Fingers and Thumbs Massage

18/07/2025

Fantastic magazine in print and online, with loads of info for families on activities, events, education and community.

Welcome to Fingers & Thumbs Qualified Massage Therapist in Surrey Whether you are a busy professional, an expectant mother or simply looking to soothe away your aches and pains, Fingers and Thumbs offer a range of therapeutic massage treatments tailored to suit your individual needs and preferences....

18/07/2025

Welcome to Fingers & Thumbs Qualified Massage Therapist in Surrey Whether you are a busy professional, an expectant mother or simply looking to soothe away your aches and pains, Fingers and Thumbs offer a range of therapeutic massage treatments tailored to suit your individual needs and preferences....

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

🫶🏽 loved training with Body in Harmony Training and Sharon Wheeler

Here we see our Principal, Jan Trewartha, working with a client's scarring, following the tissue with light touch. But what does it feel like as a therapist to work with a client in such a delicate way? Jan says that this approach, done correctly, feels wonderful for client and therapist alike, and is key to helping the tissue to 'go home'.

As a therapist, just listen to it – does it want this direction, that direction? This pressure, that pressure? It's also vital to listen to the client - after all, it is their body and they're the only one who can feedback to you on how it all feels.

Allow the body to tell you what it needs rather than imposing your protocols on it, and you'll be facilitating the tissue to replay its old patterning and let it go; in this way tissue integration and harmony can be restored.

If you would like to learn more about ScarWork, we have a 4-day Sharon Wheeler ScarWork training course coming up on 14th - 17th September. For more information on the course, please visit: https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/event/sharon-wheelers-scarwork-4-day-3

23/06/2025

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Health secretary announces ‘rapid’ national inquiry into failings in NHS care of mothers and babies in England

23/06/2025

Laura Fingersthumbsmassage Doula Laura Hayward White

24/05/2025

Lactose free milk is not a treatment for cows milk protein allergy and excluding cows milk from your diet will not irradicate lactose form your breastmilk.

Lactose is a carbohydrate and cows milk protein is of course a protein. They are different substances. Lactose intolerance in babies is rare. The most common cause is gastrointestinal infection (tummy bugs) which temporarily damages the gut lining and causes reduced production of lactase, the enzyme which digests lactose. The lactose intolerance in these cases is temporary and gradually resolves within a couple of months of infection. Premature babies may also have temporary lactase deficient which gets better as they get a bit older. A few babies may be born with a congenital lactase deficiency but this is extremely rare and makes these babies very unwell within a few days of birth. These babies have to stop breastfeeding and go on to lactose free formula as you cannot remove lactose from breastmilk via dietary changes.

The symptoms of lactose intolerance and cows milk protein allergy are often confused by healthcare professionals as well as parents so please seek specialist advice if you are worried your baby is reacting to something in the milk you are giving to them.

24/05/2025

There are currently a lot of babies turning up in my clinic who are being treated for Thrush because they have white coated tongue. But they don’t have Thrush.

Babies can and do get oral Thrush but in these cases the white coating on the tongue often appears as defined plaques, rather than as a continuous coating, and this plaques will be in other areas of the mouth including inside the cheeks and lips.

A far more common cause of a white coating on the tongue is a high arched palate (roof of the mouth) and/or tongue-tie.

Because a tongue-tie prevents the tongue lifting and resting in the roof of the mouth during sleep and rest the palate doesn’t spread as it should during development, so the high arched palate and tongue-tie often go hand in hand.

If you have a baby with a high arched palate and/or a tongue that doesn’t lift well then that baby won’t be able to remove the dead cells and milk residue off the tongue by cleaning the tongue against the roof of the mouth. Hence the white coating.

GPs often prescribe for oral Thrush over the phone so please make sure you are checking your baby carefully as there is already some resistance to Nystatin, the drug we have available for treating oral Thrush in babies, which means it’s efficacy is declining and no baby should be exposed to unnecessary medications.

Plus when a baby gets diagnosed with oral Thrush the assumption is that this is why the ni***es are sore and most often this is not the case and the ni**le soreness relates to another issue such a sub optimal positioning and attachment, jaw and neck issues or a tongue-tie that is not being addressed.

28/04/2025

Have you got an anterior placenta?

An anterior placenta simply means your placenta is attached to the front wall of your uterus, between the baby and your tummy. It's a completely normal place for it to implant and develop. Learn more on our website (link in bio)

An anterior placenta MAY cushion some of those first gentler movements, it does NOT mean that baby will not move and it should be used as an excuse to not raise concerns about baby movements. Anterior placenta mums may feel movements lower down, at the sides, or more internally. Baby will still get into a pattern. Although the first few weeks may feel daunting, trust me, as someone who has had two anterior placenta babies, you will definitely be able to feel your baby move and be very aware of them!

Did you have an anterior placenta, do you have any advice to share?

22/10/2024

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30/09/2024

A video tour of the fantastic facilities at South Bookham SPACE, Bookham. Whether you are hiring for a birthday party, conference or to teach classes, we are...