Calm Waters Hypnobirthing & Pregnancy Yoga

28/09/2025

Next Tuesday's yoga we will be discussing how yoga can help relieve some of the common pregnancy ailments that you may experience. Spending a beautiful hour with your baby to stop, breath, stretch and prepare for birth and motherhood. Don't you just love yoga!

20/09/2025

Tuesday’s PREGNANCY YOGA CLASS Prepare your body and mind for birthing. Take time to connect to your unborn whilst toning, stretching and learning to breath effectively, preparing for that very special birthing day. How we prepare in pregnancy affects the way we birth, our health, our baby’s development of their soul, their emotions and physical health and the way we bond with our baby. Discussion this week will be about one of the body’s greatest achievements the placenta, an amazing organ which does so much without the acknowledgement it deserves.
To join email calmwaters@live.com. Love yoga, love birth.

17/09/2025

Always remember

17/09/2025

I teach patience. Something in our modern world that we seem to have lost the art of. If baby is growing and moving well why are we so keen to interfere? Here is Emma’s story

‘The yoga classes made a huge difference to me throughout my pregnancy and at the birth.
Having had back and joint issues pre-pregnancy, the yoga itself eased any aches and pains and helped to provide some exercises I could use as and when I needed them.
For me, the breathing exercises like the J breath, golden thread breath, and calming breaths were invaluable. Without these my labour would have been horrendous!
I had a beautiful home birth planned with a pool, but he decided not to come, and I delayed being induced as long as I could but eventually agreed to it using the BRIAN tool that Keeley taught me. However, it didn't go to plan, and after two days in hospital and a lack of midwives and space on labour ward, I was put on home leave. When I hit the 42 weeks, I was back in and agreed to try the hormonal pessary as a last-ditch attempt to get labour going without too much interference. Unfortunately, my body rejected them three times, so I said no more! While I was waiting for the doctor, labour started and it was like a starting pistol! I was 6cm before they even checked me. I had a very fast labour to the point pain relief was not an option. Without those breathing exercises, I would have panicked as it was so intense. My gorgeous baby boy was 9lb 5oz, and I did it on just gas and air!
I would highly recommend the classes for both the physical benefits and for the breathing exercises that were invaluable.’

How cute is this little man!

If you would like to join Calm Waters pregnancy yoga classes message or email me. Calmwaters@live.com. Love birth x

16/09/2025

I’m going. Come join me x

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16/09/2025

No I think you are the superwoman. Lauren was continually offered intervention ‘just in case’ but as her baby was growing and moving well she listened to her instincts and welcomed her baby into the world in a beautiful calm, confident and controlled manner.

‘My baby boy, Harrison, was born at home on weighing 7lb 9oz at 41 weeks. I had the calmest and most empowering birth! The picture in the pool was under 10 minutes before baby was born! Keeleys yoga classes were an integral part of both my pregnancies for preparing my body mentally and physically for birth. When my due came and went for this pregnancy, I thought about Keeleys teaching in her classes multiple times a day to prevent me from getting frustrated with my body. She instilled in me the fact that my baby would come when he and my body were ready, with no need for medical intervention as a low risk pregnancy. Everyday the week after my due date, I practiced yoga at home using the techniques Keeley taught me to connect with my body and my baby and get baby into the perfect position for birth. On the night, I went into labour I did 40 minutes of yoga and got into bed, around 10 minutes after this, my waters broke in a phenomenal fashion! The power of movement is truly amazing!! Strongly recommend Calm Waters to all the pregnant ladies out there! Thank you so much Keeley!! You are truly a superwoman!!! ###

16/09/2025

Welcome Joshua! New life is always so magical. Well done mama listening to your body and its needs so it can do what it is perfectly designed to do.

‘I'm so grateful, I really tried to remember the advice you gave for labour and the positions definitely helped me cope with the contractions. I listened to my body and with the help of the lovely midwives felt so supported. It was incredible feeling baby Joshua be born as I didn't experience this last time. We enjoyed lots of skin to skin afterwards’.

Beds are in a labour room but it’s important to use them as a support to listen to your body and change position as your body is asking and not to be used as a conventional bed. Did you know labour beds change into a chair, kneeling, standing or squatting support?

13/09/2025

PREGNANCY YOGA this TUESDAY. Focus is the emergence and greeting your baby for the first time. That wonderful moment that needs no interruptions to allow mother nature to ensure baby transitions gently to their outside world and bonding to happen. Then we have a beautiful guided relaxation, one of my favourites to close the class. If you would like to join us message me or email calmwaters@live.com (picture from Birth in Awareness)

06/09/2025

Run by an experienced midwife. Move, breath, stretch and enjoy time focused just on yourself, your baby and your birthing day.

05/09/2025

Pregnancy Yoga - Tuesday’s class focus is 'Moving Down and Out Part 2’. How your yoga practice can guide you in the birthing stage of labour, revisiting the birth breath and discussing how Mother Nature has prepared your body and baby for the emergence phase. If you would like to join us email me on calmwaters@live .com or message. It doesn't matter if you are a practiced yogi or you are new to yoga, all are welcome. (painting is by the Birth Arts Internation)

05/09/2025

A few years back, I was in conversation with a hospital-based midwife colleague about a shared frustration.

We were both so tired of hearing that women who had been told they had gestational diabetes (or GD, which is a debatable label in itself) were also being told they needed induction.

"The problem is," she said, "that some obstetricians tell women they're at high risk because they have GD, and that induction is the solution, but there's no evidence for that. But the lack of studies mean the issues are complex and there's no easy place I can point women to, so they can read more."

I knew just what she meant.

I had written about GD in my Inducing Labour book, but our conversation made me realise that I didn't have a blog post on this topic.

I wrote one that week.

Since I wrote it, my blog post on Induction for gestational diabetes: what's the evidence? has become one of my most popular.

And today I have checked and updated it, to ensure that it stays relevant and useful for the thousands of women, families, midwives and birth workers who visit it every year.

You can read it at https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/induction-for-gestational-diabetes/

I hope you'll find it useful.

01/09/2025

Pregnancy Yoga - Tuesday’s class focus is 'Moving Down and Out Part 1'. How your yoga practice can guide you in the birthing stage of labour, answering questions such as what is happening and how to breath as baby moves down the birth path. If you would like to join us email me on calmwaters@live .com or message. It doesn't matter if you are a practiced yogi or you are new to yoga, all are welcome.