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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
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Birthzang’s guide to relieving restless legs in pregnancy
It's late. You're tired. You've been at work all day and you are ready to drop, and you are pretty fed up of being pregnant now even though you've still got months to go! And then your foot twitches, it feels a bit funny, oh no here it goes again! Experiencing...
Birthzang’s 5 Essential Pieces of Equipment for Labour and Birth
Find out what 5 pieces of equipment for labour are essential in helping you achieve a fantastic birth. All items available in the Birthzang shop.
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?...
What is Active Birth?
Birth is everywhere! Everyone is born, after all, and 4 in 5 women will go through the experience (1). For some, giving birth is a wonderful life-affirming event - even describing it as orgasmic! - but for many women, labour and birth is painful, difficult...
Hot Wheels! Birthzang’s Guide to Buying a Pushchair
Those of you who know me a little bit will know that I am a bit of a pushchair geek. I recently bought a(nother) pushchair as my last one was knackered and I counted it was actually my 6th pushchair in 5 years and 2 kids. oops! It is an amazingly important...
5 Ways to Cope with Morning Sickness (and afternoon and night)
Things to help with morning sickness So you get the two blue lines on your pregnancy test and the elation lasts all day. And the next morning you feel a bit queasy, and before you know it you can't possibly be excited about your pregnancy anymore because...
Good Snacks for Labour: 4 top tips
[toc] Snacks to Pack in your Hospital Labour Bag It is a good idea to pack snacks into your hospital labour bag as you need to keep nourished and hydrated throughout labour. But what is a good snack to take? Just because you love a food, or crave it...
BRAIN – An informed decision-making tool for labour
Your Birth Plan Birth is unique to every mum and every baby and although it is beneficial to write some birth preferences in a birth plan to detail things you feel strongly about to your care providers, you may find you have to make some decisions about your care...
Birth Preferences: a useful tool for labour with template
Many pregnant mums want to write birth preferences in order to consolidate in their mind what they want for their labour and birth, and many midwives will encourage you to do so. It can be a really useful tool to help you research options for birth and decide what...
7 Top Tips to Help Pelvic Pain in Pregnancy
Is It Normal To Have Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy Pelvic pain in pregnancy is experienced by a very large number of women. It can be quite mild just taking the form of aches and niggles in the pelvis and groin area, It can result in severe pain and...
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