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Supporting women to make healthy lifestyle changes at any stage of their pregnancy journey.

Bloomwell Pregnancy is an online health coaching service supporting women to make healthy lifestyle changes before, during, and after pregnancy. Led by Chartered Health Psychologist and Pregnancy Health Coach, Dr Lauren Rockliffe.

For more information visit www.bloomwellpregnancy.co.uk.

02/06/2025

When thinking about our lifestyle behaviours (e.g., the way we eat, the way we move, our drinking behaviour, sleeping patterns etc), it can be helpful to keep our values in mind and to ask ourselves “is this behaviour in line with my values?” If the answer is yes, great. If the answer is no, perhaps it’s worth reconsidering. Behaviours that are misaligned can lead to cognitive dissonance, where your actions are in conflict with your values, causing inner tension and discomfort.

Sometimes it can be difficult to identify exactly what our values are. To help get you started, here’s a list of 10 values to consider.

🩷 Health
🩷 Balance
🩷 Honesty
🩷 Compassion
🩷 Growth
🩷 Connection
🩷 Resilience
🩷 Purpose
🩷 Authenticity
🩷 Gratitude

12/05/2025

Caffeine has a half-life of roughly between 3-6 hours. This means that 3-6 hours after your last coffee, you’ll still have half the caffeine in your system. However, estimates for this vary widely (from as little as 2 hours all the way up to 12 hours) and this is due to individual factors which may affect the rate at which the body metabolises caffeine. ☕

One factor that can affect how quickly caffeine is metabolised is pregnancy! When you’re pregnant, the rate at which caffeine is cleared from your body slows down, meaning it’ll hang about for a lot longer than it normally would. It’s been suggested that by late pregnancy, the half-life of caffeine could be twice as long as it normally is!

On this basis, I’d recommend having your last coffee of the day as early as possible, to ensure it doesn’t affect your sleep and keep you up all night long! 😵‍💫

24/02/2025

The choice point is a therapeutic tool we can use to help us understand our behaviours more clearly ↖️↗️

Every day, we make decisions that take us closer to, or further away from, our goals and the life we want to be living. 'Away moves' are things we do that are detrimental for our health, that don't serve us, or make us less happy. 'Towards moves' are the opposite; they are all of the positive things we do for ourselves to support our health and wellbeing.

For example, if one of your goals is to go for an early morning walk each day, going to bed late at night might mean you're too tired to do this the next morning. Staying up late would therefore count as an 'away move' as it's taking you further away from the life you want to be living. On the flip side, making sure you're in bed early would count as a 'towards move'.

'Away moves' are often triggered by specific situations, thoughts, and feelings, so it can be useful to consider what's underlying your unhelpful behaviours. By doing this, you can start to better understand yourself and identify more clearly the changes needed to help you achive your goals 🥰

Try this for yourself and let me know in the comments if you found it useful! ✨

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