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Body, Birth & Baby is a holistic Midwifery Practice providing holistic childbirth education and postnatal home visiting.

14/04/2022

WOMB TO WORLD ✨

I am to beyond excited to introduce… Womb to World…. my new self paced holistic birth and baby online course!

I have been working on this for almost a year now and I am beyond proud of this course! This course encompasses everything I want new parents to know heading into their birthing experience and parenthood 👶

Why Womb to World?

What separates Womb to World apart with many online birth courses is the strong focus it has not just on birth but also on Postpartum, Breastfeeding and
The Fourth Trimester 🤱

This course consists of 8 modules

✨ Labour and Birth Preparation
✨ Educated and Empowered Labour
✨ Women are amazing… birthing your baby
✨ Birthing with assistance
✨ Hello baby…
✨ Empowered Breastfeeding
✨ The Fourth Trimester
✨ Prepare for Postpartum

Swipe across for details about what each module consists of ➡️

You will love this if…

⭐️You want an in depth course
⭐️ You want to pace yourself through education
⭐️ You and your partner have busy schedules
⭐️ You are wanting to learn about Breastfeeding & The Fourth Trimester (you should 👌🏼)
⭐️ You/ your partner feel overwhelmed by group classes
⭐️You want to feel educated and empowered throughout your birthing journey and prepared for new parenthood 👊

What you get…

🌟 Instant access!
🌟 12 months access
🌟 Written content and images for every lesson, most lessons include a video or slideshow video and links to more reading and resources
🌟 Downloadable pdfs- Resources, What to pack in your hospital bag, Birth Wishlist, BBB Affirmations, Labour to-do list, Support Person Cheat Sheet and a Postpartum plan 🙌🏼
🌟 Access to my BBB community so you can ask me questions along the way 👏🏼

The content is what a midwife and Lactation Consultant wants EVERY parent-to-be to know so you can feel educated, empowered and prepared for your baby 🥰

Grab a cuppa ☕️ get comfy and get learning 💻

To celebrate the launch of this course, for a limited time, use the code ‘launchparty’ for $20 off 🥳

To purchase, head to the link in my bio 🙌🏼

I hope you love it 😍

Amber 💕

16/03/2021

I am so excited to announce my Holistic Birth & Baby small group face to face classes are coming back in April! The classes have been completely re-invented and I’m so excited to educate you at this beautiful light filled yoga studio in Northcote at 🤍

The Firstimer Digital Education has been such a huge success... this will be a face to face version of that class, and I will continue to offer The Firstimer and all of my other Digital Packages!

April had a waitlist and is fully booked... MAY bookings are now open 🥳

Book via the website (link in bio)

Amber 💕

30/11/2020

Mornington Peninsula new parents... Body, Birth & Baby is here to support you 🤱🏾

If you have had a baby in the last six weeks and need help with:
Feeding 🤱🏾🍼
Settling 👶🏼
Debriefing 👩🏻
Or if you need all of your questions answered... midwife Amber is here to help!

Postnatal home visiting within the first six weeks to talk all things “The Fourth Trimester” is available to you, with Medicare rebates available!

Receive $20 off home visiting as well as Medicare rebates if you book in for Antenatal Digital Education (see website for more details)

Email info@bodybirthandbaby.com.au for more details and to book 💕

(Home Visiting also still available for Melbourne clients)

10/09/2020

R U OK? DAY 🖤

Repost 📸
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“Today is R U OK? Day and if your response is "What do you think - of course I'm not OK!" then you're not alone.
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2020 has been a challenging, painful year full of grief, stress, isolation and uncertainty - particularly for families in Victoria.
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We are giving birth with only one support person by our side.
We are grieving the maternity leave we'd been dreaming of.
We are FaceTiming grandparents instead of watching them hold and kiss and delight in our babies.
We are learning how to be mothers and fathers, without our village.
We are juggling newborns and homeschooling older siblings.
We are logging on to antenatal classes online and wondering if we'll know what to do when the baby arrives.
We are anxious, so, so, anxious and many of our usual coping mechanisms have been taken away.
We are crying because we're burnt out and exhausted, tired to our bones and wondering when life will feel "normal" again.
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It's completely understandable to be struggling at the moment, to be feeling out of your depth and turned inside out and upside down.
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But you are not alone - and help is available.
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Please don't suffer in silence.
Don't wait to seek support.
You are not a burden.
You are loved.
You are needed.
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And there is hope.
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Over on our site we have detailed information about how to seek treatment. You can also contact us directly if you need help working out where to turn.
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Don’t forget, also, to check in on the new parents around you. Asking the question may just save a life.
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We are here for you today - and always.”
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https://www.cope.org.au/getting-help/
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Image by Spirit Y Sol
Words by .org.au

26/08/2020

“The energy that gets the baby in, gets the baby out.” 💕💫💕
Ina May Gaskin.

📷 ❤️ repost

11/08/2020

Education and Support from my home to yours 🏡💕

Being pregnant and postpartum in a pandemic presents many challenges, and with a lack of support and face to face options... I truly believe antenatal education and support is key 🗝

I have developed online Digital Education Packages, where I sit down with you one to one over zoom and aim to Educate and Empower you for all things body, birth and baby 👶💕

I can completely tailor these packages to you, however if you need some guidance, I offer the following packages:

‘Firstimer’- this is my full program for first time parents, I split this into two, approximately 2 hour sessions, covering preparing your body for labour, labour, birth, breastfeeding and setting yourself up for The Fourth Trimester 🤱🏾

‘The Multi’- this is for those parents who have had a baby before but need a refresher, from debriefing your previous experience to preparing for your upcoming birth, this is an individualised approach to help you feel empowered to embark on your upcoming birth 💪🏼

‘Breastfeeding’- whether you’re expecting your first baby or have had a baby before, if you want to breastfeed, this is the package for you! I’m so passionate about antenatal breastfeeding education, it’s so ESSENTIAL 🙌🏼

‘Customised Digital Education’- this is for anyone, whether you’re planning on a VBAC, expecting twins, having an elective caesarean, whatever your circumstances are... I want you to feel positive, educated and empowered so let’s design the perfect package for you 🥰

Current COVID promo- all Digital Education Clients with Medicare are eligible for a bulk billed Postnatal Telehealth Zoom session 🤩

Head to the website for more details and pricing!
Email to book!

Tag a pregnant friend 😇⬇️

I’m here for you 😘💕
Amber

09/08/2020

Couldn’t agree more 👏🏼

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07/08/2020

For the final day of World Breastfeeding Week, I would like to share with you all my top tips to set you up for breastfeeding 🌍🤱🏾

- Educate yourself in pregnancy 👏🏼 it’s so essential, book in a class (DM or email to book) read & videos are a great way to prepare

- Antenatal expressing from 37 weeks- always check with your care provider of this is right for you

- Postpartum plans are essential 🙌🏼 knowing that your baby will be feeding frequently & you’re recovering from birth, learning to feed and catching sleep in between feeds so set up a plan to help you (think cooking meals in advance, supermarket delivery etc)

- Immediate skin to skin at birth (or as soon as possible) and give your baby time to do the ‘breast crawl’- see my earlier post on this

- Continue to do lots of skin to skin, not just at birth, but ideally every feed and in between feeds! When you’re wanting to have snuggles with your baby have your baby in just a nappy, have your baby on your bare chest, blanket around you both and your body will help regulate your baby and help with boosting your oxytocin (love hormone) to help with bonding and boosting milk supply 😍 (great for your partner to do skin to skin with your baby too!

- Good positioning and Deep Attachment is key 👌🏼 remember the Golden Rule 💛 count to 10 once your baby is attached, if it’s hurting/pinching then carefully detach your baby by inserting your little pinkie into your baby’s mouth and try to attach your baby deeper (do this with the midwives in hospital so they can help you)

- Remember cluster feeding is normal, GO WITH IT ➡️ this is your baby boosting your milk supply to make the right amount of milk for them 🙌🏼

- Control what you can control... in birthing and feeding babies things pop up that are out of our control, so if you are having struggles with breastfeeding, remember hurdles are normal- SEEK HELP, keep doing skin to skin and maintain your supply

- Deep breaths, stay calm and have a good support team 💕

- Find a midwife/ LC you trust to work with if you’re having issues

I hope that helps 😘

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27/07/2020

TENS Machine 🙌🏼💕🌟

A TENS machine is a small, portable, battery operated device (pictured), this Elle TENS machine is specifically designed for labour and birth.
It includes sticky electrode pads that stick to your lower back and they transmit small electrical signals, which is thought to block pain messages! The stimulation may also release your natural endorphins (your natural pain killers 👌🏼) and can also provide a distraction, to help you focus on the gentle tingling/ buzzing on your back as opposed to focusing on your uterine contractions!

You can hire the TENS machine around 36 weeks, and have it there to use when labour begins!

Golden rule 💛 put it on early- it works best if you put it on in early labour and you can build it up as your contractions intensify, there is a “boost” button to use during your contractions

It is NOT compatible with water, so take it off when you’re using the shower or bath ❌ 💦

I am excited to have teamed up with the amazing midwife/ mama from and all BBB education clients will receive 10% off the purchase hire with discount code 😍

The TENS is such a great option to have in your labour toolkit 👏🏼

Did you use a TENS machine?

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27/07/2020

There’s so much I love about this image 🙌🏼

🌟 That connection 🥰- partners, the best support you can give in labour is your presence and show her how much you love her ❤️ Oxytocin is a powerful hormone- the more loved up and connected to you she feels, the more it will help her labour progress 🙌🏼

🌟Shower- the shower is an amazing tool to use in labour, the warm water can help ease tension in your muscles and helps relax your body- you can be active- forward leaning, you can use the bars to help you lunge and squat and if your legs tire you can use an exercise ball or a shower chair to sit and forward lean

🌟 Upright forward leaning positioning- this is such a wonderful position to labour in as this labouring mama is doing- leaning forward holding on to your partner can help encourage your baby into an optimal position for birthing 👶

🌟 Nitrous Oxide- the nitrous oxide, commonly known as ‘laughing gas’ is a pain relief option that allows you to still be active, you can use it in the shower/ bath, and you have to breathe slowly and deeply for it to work, so can be a great option if you’re struggling to get your breathing right 👌🏼

🌟 This mama has needed continuous CTG monitoring- yet she is still doing all of these things discussed above- using the shower, being active- if you require continuous monitoring in your labour ask for wireless monitoring and know you can still have an active labour 🙌🏼

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Words

17/07/2020

“Are you wanting to Breastfeed?”
“If I can”

A response I hear very often!

In my years of working as a midwife with women, I used to find there was so much fear around birth, and whilst that still exists, I do feel as a community we are doing well at trying to change that and educating and empowering women to trust their bodies.
However, in the past year, in my experience I’m finding so many women now have so much fear around breastfeeding! When I ask if they are wanting to breastfeed, majority say “if I can”.

Yet, the majority of women physically CAN breastfeed... nature very rarely gets it wrong 🌱

We know from the Australian Breastfeeding Statistics that 96% of mother’s initiate breastfeeding, yet less than half (39% ) of babies are still being exclusively breastfed at 3 months and 15% of mothers are exclusively breastfeeding at 5 months.
This shows that women are wanting to breastfeed!

Despite it being instinctual for babies, we know it can still be a very challenging and overwhelming experience for many.

A study done by The Australian Breastfeeding Project (2016) showed only 55% of women felt they were given enough support and education to breastfeed!

This is heartbreaking 💔

Whilst I’m so passionate about all things body, birth and baby, I have a burning passion to support, educate and set women up for successful breastfeeding, because we know that the majority of women want to breastfeed!!

As a society, let’s drown out the fear around Breastfeeding, and educate and empower women to gain the trust in their bodies and support them through the hurdles 🖤
Let’s educate and support women in PREGNANCY about breastfeeding the way we educate them about birth 🙌🏼

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13/07/2020

New parents... how are you?
How are you coping with adjusting to life with a newborn in lockdown?

I’m thinking of you all 💕

What would help you feel more supported during this time? 😘

📸 .williams

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Body, Birth & Baby is a Melbourne based holistic private midwifery practice, with a health and wellness based approach to educate all things body, birth and baby. We don't exclude any women, we are passionate about empowering women by educating them, using an evidence-based approach and help women make informed choices. No matter what your chosen model of care is... we are here to provide education and support!

We educate women about maintaining a healthy, active pregnancy, and about how their bodies work and how to promote their baby in being an optimal position for birthing. We empower women about labouring at home without fear, providing tips and advice to stay at home in labour. We take the fear out of birth and show women how everything they need is already within them and provide strategies of how to optimise their birthing experience. We are very passionate about breastfeeding and teaching women about newborn behaviour and how to breastfeed. We are able to visit women in Melbourne at home for the first six weeks with medicare rebates to help with breastfeeding and postnatal support.

We look forward to supporting you on your pregnancy, birth and early parenting journey!

A & A x

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