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24/07/2025

Breech Delivery by planned C-Section - the baby's perspective.

We are not affected by our birth, are we? 🤔

Imagine being all cosy in your first 'home' contemplating that the space is getting too small and that it is nearly time to push through and come into a new world. A journey you know you need to make. And it will be okay because Mum will be there to help you. You will be working together, dancing through this experience together....

You become aware that there are conversations about a 'plan,' one that your adult humans seemed to be very agreeable to.
That's OK then. You are sure it will be ok, even though you have no idea what it is.

Then there is a time when you feel mum getting ready, that she makes a journey and she is in a new place. The sounds are different and unfamiliar, you are hearing new voices. But mum seems sort of okay, so you feel sort of OK. You are wondering what is going to happen.....

Then you feel her lying down. Something changes..... You can't feel her so well. Things become a bit spacey, you are feeling a little whoozy, sick. There is pressure coming into the bottom of your home. What the heck is that?

Suddenly the fluids that have surrounded you for nine months start to change and move in a way you have never experienced before. There is a release as your membranes are broken

The fluids that have surrounded you for nine months suddenly disappear.... Help! You feel like you are being washed away! The walls collapse around you.

Then you are touched, grabbed, by something you have never felt before. HELP!! It is pulling you, pulling at your feet, moving them. Oh goodness! They are no longer surrounded. Your feet feel different. Nothing against them.

Then another forceful touch, grabbing you from behind, squeezing your belly, your rib cage, lifting you, pulling you through a gap. Where am I going? What's happening to me? Where are you MUM?!

Your head is stuck in the darkness, still in your 'home' but you can still feel the other touch/sensation all over your body. What the hell is happening?!

Suddenly your head is free and you are squinting your eyes. The light! The light is so bright! Too bright. The noises, so unfamiliar. Scary.

Then there are the smells you have never smelt before. Where is Mum? Who are these 'others?' What are these 'others?' Aliens? Monsters? Gangsters?
A sharp pain. ARRRGH! An internal gulp. How do you...... AHH..... breathe.

Now you are lying on a hard surface, so hard it hurts your body. Everywhere hurts. You are feeling fuzzy, drifting in and out.

More things coming in and out, against your little body which is being moved all about. This is scary! Freaky! You do not want it. You hate it! STOP! PLEASE STOP!

Something comes around you, wraps you up tight. This feels a bit familiar.... A bit like 'home' but the contact against your skin is different, rougher, stiffer, there's a smell..... You feel whoozy as you are lifted and MOVED...

Suddenly you hear a voice you recognise.....
MUM! MUM! Is that you? Oh, Dad? Are you here too?

A small sense of relief, a cry, an intake of breath. Feeling mum's breathing and hearing her heart beat again. I know this. I KNOW THIS! Thank GOODNESS!

But what the hell just happened????

If this resonates and you are concerned about your child's behaviour or academic performance, please get in contact to understand how I can support you and your family to heal the past and move forward with clarity and joy.

Drop me a line with all your details at info@deepconnexions.co.uk or text 07790 783280

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23/07/2025

Calling all parents! Why is commando crawling important?

Here's a great post from a fellow INPP practitioner 😍

Some interesting questions for you to consider about your child's development:

🤔Did your child commando crawl?
🤔Did they creep on all fours?
🤔If yes, how long did they spend commando crawling or creeping on hands and knees?
🤔How are they now performing at school and in the sports field?
🤔How is their behaviour?
🤔How do they manage intense emotions?

If you answered 'no' to the first two questions and then have concerns about the following ones, please get in touch to see how a Developmental Movement Programme can help your child to achieve their true brilliance :

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Did you know that army crawling is a brilliant part of development — but only when it’s temporary?

Babies who stay in the army crawl stage without progressing to hands-and-knees crawling may actually be missing key steps in building:

- Core and shoulder strength
- Hip control
- Weight-shifting skills
- Coordination

While they look like they’re getting around just fine, staying in this pattern too long can have knock-on effects. It’s all about progression — not just mobility.

Skipping or delaying the crawling stage can impact:
- Posture and sitting endurance
- Hand-eye coordination
- Reading and writing readiness
- Motor planning
- Bilateral skills like climbing, cutting and catching

Crawling isn’t just cute — it’s essential brain and body work! 🧠👶

22/07/2025

School Reports are out and the summer holidays are here ……….
It's the end of another academic year.

How did your child progress last year?

A disappointing end of year report can lead many parents feeling baffled as to why their child is not progressing as expected.

Such challenges can reflect much earlier stages of development and a profile of retained reflexes. We each have our own individual experience of womb and birth which can leave imprints upon our neurology. I like to visualise these like fingerprints or maps of experience that become our subconscious go to when we are dealing with transition or stressful times.

The good news is that a personalised drug free therapeutic developmental movement programme can remediate such issues and create lasting change for all.

Working together, we will uncover the root causes for your child’s struggles whilst transforming their retained reflex profile via a programme of daily exercises. I will also mentor and empower you with practical tools, strategies and emotional support to improve your own and your child’s wellbeing. Through deeper understanding and increased clarity, you will be able to build a stronger, happier family dynamic whilst creating a nurturing environment for growth and success of all.

If you think your child or family could benefit, or you would like to understand more about retained reflexes, please contact: 07790 783280 or info@deepconnexions.co.uk for further information.

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17/07/2025

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Today has been a great one! 😍

😍 A call with a mum first thing to answer question why I work with the pre and perinatal imprints when taking a child through the developmental reflex integration programme ✅

😍 A fab initial consultation with a 7yr old lad, where I helped mum understand how retained reflexes are hindering her lad from shining his brilliance, and why and how a Developmental Movement Programme would help her boy achieve this ✅

😍 A personal check-in and healing session with the amazing Lavanyaa Rhassa where I connected and received deep wisdom with my ancestors.

😍 Connecting with two existing clients and families to formulate a way forward for their children to continue with their individualised movement programmes

😍 An Exercise Check-in with a teenager and mum to ensure his exercises are pitched at the right level✅
I also shared his progress from his recent first review! They are doing a fab job working together and both were surprised because his first exercises seemed so simple 😍✅

😍 Now to write up the initial assessment report from this morning and the post session notes from one of yesterday's client, a mum who worked through and released some of her birth story imprints. She reported back to say her legs felt completely different: more present, more stable and engaged ✅

And this is all on the back of recording a podcast conversation for teachers in the US with Roustayi last evening re: the impact of retained reflexes on children's educational attainment ✅😍

If you are interested in knowing more about my work and my holistic approach to releasing developmental trauma and transforming lives, please drop me a line at: info@deepconnexions.co.uk and let's start a conversation 😊

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17/07/2025

Let's talk about BIRTH ❤️

This can be a key topic in my client session work.....

It might not be the topic that the client was expecting to share and be curious about but as the session unfolds, this is what their body wants to share.

And I am not just talking about new born babies. I am talking about the children and the adults I work with too.

Because we have all been a baby haven't we?

In fact we have all been an embryo, a foetus, a prenate..... A new born, a toddler, a teen.....

So with this in mind, it means we have all had experiences at each of these stages too, doesn't it?
We just might not consciously remember them to talk about them.

But here's the thing, our bodies remember and they can act these experiences out.... Which might mean challenging behaviour, behaviour that is out of kilter with the present day situation, a constant sense of anxiety or depression, difficult emotions constantly surfacing but seemingly no reason as to why. So confusing!

If this resonates with you or you can see this in your child, please get in touch and let's organise a free initial call to understand how I can help you decode and understand what is really going on:

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16/07/2025

RW - Thank you for your feedback. 🥰

Working as a pre and perinatal trauma therapist, my aim is to always hold a safe compassionate space for my clients to 'shine a light' on their darkest shadows and heal the roots of the issue. This is what enables them to transform and heal their deepest wounds.

If your emotions and physical pains are becoming more difficult to ignore but you are holding back because you feel you have tried everything and you do not know if you can trust another to hold the space for you to do such deep work, please get in contact to organise a free no obligation discovery call: info@deepconnexions.co.uk

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14/07/2025

Worried about your child's progress?

As we come to the end of another academic year, you may be aware that your child has made minimal progress and they are even further behind their peer group. You can see them struggling but are baffled and do not understand why.

The reason could be that they have a cluster of retained reflexes from babyhood which are hindering them achieving their academic potential or sporting ability.

Embark on a journey with me using Reflex Integration/Neuro Developmental Therapy. You will gain insights into your child's behaviour and access practical strategies to address them. Everything will start to make more sense

Click here to explore how Jacqui can make a difference - deepconnexions.co.uk

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13/07/2025

Q&A Corner with Jacqui Ellis:

Q: What are the benefits of enrolling on a developmental reflex integration programme?

Such a programme helps to promote the maturation of the central nervous system by integrating retained primitive reflexes thus creating a strong developmental foundation from which the individual can achieve their true potential.

We are born with a set of primitive reflexes that enable us to survival the first months of life. During our first year of life, we are primed to go through a series of developmental movements to mature and transform these early reflexes, maturing our central nervous system.

Difficulties arise when we skip developmental milestones such as crawling or do not spend enough time practising a specific movement. This can leave the primitive reflexes immature or still active meaning the individual struggles with their balance and co-ordination, or has difficulties with their learning.

Imagine building your house on quicksand - you would be constantly trying to keep it up. It would be exhausting. This is how it can feel for a child who is struggling to achieve their learning goals or physical milestones with a retained reflex profile.

So if you have concerns and are baffled by your child's lack of academic performance or ability on the sports field, please check out www.deepconnexions.co.uk for more information on how we can get them functioning in the fast lane!

13/07/2025

Which one does your child choose:
Handwriting???
Keyboard???

Keyboards are better right? 🤔
More convenient, easier to use, means your child can actually get their thoughts captured and we are living in a technological world right?
So it is the way to go isn't it?

I talk about this all the time with the families and children I work with. They come to me because their child is struggling to write and they are being encouraged to use tech instead.

But here's the thing, their child may be struggling to write because they have a profile of retained reflexes which indicates an immature central nervous system.

Would you expect a baby or toddler to write sentences?

No. Because they are not developmentally able. This is what it is like for a child with retained reflexes - their neurology gets stuck at a very early age.

Writing has been proven to be important for developing and connecting the neurological pathways necessary for higher brain function. So missing writing /not writing can leave the child even more stuck.

If you resonate with the above and your child is struggling to write, please get in touch to find out how a Developmental Movement Programme to integrate retained reflexes can unstick your child's neurology so they can achieve their potential.

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The proliferation of devices in daily life has led to an international handwriting crisis. Teachers, parents, and politicians around the world are debating why they should bother spending time teaching what some say is a dated skill. Accustomed as we are to speedy, wifi-connected devices, we’ve co...

12/07/2025

I am sure this is true and we actually are 😊 our cells certainly have memory so surely this means they must have also been conscious 🤔

Are we conscious before we’re even born? New research says we just might be. A team of neuroscientists and philosophers reviewed decades of brain science and found compelling evidence that conscious awareness could begin far earlier than once believed potentially even before birth. Signs of advanced neural connectivity, sensory processing, and behavioral responses in newborns and late-stage fetuses suggest that the building blocks of consciousness are already in place.

This challenges the long-held view that consciousness only “switches on” months after birth. Instead, researchers now see it as a gradual emergence a continuum of awareness shaped by the maturing brain. These findings also revisit outdated assumptions in medicine and ethics, especially the historical neglect of infant pain and perception during procedures.

As brain imaging continues to evolve, so does our understanding of what it means to be aware. Consciousness may not begin in a moment it may start unfolding quietly in the womb, long before a first breath is ever taken.
🧠 Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024) | DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.011

12/07/2025

RW - Thank you for your feedback. 🥰

Working as a pre and perinatal trauma therapist, my aim is to always hold a safe compassionate space for my clients to heal their struggles by getting to the root of their issues. I support them to 'shine a light' on their darkest shadows. This is what enables them to transform and heal their deepest wounds.

If your emotions or physical pains are becoming more difficult to ignore but you are holding back because you do not know if you can trust another to hold the space for you to do such deep work, please get in contact to organise a free no obligation discovery call: info@deepconnexions.co.uk

www.deepconnexions.co.uk