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Yolande Hyde (Fertility, Pregnancy)

Our guest blogger, Yolande Hyde, is a prenatal yoga instructor, a qualified doula, and runs Avalon Yoga studio as well as Barefoot Birth Services. She teaches holistic childbirth preparation courses and helps women to achieve trust and confidence through yoga and breath work. She is also a guest blogger on iranda Kerr’s KORA website.

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Congratulations - your baby is breech

29 February 2012
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Breech is the term used when, at 35 plus weeks, your baby is presenting with its bottom or feet down on the rim of the cervix and its head up under your ribs, about 4% of babies will present in this fashion, guest blogger Yolande Hyde explains.

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How will yoga help me birth?

13 February 2012
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Yoga is neither an amusement nor a sport. Practice crosses the breadth of our bodies, the expanse of our minds and can touch us deep in our soul. When sought regularly as part of a prenatal experience it has the potential to bring us close to the divine. That wistful, dreamy, silent space of labour is there somewhere in every posture. Yoga shows us how to remain calm, quiet and still as we meet the tiger.

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Ripening fruit and the third trimester

13 January 2012
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You move into the final phase of pregnancy around week 24 where the seeds of stillness and silence represent the coming together of all your preparations and are a definitive pathway towards the moment of labour and birth.

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A short history of birth practices

10 January 2012
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Recent articles in the mainstream medial about the increase in induction and invention rates in labours have made me question and examine the route we have taken to get here.

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Are you over-intellectualising your pregnancy?

6 December 2011
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Women do not give birth within a personal bubble; every aspect of their birth will be influenced by the culture within which this birth is happening. While birth is a universal experience, the rituals surrounding it are remarkably different across cultures and over time.

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