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by thebumptobabychapter | January 17, 2020 | Positive Birth Story | 0 Comments

After keeping everyone on their toes and arriving 10 days late, Buddy wasn't hanging around when he finally decided he was on his way! By this point, I'd tried everything. And I mean EVERYTHING, but this baby didn't want to seem to shift. Curry, pineapple, clary sage,...

by thebumptobabychapter | January 11, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Your Birth Environment - Why is Birth Environment So Important? Have you ever noticed how much you act from your environmental cues. Your Mum pops over with a plate of cookies and she leaves them on your dining room table. You...

by thebumptobabychapter | December 31, 2019 | New mum | 0 Comments

2019 was my third year doing The Bump to Baby Chapter and it was a wild one. Wild like in this above photo wild, surviving the nights, managing 2 young children at home, writing blogs and scheduling emails at 2am with a baby on my boob, or walking around with her on...

by thebumptobabychapter | December 23, 2019 | New mum, Newborn, Top 5 Tips | 0 Comments

Managing visitors after having a baby... Christmas time is a time for lots of family and friends to visit. Having a baby brings even more reasons for visitors as everyone wants to meet your new arrival, plus you want to show off the new tiny, beautiful human that...

by thebumptobabychapter | December 18, 2019 | Positive Birth Story, Positive Induction | 0 Comments

I’d like to start with how truly terrified I was. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around how my baby was going to come out.. from there! You know? Even after my husband and I attended The Bump to Baby Chapter classes, I felt informed, prepared & excited... but...

by thebumptobabychapter | December 13, 2019 | Hypnobirthing, Pregnancy, The Birth Chapter | 0 Comments

How to use Birth Affirmations in pregnancy? Everyone has their sayings that they repeat in their head when they need a little pick me up. It might be a, “ Come on... You’ve got this!” before you stand in front of your team to do a presentation at work or “Stay calm,...

by thebumptobabychapter | December 5, 2019 | Birth Stories, The Birth Chapter, Top 5 Tips | 0 Comments

Poor Mary on her donkey trying to find a nice place to have her precious baby, only to be showed to a stable filled with animals. If this was to happen nowadays we’d all be fuming that we didn’t get to our hospital room with a bed, warm water and a midwife. But I want...

by thebumptobabychapter | November 2, 2019 | Positive Birth Story, Previous Traumatic Birth | 0 Comments

My husband and I did a one day hypnobirthing course in August and I just wanted to thank Beth and TBTBC for making such a difference to our birth experience. It was more wondeeful than I could have hoped for and I am sure that all the advice, positive stories and...

by thebumptobabychapter | October 24, 2019 | Birth Stories, The Birth Chapter | 11 Comments

I want to tell you a story about this pregnant Mum I knew. She worked in a predominantly female workforce and one specific day at the office at tea break, they got into a convo about birth. “My labour was 52 hours and ended in an emergency caesarean.” “I bled too...

by thebumptobabychapter | October 9, 2019 | Dads, New mum, Newborn | 2 Comments

As I lie on the floor trying to write this, with my 7 month year old daughter crawling all over me, clawing at my note pad, shrieking in my ear and doing her best to be impossibly cute, I’m ashamed to admit to how I’ve felt before;...