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Help your baby fart with this Amazing Baby Fart Expulsion Technique!
A Quick Guide to using Clary Sage Oil in Labour
How to wind a baby … Birthzang’s Amazing Baby Burp Technique!
Foods to Induce Labour Naturally
Pregnancy Blogs
What’s the point in writing a birth plan?
There is lots of talk in pregnancy around writing a birth plan and it stirs up lots of debate. On the one hand, some people feel it is most important to just "go with the flow" and be as flexible as possible and therefore feel that creating a birth plan is...
Could birthing alone be a good thing?
The recent Coronavirus outbreak has had a huge impact on maternity services and expectant parents around the world. Routine pregnancy appointment and scans have been cancelled or limited to the mother attending alone meaning she is having to leave her birth partner at...
Best Clary Sage Oil brands for labour
Clary sage oil (or to use its Latin name Salvea Sclarea) is a popular choice for people hoping to kick-start labour, or enhance it once it has begun. I have written previously about how you can use clary sage oil safely in labour. Using this sweet-smelling essential...
Natural Ways to Induce Labour – your guide to myths and facts about childbirth induction without drugs
So many women feel fed-up at the end of their pregnancy. On the one hand, you feel as if you have been pregnant for 6 million years and frankly another day is too much! On the other hand, you feel really sure that you want to let things happen as naturally as...
10 tips for practising yoga in pregnancy
Yoga in pregnancy is really beneficial whether you are a complete beginner, or have a long-standing practice. It is highly advisable to find a yoga class for pregnancy as it will be tailored to the needs of your body in pregnancy, and also help prepare you...
No, your birth is not like running a bloody marathon!
People who have had a baby understand that approaching labour in blissful ignorance with zero preparation does not put you in the best position to facilitate an amazing birth. Don’t get me wrong, you can absolutely birth with no preparation, but in my experience the...
How learning about drugs can help you have a natural birth
Most pregnant women I meet want a natural birth. OK, there are always some people who believe that they have a zero tolerance of pain and fully intend to get all the drugs as soon as they go into labour. And I fully applaud them. Regardless of your choices knowing...
Helping Birth – your guide to pain relief choices and interventions
There are a thousand books on how to have a natural birth with different techniques and methods. Very few of them address the reality that over 50% of mothers in the UK have some form of intervention or birth pain relief in childbirth, and the number is much higher in...
Get this baby out now! A guide to birth interventions
What are birth interventions. On the whole, birth interventions are not usually planned for in early pregnancy. However, the two major interventions many parents face are an induction of labour or caesarean. In many cases, birth interventions are required for medical...
Give me all the drugs! A guide to labour pain relief choices
Pain Relief vs Natural Birth When preparing for birth, most women's first instincts are to find out all they can about natural birth and not really consider labour pain relief. We have done it for millions of years, after all, and the excitement that Hypnobirthing and...
Parenthood Blogs
How to wind a baby … Birthzang’s Amazing Baby Burp Technique!
How to wind a baby is one of the first questions about handy baby techniques my mums ask, and many have enjoyed the benefits of Birthzang's Amazing Baby Fart Expulsion Technique for years. I love helping mums with a very upset baby who needs to release trapped wind...
The Ultimate Guide to Help Your Baby Fart and Stop Them Crying
Learn how to wind your baby the natural way.
Feeling like a bad parent? It could stem from birth trauma
Being a bad parent is a bit of a social media joke. Blogs and memes abound with stories of giving our kids chips, depending on the netflix babysitter and being inconsistent with our reward charts. We joke about it to normalise it. Perfect parents don’t exist. We all...
Om Nom Nom! Birthzang’s Guide to Baby-Led Weaning
Baby Led Weaning Babyzang1 was weaned with the "traditional" puree method, but it was stressful and messy and when it was babyzang 2's turn we went down the baby-led weaning route. It was so wonderful! The stress was nil, the worry was so much less and babyzang 2...
Birthzang’s Advice to New Mums
Advice to new mums As soon as you are pregnant the advice to new mums starts. What to do for morning sickness, where to buy maternity clothes, how to hide your bump/show off your bump, what to buy/what not to buy, what to pack in your hospital bag, how to prepare for...
Weaning my baby when and how? All you need to know.
Weaning my baby Your baby is growing oh so fast and those newborn days seem a distant memory. Your baby is smiling and gurgling, grabbing things, perhaps starting to try sitting up on their own and you start to ask yourself: "Is it time to start to weaning my baby?"....
Birthzang’s guide to introducing a bottle (to a stubborn baby)
If you breastfeed your baby, the chances are at some point you are going to try introducing a bottle so that you can entrust someone else to care for them and feed them giving you a much-needed break. Introducing a bottle to a breastfed baby is not...
Allowing the Impossible
[toc] Allowing The Impossible in Birth You often hear the question "am I allowed" asked in the context of birth, particularly in the hospital setting. Am I allowed to get off the bed? Am I allowed to have something to eat? Am I allowed to change position?...
The Benefits of Postnatal Yoga
The benefits of postnatal yoga Many women when pregnant attend a pregnancy yoga class: to keep toned, to stay flexible, to prepare their bodies for labour and birth, and also to meet other mums in their area. But once the baby is born it can be easy to...
5 Things Every Parent Should Know About Newborn Babies
Pregnancy is pretty overwhelming. And from conception to birth there is a slow but steady build-up to get you on the road to parenthood. Getting through labour and birth is a whole other story. And then you do it - you give birth, and in a matter of hours you are...