A new childbirth education program that’s breaking the norms is now in Brisbane. Birth Boot Camp is on the rise and breaking boundaries in what we know in preparation for birth. We’ve all seen and watched ‘One Born Every Minute’ and the medicalisation of birth that we have grown so accustomed to. Whenever you watch a birth in the media…
The fear mongering about big babies is so widespread that women are literally so anxious before the birth just from the fact that someone may have said to them that their carrying much bigger or their care provider may have planted the seed that their baby is a bit on the larger side. And so that seed of doubt grows…
Any mum that has suffered through postnatal depression or anxiety knows that it is a silent disease that feels like your all alone in the hopelessness that is your mind. But now the new drug Zulresso that promises some relief for that is paving the way to give these women some hope for a better tomorrow, but are we losing…
The Fourth Trimester ‘The first 40 days of life will impact the next 40 years of life’…this is an Indian saying deriving from an ancient tradition in which the minutes, hours, days and weeks following your birth should be spent nourishing your baby and nurturing yourself by having family and friends take care of you so you can rest and…
A mum posted a photo of herself in her full vulnerability holding her 3 day old baby in tears. This photo has swarmed Facebook like wildfire and has gained 20,000 shares on social media in raising awareness for the truth of what new mums can struggle with in this post natal period. The new mum is Danielle Haines whom was…
So before I dive right into the many benefits of ingesting your placenta, I’m going to speak from my own experience with this abundant organ that was full of what I needed to get me through my darkest days. So when I gave birth to my eldest daughter, a whopping 11 years ago I was the complete mainstream mama, I…