Breastfeeding advice, news and support
Catch me on new GMTV feature “The Baby Breakfast Club”, it started today and there will be three more over the coming weeks.
For more information about the series and when its on air see the Baby Breakfast Club on the GMTV website. There’s also some additional advice from babyconfidence which ties in with the above film
Babyconfidence Antenatal Intensive l day course. One Day course with partners welcome. Too busy to come to three classes and want your partner to be involved?
Come to an intensive day course. £180 per couple
Held on Sunday 27th June or 19th September.
The course is all about being as prepared as possible for your new arrival – what your baby’s needs are & how to meet them.
Getting off to a great start with feeding your baby & the Simple Cycle of newborn management – how often your newborn needs to feed, when he should be sleeping & how to help him do it! Consistency of advice is so important at this time – my course is specifically designed to ensure you get this & the reassurance that I’m available at least by phone to offer support & guidance when you need it.
See the babyconfidence course page to find out more! & to book a place contact me at vicki@babyconfidence.co.uk
The next babyconfidence postnatal course starts on the 25th May. This is a course of 3 classes which take place monthly over 3 months. Starting the babyconfidence routine, guidance personalised to you and your baby. Lots of other topics covered during the course including – understanding baby’s sleep, offering bottles, development, travelling, looking after a sick baby and much more!
£60 per class 10.00 – 12.00.
Consistency of advice is so important at this time – my course is specifically designed to ensure you get this & the reassurance that I’m available at least by phone to offer support & guidance when you need it.
See the babyconfidence course page to find out more! & to book a place contact me at vicki@babyconfidence.co.uk
I’ve taken part in many BabyShow’s around the country but for the first time babyconfidence had a small but perfectly formed stand in Earlscourt in October! It was lovely to meet so many mummies, babies & bumps & to have heard from some of you since. I hope that you enjoyed my October newsletter!
Also, a belated CONGRATULATIONS to Amy from Colchester who has won £100 worth of baby products! Well done!
We had another lovely afternoon last week at Cannizaro Park in Wimbledon for the NCT Teddy Bear’s Picnic. It threatened to rain all afternoon but didn’t thank goodness.
The babyconfidence and First Aid For Life balloons we were giving away to all the toddlers were a great success and loads of fun to do.
Congratulations to Emma from Raynes Park who is the winner of my prize draw from the afternoon!
The afternoon’s entertainment made it a real event, there were sessions all afternoon from people like Debutots (Rachel Bark-Jones) and Gymboree Wandsworth.
Last Saturday was the Cheeky Monkey’s Tea Party on Clapham Common and was the first time i’d been to such an event as an ‘exhibitor’! It was great fun and I’m looking forward to doing it all again at Cannizaro Park in Wimbledon next Friday the 3rd July.
It was lovely to see many of my current and former ‘mums’ with their babies, and a good opportunity to meet face to face with other mums & mums to be to tell them about babyconfidence!
The prize draw was won by Ana from Clapham-Ana I emailed you last week to tell you that you’d won £50 of babyconfidence services or products but you haven’t replied! If you’d like to claim your prize get in touch asap or I will draw out another name at next week’s fair.
Many of you will know that I’ve been doing phone consutations for years! The “new” bit is that I’m starting to arrange these through a new and innovative internet service called Greatvine. The benefit to clients is that the call can be recorded as part of the service so you can refer back to our conversation as you put the advice into practice. The cost is the same to clients too. The benefit to me is it cuts down on my admin!
I hope you’ll give this service a try, and check out some of the other professionals on there too, covering a range of topics. I’m sure Greatvine will be a big hit when word gets around!
For more info see the telephone consultations tab on the top of the page
I really put off the thought of having an aupair come to stay with us as I thought it would take forever to find someone, the paperwork would be really tedious and I’d find the whole thing really stressful! Not so! This week I’m going to start a blog page dedicated to my AuPair search, and how it goes this summer. You’ll be able to find it listed under ‘pages’ on the left.
I was invited to a screening of this documentary last week and highly recommend it. It explores the current situation in the United States regarding how birth has become much more medicalised and how that impacts on the outcomes for mother and baby. It spells out how intervention interferes with the normal physiology (and psychology) of labour & birth, causing problems which then need further intervention from the doctors to ‘rescue’ the situation.
I must echo a sentiment from the film -for me this is not about bashing the doctors-thank goodness we have them. It is though about women taking control of their labour & birth experience & doing everything possible to keep it natural and minimise intervention. A big part of that is confidence – if we see birth as a natural, normal process our bodies go through (rather than an illness, or obstacle) then with the right kind of preparation and support the physical and psychological outcomes are better. This is vital in early mother/baby bonding and sucess of breastfeeding too.
I’d recommend seeing this in early pregnancy or while planning a pregnancy ideally -giving you time to get your head around the issues discussed. I imagine the film may be a bit heavy going as the due date approaches-I’d be interested to hear what others think.
See www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com
The DVD is available on Amazon.