Class

Do you know that the best thing a pregnant woman can do is be in a prenatal class? Prenatal classes also called birth preparation classes, ...
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Immune System

IMMUNE SYSTEM DURING PREGNANCY Guest blog by Joanna Nannini  BA(Hons), DipION, MBANT, CHNC Registered Nutritionist During pregnancy a woman’s immune system adapts in order to protect mother ...
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Nutrition and Movement in Pregnancy

NUTRITION AND MOVEMENT IN PREGNANCY Guest blog by Joanna Nannini  BA(Hons), DipION, MBANT, CHNC Registered Nutritionist Nutrition and movement both play a key part in helping your ...
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Nutrients in Pregnancy

The Consequence of Missing Nutrients in Pregnancy It's essential that a woman going through pregnancy take the right kind of nutrition, not just the synthetic ...
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Gift Voucher

Looking for the perfect gift for your expectant friends or loved ones? Give them a Joyful Body Gift Voucher! A gift voucher card entitles the ...
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Course OR Workshop

Hypnobirthing: Course or Workshop? What should I choose? I'm often asked about the difference between the Hypnobirthing course and the Calm Birth workshop. Here's some ...
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Postnatal depression

How to tell if you have postnatal depression Postnatal depression (PND) affects many new mums and yet no one seems to want to talk about ...
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Fertility and Conception

The use of restorative yoga and Access Bars® therapy can support women and men with fertility and conception on the path to pregnancy. Restorative Yoga ...
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Top 3 tips for pregnancy birthing with ease

There is a lot of information that comes at you when you’re pregnant. Almost everyone has decided there is a “right way” to be pregnant ...

Feeling Nervous About Childbirth?

Feeling nervous about childbirth? Will the pain be too much? I’m not going to lie to you: Childbirth is not pain-free. However, fearing the pain ...

Do Birthing Balls help during Labour?

A study in 2015 in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research reviewed the evidence for exercise with birth balls and found they offered “statistically ...

What is Pregnancy Yoga?

So, why should you practice yoga and hypnobirthing? Much like other types of childbirth-preparation classes, pregnancy yoga (or prenatal yoga) is a multifaceted approach to ...

Tips for having a baby without an epidural

At some stage you will be asked if you’re doing it naturally or with an epidural. Here are some tips for having a baby without ...
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Positive Birth Affirmations

Positive Birth Affirmations (a statement said with confidence about a perceived truth) have helped many women make both pregnancy and birth more calm and confident. ...
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Breathe during Labour: Essential tips to Prepare for Birth

Learning how to breathe during labour correctly can help you stay calm and focused during labour and prevent unhealthy breathing, such as hyperventilation (breathing too ...

10 tips to be the perfect birth partner

A confident and supportive father can make an enormous difference to the birth of his child. He will be producing the hormones of love, which ...
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Hypnobirthing Videos

Have you been wondering what hypnobirthing is all about? Would you like to see these amazing techniques in action? Are you (or your partner) sceptical ...

NO FEAR birth

Have you been “programmed” into believing that childbirth equals pain? What happens when you think of something unpleasant or recall a painful experience? You probably ...

Pregnancy Yoga

What is Pregnancy Yoga?  Much like other types of childbirth-preparation classes, pregnancy yoga (or prenatal yoga) is a multifaceted approach to exercise that encourages stretching, ...

Why choose Hypnobirthing

Why choose Hypnobirthing? Hypnobirthing enables you to work with your body to release fear and negativity, so you can come into a calm, peaceful, and ...
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Pelvic Floor Exercises

Pelvic Floor Exercises During and After Pregnancy Pelvic floor exercises (PVE) can lead to shorter labour and a faster post-birth recovery Passing your baby through ...

Birthing partner tips

What tips would you give a birthing partner? There's lots of information in books and on the internet about how your birthing partner can support ...

Feeling Anxious about Childbirth?

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Access Bars® can assist you in releasing the build-up of fear and anxiety that can often occur during pregnancy. Each Bars session clears the emotional overwhelm allowing a sense of peace and calm in your mind and body. Highly recommended during pregnancy as this will dissipate the build-up of thoughts, feelings and emotions about childbirth.

In addition, other benefits include feeling happier, a dramatic reduction in stress, a greater sense of peace and improved confidence. Especially relevant is the contribution to your baby being less programmed and more conscious.

 

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