Lucy Pilkington Birth

02/06/2023

Calling all new mums! Come & see me & these other wonderful women speak on 10th June. It’s all about you come & share this Motherhood Moment.

21/05/2023

Yes babies communicate all of the time. Starting from birth. They have lots of needs and they signal and cue us to meet their needs.

They vocalize or talk, they have gestures, facial expressions and body language.

When they tell you they are hungry believe them. It doesn’t matter if they just ate.

When they tell you they are sleepy believe them. It doesn’t matter if it’s not their usual sleep time.

When they tell you they are sad, angry, scared or hurting believe them. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know why or if it’s for something you see as small.

When they tell you they need you believe them. It doesn’t matter if they’ve just been with you or if they are usually fine without you.

There is no expert, book or program who can tell you what your baby should or should not need.

You are the expert on your baby and your baby is the expert in what they need.

When you get support - and we all need support. Make sure the support is helping you listen and respond to your baby's needs and your needs.

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11/05/2023

There’s no such thing as too much love.⁣
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If your babies are having a hard day,⁣
screaming, crying, and carrying on—⁣
maybe a tooth is breaking through her gummy mouth,⁣
maybe she’s having a growth spurt,⁣
maybe he’s overtired from a night of not enough sleep,⁣
maybe she has a painful diaper rash,⁣
and maybe she just wants to be held—
because sometimes their worlds make no sense to them,⁣
and their skin craves you to hold them close.⁣
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So, cuddle your children into a hug,⁣
kiss them on their foreheads,⁣
pick them up and hold them,⁣
carry their hearts⁣
for as long as they want,⁣
at any age.⁣
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Because there’s no such thing as too much hugging,⁣
kissing,⁣
holding,⁣
and showing you love them.⁣
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Because love isn’t spoiling.⁣
It’s a gift,⁣
a blanket that drapes your children in security,⁣
and lets them come to you as they are,⁣
try things,⁣
fail,⁣
and try again,⁣
knowing you’re always there to carry them.⁣
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And that’s how they’ll reach their full potential.⁣
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So, love them "too much,"⁣
from the moment they’re born⁣
till you take your last breath⁣
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Because they’ll feel that love even when you’re gone.

✍️: Living FULL
📷: Unknown Artist
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10/01/2023

31/12/2022

⚡️This is what waiting 60 seconds to clamp the looks like. There’s still so much oxygen rich blood that was pumping from the placenta to the baby.

🔥 60 seconds is not true delayed cord clamping.

When there’s no medical necessity for separating baby from the placenta prior to the cord stopping it’s pulse, clamping should not occur before the cord turns white.



Peaceful Birthing

02/12/2022

Society tells us that picking up a baby "too much" will spoil them. Here's how science and cross-cultural evidence shows that the opposite is true.

28/11/2022

"Did you know that human babies are the most vulnerable, contact dependent, slowest developing social mammal on the planet?

Compared to other mammals, the human brain is tiny at birth; a mere 25% of its ultimate adult size.

Animals born into hostile environments tend to have larger infant brains to help them survive. Zebras, for example, need to be able to run with the herd just hours after birth – their relatively mature brains help them run and respond when a lion appears.

But, mother nature always has a survival strategy. So, what is the survival strategy for human babies? Easy. Mum and Dad. Without their parents, they couldn’t survive and so much of their behaviour is designed to keep us close most, if not all the time.

So, we need to give babies enormous amounts of love, touch and attention to allow them to thrive, not just survive, both day and night. And we should feel good about it - it’s what we’re instinctively driven to do. Despite what our society may say it’s biologically impossible to spoil a baby with love.

The first 3 years of life represent the most rapid period of brain development in our children’s lifetime. In the first 1000 days of life, a staggering 1M neural connections are made each second. These connections determine what kind of brain your baby grows. A brain that is balanced, stable, and resilient to stress. Or a brain that is unbalanced, over reactive and struggles to cope with stress.

While genetics provides a blueprint for brain development, it’s a child’s environment and their experiences that carry out the construction, forming the essential wiring of the brain. Repeated use of particular pathways strengthens individual connections.

Neural connections in the brain are vital in developing emotional regulation abilities. This is why it’s critical that we provide our children with experiences that contribute to healthy brain development.

So hug your baby, pick them up, hold them, nurture them, be with them.”

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