Your pregnancy – weeks 28 to 32

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Monday, 30 November 2015 / Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife

As your bump pushes up against your lungs and you have extra weight to carry around, you may feel breathless.

Touch and Massage

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Sunday, 25 October 2015 / Published in Labour & Birth

Preparation tips for your birth and beyond - massage techniques

Are you at home with birth?

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Wednesday, 15 July 2015 / Published in breastfeeding, Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife

Ask any women planning a home birth and they will tell you that there seems to a universal response “You must be Crazy!” I was asked to speak at the Manchester Home Birth Conference recently where we found out that having a planned Home birth means the midwives come to you when you are in labour, they stay and support you and carry everything that is needed for a safe birth!

How to get birth ready!

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Monday, 18 May 2015 / Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Meet the Midwife, Midwife, Working with UKBC

On Saturday 6th June from 11.00am until 2.00pm, we are teaming up with the Zenchi Clinic to offer you a free Natural Birth Preparation Day.  We will condense our expertise into 3 hours covering topics such as water birth, optimal positioning, Rebozzo and labour massage hypnobirthing, breathing and relaxation. Our aim is that you leave the day excited about your birth. 

Why water birth

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Tuesday, 17 February 2015 / Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife

Water birth enables women to give birth in the way their bodies were designed.

“We were not designed to give birth under water!” I can hear you say!

Birth is a piece of cake

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Wednesday, 08 October 2014 / Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth

I am loving the current series of “The British Bake Off” and seeing all those amazing cakes puts me in mind of a birth I attended at home!

Hypnotherapy for Childbirth

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Tuesday, 24 December 2013 / Published in Labour & Birth

Continuing with a series of blogs here at UK Birth Centre Ltd on preparation tips for your birth and beyond here we are discussing hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis is "a state of deep physical relaxation with an alert mind producing alpha waves, in which the subconscious mind can be more readily accessed" ( Mantle 2000 ) Hypnosis used for childbirth is almost always self-hypnosis: the hypnotherapist teaches the woman to induce the hypnotic state in herself during labour.