Babies In Waiting

10/01/2026

09/01/2026

Gate keeping.
What might it look like?
Someone limiting information, selectively sharing information based on their own perception of what you need.
Promoting a path forward in a pregnancy or labour, omitting other options or comfort measures which don’t align with their beliefs.

How it can affect you?
It can hugely impact your decision making, how can you make decisions if you don’t know what all the options are?
It can severely affect your autonomy and how much of a part you play in your own birth. How can you make decisions if someone else is secretly making them for you?
It can also negatively impact health outcomes. Only you fully know what feels right for your body and baby.

It’s a one size fits all approach. A standardised system.
I think most people know this.
Now we can complain about this and raise our voices and there are some great accounts who are doing this day in day out and I personally am super grateful for them but
here at Babies in Waiting we are mindset coaches so we need a mindset shift 👇🏻

✨Let’s gain excellent knowledge so we know what we want and why we want it.
Let’s really focus on what we want!
✨Let’s focus on our own body, nervous system so we are less stressed, more grounded and more open to manage other opinions without being rocked by them.
✨Let’s build trust so we can feel into our instinctive wisdom about what feels right or ‘off’
✨Let’s build confidence in our role in our pregnancy and birth to help us ask more and better questions about our options and rights.
✨Let’s empower ourselves with beautiful scripts and tools so we are steady in a storm.
Let’s do Babies in Waiting.
Let’s get empowered.

There is nothing standardised about your birth. It is unique to you.

Share this with your team
Make it clear and shareable with everyone who enters your space.

06/01/2026

• January Hypnobirthing in Hockley has begun 💜

If you would welcome a beautiful and cosy space to learn and feel reassured message me to book onto my February course starting on 2nd Feb.

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06/01/2026

January Hypnobirthing in Hockley has begun 💜

If you would welcome a beautiful and cosy space to learn and feel reassured message me to book onto my February course starting on 2nd Feb.

02/01/2026

🤰Expecting a baby & want to feel calm, relaxed & positive about your birth experience? Check out the Babies in Waiting website for course details. 💜
www.babiesinwaiting.com

25/12/2025

Day 1 on the 12 days of questions. Let’s start with an important one to ask yourself.

What do I know about my baby that no one else knows?

This is a reminder that YOU are the expert on your baby. It may be the ‘smallest’ of things you know, what time they like to move, stretch or hiccup but you can build on this daily to build your trust in the amazing unique bond you have with your growing baby ❤️

05/12/2025

💜• Sometimes, people ask why they need to read books about pregnancy and birth which look at the research in depth, when there are so many other things they could be doing.

Can’t you just follow what your midwife or doctor says, they ask?

Or go to a childbirth education class and have it summarised?

Well yes, you can totally do those things, if that’s what works for you.

We’re all different.

No shade on anyone’s decisions here.

But some people want to understand the evidence for themselves.

They want it explained by someone with deeper knowledge, and maybe to get the references, so they can read the original studies.

We also know that what’s in the guidelines that maternity care systems use isn’t always lined up with what the evidence says.

And these are big decisions, whose implications and effects can last a lifetime.

That’s where I come in.

Because there is sometimes a discrepancy between the actual evidence and what you get told by people in health care, and because the effects of your pregnancy and birth experience can last a lifetime, it is always a good idea to get informed before you decide what’s right for you.

I’m at www.sarawickham.com

My resources are designed to help you become informed and to understand the evidence, so you can decide what works for your situation.

Pop on over and find out more.

05/12/2025

🎄🤰• Are you blessed with a bump this Christmas!?

If you are, congratulations, exciting times ahead! 🙌🏻

If you’ve managed to get the tree up, well done! A little harder to manage with a bump on board ❤️

And if you would like to jump on my hypnobirthing January course I have two spaces left. We start on the 5th. 7pm.

Come and cosy up on my sofa and prepare for your beautiful birth x

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21/11/2025

Expecting a baby? 🤰Congratulations 🎉
Looking for antenatal classes to support you to have a calm, confident birth experience?
Take a look at our website for details of our Essex based classes held in groups or privately in the comfort of your own home. 💜

20/11/2025

Beautiful reflections • 💜 Labour doesn’t always follow the same pattern as the first. I was expecting my waters to break and then have time to eat, sleep and prepare the pool before my first surge. In reality, my waters broke when the baby’s head was coming out which was when my husband phoned the midwife.

💜 Labour can be much quicker the second time around. The cervix and birth canal have already been stretched, allowing for faster dilation and a shorter pushing stage. Fortunately, I knew this could be the case and got the pool up nice and early.

💜 Healing can take longer postpartum with your second baby. This is because abdominal and pelvic floor muscles are weaker and more stretched after having a second baby. Uterine muscles are also stretched a little more, sometimes creating after pains when going back to its normal size. This is the time to get family to support in whichever way they can. Fortunately, I have a husband who cooks so I was able to eat well and get some rest immediately after birth.

25/10/2025

💜babiesinwaitingbasildon Lovely evening attending the All Things Bump to Baby Event last night. Great to meet lots of new faces 🥰

24/10/2025

Lovely evening attending the All Things Bump to Baby Event last night. Great to meet lots of new faces 🥰