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Bliss Birth
Locality: Unanderra, New South Wales, Australia
Address: PO Box 96 2526 Unanderra, NSW, Australia
Website: http://blissbirth.com.au/
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25.01.2022 VBACs are special to us because we know a woman has defied the odds to have the birth she wants. I say ‘we’ because Mr Bliss Birth (my husband) just bounced happily into my office with this card and announced we had another VBAC. He wants to make a tally. Prettiest darn card I’ve ever received. In my life.
24.01.2022 THIS moment The first time, it was Sunday afternoon. I had laid my hand on my belly in bed the night before and felt an overwhelming sense in my soul that something was different. I felt a powerful wave of gratitude fill me. I took myself quietly off to the pharmacy and bought a test, and went to our ensuite bathroom. I didn’t want to share the moment. Completely uncharacteristically for me, I wanted to be alone. We’d been trying for a year and I was just starting to get a ...little worried that something was wrong. I didn’t look at the test for a full 5 mins and my heart was beating SO hard. When I finally turned it over the second line was so dark I barely glanced and confirmed what I already knew. Is it just me or did you ‘sense’ something when you fell pregnant? This photo by @meghan_mosakowski captures the moment so powerfully #pregnancytestpositive
23.01.2022 I’m thinking of all the new mamas stuck at home, especially our sisters in Victoria under strict lockdown. I can’t imagine what it’s like to do those first few months in isolation, let alone have your birth preferences unavailable to you. We’re giving all Victorian mama’s free upgrade to express post (no discount code needed, just let us know in the notes that you need it right away) to make sure you have access to as many options as you can. You got this Mama x ... @withlovebrooke.photography See more
22.01.2022 Woah, is it baby time!? Are you packing one of our little pink miracle-workers into your birth bag? Don’t forget to tag us #youvegotblissmama #blissbirth
21.01.2022 The breath is the body’s way to speak peace to the mind - it’s incredibility powerful. Once you can ground yourself and re-establish a sense of safety and peace then your soul has space to readjust. Allow your breathing to follow along with this shape. As it unfolds, inhale through your nose focusing on filling your lungs up with as much air as possible. As it unfolds, exhale along with the shapes, allowing your lungs to completely empty. It’s not just a nice practice, scien...ce backs up the power of mindful breathing. Save this for next time you need it Mama x Vid @stillpointilm #selfcareformums #deepbreaths #pregnancyselfcare
21.01.2022 Mother/Nature Art by @bambishaus #warriormama #givingbirth #pregnancylife... #bellybump #firsttrimester #naturalmama #birthpreparation #pregnancytips #duedate #babyshowergiftideas #sydneymums #melbournemums #perthmums #brisbanemums #vbac #freebirth #homebirth #birthplan #empoweredbirth #birthstory #birthphotography #mymamahood #mamatime #mindfulmum #calmbirth #naturalpregnancy #positivebirth #birthaffirmations See more
21.01.2022 I have learnt I can’t be everyone’s idea of the best mum, I can only be my idea of the best mum I’ve learnt to trust my intuition I’ve learnt to forgive myself ... I’ve learnt to find home within myself so that my children can find safety within me too That’s why You’ve got this Mama - because you need to know, YOU have got this x #blissbirth #mumpreneur #youvegotblissmama
19.01.2022 Little Indi Mae was born over 2 long days and her mama @_brittemma had this to say I had my little babe I’m obsessed. The tens was amazing I didn’t shut up about it all the midwives !! Thankyou so much I’m obsessed too you can read Britt’s birth story at @little.indi.mae
18.01.2022 The most difficult part of birth is the first year afterwards. It is the year of travail - when the soul of a woman must birth the mother inside her. The emotional labour pains of becoming a mother are far greater than the physical pangs of birth; these are the growing surges of your heart as it pushes out selfishness and fear and makes room for sacrifice and love. It is a provate and silent birth of the soul, but it is no less holy than the event of childbirth, perhaps it is even more sacred. - Joy Kusek . by Vincent Ferrane reposted from @thebirthtrust #newmum #thefamilynarrative #motherhoodintheraw
18.01.2022 A wise woman told me when I was just a student - if you’re going to live a life thats about others you have a responsibility to be the healthiest person you know - not just bodily but in mind, spirit and soul. As a social worker my job was to listen to stories of horrendous trauma and incredible survival, sometimes deal with abusive clients, and stand alongside people on the worst day of their life. I learnt the hard way to build into my life structures of self care which mea...nt before the crisis happened I was feeling resilient, compassionate, and calm. And then I became a mum. Never have I had a client need me to hold them till 3am, only to wake me again at 6, scream at me for hours on end, refuse all of my help and fall on the floor in a tantrum. And never had a client made me feel so utterly helplessly in love, unqualified to steward this precious life. There’s no boundaries, no time off and no professional development. Being a mum is no comparison to a job but its also hands down the hardest job i’ve ever had. I had never needed self care so badly, and never had I been so unable to make time for it. The self care movement is taking off all around the world, and it needs to, as life becomes more cluttered and frantic and every inch of our lives is filled with content until there is no room to pause and self reflect. But it’s not going to make an iota of difference. We are doing self care all wrong. Self care is not a candle lit bubble bath, or a spa day or a flat lay of a cappuccino next to a cute journal. Its not an extra slice of pizza, or ignoring all those emails while we binge on netflix. Its not a new diet or blocking that toxic person on your socials or getting a cute new hair cut. I’m sorry... all those things are wonderful. But theyre not enough. So what is true self care? It’s the deeply messy, sometimes confronting, hardworking quest for healing and wholistic wellbeing. To be at peace with ourselves and our bodies, to have love, and joy, and gratitude, to feel we are enough, and so enough thats there’s enough to spare for others. We need to take ourselves apart, clean out some junk and dust off some hurt, and put ourselves back together.
16.01.2022 Her TENS arrived the day before her water broke @silverliningssleep Birth Story I became obsessed with listening to birth stories during my pregnancy and @australianbirthstories podcast became my birth prep bible and also where I found out about @calmbirth education classes that my husband and I took in the weeks leading up to the birth.... At 37 weeks I woke to find my waters leaking, which must have been because of all the nesting, ie bathroom floor scrubbing I had done the day prior . Despite my BEST efforts, I failed to put myself into spontaneous labour and so the following day we went in for induction with syntocin. I was pretty anxious about having the synto based on rumours that it is WAY worse than natural labour and I REALLY wanted a medication free birth. My induction started around 8am. I used the Elle TENS Plus I’d hired from @blissbirth plus my calm breath to keep me focused during each contraction and what a magic combo it proved to be . I kept my head down on a pillow, sitting at the end of the bed on a birth ball for the next few hours, eyes closed, breathing and listening to a playlist with my husband supporting me. At 12:30pm my OB checked me and I was 6cm WOOHOO . Now this is where things really ramped up. Within a few minutes of my check, I had to truly go deep within myself to find the strength to breathe through the contractions which were now coming around every 30secs and lasting for around 1min , to the point where I was like if this is 6cm I don’t want to feel 7,8,9 or 10cm, I NEED that epidural!!! UMMM hello transition talk 20 or so minutes later the anaesthetist arrived, however by that point my whole body was involuntarily pushing . My midwife checked me again and voila, I’d gone from 6cm to fully dilated in no time My Ob literally ran back to our birth suite and after only 16 minutes of pushing baby Ishani arrived, so alert, her beautiful big eyes wide open, taking everything in I DID IT!! I conquered a synto induction, medication free and I feel like a TOTAL superwoman #drugfreebirth #naturalbirth #birthstory
15.01.2022 I just got a message from a customer that made me so emotional and I want us to celebrate with her! My Rainbow baby is here! I began having regular contractions about 1pm. I went about my normal activities for an hour until distracting myself no longer worked! I got my husband to pop the TENS machine on, and we went for a walk around the neighbourhood. Things started to increase in intensity, and I began using the boost button during each contraction. We left about 4pm for ...the hospital, and the TENS machine was great for the car ride and walk to the birth suite. It helped me manage the pain as my contractions lengthened- we still managed to laugh and joke during the breaks between each! I was 7cm when I asked to be checked, so I hopped in the bath to continue labouring. Our beautiful girl was born at 6.22pm. I fully credit the TENS machine for enabling me to labour at home comfortably, and for getting me through the car ride to the hospital... EVERYONE NEEDS A TENS MACHINE (I am shouting it from the rooftops) Congrats on your beautiful rainbow baby #rainbowbaby #birthafterloss
15.01.2022 If not water for your birth, then what? With restrictions changing day by day, and different state by state, and women having to face so many limitations to their birth options, to be honest... I am mad. I had strategies to make my births incredible empowering experiences;... 1) water for pain relief, water for comfort, water for pressure on my belly and back, water for h o u r s 2) ALL of the birth partners, my husband to hold my hand, my sister to cheer me on, my mum to rub my back So what are birthing people meant to do if they don’t have access to these supports??!?!? I am mad for every woman trying to plan her birth without them. The one other thing I had... and made such a difference... was my obstetric TENS machine. I call it the best kept secret in birthing, and my customers call it a ‘god send’, ‘game changer’, ‘best money I ever spent’. It’s not your mum’s loving hands. BUT it can be there for you to get you through each contraction, as an evidence-based drug free pain relief solution, you can use at home or in hospital. You’ve got this mama #youvegotblissmama
14.01.2022 We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful; it's that women are strong Congrats to lovely customer @mama_sarahthompson on the birth of baby Reef She shared I did it and as tempting as it is to focus on the doubt, the negativity and fear I felt leading up to Reefs birth, I'm instead choosing to celebrate the strength. Of my body, and every woman's body, no matter how unpredictable and unplanned each birth can be. The strength of my body to d...o whatever it needs to, to bring a new life into the world. #youvegotthismama #youvegotblissmama
14.01.2022 You are not cut out to be a businesswoman This is a thought I have to fight on a regular basis. I have had some amazing successes but boy have I made some mistakes. So I have decided I am going to take a risk and ask for your help! Imposter syndrome is real (if you haven’t heard of it before pleeeaase google it, it might help you to realise you are not alone) and I think imposter syndrome is especially prevalent in women, and even more so mums. Everyone seems to be loving... mum-life, what’s wrong with me, I can’t tell anyone how I really feel when my kids are chucking tantrums, I’m not cut out for this and everyone probably sees that. We can doubt ourselves but in truth, we are not imposters, we are just doing very hard things on very little sleep! So after some reflection I am saying no to Imposter Syndrome, I want to take more risks with my business, back my intuition, and really make a difference. But I need your help! If you are a previous customer, doula, or midwife I have a created a feedback survey that I would LOVE if you could take 3-5 minutes to complete for me on your experience of using TENS in labour. You can fill it out anonymously or leave your details for me to contact for further opportunities please DM me for the code if you can help @theelevatory #youvegotblissmama #mumpreneur
13.01.2022 Mr and Mrs Bliss Birth, some fun facts about us. We were best friends for 2 years, dated for 3 months, engaged for 4 months and have been married almost 10 years When we first met we had an in-joke that we would call our firstborn Levi, and when we had our son we just stuck with the joke.... Tims an extreme sports guy, mountain biking and bmx. I’m more of a coffee/wine and painting kinda girl. My guilty pleasure is watching ‘Say yes to the dress’ (I literally cry tears of joy) and Tim has an unhealthy obsession with buying lego off facebook marketplace for the kids. Every night after we read to our kids I have to be a unicorn for my daughter Aylah to ride on to bed, and Tim has to be a dinosaur for Levi. I’m a social worker, and Tim is a youth worker. We’ve devoted our lives to wanting to help others and Bliss Birth is our way to fund that dream. I’ve just accepted a new position as a therapeutic mentor with homeless young people. Tim is taking on more with the kids and really running all the logistics of the business so I can follow my passions. But if you email or DM, it’ll still be me saying hi, I couldn’t let that part go! Thanks for supporting our little family business!
12.01.2022 How I conquered fear during the birth of my daughter My son had been posterior, and at 40+6 and measuring ‘big’, it took 41 hours of gruelling labour to get that beautiful 9 pound baby out. Everything went well, I had managed with just gas, but also I don’t think I’d ever felt true fear before in my life until I hit that moment of transition birthing Levi. I was lucky to have the same caseload midwife when I fell pregnant again, she was AMAZING. At 41 weeks and I was exhaus...ted, worried, but wanted to avoid an induction if I could, my midwife talked through my options, checked on fluids (which were fine) and supported my choices. Then I reached 41+3 and we booked in the induction for the 42 week mark. At 41+6 I woke up feeling very crampy and prayed that it was go time. I popped my TENS on, and to be honest I was sceptical but had figured the more tools I had in my toolkit the better. The hardest part of my first labour had been a long night of contractions that left me exhausted, and I figured the TENS might help me through that if it happened again. I was gobsmacked at how the sensations seemed to flow over each contraction and cover the pain. I even left the boost button off to see if I was really having strong contractions and immediately regretted it I sat at my kitchen table and hummed away, happily painting and using my little TENS machine. As it went to evening I called my midwife and said I want to come in, I don’t want to stall overnight. I was only 3.5cm. She offered me a stretch and sweep to see if she could ‘get things going’ she always ASKED which is so important. She also said ‘Huh, is that TENS machine making any difference?’ She hadn’t had any women use one yet. And I was like ‘Are you kidding me, can you see how calm I am!?’ The sweep worked its magic and I entered active labour. The easy bit was over Continued in comments for the best part...
09.01.2022 I’m 31 today. My mother was birthing me 31 years ago, after a suuuper long and traumatic labour with my older sister (long labours run in the family as I discovered ). She was an older mum at 37, a fit physio, with a massive threshold for pain. She laboured through the dark of night all alone. Praying, breathing, she let my dad sleep because my mum has always preferred to do things on her own. She was labouring steadily, thinking she still had hours and hours to go unt...il she suddenly *knew* she had to go to the hospital. She woke up my Dad and they frantically organised someone to watch my big sister. They sped to Westmead hospital with mum panting and Dad yelling at her not to push. He dropped her at emergency and she tried to waddle in. Some kind of staff member saw her and ran in for a wheelchair. She was wheeled to the emergency reception. The woman behind the desk noted her then continued on doing something while she sat quietly in the wheelchair. I can imagine her, calm, composed, focussed. Then a contraction came- Mum was trying with all her might not to bear down. The woman, thinking she was being dramatic, said pant and Mum yelled back I’m in second stage. I’M IN SECOND STAGE! Then bang! Everything was dropped and she was whisked away. She gave birth to me in some little used back room of emergency after the nurse had swiped everything off a surface to lay her down. My Dad was still outside parking the car. Her pants were still around one ankle. Asleep in his bed, less than a kilometre away was the 4 year old boy who would grow up to be my husband and father of my children. Tell the stories to your children, of all the brave things you do. And they will know that they are brave too. #happybirthdaytome #birthwithoutfear #birthwithlove #birthstory
07.01.2022 This girl is on fire.
06.01.2022 Due in October? Get your order in now ladies! We’ve had to close bookings for August due dates and September is closing fast. We are constantly building our fleet of machines to keep up with word spreading about these little game-changers, and at the moment we’re waiting on brand new machines from the UK again. Thankyou to everyone who has shared their experience of the Labour Tens Hire changing their birth for the better with girlfriends, facebook groups, and on their own so...cial media. I am blown away and incredibly grateful. Tag a friend who might need a reminder to book her hire in by @sparkleinthenude (who can hook you up with those oils you need for your birth plan )
06.01.2022 Jessie of @jessie.thebrightbirthco hired a TENS for her third birth and loved it. I love what she has to say about birth planning; WHERE TO START WHEN PLANNING YOUR BIRTH. Ask yourself this: ‘what is my vision for birth?’... I encourage you to focus on how you want to FEEL, rather than how it looks. Because the type of birth a Mama aims for (undisturbed, water birth, epidural, csection etc) is influenced by how they want to feel. So the feelings gotta come first, my friend. Once you hone in on your vision for birth, you use that as your compass for the choices you make. WHAT type of birth? WHO will support you? WHO will your care provider be? WHERE will you birth? HOW does it all honour my vision? All of those choices need to be made around what will give you the BEST chance to align with your vision. For example. I want to feel strong, capable, calm and in charge. Birthing undisturbed, ideally in water (because it’s a natural pain relief) will help me feel those things. Being supported by a midwife who is the expert in physiological births will help me feel those things. Birthing at home, free to choose as many or little support people as I please, will help me feel those things. Then, you plan and prepare for your unexpected, less ideal (yet possible) birth scenarios, so something is in place. And you follow the same process, constantly checking in your vision. ‘What choices can I make, going down a path that isn’t expected or my first choice, that still honours my vision?’ The power is always yours, even if your birth takes a turn. But, you must be CLEAR on your vision, and clear on your contingency pathways beforehand. Always come back to your vision, and you’re giving yourself the best chance to feel fucking amazing. What is, or was, your vision for birth? Photos by @ambermay.birthphotography
04.01.2022 Pain in labour Clare from @mumwillknow is a Mama and midwife who used a Bliss Birth TENS for her birth and has put together a fantastic podcast about pain in labour and different ways to manage it. Join me as I unpack pain in labour. What makes it so painful in the first place & what are some natural, non-medical and medical pain relief options to help you get through ... Tag your pregnant friends so they can be informed and equipped for what’s to come... @kpphotoinc #mumwillknow #mumwillknowpodcast #parentingpodcast #mumpodcast #birthpodcast #mumsofinstagram #mumlife #realmotherhood #midwifeadvice #evidencebasedbirth #evidencebasedparenting #newborn #waterbirth #labour #birthphotography #painrelief
02.01.2022 Incredible summary from the amazing @onemamamidwife (well worth a follow if you haven’t already); TENS MACHINE TENS machines are becoming an increasingly popular option for pain relief by women in labour. ... Many women who have used TENS machine for labour pain reported that they had a significant a reduction in pain and increased satisfaction with their birth experience... SWIPE TO READ MORE MAMAS - Did you use a TENS machine in labour? Did you find it helped you? I want to know all about it #birth #labour #labouranddelivery #delivery #midwifery #midwife #midwiferycare #newborn #baby #babyfever #babiesofinstagram #newmum #pain #painrelief #tens #tensmachine
02.01.2022 Words worth living by these days From @theleaguewomen #thefamilynarrative #raisingbabies
01.01.2022 Did you have some little helpers during your labour? This is Amanda @chasingslow_ who had some help from her son to pop on one of our TENS machines and also had her daughter rubbing oils on her back - how sweet is that! Amanda said; The TENS machine was honestly such a game changer in this labour too - it was incredibly helpful throughout, keeping me calm and distracted and focused. ... Really loved it so much I didn’t use one in my last births and this was by far the best/quickest/easiest one. Thanks Ariel, such an awesome service - I’ll be telling all my mates Amanda x #birthsupport #youvegotthis #youvegotblissmama #blissbirth
