Yogabirth with Lauren

28/11/2021

Posted • Hannah Horne] **Black Friday Giveaway!!!**
Tag your pregnant friends!
Black Friday encourages people to spend, spend, spend. It can be an expensive time of year, never mind having a baby on top. So I am going against the grain! I find it hard to put a price on antenatal education and hypnobirthing preparation, it is so important. I want every family to have to have all the information they need and to be empowered to make their decisions based on their values and needs. Unfortunately I have to charge for my services because bills don't pay themselves! But for this one time I am actually giving my time, my knowledge, my skills all away for free!!! 22 years working in the birthing world is a lot of valuable knowledge and experience.

**So what will you get?**
12 hours of antenatal education, with hypnobirthing techniques, either in the comfort of your own home (area depending) or via Zoom.
Scroll through my feed for more information on what my classes include or DM me.

**How to enter**

*Like this post
*Follow me Hannah Horne]
*Tag a pregnant pal
*Share to your stories for an extra entry (DM me a screenshot if you have a private account please)

**Rules**

*Giveaway closes Friday 3rd December 2021 at 19.00.
*Entries on Instagram only
*Winner will be notified by DM on Instagram.
*UK participants only.
*Date/Time/Location of classes to be mutually decided, to be booked before 31/03/22

Per Instagram rules, this promotion is in no way sponsored, administered, or associated with Instagram, Inc. By entering, entrants confirm that they are 18+ years of age, release Instagram of responsibility, and agree to Instagram’s terms of use.

21/11/2021

21/11/2021

21/11/2021

Proud to be out supporting midwives across the UK today! Maternity services are in crisis - under staffed, under funded.
Midwives working conditions are mothers birthing conditions!
It can’t carry on!

01/11/2021

Great news about pregnancy yoga 🧘🏼‍♀️🙌🏻
But you guys already knew that right? 🥰

A reminder that researchers looking at the effectiveness of prenatal yoga on delivery outcomes undertook a meta-analysis with interesting results.

They, "identified that yoga improved vaginal delivery, decreased premature delivery and birth weight of newborns, shorten the labor duration." (Rong et al 2020).

A note about the birth weight finding before anyone asks. This doesn't mean that the babies were compromised or didn't grow well. The average weight of the babies in the yoga and non-yoga groups was within normal limits and the researchers seem to be suggesting that this might mean that women who did yoga in these studies had babies who were less likely to be affected by gestational diabetes, but this needs more research.

The authors concluded that, "Prenatal yoga is an effective complementary medicine to improve delivery outcomes and not to increase the risk of fetus, which is worth recommending to pregnant women."

Not all of the studies involved in this meta-analysis were of high quality, but it's great that this gives us some evidence and a better idea of what we need to look at in future research.

You can see the original research at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1744388119308503

We share research for those who like to stay up-to-date with birth-related research and thinking. If you're a midwife, birth worker or pregnancy yoga teacher who would like to delve deeper into studies, get updated on what's new and become better at understanding research, join Dr Sara Wickham for an online course. Details at https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/69379/about

27/10/2021

https://chng.it/8pYVGzLgmK

Support urgent government investment into maternity services to solve the staffing crisis

27/10/2021

Ahh chooo! 🥰 Look how the baby naturally clears it’s airway, no suction, no wiping needed. What a beautiful gentle birth!

Thank you for sharing mumma &

27/09/2021

01/09/2021

“Boris if you need some ideas for bedtime reading - this is your book!”

Maternity services in the UK are in crisis, there is a shortage of around 3,500 midwives. When I started as a student midwife 13 years ago the figure was still the same. I’ve spent my whole career working in a system that is understaffed, underpaid and undervalued. Working as a midwife is an emotionally challenging job and sometimes it takes it’s toll on you.

I’ve made the leap into education, I now teach the midwives of the future but I can’t help but worry for those students, my brave colleagues I’ve left behind, how will they continue to cope in a system that is pushed to breaking point 😢

Boris Johnson please read this book and help nurture maternity staff 😩

Thank you for writing this profound book 🙏

19/08/2021

A wonderful article about the origins of pregnancy yoga in the UK. I am proud to say I was taught by Lolly Stirk 💖who introduced me to her pioneering, soft approach to pregnancy yoga💖
Lolly Stirk & YogaBirth 🙏

https://www.ommagazine.com/birthing-pregnancy-yoga/?fbclid=IwAR3kCJvLtqYrYt6vj-xadEy-qGJu7J8mVJ3i0XY0MU4xzJt21TOnJWCYsoE

Janet BalaskasActive Birth (activebirthcentre.com)

20/07/2021

This 👇🏽

17/07/2021

We know your core body temperature feels warmer when you’re pregnant and you have what feels like your own central heating going on inside!
But be heat smart this weekend - here’s a few tips that might help.

Enjoy the sunshine ☀️ ☀️☀️ it’s a hot one!

17/06/2021

✨Oh the sounds of joy coming from this birth room ✨
An amazing physiological birth showing the twists and turns the baby makes to navigate the pelvis - beautiful 🥰
Thanks to the mum and midwife for sharing

14/06/2021

‘In the hustle of the room I peered over at my friend bent over in pain. Baby had just been born and everyone was surrounding the miracle that happened before our eyes and naturally we were all in awe of him. But I was especially in awe of her. I saw you, mama. By Alex Michele.

04/06/2021

☀️Yogabirth UK annual study weekend 5/6th June☀️
(Still not too late to buy tickets if you want to attend)
For birthworkers, midwives, mothers, yoga teachers, yogis and more.
Take a look at the line up across the two days 🙌🏻
I personally can’t wait to hear Kemi Johnson speak again, I love her determination and enthusiasm for women’s rights in childbirth 💙

🌟Study weekend guest tutor profile🌟

Kemi Johnson is formerly a UK registered midwife and is now known as a birthkeeper. She studies birth physiology and related evidence so that she can keep up to date with the best ways to facilitate healthy and happy birthing for families. Her expertise is home birthing. Kemi speaks at conferences, shares skills and information with other birth practitioners and has a vibrant social media presence for the benefit of parents, their babies and practitioners who are interested in gold standard facilitation of physiological birth.

Kemi is running a midwifery update on the study weekend - her talk is called "The physiology of birth with a focus on environment and positions"

Head to our website to find out more about the weekend and book your tickets!

18/05/2021

⭐️Home Breech Birth⭐️
As a midwife you rarely see vaginal breech births (unless unplanned) as most women are offered elective Caesarean sections. So watching this vaginal breech birth teaches me so much about the physiology of birth when the bottom comes first. It’s intense watching the video, I felt like I wanted to intervene, it takes a very skilled midwife to sit back, be calm and ‘hands off’ the breech and of course a powerful mum!

17/05/2021

Well there’s the research ⬇️ Levine et al (2021) induction of labour increases the rate of Caesarean section (as if we didn’t already know this).
Sometimes there’s a genuine medical need for induction of labour and other times induction of labour doesn’t end in Caesarean section. However, the research says you’re more likely to end up with a Caesarean if you are induced. Being “post dates” is not a medical reason. Only accept induction of labour if it feels right for you and right for your baby. If it doesn’t feel right, then discuss with your Midwife/ Dr to make an alternative plan for waiting for spontaneous labour.
Thanks sarawickham.com

A new study has reinforced our knowledge that, in real world settings, healthy women are more likely to end up having a caesarean if they have induction of labour than if they go into labour on their own.
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The study will be published in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.
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The authors conclude that, “Awaiting the natural onset of labor, if there are no maternal or fetal reasons to intervene, may yield no worse a perinatal outcome than an earlier induction of labor. The consequences of a cesarean delivery are known to be associated with immediate and longer-term maternal morbidity, and this may be potentially avoided, if elective inductions of labor can be minimized.” (Levine et al 2021).
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This result, which echoes that of a number of similar studies, is in contrast to the findings of the often cited ARRIVE trial.
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So why is that?
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One reason is that the participants in the ARRIVE trial were not representative of all women. Another is that women in the ARRIVE trial had very medicalised care. And, as Levine et al (2021) note, there’s a difference between what happens in the setting of a trial, and in the real world. I’ve written lots on this, so here are some resources if you’d like to know more.
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You can read Levine et al’s study at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301211521002463
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If you’re wondering whether induction is right for you or wanting to read more about the evidence, check out the resources on my website or my book, “Inducing Labour: making informed decisions.” www.sarawickham.com/iol
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And if you’re a midwife or birth worker and you’d like to better understand the issues and develop your confidence with research, we’re looking at a number of aspects of induction in Gathering in the Knowledge 2021. See https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/66197/about
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16/05/2021

Wowzers how fast does this baby come through the pelvis?🙋‍♀️ Last week in pregnancy yoga I was describing lots of different positions for labour, this shows that when you find that sweet position that opens up the pelvis, space is created and voila!
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Posted • Fast Catch! Keeping me on my toes. I love this video because it shows how fast babies can come through with a position change that opens up the pelvis. 💐Welcome little one. Beautiful work Mama🌿🌈