Are you due a baby in 2025? Now is your chance to book into one of our antenatal classes and workshops. January Hypnobirthing January 2025 - Suitable…
Enabling Safe Quality Midwifery Services and Care in Northern Ireland: Mary Renfrew Report October 2024 The recent report on maternity services in Northern Ireland highlights strengths and challenges in the…
Are you planning to have your baby in Northern Ireland? This article is filled with information to help you find out more about birth places in Northern Ireland and your…
This pregnancy started off very different from my other two so that should have been a clue that the birth would be a little different. 1st birth Caitlin - straightforward…
Part two I was awoken at 2am with contractions every 3 to 4mins. Initially I just thought it was early labour, but they kept coming and were getting intense.…
Part one Our second little baba was born mid May 2020, just as we were coming to the end of the first lockdown. We had a beautiful, transformative water birth…
If you are pregnant, you have probably been making decisions about a lot of things, from what you will name your baby, what kind of cot or car seat you…
In the current climate, does it feel like things have gotten a whole lot more anxious and uncertain? Does it feel like your choices and options for labour, or the…
Key elements to a positive birth include - feeling calm and safe, having a supportive birth team and building up oxytocin levels in the body to support the birth process.…
In such an uncertain time, with Coronavirus affecting
services and communities, there are a lot of challenges facing pregnancy, birth
and those early postnatal weeks. Many people may be worried about…
I’ve been talking a lot about breech babies lately with
women I’m supporting antenatally, and when an email newsletter landed in my
inbox about babies ‘not for turning’, I thought I’d do…
We spoke to Kelly Connaghan and Gill Bann who run a joint course for pregnancy at Lough Road Yoga in Upper Ballinderry. The course comprises of 5 yoga classes in…