Daisy Birthing for Couples

Is this the right couples Birth Education for You?
If you are looking for a workshop which explores how to enjoy a more natural and active birthing from beginning to end, we are the ideal pregnancy and birth preparation class for you!

If however you want to move to improve, not move for movements sake, we are again the very course you need. Our approach is unique as we embrace what we call relaxed-active birthing.

If you and your partner want to learn from down to earth, easy to understand and extremely practical FEDANT approved teachers, we are the ideal couples birth preparation for you! We are normal mums with exceptional birth understanding and a completely quirky and unique way of helping you to understand and helping you to remember!

If you relate better to practical analogies rather than obstetric props and If you are between 30 weeks to 38 weeks pregnant, whatever your age, background or experience, we are the right workshop for you! Just ask previous couples about our pastry cutters!



What are we?
Daisy Birthing® for couples is so much more than just another couples antenatal education workshop. Designed around our tried and tested weekly format, our founder has taken into account what mums2be require in order to put their techniques into a virtual birth order and what dads2be require in order to make the education enjoyable and meaningful.

Having attended antenatal classes with her 3rd baby (her husband's 1st baby), Julie was able to collate a wealth of feedback about what dads like and dislike. They told us that they:

Don't want to play games or find out facts about the person sitting next to them - they're more interested in their partner and their birth!
Don't want to split into all mum and all dad groups - they are there to prepare with their partner!
Don't want to look at obstetric tools or pictures of baby's head crowing - they don't need to learn to deliver a baby just how to support their partner as nature takes it's course!
Don't want to feel embarrassed or self conscious!
What they did want however is exactly what we have designed to provide (and now offer both from our head office studio in Ipswich, Suffolk but also at an additional 20 locations throughout England and Scotland):

No nonsense education in practical every day language and using real life metaphors to help understanding!
A real understanding of the physiology of labour - what causes the process to happen and what causes the process to falter.
Techniques which enable them to provide meaningful support (through prompts, breathing, massage and practical tasks).
A chance to ask questions and a chance to understand what active birthing is all about.
REAL teachers - mums who have experienced birth themselves and ideally experienced this within the last 3-5 years!


Key Features
We're approved by FEDANT reassuring you of our safety and professionalism.
We're accessible for all couples, young, more mature and whether planning a hospital or home birth.
We're completely 'embarassment' free ... you will not be asked to model movements rather we model them for you!
We provide a community of like minded parents all wanting to talk about the positives of birth (including virtual community for every attending mum).
We provide a highly cost effective way to experience couples birth education and a highly time efficient way too! Just one 4 hour session will take you from natural ways to help labour begin, through to the forth trimester with your baby.
We're affordable with this combined education costing just £75 per couple.
Our workshop fee includes a copy of our exclusive virtual labour music.

New baby arrived in pregnancy class

“Gemma taught me in class about my body and the impact breathing can have during labour, this is without doubt what got me through! A text part way through my labour stayed firm in my mind also, she said not to worry we can dilate in minutes. I was 3cms, when this thought came back to me, I then dilated to 10cms in about 20 mins!!! The power of the mind is amazing. I highly recommend Daisy Birthing it was brilliant.”

Katryna, mum to Ellis 4 and baby Eden.

Antenatal Classes Brighton and Hove

Stay active, get mentally & physically prepared for baby and birth and have a good giggle with other like minded pregnant mummies... pregnancy yoga class, nct and hypnobirthing all rolled into one weekly class. http://www.cheekyfunky.com/birth-classes-c-30.html

Antenatal Active Birth Classes Brighton and Hove

What the mummies are saying:

Oh my god gemma you won't believe this. Our little boy arrived this morning just after 7am weighing 7lb 13oz. You would be so proud of me. No time for any pain relief. Waters broke at half 4! 2.5hrs from start to finish! Absolutely unbelievable! So proud of myself and not an epidural in sight!

Another one born!!! Another happy mum. Mum said: your classes made this birth a completely natural birth and positive experience so thanks so much x

If you like the idea of pregnancy yoga but worry you are not stretchy enough, if you are drawn to hypnosis for birth but want to remain mobile, if you love the idea of an active birth but have never squatted in your life we are the ideal pregnancy and birth preparation class for you!

If you want to feel confident and comfortable through your pregnancy and fit for birth both physically and emotionally, we are the ideal pregnancy and birth preparation class for you!

If you are between 14 - 42 weeks pregnant, whatever your age, background or experience and love the idea of an environment where birth is celebrated, we are the right class for you!

Daisy Birthing is a unique take on birth preparation.

6 week term normally £54 but ref facebook group and term only £45
Book your space now as limited!

gemma@lazydaisybirthing.co.uk
01273 249751

BOOK ONLINE:
http://www.cheekyfunky.com/birth-classes-c-30.html

what is daisy birthing? what is active birth?

Daisy Birthing®

If you like the idea of pregnancy yoga but worry you are not stretchy enough, if you are drawn to hypnosis for birth but want to remain mobile, if you love the idea of an active birth but have never squatted in your life we are the ideal pregnancy and birth preparation class for you!

If you want to feel confident and comfortable through your pregnancy and fit for birth both physically and emotionally, we are the ideal pregnancy and birth preparation class for you!

If you are between 14 - 42 weeks pregnant, whatever your age, background or experience and love the idea of an environment where birth is celebrated, we are the right class for you!

Daisy Birthing is a unique take on birth preparation.

By delivering key birthing facts, alongside a range of gentle and carefully movements, we build muscle memory and help mums-to-be find intuitive techniques to help them enjoy a more comfortable birth experience. Daisy Birthing is FEDANT approved and has helped more than 1500 mums to date (2010).

*Key Features*

We’re approved by FEDANT reassuring you of our safety and professionalism

We’re accessible for all mums, so not just the super bendy ones

We’re safe for mums with pelvic girdle pain

We provide a community of like minded mums all wanting to talk about the positives of birth

We’re affordable with this combined education costing just £9 per week

gemma@lazydaisybirthing.co.uk
01273 249751

Active Birth Classes - Brighton & Hove

Soooo exciting... finally i am doing completely what i love - teaching women about their bodies, their babies and their minds... installing positive and powerful pregnant ladies to have fabulous births and pregnancy experience - whatever the outcome. Antenatal eductation alongside weekly gentle excercise and hypnosis for an EASY birth.

My classes are under license from http://www.thelazydaisychain.co.uk/lazydaisy/ Lazy Daisy ltd and is a FEDANT federation of antenatal teaching approved course. I am a training antenatal teacher.

This is the class options and where I teach active birth classes in brighton and hove.

Class Options:
Thurs 1.00 - 2.15pm (Hove)
Fri 6.15pm - 7.30pm (Hove)
Mon 8.00pm - 9.15pm (Brighton)

HOVE:
The Studio:
Back 2 Balance, 35 Goldstone Villas, Hove BN3 3RT (close to hove station)

BRIGHTON:
Holistic Health Clinic
53 Beaconsfield Rd, Preston Circus
BN1 4QH

6 week term normally £54 but ref facebook group and term only £45
Book your space now as limited!

gemma@lazydaisybirthing.co.uk
01273 249751

BOOK ONLINE:
http://www.cheekyfunky.com/birth-classes-c-30.html

Baby Georgia Arrived

Our Ickle girly arrived safe and sound into the arms of the paramedics! oops indeed a speedy arrival of 1hr 11mins. We love love love her... She is pink, but bright and bold with it! She loves her girly cheeky funky tees and she looks super fab in the bright sleepsuits.

The Birth of Georgia Rae Clifford – Thursday 4th March 2010 8.41am 9lbs 1.5oz at home.

> > I had been having some niggles for a few days but as I kept telling
> > everyone ‘nothing to write home about!’. I knew she had
> > descended low into my pelvis as was really getting sharp ligament pa
> > ins in the tops of my legs and my hips were quite sore. I kept reli
> > giously checking my knickers for a show or waters. Nothing.
> >
> > On weds night I was half tempted to go to my weekly yoga but just
> > felt not quite right. I had a few pains through the evening but
> > nothing more than a dull back ache. I went to bed about 11pm. At
> > 1am my son Finlay woke me with quite a start as he was screaming in
> > bed, very unlike him and as I got up to see him I had a
> > contraction. It was a mild one but having gone through the birth
> > process once before I knew it was different to the other pains I had
> > been getting. I proceeded to get up about 8 times to his cry each
> > time he would just get straight back into bed, and each time I could
> > feel the contractions about every 10mins. They were picking up but
> > felt very manageable and inside I was a excited that I was going to
> > meet my little girl at some point that day.
> >
> > At 3.30am Finlay finally went to sleep and I lay there on and off
> > snoozing through mild contractions. At 6.10am I decided to get up
> > and go to the toilet. I noticed a bit of a show and my knickers and
> > pjs were wet but in a bit of a daze didn’t think much of it. I went
> > to the bedroom to get a clean pair of knickers and realised there w
> > as water trickling down my legs. I woke Frazer my husband and said
> > I think my waters have gone.
> >
> > We were very chilled and said ‘ok cool lets ring my mum (who lives i
> > n London) and Frazer’s dad who was due to pick Finlay up at 9.30am a
> > nyway but to come a bit earlier, maybe 8am. We then rang the labour
> > ward and Frazer explained my waters had broken and I was having mil
> > d contractions. They said the homebirth midwife is on duty at 7am a
> > nd would call us. So off went Frazer downstairs to blow up the pool
> > and get a cuppa... he came back and the contractions had picked up
> > a little so I put on my tens. He was off again getting all the bits
> > ready downstairs for the day ahead... or so we thought!!!
> >
> > I was breathing through well and using the tens but the contractions
> > quickly gathered momentum and soon I was on all fours in the bed,
> > still breathing through but feeling their intensity. The
> > contractions were about every 4mins and lasting a minute. I said to
> > Frazer has the midwife called as it was now about 7.30am. At this
> > point I kept feeling like I needed a poo and infact went to the loo
> > were my bowels opened. I thought o that’s good to have a clear out.
> > I went back to the bedroom but just couldn’t get in the zone, it a
> > ll felt very intense and I kept saying to Frazer I need another poo!
> > !! I went back to the bathroom and as I sat on the loo the realisati
> > on that actually I need to push. I thought I was going mad and coul
> > d not possibly be at that stage. I knelt on the floor by the bath a
> > nd kept saying I need to push.
> > Frazer was on hold with the labour ward, eventually he was saying to
> > the women my wife is saying she needs to push... she advised him to
> > ring 999 and get an ambulance!! I could hear him call and say ‘ambul
> > ance please’... I remember thinking o my god he is so dramatic this
> > is going to be embarrassing!... all in between overwhelming urges to
> > push.
> >
> > The next chain of events is a slight haze but my mum suddenly
> > appeared next to me, obviously not expecting to have found me in
> > such a state of labour by this point it is about 7.50am, then out
> > the corner of my eye I saw a green uniform and the voice of an
> > angel... this voice guided me in the most beautiful way. She kept
> > asking me to move out the bathroom (our bathroom is not big enough
> > to swing a cat let alone birth a baby) apparently for the next five
> > minutes I swung from swearing profusely to repeatedly apologising.
> > I then somehow got to my feet and walked to the end of my bed where
> > I knelt down and with about 5 strong pushes crowned my baby’s head..
> > . my mum was to the right and saying ‘o my god I can see the
> > head’, Frazer was in front saying in my ear ‘your amazing, I love
> > you’ and the softly spoken voice was guiding me from behind that on
> > the next contraction I would meet my baby!
> >
> > She came out with a woosh and all my waters that drenched the
> > paramedic, she had a very loud cry and only in that that moment did
> > I allow myself to believe it was all ok. I turned and looked at the
> > paramedic and said ‘what’s your name?’ she said ‘Amanda’
> > and I said ‘thank you’. She smiled and then we laughed.
> >
> > The paramedics were amazing they left the cord pulsating whilst I
> > wiped off my top and placed Georgia straight on my boob which she
> > loved straight away.
>
> >
> > Throughout all this not only did Finlay stay asleep but my father in
> > law had been sat downstairs listening to the low groans of
> > childbirth followed by the cry of a new baby, ‘truly magical’ he
> > said.
> >
> > About 10 mins after she was born the two midwives turned up... we
> > were all in the bedroom when I heard Andy the tall green paramedic
> > say ‘hello who are you then?’ and the voice say ‘Hi i am
> > Finlay!’. My mum lept up and went in his room where he asked to get
> > dressed and then went downstairs without asking where mummy or dadd
> > y was. A sixth sense that he knew he needed to be good. They went
> > to the park and left me to deliver placenta and get a few stitches.
>
> >
> > As with quick deliveries the placenta sometimes goes into shock and
> > doesn’t come away... so after 50 mins i had the injection and 10 min
> > s later after a slight worry it wasn’t coming out I managed to find
> > some energy to push it out... the threat of a trip to hospital gave
> > me momentum.
> >
> > So my birth plan of wallowing in my birth pool with candles and ting
> > tong music went slightly off track and in replacement was something
> > more like out of take a break! I feel though it was a very good and
> > positive birth experience. Officially logged as 1hr 11mins!!!!!
> >
> > My little lady is so adorable and very calm and contented,
> > unsurprisingly she isn’t bothered by commotion in the house and her
> > big brother banging and chatting in her ear all day. I am so in lov
> > e and so happy, motherhood is truly the best.
> >
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