Calm Birth Calm Baby | Seminar

Salam everyone! 

Since I can't hide it anymore, I might just announce it, I'm pregnant! Alhamdulillah. It's a thrilling journey for both my husband and I. We are newbie to this. So we decided to go to maternity talk. We went to this talk because my friend, Mel helps organize this event. We were the first one to arrived. Excited much. 😁 It was fun and informative, but we were actually expecting more from it. As a new parents to be, we have no ideas how to handle birth and babies. 

💙 SOME OF THE GEMS 💙 

🌸 How should we feel about birthing?
- Empowering, awesome, calm, relax!

🌸 Create positive mindset from the beginning.
- "I am happy for my contraction. The contraction helps me to see my baby soon. It is just going to be a little pressure, not pain."

🌸 Birth plans :

🌸 Managing contractions naturally and effectively :
- Smile
- Eat & drink
- Warm shower
- Music / Aromatherapy / Quran
- Vocalization
- Counter pressures - knee & back
- Birth ball & active birth positions

🌸 Hypno Birthing :

1. Subconcious mind

2. Breathing techniques
a) Calm birthing
b) Surge breathing
c) Birth breathing

3. Visualisations

4. Birth education

5. Affirmations
- "I'm going to have an easy birth. I'm going to have a good relationship with my child."

This is new. Need to do more research on this.

🌸 Exercises during pregnancy :

🌸 Learning the way to burp, bath and change the clothes of a newborn :

Did we pass? 😂

🌸 Baby feeding
- Best teacher : Your child

🌸 Dunstan Baby Language
- Sounds made by newborn (until 3 to 6 months)
- Baby from 0-4 months can cry to communicate their physical needs.
- Baby cannot and do not manipulate. But to communicate.

Neh (I'm hungry)
Owh (I'm sleepy)
Heh (I'm experiencing discomfort)
Eairh (I have lower gas)
Eh (I need to be burped)

I love this! I hope I can understand my baby better.

🌸 Bonding with baby massage
- Interaction
- Stimulation
- Relief
- Relaxation

🌸 Emergency at home
- Prepare for the worst, pray for the best.

Obviously, it was very short seminar. I think I need to do more research on every topics. They don't provide the slides / notes. Bummer. But I learnt a lot of new knowledge which I never knew before.

I live for goodies bag you know. Asian things I guess. 😂

Thank you Mel for inviting me!💓

// WEBSITES

Gravidities Parenting Facebook - They organize this seminar every month! And other beneficial seminar on breastfeeding, hypnobirthing and parenting too.

DISCLAIMER : This is not a verbatim transcript of the seminar and is just based upon my written notes and memory taken during the talk.

Keep calm and parents on,

AS