Read Our Post Natal Mental Health Blog Posts

Why is an early relationship with your baby important for a newborn?

The importance of forming an intimate early relationship between mother and baby has been emphasised for several decades. A wealth of research has shown that the quality of the early relationship with your baby can have lasting effects on a child’s development, including socio-emotional adaption, cognitive development, language development, a child’s future mental health. Even a child’s attachment style- the quality of their emotional bond in future relationships.

Dr Andrew Mayers of Bournemouth University has conducted a research study looking specifically at how men feel about the support they receive during their partner's pregnancy. At easibirthing® and parenting, we completely believe the study's reported feelings of exclusion in the whole process and pregnancy and birth can be extended to any non-birthing parent regardless of gender. Our clients often report feeling sidelined or their needs ignored.

Given how prevalent post natal depression and anxiety can be amongst new parents, regardless whether they have given birth or not, it is time as a society that we give them to space and support to adjust during pregnancy and childbirth to help prevent adverse mental health beyond.

Pregnant women are being encouraged to incorporate mindfulness techniques into their daily lives as it is known to offer many benefits. Practicing mindfulness can:

• Help reduce stress
• Reduce the fear of labour
• Lower the risk of postnatal depression
• Help mother and baby bond/connect
• Promote healthy development of offspring

Tokophobia is a pathological dread & avoidance of childbirth.

Join our next 'Tokophobia & Birth Trauma' event for practitioners on Friday 11 Feb from 5.30pm to 8.30pm at Chilworth Manor (nr Southampton), Hampshire, UK. Follow link to register: https://bit.ly/3GKzEv8

In a series of 16 interview clips, Karol Kosinski, Hypnotherapist & learning designer at FutureLearn talks to our founder and director Sharon Mustard about psychology, philosophy and the driving forces behind the easibirthing® and parenting ethos. In today's podcast (15 of 16) Sharon talks to Karol Kosinski (https://www.karolkosinski.org/) about society's focus on fear and returning to our intuitive self.

In a series of 16 interview clips, Karol Kosinski, Hypnotherapist & learning designer at FutureLearn talks to our founder and director Sharon Mustard about psychology, philosophy and the driving forces behind the easibirthing® and parenting ethos. In today's podcast (12 of 16) Sharon talks to Karol Kosinski (https://www.karolkosinski.org/) about the effect of mum and dad's nervous system on a baby.