Birth Body Breath with Kim

Birth Body Breath with Kim Pregnancy Yoga, Postnatal Yoga, Hypnobirthing and Doula services in East Bristol.

🧐 HARD TRUTH 🧐You don't want an induction? You don't have to have one. There are times induction can be useful. Actual m...
21/07/2025

🧐 HARD TRUTH 🧐

You don't want an induction? You don't have to have one.

There are times induction can be useful. Actual medical issues that it can solve. But 90% (more, even?) of inductions offered are not for medical reasons, they are offered for 'risk factors' and often before those risk factors have even developed... Inductions are offered to prevent a so-called risk factor arising. Note, a risk factor is not a problem in itself.

A client I supported was offered an induction because she had a low BMI... which MAY cause a baby to be smaller. A small baby isn't a problem, just a 'risk factor'. Her baby wasn't smaller, at birth or in any measurements in pregnancy; this 'risk factor' hadn't even developed.

A big part of the prep I do with my doula clients is to help them understand what they’re likely to see and hear within NHS maternity services and explore how they might feel about it. DM to connect.

Kim ❤️
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🎂 REFLECTIONS AT 8 🎂Yesterday, Eadie turned 8 🥹😭🤯Parenting her is spectacular - she is a beautiful soul. She has helped ...
18/07/2025

🎂 REFLECTIONS AT 8 🎂

Yesterday, Eadie turned 8 🥹😭🤯

Parenting her is spectacular - she is a beautiful soul. She has helped me know my Self more deeply, showed me what really matters in life, and she has taught me so many lessons.

Here's my birthing day reflections.
Kim ❤️

⏰ DUE DATES ⏰Your due date is possibly the biggest unnecessary risk you face at the end of your pregnancy. If you've man...
17/07/2025

⏰ DUE DATES ⏰

Your due date is possibly the biggest unnecessary risk you face at the end of your pregnancy.

If you've managed not to pick up a risk label in pregnancy and already have been encouraged to end your pregnancy prematurely, by your due date (or even before) induction might be flying around in your midwife appointments and in your mind.

It's not what you wanted, but...

See how your mindset affects your reality - read to the end for my top tips to manage this!

Kim ❤️


Pregnancy yoga is running over Summer! You don’t stop being pregnant, so (most of) my classes don’t stop running!Class p...
14/07/2025

Pregnancy yoga is running over Summer! You don’t stop being pregnant, so (most of) my classes don’t stop running!

Class passes offer a discount for your commitment - but it is your responsibility to fit your sessions in! Remember your class passes can be used in either location, so if you're away yourself you might not need to miss out, on your practice or on your credits!

If your baby arrives over Summer, it’s now much easier for you to roll any remaining credits over from pregnancy yoga to post natal yoga too!

Tuesdays 6.30-7.45pm at The Langton Wellness Hub (upstairs in the Langton pub)

Thursdays 6.30-7.45pm at Hanham Community Centre (in the Annex)

See you and bump on the mat soon,
Kim ❤️

⏰ DUE DATES ⏰Can you think of another area of healthcare when a measure would be this pointless? There’s a 4% chance you...
14/07/2025

⏰ DUE DATES ⏰

Can you think of another area of healthcare when a measure would be this pointless?

There’s a 4% chance your due date is right.

There’s a 96% chance your predicted due date is wrong.

When I was diagnosed coeliac, there was a 95% chance my blood test was RIGHT and extreme caution was encouraged and a further biopsy ‘needed’ to confirm the diagnosis.

And the thing is, birth isn’t really a medical issue.
Pregnancy and birth are just biology. They follow a rhythm, but not rules.

You don’t actually need a single due date. Sure, it’s nice to know roughly when your baby might be born, but nothing is WRONG if they don’t come on that day.

Hold your due date lightly because this ‘diagnosis’ has the power to cause HARM later in your pregnancy. The stress to you when your baby has passed their due date can feel overwhelming in the current system. You aren’t alone if you feel that.

But more than that…all those babies being asked to be born before they’ve completed their development in utero? We don’t yet know the effect inducing babies early is having on their long term health.

TIPS:
Before 39 weeks...!
⭐Ask yourself how you feel about trusting your baby to choose their own birth day…
⭐Ask yourself how you feel about waiting…
⭐Ask yourself how you manage stress…
⭐Ask yourself what YOU think your due date realistically is….
⭐Reframe your relationship with your due date!

Kim ❤️

✨️ END OF AN ERA ✨️"Dear Kim, Thank you, thank you, thank you! For your space, time and expertise. It's been a wonderful...
11/07/2025

✨️ END OF AN ERA ✨️

"Dear Kim,
Thank you, thank you, thank you! For your space, time and expertise. It's been a wonderful journey together bringing **** Earth-side. Thank you for helping me to feel empowered, calm, capable and confident. I'm delighted to have home birthed and can't imagine doing that without you! Keep spreading the word, shining your light + championing women".

A beautiful parting gift from a beautiful doula client as we reach the end of this chapter together. It's hard to say goodbye sometimes - I've been in the background for 18 months with this client 🥹

But I'll always be here championing women... and the time comes when you are ready to move on to your next chapter.

Considering doula support for your birth journey? Maybe this gorgeous sodalite angel will be at your birth next?! DM me and let's chat.

Kim ❤️

🤰FIRST TIME BIRTH? 🤰It's time to let go of this story that first time mums are somehow not capable ...that you can expec...
09/07/2025

🤰FIRST TIME BIRTH? 🤰

It's time to let go of this story that first time mums are somehow not capable ...that you can expect a sh*tty birth the first time... or a long, arduous labour... or that you will need intervention.

The birth blueprint is held within every cell in your body, not in your brain. It's remembered through your maternal lineage, not in your conscious mind. It's the wildness of nature, not something controlled by medical gate-keepers.

And that's why first time mums are just as capable.

Don't quite believe me? Read this story.

Kim ❤️

🤫 SHHHHH 🤫Your family don't need to know you're in labour. Or your friends. This is your birth and you want to protect i...
04/07/2025

🤫 SHHHHH 🤫

Your family don't need to know you're in labour. Or your friends. This is your birth and you want to protect it.

If you've done any birth prep yet, you'll know oxytocin makes it all happen.

It's a powerful hormone... but shy.

Oxytocin doesn't like to feel observed... and this doesn't just apply to your immediate birth space. It goes for beyond your physical birth space, too.

Things you don't need in labour
- partners on phones managing family or friends checking up on you
- to communicate with the outside world
- any sense of time pressure

Things you do need
- present presence
- inward focus
- patience and calm

Of course, it's ok to let me know you're in labour - I'm here to protect that birth bubble. I'll be by your side when the time is right, building your oxytocin, not scattering it!

DM me to chat about doula support or birth prep sessions.

Kim ❤️

🌞 PREGNANT IN A HEAT WAVE? 🌞I feel your pain! I love the heat... but it's a different game when you are already carrying...
30/06/2025

🌞 PREGNANT IN A HEAT WAVE? 🌞

I feel your pain!
I love the heat... but it's a different game when you are already carrying a human hot water bottle!

I was pregnant in the heatwave of 2017... with a class of 30 kids in what was basically a greenhouse disguised as a classroom. My main strategy was to announce bonus playtimes and hide in the shade 😂

If you are in need of relief from the heat, take a look at these 3 tips you might not have found on google yet...let me know your favourite!

Other suggestions:
☀️ invest in a peppermint cooling foot lotion, Boots or the Body Shop stock cheap but very decent ones
☀️ dunk your feet in a bowl of cool water to bring swelling down
☀️ it's not too early to invest in a paddling pool 'for the baby'
☀️ lay wet flannels all over your body!

If you are joining for pregnancy yoga this week, don't let the heat scare you in to staying home - we'll be doing some cooling breath practices and keeping close to the ground. I've got you 😉🥵

BS4 Tuesday
BS15 Thursday

Kim ❤️

🤔 NO ONE WANTS BETTER? 🤔Another day, another maternity investigation announced. Yawn. We know what works in birth, both ...
27/06/2025

🤔 NO ONE WANTS BETTER? 🤔

Another day, another maternity investigation announced. Yawn. We know what works in birth, both to increase safety and to reduce trauma, and we just don't prioritise it.

Wes is so off the mark here. It's obvious to me that there definitely is someone who wants better for their baby than this list of professionals... Mothers. (And probably other parents too!)

Mothers overlooked yet again. Or perhaps not overlooked...actively marginalised?

That's the point and it's being missed time and time again. Every investigation finds the same...mothers are not being listened to. And here they are being excluded from the list of people that want the best for babies. Ffs.

We dont need another investigation. We need to actually focus on woman centred care.

There are places and ways you can get it. DM me to explore doula support.
Kim ❤️

✨️ THE EXPERTS ✨️You might have learned that midwives are the birth experts... or the one's with a degree and a white co...
26/06/2025

✨️ THE EXPERTS ✨️

You might have learned that midwives are the birth experts... or the one's with a degree and a white coat. Or burgandy scrubs. Maybe they've even told you that themselves in your pregnancy? They are wrong.

I'm never going to tell you that I'm the expert. Because I KNOW who's the real expert here.

As your doula, I'm here to help you find out what it is you want and need so that you experience a birth that makes your feel strong, capable and confident. I know that with time, space and support, you’ll make the decisions right for you and your baby. You're the expert.

Kim ❤️

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