Mother Ducks Aqua Natal Yoga

18/03/2023

Advanced Maternal Age ✨

Studies have found that advanced maternal age was associated with improved health and development for children up to age 5! Older maternal age was associated with fewer behavioral, social, and emotional difficulties in children. Researchers found that women who were able to have their last child after the age 33 are more likely to live to 95. They are actually twice as likely to live to 95 or older than those who had their last child before their 30th birthday!

✨ How old were you when you had your last baby?

30/10/2019

Informed Is Best: How to Spot Fake News about your Pregnancy, Birth & Baby. Due to be published in November from our amazing author (also author of Breastfeeding Uncovered & Why Starting Solids Matters & The Positive Breastfeeding Book). Pre-order your copy from www.pinterandmartin.com/informed-is-best 😃😃

03/06/2019

Exciting news! Norfolk Ducklings is now offering FRIDAY MORNING classes at Mangreen Country House from 9.45 - 10.15 am starting September. Spaces still available on Wednesdays and a couple of spaces available on Saturdays at Plumstead.

28/01/2019

https://www.birthlight.com/news/midwives-supporting-the-use-of-water-during-the-continuum-of-pregnancy-birth-and-beyond

One of the benefits of using water during labour and birth is the ability to be mobile and alter positions easily. To enhance normal undisturbed labour is a fine balance between hormones, psychology and physiology. Water added to this beautiful cocktail of labour can support a mother during a time o...

20/01/2019

Women in labour are increasingly being subjected to unnecessary and unwelcome interventions such as caesarean sections, warns WHO

22/12/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46591640

A study monitored the brain activity of babies when they had a blood test while being stroked.

09/11/2018

A breech birth is when a baby is born feet first. It depends on the experience of the provider, but most opt for C-section to deliver breech babies. Betty Ann Daviss is a world-renowned Canadian midwife who’s educating providers on how to do vaginal breech births. Read more about her here.

18/08/2018

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada will launch program to teach physicians breech vaginal delivery

08/03/2018

Today, there is a massive discrepancy in the support provided to women around childbirth. At one end of the spectrum, they are offered too many medical interventions too soon. At the other, they get too little support too late - or none at all. At neither end, do women have the positive childbirth e...

06/03/2018

07/12/2017

Yours truly! Seriously though this a great walk during pregnancy. Xx

Finally I am finishing the illustrations for a new article in the .mothering.journey_magazin blog. This is another Birthlight classic for pregnancy and birthing yoga: the Charlie Chaplin walk can release strain in the back, groin and legs. Moving around in labour also helps Baby find the way!

27/07/2017

Nature Knows Best. Mothers in traditional societies breastfeed their children well into their toddler years, and there is good reason for it. The World Health