Information for parents about doulas, positive birth and postnatal support.

Planning a positive birth

…surround yourself with positive people, people who know about birth and how good it can be.

Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie Recipe

Here’s a recipe for our Nourishing the New Mother series that can be made meaty veggie or vegan whatever your preferences. It’s great comfort food and really nourishing. Perfect for your doula to make for you or to make and freeze in small batches ready for when you need it. Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie Notes: apparently…

Baby

5 Tips for Increasing your Milk Supply

Establishing and maintaining a good breastmilk suply is one of the top worries that many mums have about breastfeeding. Our society and the prevalence of formula advertising have made us think that this is a very common problem but it’s really quite unusual to not be able to make enough milk with the right supportive…

Doula

Comfort food: Macaroni Cheese

Macaroni and Cheese is such a simple staple we often forget how good it is as a comfort food. This is another great recipe for making in advance and freezing in portion size pieces for when you need something filling to pop in the microwave and enjoy. It’s also something your postnatal doula could easily…

Birth

Yummy Chocolate Bites Recipe

These yummy chocolate energy bites are perfect for nibbling in labour or when you’ve got a new baby and need some quick energy now. They’ve also got dates in them which have been shown to be potentially very helpful to pregnant women. Find out more about that from the Evidenced-based birth website. The only problem my…

Birth

An introduction to hypnobirth with Wendy from WondrousBirth

We wanted to find out what hypnobirth was all about so we thought a good place to start would be a chat with a hypnobirth teacher. Here’s what we asked and what we found out. It’s all about relaxation and practice. There are lots of assumptions about what hypnobirthing is and people can feel quite…

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5 Reasons your doula might use a baby sling and why you might want to try it too

When your postnatal doula arrives at your door there are a few things she might have with her. One might be cake another is a sling to help her as she cares for you and your baby. So what’s so great about slings? Lots of babies sleep really well in a sling. Babies come into the…

Doula

Nourishing Vegan Broth.

Enjoying eating it is the most important criteria

NourishingtheNewMum

Bone Broth Recipe

Today we’re starting a new Blog Series which we’re going to come back to regularly. Nourishing the New Mum This new category for our blog is a chance to share some of our favourite recipes with you. When we work as postnatal doulas we’re all about looking after new families and especially new mums. One…

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5 Great Positive Affirmations For Life with a New Baby

The good news is there’s no such thing as a perfect parent and your baby just needs you to love them.