Spiritual birthing guide & homeopathy for pregnancy

27th February 2010

“An Afternoon Of Nurture, Health And Healing For Mums To Be” Create your own Birthing Rescue Remedy and learn how to connect to your Birthing Guide. With Sophia Please and Homeopath Grazia Gatti Afternoon of Saturday 27th February London Welcoming all mums to be, come and receive some mind, body and soul healing in a warm and nourishing atmosphere, an afternoon for you to relax, create sacred self connection and have time to be! Learn how natural homeopathic remedies and healing techniques can provide holistic health and support to you during pregnancy and labour, including an opportunity to connect to your own supportive birthing guide. Explore how to connect with your intuitive natural self, whilst moving through the cycles of pregnancy and birth. Within the afternoon we will each be creating a unique healing birth remedy, which will be individual to you and organically attuned to to your body, soul and baby. About Sophia: Through her healing practice Sophia has holistically midwifed many mums to be with their pregnancy through to healthy births. Empowering and supporting the mother and child with sense of heart and compassion, is her key focus. As well as supporting the mother, she has a sacred ability to connect and communicate with babies before being born, helping grow integral links and supporting bond between mother and child. Full workshop details coming soon. If you’re interested in this afternoon or you’d like to know more, please contact Sophia t: 07751 829101 e:info@sophiaplease.co.uk

Museum of Childhood

The V & A Museum of Childhood is a superb place to go with babies and children of all ages. If you are a new mum with a baby is great to meet up with other new mums for coffee, great choc brownies and fairly priced food.

There is a sensory play area for babies that are sitting/crawling and toddlers, you can sit in there with a tiny baby too.
For the older and walking kids there is a sand pit, Lego table, dressing up, punch and judy to do yourself, a games area with board games, also rocking horses yeeehaa! An electric train thats 20p per train (but never seems to work), Magnetic play, a massive robot with a turning cog!

For the under 3’s there is a little play area upstairs to the left side as you walk in, its a great place to send Dads to when its their day to do the child care. It takes you back to your own childhood with starwars toys, cindy dolls, matchbox cars and much much more…

Superb shop with a splendid book selection.

AND ITS ALL FREE! Open weekdays and weekends until 5.45pm
Click HERE or on image above to visit there site

V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9PA
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)20 8983 5200
Fax: +44 (0)20 8983 5225
Email: moc@vam.ac.uk

Open 10.00-17.45 Monday-Sunday (last admission 17.30), 10.00-21.00 on the first Thursday of every month
Closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January every year
FREE admission, buses no.8 (bethnal green rd) Bethnal green tube

Toddler things to do in London

In need of things to do out of the home with your little toddlers?
For tried and tested ideas visit:
http://golondon.about.com/od/londonwithchildren/tp/Toddler_London.htm

Wetsuit wraps for babies

If your looking to take your baby swimming in the winter or in a pool that
is not especially warm then you can get very good value baby wetsuits
from here: Mikes diving They are very adjustable to babies growing size too.

Latino baby & toddler salsa dance classes

For London parents who fancy doing some salsa, you can take your
babies and toddlers along with you.

The Rotherhithe (London) classes have been highly recommended to me by other mums
who have taken their babies and toddlers. Must try it with my son too!

Find out more at: Latino Bambino

Sleepy baby time…

Try soothe-me calm baby spray with lovely Organic Essential oils:
High Altitude Lavender, Frankincense, Roman Chamomile, Rose de mai.

Aromatherapy oils have been used for centuries to help calm and heal.
Lavender and Chamomile are great relaxers, they can help to encourage
a calm mood for babies at bedtime and during baby massage.
Frankincense is a mind clearer to help stop racing thoughts.

This Calm Baby Spray can be used this spray on bedding, in the air
and its gentle enough spray directly onto babies skin and hair, (cover eyes
before spraying). Can also help ease heat rash on babies and toddlers.
Use as an aid to help to calm babies and toddlers during a long flight.
(Mums will also love to use it as a calming face spritzer!)
Click on image to buy from www.soothe-me.com

bike n baby – try wee-ride

Little Dylan rides high with this dad in Victoria Park, London

Want to take your little one out with you then this wee-ride is great. Its a really lovely way to get out in the fresh air and for your baby to experience the great outdoors. It feels really safe and has a padded ‘table’ type rest for your nipper to lean on when tired.

You can use if from around 10 months depending on your childs size, neck strength (Mothercare stocks it too). The only minor thing is it does make your knees push out to the sides very slightly but, you get used to it and I just push my bum back a bit. I guess you could move your saddle back a bit too.

There is also the SafeTseat thats looks equally as good (although I have not tryed it), but without the leg length adjustment of the wee-ride.

Links: To buy the seat http://www.weerideuk.co.uk/
Helmets for babies: http://weeride.co.uk/

Health & Healing Day – soothe-me will be there!

I will be having a little skin care stall at this healing day in Bow E3, Oct 10th

A fun day of health and healing for the whole family, including:
Massage, Reflexology, Kinesiology, Nutrition, Homeopathy.
Adult Yoga 1.00pm Children Yoga 12.00pm, wear loose clothes.
Healthy meal demonstration
Children’s Arts and Crafts – Paints, paper, clay & recycled objects. Facilitators will support children in letting their imaginations go wild!
Food, Cafe, Raffle and a variety of stalls.
Next event coming on the 12th Dec 2009!!!!

Craniosacral Therapy for Mums & Babies

Pregnancy, Mothers and Babies low cost clinic
Craniosacral Therapy for Mums & Babies:
Tuesdays at the Healthy Living Centre Islington.

I visited here and had treatment with Joan, she totally helped me in a time of crisis by treating my son. He was very poorly with an ulcerated esophagus, after having had un-diagnosed silent reflux for several months and I kept being told it was colic again and again by health visitors. I was at my wits end, knowing that it definately NOT just colic I was willing to try anthing to help him and heard about the centre from a friend.

Craniosacral treatment is gentle and non-invasive I believe that the sessions helped to start the turn around of my son Dylans’s condition. Joan also treated me in the session which was greatly needed after bearly sleeping more than 20mins at a time for 2 months! It was amazing to see Dylan go from a stressed in pain baby to sleeping very soundly in just 20 minutes. It also gave me some very precious time to have a little rest.

Osteopathy for Mums & Babies

Based in Farringdon London is: The Foundation for Paediatric Osteopathy.

I took my little son there when he was very poorly with Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). He was late to be diagnosed with GORD so was in a lot of pain nearly all the time for several months. (I will write more about how I coped soon).

I heard about the FPO charity from another mum who took her daughter there when she kept having ear infections.  The treatment really helped my son, helping to release a nerve connected to digestion in his neck that could have happened during his difficult delivery.
Rather than paying for the treatment you just give a donation after each session. (I wish now I had made the time to get treatment myself too, you can receive treatment up until your baby is one year).

More about the charity: The Foundation for Paediatric Osteopathy, a charitable organisation based in the UK, seeks to ensure that paediatric osteopathy – a gentle, effective and environmentally-friendly treatment – is established as the first recourse for parents and carers concerned for their child’s health.

London – Clerkenwell
41 Woodbridge Street
London EC1R 0ND

T: 020 7490 5510
W: http://fpo.org.uk

Other links:  Baby reflux uk