What happens when birth doesn’t go to plan? Healing from a difficult birth experience For all of us the transition to being a mum is a huge life event. For many women their birth experience happens just as they hoped and wished for, but for many women their birth experience is not at all what […]
Introducing our brand new bursary winner Katie. We have a free online baby massage teacher training bursary every six months to enable a student to learn with us where there might be barriers. So happy to have awarded the bursary to Katie. She said, “I have had a difficult time in my past due to
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Crying and fussing are just some of the ways that babies and children communicate. With their emotions still developing, their understanding of the world growing and expanding and having new experiences that are challenging and overwhelming, being able to self regulate is hard. Let’s face it a lot of adults have the same challenges but
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Today’s blog post is a guest blog from my teacher Charmine King. She has been dedicated to her study and created a successful business practice in under a year. This is her story; Hi, my name is Charmaine and I am mummy to 3 beautiful children, aged 23, 3 and 1. For 11 years I
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LIFE IS ABOUT MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND AN IMPACT When I started Blossom & Berry 15 years ago, I did it because I wanted to spend my life with my children as they were growing up and because I had a deep realisation that parents are children’s first teachers. I understood for the first time
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As part of World Prematurity Day we are looking at ways that skin to skin can help to support premature babies and newborns after birth. Much is written on Kangaroo Care but this article focuses on an adaption of that practice known as Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), which I believe is the most gentle way
Designed to nurture: The incredible power of a new mother’s body. Read More »
I am just back and adjusting from Malawi after visiting Blossom & Berry’s Mother and Baby Health Initiative which is run with Love Support Unite. Background: The challenge for mothers and babies in Malawi Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with more than half of its population living on less than
The Practice Of Kangaroo Care/Skin To Skin Contact “When babies are held naked against their mother’s skin, it is the closest they can get to being back in the warmth and security of the womb. It is the only place in which newborns have survived for the last million years, and developed toward optimal health. It
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The truth about spoiling your baby I feel very strongly that I share with you all that I have discovered over the years about “spoiling your baby”. You can’t spoil a baby with love. There is so much neuroscience on this. Don’t doubt it, and if you do, research it. What exactly is “spoiling” a
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Going back to work after a baby can be tough especially if you acutely feel the separation from your little one. If you are out of the house early, and only back just in time for bedtime, you might feel like you are disconnected from your role as a parent and all that is so
I had been considering setting up a baby massage and yoga business for a while but knew I couldn’t afford it. Following an emergency C-section under general anaesthetic and no recollection of meeting my new baby I had been left totally detached from my baby and not feeling bonded at all and then I joined
Introducing our 2017 Bursary Award winner Rachel Augello Read More »
Crying is just your baby’s way of communicating his needs to you, but sometimes coping with a baby that is crying consistently can be really hard if you are feeling low, negative or sleep deprived. You can start to feel drained of energy, overwhelmed with emotions and unable to give anymore. If you have
