So many questions arise during pregnancy and shortly before the birth. In our blogs, we try to give you all kinds of helpful information, from preparing for the birth, to pregnancy worries and that first golden hour after the birth.
A First Time Dad’s Top Tips for Surviving the First Week with your New Baby The first week of being a new parent can be extremely daunting for everyone, including dads and partners so we caught up with a new dad to ask his tops tips for surviving (and thriving!) in those early days….
How to deal with your fears about birth – and why it’s so essential that you do We have a brilliant guest blog for you today from birth coach Rachel Quickenden. Rachel is a mum of two little boys and lives in Kent. She is a birth coach, teaching hypnobirthing and antenatal courses and supporting…
Safely Returning to Exercise Post Birth Bernadette Dancy Phd, is a Health Coach and Personal Trainer with over 15 years’ experience working as a health and exercise specialist. She now works as a Full Time Mum (is there any other kind?!) and part time Health and Exercise Coach delivering Skype Coaching Programmes to people all…
Can I Use a Baby Carrier when Pregnant? Growing your family is a big and exciting thing and whilst some people might assume that you’ve ‘done it all before’ there are plenty of new challenges to face and experiences to enjoy being pregnant the second (or third or fourth or fifth!) time around. One…
Expert Advice of the Month: Baby’s first layette: What do you really need when you become a parent? Bed? Dummy? Bathtub? Pram? Nappies? When a new member joins the family, the thoughts of the expectant parents revolve around one question: What do we have to do so we are ready for the little miracle…
Top Nutrition Tips For Parents from our Partners at Piccolo: With many families still staying home as much as possible it’s still a challenging time for parents right now. We want to do what we can to help mums and dads feel supported during this unprecedented time, so we’ve pulled together our top tips to…
Ask the Expert | The 4th Trimester Explanations and Tips for the Months After Birth This week is European Babywearing Week, and the theme is “4th trimester and beyond”. But what’s behind the term “4th trimester”? Isn’t a pregnancy actually 9 months long, which is 3 trimesters (1 trimester = 3 months)? Thankfully, our midwife and…
The CARiFiT guide to home workouts for new mums! Home workouts have never been more relevant, searched for or useful than right now. They provide much needed movement and physical stimulation and the mental health benefits that everyone is well aware come from a workout. As well as this, at a time of great…
What to Expect from your First Postnatal Physiotherapy Appointment Are you thinking about postnatal physiotherapy, either due to a GP referral or simply because you’re curious about what it could do for you, but aren’t really sure what it might entail? Then this blog post is for you! Pelvic health physiotherapist Lucy Allen explains…
From our partners : Delivery type, diastasis recti, pelvic floor. When you look to return to exercise after the arrival of your baby you are going to be bombarded with all sorts of information and some quite conflicting opinions. It was a desire to put all the info that new mums new from a range…