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My Motto in all of this…🌊 Don’t be afraid to make waves 🌊 In Hypnobirthing and Doulaing, language is the cornerstone to ...
15/08/2023

My Motto in all of this…

🌊 Don’t be afraid to make waves 🌊

In Hypnobirthing and Doulaing, language is the cornerstone to positivity. We reframe statements used by medical professionals to favour a positive mindset.

Do you recoil at the words “Moist” or perhaps “phlegm” or god forbid I mention “discharge”?? - Most people do!

As intelligent beings, we relate words to their many meanings for example:

Contraction… contract…. Binding…bills….debt….prison….can’t escape… unsafe building…hazard. Not to mention it’s harsh sound CON (neggy) TRAKKKTT.

Not something a pregnant person should hear repeatedly and associate with PAIN? Perhaps not.

Especially when it is not any of those things 👆🏻 🤌🏻🤌🏻
A contraction is the body efficiently moving muscles in intervals to help baby make it’s way through the birth canal.

👉🏻So we call them SURGES. Or WAVES.

👉🏻I use the term Waves more because it helps me to visualise the feeling washing over me, reaching its peak and fall back down.

👉🏻 I also identify water and the ocean with HEALING, abundance, power and beauty and most of all CALM. To know the wave in all its glory comes crashing toward me, I submit and enjoy the water and let it fall away to enjoy the calm until the next one.
Coupled with the visualisation that the tide slowly inches in wave by wave will be bringing me my baby.
Makes a bit of sense dunnit??

👉🏻 Don’t be afraid to make waves, YOU are the maker of the wave my dear, so you have it in YOU to ride them!! Just submit to the feeling and know you are as strong as they feel! Each and every wave brings that tide an inch closer to shore.

👉🏻 And in another sense. Make those ripples. And don’t give a damn because this is your birth and your baby! EVERYTHING requires your CONSENT. So don’t be afraid to make waves when it comes to your decisions. Remember ‘NO’ is more than enough in the delivery room.

So Hang 10cm MAMA! YOU’VE GOT THIS 💪🏻🌊

I live by the sea, my son is called River, I’ve birthed 2 babies in water, I’m a Pisces ♓️ love a bath and I’m very well hydrated. Waves are ma thang.

JUST BECAUSE ITS NATURAL, DOESN’T MEAN IT COMES NATURALLY 🙌🏻 We’ve all been there mama. You’re in the milky trenches rig...
02/08/2023

JUST BECAUSE ITS NATURAL, DOESN’T MEAN IT COMES NATURALLY 🙌🏻

We’ve all been there mama. You’re in the milky trenches right now finding your groove. Here’s a few things that may help a boobie melt down.

1. Try a new or different position, babies can’t communicate if they’re uncomfortable in a certain hold. Try a new position or a change of environment. New seat, more upright. Give yourself more support to give support. It’s amazing what a little switcheroo can do.

2. Skin to skin is King. Release all that oxytocin from holding baby to your chest. A newborn doesn’t recognise that it’s a separate being yet. The soothing effect will calm you both and get the flow flowing like magic!

3. Honestly this one is easy to forget but aim that ni**le to the nose and baby will take the cue and open wide, allowing more ni**le in for a good latch.

Chant in your head ‘tummy to tummy, nip to nose’

4. Feed the Feeder! You need to eat to keep your strength up and your supply up. You lose roughly between 300-600 cals a day from feeding.
Save the choccy bar for the night feeds to look forward to the fix on a long night of Netflix and Nursing.

5. This one is important. Studies show that mothers who receives support and encouragement during breast feeding have a higher chance of continuing past 6 weeks. Support her, make her feel safe in public and let her know you have her back. Grabbing a water goes a long way.

6. If everything fails, this applies to all problems with small children - get in the bath. You’ve got the skin to skin, the warm healing water for unsettled tummy’s, it’s the closest thing to being back in your tummy! Warm water will always help milk flow
too! It’s probably my favourite hack!

7. You’re both probably knackered so go back to bed. Even if you don’t sleep you and your baby’s bodies can relax a bit. Tummy to tummy, no pressure and hey presto - a latch! Or a wonderful snooze together safely 🫶🏻

It’s hard to know that it’s a perfectly natural beautiful process. Because it is hard for most mothers! We’ve all sat there sweating, covered in milk, feeling like we’re failing.
Week by week the struggle fades. TRUST ME, YOU’VE GOT THIS!

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