A beautiful Positive Birth Story using hypnobirthing techniques despite having to manage medical intervention.A passion of Bump2baby Reality is to care, prepare and support women and their partners in their birth preparation and early parenting. We try to encourage an open-minded approach for labour, birth, and those early days. We encourage a positive mindset during labour but also being prepared for a birthing… Read more »
Year: 2017
Minimeltdowns – D and V and all things nice
#minimeltdowns Hello everyone, it’s been a little while but I’ve been back at work and it’s full on (more about that in my next blog). It’s struck me that our mums’ WhatsApp chat is full of one thing at the moment…. illness. Hand, foot and mouth, chest infections, colds, vomiting bugs, you name it…. and… Read more »
Minimeltdowns – Guilt, guilt guilt….. those three magic words
#minimeltdowns It’s been a little while since I checked in with everyone at the #minimeltdowns blog epicentre. How are you all doing? More importantly… has anyone made any baby steps towards getting help? I really hope so. Thoughts and actions all count. Our son is now one year old and I’ve made the somewhat controversial… Read more »
Minimeltdowns – Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Pre and Post Baby: A Closer Look
#minimeltdowns A bit about me I started writing this blog as I feel both emotional and mental health of new parents is a much discussed, little done about topic. I want this blog to inspire understanding and action. I am by no means an expert in perinantal (peri meaning around and natal meaning birth) mental… Read more »
Minimeltdowns – Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Pre and Post Baby: An Introduction
#minimeltdowns Welcome to my first #minimeltdowns post. A bit daunting to say the least but here we go…. My aim in starting this blog is simple – to help you to understand, to talk and importantly to action. I’m extremely passionate about mental health and having recently given birth I wanted to be able to… Read more »
The Top 3 Reasons Why People Attend a Private Antenatal Course
During the past year we’ve been listening to our clients and finding out why they attended Bump2baby Reality antenatal courses, and why they’d advise other parents-to-be to come along. Many people attend so that they can meet other people going along the same journey (a brilliant reason) but there are other reasons too. Here are… Read more »
5 THINGS TO DO WHEN THINKING ABOUT GOING BACK TO WORK AFTER MATERNITY LEAVE
Bump2baby Reality welcomes a guest blog by Sally Dhillon, Career-Mums www.career-mums.co.uk helping parents to return to work following a career break. They run Relaunch your Career workshops in Leamington, Solihull and Birmingham and personal return to work coaching sessions by Skype. Maternity leave passes so quickly – I remember being so focussed on my… Read more »
Parent Guilt
When you become a Mum or Dad you gain a whole new emotion… parent guilt. You’ve spent your life up until now imagining what life will be like having a baby, or being pregnant. We all have a preconceived idea of what kind of parent we will be. I always thought I would be the… Read more »
