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Highly successful Hypnobirthing & HypnoMothering and beautiful, luxury Baby Massage classes Face to face and online options available.

23/06/2025

Come and join this 5 week block of baby massage with Nicola, in Kirkliston. Tues 1st July 10:00-11:30am. 5 week block. Underfloor heating for cosy babies, tea/coffee and cake, community and support for parents.

“Classes you will always remember so fondly.” Rebecca.

There are so many short and long term benefits to a giving you baby a regular, loving massage. It is the perfect bonding activity. It will help your baby to relax, relieve wind/colic/constipation, encourage deeper sleep, stimulate circulation, co-ordination, muscle tone, immune system and brain development.

When you massage your baby it will benefit your relationship for a lifetime. It also has great benefits for parents too. If you are feeling low, this is one of the loveliest ways to lift yourself back up again. It fills you with confidence and love and teaches you the most meaningful and important activity you can ever do with your little one.

Nicola’s Baby Massage classes are welcoming, supportive and just wonderful. You have to book.” Holly.

Organic coconut oil for baby, parent handouts, tea/coffee and home baking provided each week for a cost of £73.

Message Nicola to book your place: 07952126587
email: contact@nicolawilsonhypnotherapy.com

06/05/2025

Tea and cake time at baby massage 🥰

20/04/2025

Happy Easter to all the lovely new babies and families. Can’t wait to see you at baby massage starting on the 29th April 😌

14/04/2025

First time crocheting baby blankets for two hypnobirthing babies, due around the end of May 🥰🩷🧡

11/02/2025

*Change of email address*
I am going to be using my hypnotherapy email address from now on so please either contact me through FB, insta or contact@nicolawilsonhypnotherapy.com

29/09/2024

When my first baby was born, I read a book called The Baby Whisperer. At our NCT class, it had been positioned as the ‘middle way’ between the extreme of routine-led Gina Ford on one hand, and baby-led attachment parenting on the other hand. I read the book, and was determined to do it ‘right’ with my 2-week old baby.

It has an “EASY” methodology.

Eat, Activity, Sleep, You-Time.

The idea was that you fed the baby, played with them, then they went peacefully to sleep in their own bed and it was your time to do as you pleased. The cycle was meant to be 2-3 hours long.

I was determined. I bought a notebook and wrote down all the times.

Each time, it started well. I fed my baby, often for rather longer than the book allowed because he was very hungry and also needed a lot of winding.

Then, towards the end of the feeding, he would drift off to sleep, I would see his eyes closing and I would panic. No! It was meant to be Activity time next, not Sleep. The Baby Whisperer said that this was about establishing good habits for life!

So I would wake up my milk-drunk, sleepy baby, and try do to Activity time with him. There aren’t many activities you can do with a sleepy 2-week old, but I tried regardless whilst he did everything he could to keep his eyes closed.

After a while I would succeed in waking him up, and usually at this point he would start to cry. Okay, now it must be time for Sleep! Enough activity. The baby whisperer suggested putting them down ‘drowsy but awake’ so they could learn to go to sleep by themselves, another vital life skill.

So I put him down, and like magic, he was no longer drowsy. Still awake though, and screaming. I would rock, sing, put on white noise, and he would scream. I would pick him up, soothe him, put him down and the screaming would start again.

After a couple of hours of this, I’d be looking at the time. It was three hours since we started this cycle, and now it was time for Eat again – but we had never got to You-Time! There was nothing in the book to tell me what to do when the baby was still awake when we got back to time to feed.

I felt that I must be doing it wrong.

Now I look back, outside the fog-haze of early motherhood, and wonder at the advice I was reading. It was directly against biology. Feeding makes babies (and mothers) sleepy. They naturally drift off to sleep. I was fighting that, in pursuit of a routine written in a book. Babies naturally like to be close to their mothers when they are young, and it’s often where they sleep best. I was fighting that, by trying to put him down to sleep when he was showing me that he didn’t feel safe to sleep there.

Things didn’t improve until I threw out the book, put the baby in a sling and essentially kept him there for the next few months. I had to walk and bob up and down all the time to keep him calm, but it was better than the screaming.

I was learning to listen to my child. He told me that for him, the best place to be was right next to me, surrounded in warmth and milk.

The book didn’t help me with that, because it encouraged me to ignore him, to try and fit him into a predetermined pattern. It meant that even when things started to improve, I felt guilty about it. When my next baby was born, I behaved differently from the start. I didn’t expect to put her down. I didn’t expect her to sleep on schedule.

But I felt bad about it. I felt like I must be doing motherhood ‘wrong’. That I was cheating in some way. ‘Good mothers’ put their babies down to sleep. They didn’t sell the expensive cot as ‘unused’ to people on Gumtree (who hadn’t yet had their baby and thus had their fantasies intact).

That’s where the roots of our new book by me and Eliza Fricker (), When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse, begin. For what happens when all the advice you are given seems to make the situation worse?

What happens is that parents start to feel like failures from the start. What happens is that we pretend that we aren’t walking for hours with our baby around the park, or lying next to our 9-year-old for hours to help them go to sleep. We are ashamed of being responsive to our children.

If you preorder our book now, we have a bonus webinar which you can get a free ticket to. Details here. www.naomifisher.co.uk

23/07/2024

Beautiful morning for baby massage 💙

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About Nicola Wilson HypnoBirthing

Hi lovely to have you here! Congratulations on your pregnancy. Wether you are a first time Mum or this is your 4th baby, you have come to the right place for information, connection and support, to prepare for this baby’s birth.

Your baby’s first 1000 days of life, not from the day they are born, but from conception, are very important. Your pregnancy journey can determine the type of birth you go on to have, and the feelings that you experience in the early days with your baby and as a new family.

Having had three babies myself, I have been through a lot of these challenges. We go from that moment of getting your positive pregnancy test result to the prospect of giving birth, with the stories of friends and family members who did not have good tales to tell, in the backs of our minds. The thing is, our daily thoughts and feelings, positive or negative, really do influence and shape our life experiences. Turning this around can change everything.

To be able to embrace the prospect of giving birth, and to go on to enjoy all the good times with your baby and your family free from self doubts and worries, is what I am here to help you with.