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🌟5 exercises to bring baby into a good position

🌟5 exercises to bring baby into a good position for birth 🌟
Do the following exercises everyday, or as often as you can, to help bring your baby into that optimal position for birth - head down, baby’s spine lining up with your belly, baby slightly to the left. This position will make baby’s birth easier, quicker and more comfortable.
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Do from your second trimester, until you give birth. And remember - it’s never too late to start preparing for birth!
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Take it slower than I do in the video, just take your time and move in a way that feels good for your body. If anything feels painful stop, realign, and if it’s still painful give it a miss.
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Start on all fours on a soft surface. Take a few deep breaths and visualise your baby sliding into an ideal position for birth. Then do the following 5 exercises for a couple of minutes each, or as long as feels good for your body:
1/ Cat / Cow.
2/ Lift and lower alternate arms.
3/ Hip circles right, then left.
4/ Rocking the hips forward and back.
5/ Child’s Pose.
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Avoid pushing the belly against the thighs as you move through the sequence and flow with your breath.
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If you’d like to learn more exercises to strengthen the body and facilitate birth, come along to one of my Pregnancy Yoga classes, we’re back in-person from next week!

Very excited to know that this week will be our la

Very excited to know that this week will be our last week in lockdown (for now) and we can get back to in-person classes from the 3rd December!
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I’m so grateful to all the lovely mums-to-be who have stuck with me through lockdown and joined me every Sat & Tues for my online pregnancy yoga classes.
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These are some of the gorgeous ladies from this week’s Sat morning class. I can honestly say being able to check in with you all each week, talk endlessly about birth, and generally feel I’m doing something useful with my time, has really kept me going through this lockdown. And now I’m raring to get back into class to see you all in person.
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If you’d like to join me for pregnancy yoga, with some hypnobirthing thrown in, do get your name down now and grab a place in the in-person classes from December.

Eleven years ago this beautiful boy’s birth set

Eleven years ago this beautiful boy’s birth set me on the path to helping people have a better pregnancy and better birth. His birth didn’t go well, I was terrified before I even arrived at hospital, and it went downhill from there. Hugo weighed 10lb at birth, with a very large head (as you can see from the pic!) This resulted in a failed forceps delivery, followed by a C- section.
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His birth literally changed my life, obviously having him was the best thing that had ever happened to me, but I was left with postnatal anxiety and, what I think was PTSD.
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I was lucky to get pregnant again very quickly, and 17 months later we had my youngest son. Terrified at the thought of giving birth the second time, I did some hypnobirthing and went on to have an amazing birth (75 mins from first twinge to delivery.) This birth helped me re-set, and although my anxiety didn’t go immediately, it improved massively.
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I know there were lots of things I could have done differently with my first birth, there were also things the hospital could have done differently - but I didn’t know that at the time. Maybe I would still have had a c-section, but with preparation and coping mechanisms, I could have felt very differently at the end of it. And that’s the most important thing, not how a mother gives birth, but how they feel afterwards.
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I’m so thankful I have a job I love, where I get to help people at this precious time of their lives. It’s my aim that everyone who comes to my classes begins labour armed with knowledge - plus lots of practical tools; relaxation techniques, breathing techniques, postures to move baby into a good position for birth, and move them down through the birth canal. And if you do a hypnobirthing course, you’ll have a trained partner to support you through birth.
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If you’d like help preparing for birth, get in touch, or come to one of my pregnancy yoga classes and see what my classes are all about. Then we can chat and see if hypnobirthing’s a good fit for you and which course - full course or workshop - would serve you best.
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Swipe to see my beautiful boy now, at his birthday last month, I’m happy to say his body caught up with his head! ❤️

I’m reading ‘Yoga Myths’ by the wonderful Ju

I’m reading ‘Yoga Myths’ by the wonderful Judith Hanson Lasater at the moment and this line really resonated with me.
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It’s something we see a lot in yoga, people pushing themselves a bit too far, wanting to be super flexible, and go a bit deeper into the poses than is good for their body.
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But it also resonates so much for life right now. We’re always striving to be more, more successful, earn more, buy more, be more popular, have more followers - but Covid has turned everything upside down, and maybe shown us the joy of doing less, of caring less about surface things, of living more in the moment.
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So take a moment to ask yourself, ‘Can I do less?’ - your body and your peace of mind might benefit from it.

How beautiful is this image of Gemma and baby Oliv

How beautiful is this image of Gemma and baby Olivia shortly after birth? Her husband really caught the moment beautifully. Gemma says ‘I felt so empowered at what I had just achieved and it was the most incredible feeling.’
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Gemma did my pregnancy yoga online classes, plus my online hypnobirthing workshop, during the last lockdown over the summer, and says, ‘Your pregnancy yoga classes kept me so relaxed in the run up to the birth, and your hypnobirthing course was invaluable. It helped me so much with my birth experience and made me trust my own instincts and my body.’
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I’m so glad that technology means I can keep helping women through their pregnancies and births. So don’t think you have to put your birth prep on hold ladies, do get in touch and I can talk you through your options.
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And if you’re interested in reading what happened during Gemma’s birth (during Covid), head over to the blog (link in bio).

@sketchymuma perfectly captures the mood in our ho

@sketchymuma perfectly captures the mood in our house ❤️

If you’re hoping for a better postnatal recovery

If you’re hoping for a better postnatal recovery but haven’t had the time or energy to make it to a postnatal fitness class, why not join me for Postnatal Yoga, which is going live, online from Thurs, 5th Nov, from 10am to 11am.
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Once you’re ready to start exercising postnatally, you need to know you’re doing it in a safe way. Your body has been through months of immense physical changes and it needs time to heal, slowly and with care.
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Join me every Thurs morning during lockdown and I’ll guide you carefully back to full strength. To begin we’ll check for diastasis recti (abdominal separation) and then work on strengthening the core - abdominals, pelvic floor, back and glutes. We’ll stretch out tight shoulders and realign the spine. Plus, we’ll talk about maternal mental health and self-care, so important for new mums!
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Then when lockdown ends you’ll have the option to come to my in-person classes, to meet the mums you’ve met virtually and build a network of support from mums in the area.
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You’ve got the option to do the class with baby at your side, stopping for cuddles or to feed, or if you have someone at home to help out, why not take a much needed hour to yourself. I promise you you’ll feel so much better for it!
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Get in touch if you have any questions, or to give the class a try.

This might seem like a small thing to some people,

This might seem like a small thing to some people, but to new mums and mums of young children it’s hugely important.
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Walking the cold winter streets alone, with baby in a pushchair or a toddler, can be a very lonely feeling.
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Going for a walk with your mum, or sibling, or friend, or another new mum (who also may be feeling isolated) - can be the difference between a happy mum and a mum who feels lonely, depressed and anxious.
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Thank you to @pregnant_then_screwed for being the voice of pregnant women and mothers, and for getting these issues in front of ministers.
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Whilst we are locked down for the next month (or more), if you can, get out and walk ladies. Ideally go with someone, get fresh air, keep fit, have a chat. Even when it feels like a lot of effort to get out of the house, try and do it, I promise you you’ll feel so much better for it.
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And if you’re a new mum and live in the Beaconsfield/High Wycombe area and don’t have anyone to walk with, get in touch and I’ll put you in touch with other new mums in the area.

I get lots of great birth stories from the ladies

I get lots of great birth stories from the ladies who come to my pregnancy yoga and hypnobirthing classes. And when a first-time mum says she had her ‘dream birth’ it really makes my day. It’s exactly what I hope for, for all my mums.
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Come along and l’ll show you the tools to help you have your dream birth too.
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There’s a new Thurs eve class starting on the 12th Nov, come along for a trial class then, or get your name on the list for one of the other classes.
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Beaconsfield Pregnancy Yoga & Hypnobirthing.
See the website for details.

I know a lot of women, who go over their estimated

I know a lot of women, who go over their estimated due date, start to feel pressured to give birth as soon as possible. They may be told baby will be getting bigger and this could cause problems with delivery, and may hear the dreaded shoulder dystocia mentioned. I know for a lot of women this is a big fear towards the end of their pregnancy.
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If you’re pregnant and starting to worry that you’re carrying a ‘big’ baby, rest assured that midwives are highly trained in delivering babies whose shoulders become stuck after the birth of baby’s head. They are taught manoeuvres to release baby quickly and safely, and will do this immediately, without the need for specialist equipment.
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Whenever ladies from my classes have been faced with shoulder dystocia during birth, I’m always happy to hear how lightly they pass over this part of their labour, mentioning it as a normal part of the labour process, rather than the traumatic experience many people fear it may be, in advance of birth.
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That was certainly the case for Eleanor, who states, ‘As a healthy 9lb 5oz, her shoulder got stuck on entry to the world, but the midwives moved me from my all fours position to help her out.’ Head over to the blog (link in bio) to read the rest of Eleanor’s great birth story.
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