The Daisy Foundation Antenatal & Baby Chichester, Havant & Emsworth

17/03/2022

Affirmations For A Confident Birth

"I have all the tools within me for a calm and positive birth"

16/03/2022

16/03/2022

👣 Expecting the pitter patter of tiny feet? 👣

🎉 Congratulations! 🎉

Have you booked your antenatal education yet? There seem to be so many antenatal options to choose from at the moment don't there? But have you considered choosing Daisy Birthing classes?

💜 In-person classes
💜 Gentle yoga-based movements
💜 Antenatal and active birth education
💜 Unique Daisy breathing techniques for each stage of labour
💜 Birth Hypnosis
💜 Guided relaxation to end each class
💜 Meet other local mums-to-be
💜 Move onto Daisy Baby classes together

Our unique methodology brings together the best elements of a variety of antenatal courses into a weekly class for the birthing parent to take some time for themselves to learn, move, breathe and relax to prepare for a positive, confident birth.

There are now only 2 spaces remaining for the next term so book your space now!
https://thedaisyfoundation.com/terri-canning

16/03/2022

🤰Pregnant?🤰

Take some time for yourself and your growing bump 💕

Prepare for birth, learn about your changing body, make new friends and move, breathe and relax!

15/03/2022

Learning to harness the breath throughout the birth of your baby is one of the most empowering things you can do to support your body and your baby. Allowing us to confidently stay one step ahead of each contraction as we ride the waves of labour.

14/03/2022

🤰 Are you expecting a little bundle of joy in 2022? 🤰

💓👣Congratulations! 👣💓

When it comes to the early (or in fact any) stage of pregnancy, any number of emotions can overwhelm us:
💛 Excitement
💛 Fear
💛 Anxiety
💛 Delight
💛 Uncertainty
💛 Confusion
and these may well be ever-changing!

Daisy Birthing Active Antenatal classes help expectant mums enjoy a positive pregnancy and prepare for a confident birth. This first step of your continuous perinatal support takes the best elements of pregnancy yoga-based movement, active birth and hypnobirthing and wraps them all together in a powerful 5 element model that allows you the confidence that comes from realising you can do this!
So let's do it together - the next term of Daisy Birthing is available to book now at https://thedaisyfoundation.com/terri-canning

09/03/2022

05/03/2022

🙌 Posted • "Birth is about so much more than the wriggling of a tiny body out of a larger one.

When we birth, we don't just birth babies. We birth ourselves, we birth our families and we reshape our lives."

That's one of the most-quoted lines in my book, 'What's Right For Me? Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth.'

Birth is a journey, and I wrote this book in the hope that it would help women and families to consider what is important for them on that journey.

I wanted to share some of the tools and ideas which can help point the way.

Because the modern world is complex. It's important that we understand how our culture shapes the different options that are available, and how our decisions are affected by the beliefs, experiences and perceptions of ourselves and others.

We need to understand how the idea of risk can affect us and how we can think about decisions clearly, even when things are happening quickly.

There is no one right way, and there's certainly no way that will work for everyone.

What's important is to take the time to ponder the options and decide what path to head on.

No-one can guarantee exactly where it will lead, and that's part of the experience of the journey of birth, but you can decide where you'll begin, who your companions will be and what you want to take with you.

Happy journeying.

If you'd like to find out more about the book, see www.sarawickham.com/wrfm

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04/03/2022

Your body is always listening to your mind. Everything the body does is impacted by the mind, either consciously or unconsciously - so taking the time to mentally prepare can change the course of your experience.

This formed the basis of our discussions in Daisy Birthing last night - understanding the power of preparation, switching your conscious brain off and listening to your body, allowing it to do what it is designed to do!

01/03/2022

Is there any parent out there who hasn't been told by someone at some stage that they need to get their baby in a strict routine for feeding and sleep? That they should let their baby cry, stretch out feeds or not pick them up so much?

There are a number of (very well selling) books that promote the idea that you can train your baby to be a 'good' baby who sleeps all night and doesn't wake up. These types of books tend to promote very strict routines rather than more gentle or gradual methods that work around your baby whilst still keeping that responsive connection. The question is though - do they work? And how do they make parents feel?

A few years ago we did some research on that very question and found that although strict routines did seem to work for a small number of babies. This is most likely in some cases because those babies were leaning naturally towards a routine or were on the verge of becoming a bit more settled anyway.

How in most cases they didn't and often left mothers feeling more stressed, frustrated and miserable than when they started. Why? Because they fight everything to do with normal baby behaviour - in fact, adult behaviour too. Who of us eats and sleeps in a perfect routine and never finds comfort sleeping close to someone at night?

But babies are tiny with more frequent needs - alongside an inbuilt survival instinct to get those needs met. They have tiny tummies and shorter sleep cycles and are calmed by contact and reassurance.
Training babies fights all of this so often doesn't work.

But you can understand why parents try - they're exhausted and probably doing it on their own. It's not one big either / or though. There are gentler ways to encourage your baby to get the best possible sleep for them that can be effective.

But mostly we need a culture which also supports, protects and values new parents better through those exhausting months rather than suggesting something that doesn't work and can leave them feeling even more exhausted.

25/02/2022