Resources for pregnancy, birth + postpartum
Learn the importance of keeping track of your baby's movements in utero.
An open resource to help bring awareness and prevention to babies born sleeping.
A doula is a caregiver who attends your birth to support the mother and her birth partner, not only physically but emotionally. She is also there to help support your birth choices and preferences. Doulas may also continue to support you AFTER baby is born.
The power of a BIRTH PLAN is NOT the plan itself, but the process of becoming educated and aware of your choices and options for birth and labour.
Feeding Support for You and Baby
However you choose to feed your baby, asking for help can make the all the difference, here are some great contacts.
“An Active Birth is nothing new, it is simply a convenient way of describing labour and birth, and the way a woman behaves when she is following her own instincts and physiological logic of her own body.” ~ Janet Balaskas
Mantras are sounds + syllables that when chanted or repeated can help to provide mental focus + clarity. Much like an affirmation, these mantras will provide inspiration before and during labour + birth.
When a baby is born so too is the mother! The first twelve weeks following birth are a time of transition not just for babies, but also for mums immersing and learning the ways of being a mother.
The Fourth Trimester by Kimberley Ann Johnson
Giving birth can and should be a positive, life-changing event for all women, however for some women their experience of birth can be filled with a mixture of emotions or even very negative, resulting in physical and/or psychological injuries (trauma) with lasting negative impacts on their lives. Education is the key to prevention, find out how to prepare and support yourself and others before and after birth via birthtrauma.org.au