Pregnancy Yoga Bassendean

08/11/2025

Loving a relaxed chatty information session sharing reflections on these lovely cards
♥️🙏♥️

17/10/2025

TERM 4 2025 MUM'S & BUBS YOGA
Starts Thursday October 30th
10-11:30am
Alf Faulkner Hall on Mary Crescent
Eden Hill

Bookings in comments below...
Please note no class Thursday 23rd Oct

It's a lovely morning, joins us for a stretch with new friends big and small.

14/10/2025

Oooh that's good 🙏🙏🙏

We’re often told that to be “ready” for birth, we need to feel fearless.

That if we prepare enough, plan enough, study enough — the fear will disappear.

But readiness doesn’t mean the absence of fear.

It means having the right support when fear arises.

It means surrendering to what you can’t control, and trusting what your body already knows.

You don’t have to be perfectly prepared.

You don’t have to feel certain every step of the way.

You only need presence.

You only need support.

You only need to remember that readiness is not about eliminating fear — it’s about walking with it, held and heard.

✨ What does *readiness* mean to you?

13/10/2025

A little slice of birth history... new for me origin of Apgar scores ♥️🙏♥️

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BGKmnkr93/

In 1952, inside a New York City delivery room, a baby was born blue and silent. Doctors hesitated, unsure whether to keep trying. Then a calm voice broke through the panic.
“Let’s score the baby,” said Dr. Virginia Apgar.

That moment changed medicine forever.

Apgar had once dreamed of being a surgeon, but in the 1940s few women were allowed into the operating room. Told that no hospital would hire her, she turned to anesthesiology instead — a decision that would save millions of lives.

Working in Columbia-Presbyterian’s maternity ward, she saw newborns die within minutes of birth because doctors had no system to judge which babies needed help first. So one morning in 1952, she grabbed a pen and paper and designed a five-point test measuring heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and skin color. She called it the Apgar Score.

The idea spread faster than anyone expected. Within a decade, almost every hospital in America was using it. Infant mortality fell sharply. Doctors finally had a language for newborn care — and babies once thought lost were suddenly being saved.

Apgar never stopped pushing forward. She earned a public health degree, joined the March of Dimes, and became a global voice for mothers and infants. When asked how she had thrived in a man’s world, she laughed, “Women are like tea bags — they don’t know how strong they are until they’re in hot water.”

Dr. Virginia Apgar passed away in 1974, but her test still guides every delivery room on Earth. Every two seconds, somewhere in the world, a baby takes its first breath — and someone quietly calls out a number that honors the woman who refused to give up on newborns or on herself.

10/10/2025

Going cloth is very environmentally friendly ✅️✅️ you do need a good supply of nappies this could be a win win ♥️🙏♥️

Modern Cloth Nappy Workshop and Free Starter Kit Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025 Time: 12 noon – 2pm Venue: Bassendean Memorial Library: Meeting Room 1 Tickets: $5 plus booking fee per family Book at: https://events.humanitix.com/modern-cloth-nappy-workshop-and-kits

01/10/2025

FREE PREGNANCY YOGA BASSENDEAN
TERM 4 CLASSES COMMENCING

Start date: Saturday October 25 2025

Hi friends and new mummas to be!
I run a free pregnancy yoga class at the
ALF FAULKNER HALL on Mary Crescent in Eden Hill every Saturday morning from 9:30-11:30am.

Booking is not required just come along! Yoga mats provided, bring a cushion for relaxation 🙏❤️🧘‍♀️

Treana

27/09/2025

Recommending lovelies ✅️✅️

https://www.facebook.com/share/19uf4xoTSm/

🌏 World-first research from WA has revealed something shocking.

We’ve always known colostrum is liquid gold 💛 — packed with human growth factors that line and protect a newborn’s gut.

In those first days, a baby’s gut lining is thin and leaky — designed this way so it can absorb colostrum’s protective compounds. Growth factors in colostrum help the epithelial layer of the gut to mature, tighten up, and form a strong protective barrier. This not only supports digestion but also educates the immune system, teaching it to recognise what’s safe and what’s harmful. Formula simply cannot do this.

Now, WA research has shown just how critical those first feeds of colostrum really are:
👉 Babies exclusively fed colostrum in their first 72 hours were 5x less likely to develop peanut allergy.
👉 They were 11x less likely to develop multiple food allergies such as egg or cow’s milk.
👉 And not a single baby who had 9+ colostrum feeds per day in the first 72 hours developed peanut allergy.

⚠️ To be clear: the answer here is not antenatal expressing. The research didn’t specify antenatal vs postnatal, and fresh is best when it comes to colostrum. What this evidence highlights is the importance of ensuring babies receive as much of their mother’s colostrum as possible after birth — and not defaulting to formula unless there is a genuine medical reason.

❌ What really shocked me? Right now in WA, 1 in 2 newborns are given formula top-ups in their first 72 hours — before colostrum has had the chance to finish its vital job of sealing and protecting the gut and shaping the immune system.

This is despite the research and best practice guidelines like the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) being crystal clear:
👉 Formula should only be given if there are clear medical reasons.

Colostrum isn’t just “first milk.” It’s a powerful biological tool — uniquely designed to protect babies in those critical early days.

✨ That’s why evidence-based prenatal breastfeeding education matters so much. Parents who understand the role of colostrum are confident to say no to unnecessary formula in those critical first hours — and know how to make sure their baby gets only colostrum unless a true medical need arises.

This is exactly why I cover breastfeeding and those first 72 hours in my classes and consultations—so parents walk into birth ready to protect those feeds and give their baby the best start.
I also have an online course because this is so important!

https://birthsavvy.com.au/breastfeeding-course/

Parents deserve better support.
Babies deserve colostrum 💛

📖 Reference:
Bhasin M, Cooper M, Macchiaverni P, Joys RS, O'Sullivan TA, Keelan JA, Venter C, Palmer DJ, Lowe AJ, Prescott SL, Silva D, Verhasselt V. Colostrum as a Protective Factor Against Peanut Allergy: Evidence From a Birth Cohort. Allergy. 2025 Sep 18. doi: 10.1111/all.70043. Epub ahead of print.
*EDIT Free Access here: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.70043

13/09/2025

Last class of Term 3 today. Nice chatty finale that felt lovely.
Term 4 classes commencing
Saturday October 25 9:30-11:30am
Alf Faulkner Hall on Mary Crescent in Eden Hill. Ciao for now ✈️

13/09/2025

Just like Sara Wickham amazing... part of the Midwives Couldren podcast duet highly recommended ✅️✅️

🟣 Another blog post updated and moved to my website!
This post is about routine vaginal examinations (VEs) during physiological birth ie. an uncomplicated birth without any medical intervention. A VE is a useful assessment in some circumstances, but its routine use in an attempt to determine labour progress is questionable. As birth knowledge evolves, and research challenges the current misdirected approach to labour progress, there is an opportunity to shift practice.
https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/vaginal-examinations-in-labour

13/09/2025

One of the original duets on the Great Birth Rebellion podcast... also highly recommended ♥️♥️