Baby Momma Bliss - Support for Pregnancy & Beyond

29/09/2022

16/07/2022

An obstetrician from the 1800’s decided your due date.

And VERY often babies are forced out of the womb before they’re ready based on his calculations.

The obsession with a gestation of 40 weeks leads to an increase in inductions, interventions, and surgical birth - all of which have physical and emotional/mental consequences for mother and baby.

But where did this guess date even come from?

The due date calculation we use today comes from an obstetrician named Franz Karl Naegele, who invented “Naegele’s Rule”. This calculation starts with the first day of your last menstrual period, goes back three months, then adds one year and 7 days. The result is a gestation of 280 days (40 weeks).

The 40 week date is an average, meaning that about 1/2 of women will give birth before that date, & 1/2 after. It probably wasn’t seen as a hard eviction date in the 1800’s.

But today we live in a fast-paced world that runs on schedules and money. And with the ability to “control” birth via induction and surgery, this 40 week average date often turns into the day when your baby will be forced from your body.

Here are my top 3 reasons why using this calculation as a hard eviction date is wrong...

1. Naegele’s Rule is based on a 28 day menstrual cycle. If you, like me, don’t ovulate at exactly day 14 of your cycle, this calculation won’t work for you. Most people don’t know when they ovulate, and this important fact is almost never taken into account when calculating a due date.

2. Our bodies are all different - we didn’t all get our periods at exactly age 11 years 6 months and 13 days, so why would our bodies all grow babies at exactly the same rate? To use a due date as an estimate of when a baby will arrive is one thing - to use it as an eviction notice is a completely different story.

3. Many factors determine whether you are likely to have a longer or shorter gestation - if you are between the ages of 19 and 34, having your first baby, or are white, you are statistically more likely to have a longer pregnancy.

03/05/2022

Sorry to say Baby Massage and Yoga isn't on today as Bliss needs to rest with her auto-immune flare. Meantime here's a lovely review from Helen Hart about a recent class at Stroud Goddess Temple

"When my daughter visited me in Stroud with her baby, we had a really lovely morning together with Bliss, doing baby massage. She helped us with specific techniques to help his poorely tummy and baby Isaac would highly recommend this, he loved it!"

01/05/2022

Baby Massage and Yoga sessions in May at Stroud Goddess Temple - Tuesday Mornings 3rd, 17th and 24th May, 10am - please contact Bliss to confirm your attendance in advance ❤️
Learn simple massage strokes to build somatic connection and foster flexibility, self awareness and help with common challenges in babies, and some gentle exercise to support parents with core strength and movement, as well as safer lifting and carrying with growing infants! Held by Bliss Magdalena, who has been teaching baby massage and yoga for a decade and a half, starting with her own daughter. Bliss is also a babywearing peer supporter and happy to offer advice in these sessions. £10 per baby, up to two caregivers can attend. Bring a towel/blanket and oil, baby safe blends available.

26/02/2022

10/02/2022

Baby massage and yoga class at Stroud Goddess Temple starting in April 2022, 10am Tuesdays. Here are the dates:

5th April
12th April
26th April
3rd May
17th May
24th May
7th June
14th June

08/02/2022

01/02/2022

💕Pregnant Mother💕

🌹You should known, that you are your baby's Mother Earth as your mom was for you when u was in her womb🌹

✨Yes our body is like the Mother Earth when we are pregnant. You have all the elements that creates crystals and stones to create bones, rivers of waters to create blood, mountains of proteines and lipids to create muscles and organs, and more and more therwe is inside yourself to nourish and hold the soul of your baby💕

✨Your molecular information will be pass to your baby in form of vitamins, minerals, protein, etc.... But also energetically....spiritually... Emotionally... many codes will pass to our babies.

✨Your baby is going to use all what you can provide to build his or her physical body, but also it will pass some ancestral information, experiences from this life and spiritual information too.

✨And you know whats amazing? We, mothers also integrate and receive information from our babies 😍 so much light💖

✨Our being will be recalibrate it in all levels, and in both directions there is a beautiful imprint from both souls😍

✨And there is still more magic: The Placenta🙏😍💖🌹 (but thats for a next post).

✨Even us, are literally made of our mother's body and soul during her pregnancy and that requires huge amounts of nutrients, minerals, intention - attention, and power of will💖

✨So taking care of your nutrition is so essential as taking care of our spiritual and emotional health, using wisely the light that we receive from our babies💖

✨And with this New Moon and New beginning, create a special moment to be for u and your baby, to be for yourself and embrace the recalibration that is happening in you both💖

💖When we learn to take care of our own land, we start to take care and protect our beautiful planet💖

By Brenda Miquiztli
Pic: Jaya Cosmica

04/01/2022

Here's my availability for January one to ones
❤️ ☺️🌹

Sunday 9th January Afternoon or evening, Monday 10th January after 5pm, Tuesday 11th January afternoon or evening, Tuesday 18th January Morning or Afternoon, Friday 21st January Morning or afternoon, Saturday 22nd January Morning or evening, Monday 24th January afternoon or evening.

Let me know if any of these times will suit you and we can set your appointment up 🙂

www.blissmagdalena.com

27/12/2021

Caesarean Birth Is Birth
Mama Know Your Worth
Your Womb Is The Greatest Portal
Your Sacrifice Is Immortal
Your Body Created Human Form
Your Baby Has Been Born
Yours Is A Natural Birth
It Took Place On Planet Earth
A Truth You Will Discover
You Are The Magnificent Mother
May You Always Know Your Worth
And That Caesarean Birth Is Birth

My latest drawing and poetry celebrating caesarean birth. Share this with any mamas you know who gave birth this way and show them all the love and respect they deserve ♡

07/12/2021

What do you say to a sister
who is about to
enter the sea
when you don’t know if she will be met
with storms or calm water
when you don’t know what
journey awaits and
how she’ll make it to shore

What do you say to a sister
when you see her scan the horizon
hesitant and unsure
when you know her fear
and the work that lays ahead
when you know she’ll come out the other side
Changed

Softer perhaps. Or maybe scarred.
But stronger, too, no doubt.

You walk with her as deep as you can into those waters
and you hold her close, as long as you can
and then you let go
and let her dive deep
knowing there are parts of this journey
she must make alone
knowing there are storms that she must face on her own

And you stand, a lighthouse, the shore
as she becomes one with the sea

~ Words and Art by Catie Atkinson
Spirit Y Sol
www.linktr.ee/spiritysol