Belly Wrap: Comfort Abdominal Binders

08/08/2022

… and of course a big shout out to the only men who come to the party … Seahorse bellies 💙

29/07/2022

I was 32… your turn 😉🌸

26/04/2022

Our Grey Belly Wrap has been re-stocked! Its been a production roller-coaster due to some covid-era induced complications with our local providers, but we have finally found a team that meets our high standards. Please visit www.bellywrap.co.za to place your order.

Belly Wrap Comfort Abdominal Binders: Purpose-designed abdominal binders, to provide gentle support and reduce pain after C-Section delivery.

05/10/2021

If only I knew 😂

26/10/2020

The Belly Wrap is easy to Put On:

Lie on your back
Lift hips and slide belt under you, printed side facing your body
Flat end of belt must be on your right side
Wrap the flat end to your left hip 2-3cm below your cut
Wrap the double tab end to your right side and attach
Place underwear outside the belt

08/05/2020

We know COVID-19 is making this a particularly difficult time for our preggie moms. This expert advice will help you and your baby have the healthy and happy experience you deserve 💕💕

An expert midwife on how to best protect yourself and your baby

24/04/2020

🚨PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE 🗯️
🙌🏼 Outstanding video tutorial from Prof Mendelson (Infectious diseases at Groote Schuur) on the CORRECT use of a fabric mask. It's so so so important we adhere to his guidance. 👌🏼

📝 Notes: 😷👇🏼

1️⃣ It should be triple layer or double layer with filter.
2️⃣ Cotton, non-stretch fabric with a high thread count (tight weave) allowing for better protection.
3️⃣ Fasten behind head or ears
4️⃣ Preferable is pleated (3 pleats) for comfort and movement of the jaw when talking, but important it has enough room that it doesn't touch your lips. (Non-pleated masks tend to pull down off your nose when you talk of they aren't sized exactly for your face shape) - requiring touching to adjust which is a big NO.
5️⃣ Make sure the mask covers high on your nose (under eyes) to under your chin. Tip of nose to tip of chin is insufficient.
6️⃣ Don't touch the mask when in use.
7️⃣ Remove it by the strings/elastics, don't touch the front and ensure to keep the front of the mask away from your face as you take it off.
8️⃣ Place immediately in a container for washing, then ironing to disinfect.

🏁 Please share this far and wide on Facebook and What's App Groups...

Let's make Prof Mendelson famous in SA for his great tutorial. (Also, apparently Cyril did it right, it will go over your eyes first and then you pull it down 😉)

🤗 Remember, we are wearing masks to protect others (if we are unknown carriers) as well as to protect ourselves. 🤒

🧐 After seeing masks in use today I was horrified again at how many people had:
1.surgical masks that should be for healthcare workers ONLY.
2. Ill-fitted masks (worn at tip of or below nose / or above chin).
3. Masks that kept slipping down (a risk with the non-pleated, behind ear style).

😷
❤️
🇿🇦 (we are in this together team SA 🇿🇦)

Wearing a mask is now a norm and part of life. Prof. Mendleson shares some tips on the do's and don'ts, to help you stay safe, when wearing your mask, taking...

26/02/2020

This 💟

"They don't tell you you’re going to cry. A lot. You dropped that pacifier on the floor? Might as well throw in the towel. According to your postpartum brain, your partner will NEVER do it right. Your ‘friends’ will drop you like it doesn’t even phase them. You'll check your baby’s breathi...

28/11/2019

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13/11/2019

Happy Wednesday Friends 🍼🍼👼🏼

05/11/2019

This is absolutely fascinating research. Your baby is not being "difficult", it is part of our evolutionary make-up 🤩💟

Hold your babies, people!! Preferably up, as far as the child is concerned... and much to the dismay of tired parents around the world who are exasperated at an infant’s insistence at holding them standing.

A study by Esposito et al. (2013), published in the Journal of Current Biology, demonstrated for the first time that the calming response to parents holding them is a coordinated set of central, motor, and cardiac regulations and is a conserved component of parent-infant interactions in mammals.

Using electrocardiograms (ECG) to monitor twelve healthy human infants’ heartbeats, along with their behaviour and vocalisations, they recorded mother-infant pairs during behavioural tasks that consisted of the child lying in a crib, being held by the mother who was sitting on a chair ( ), or being held by the mother who was walking continuously ( ).

The researchers found a sustained elevation of heart interbeat intervals due to carrying in awake infants could not be explained by any known cardiac vagal reflex, including the orienting reflex (brief period of heart rate deceleration by mild sensory stimulus), suggesting that carrying evokes a sustained heart rate reduction in concert with the rapid behavioural changes in human infants via a novel mechanism.

The researchers furthermore found that in mouse pups, carrying induced calming responses similar to those in human infants, even though maternal carrying methods differed. This draws parallels between the carrying-induced state evoked in human babies and other mammalian young such as cats or squirrels who adopt a still, compact posture with their hind legs drawn up when maternally carried. The reduced mobility, reduced distress vocalisations, and reduced heart rate appears to be adaptive.

The calming responses evoked by carrying are thought to be an evolutionary measure to increase the survival probability of the infant in cases of emergency escape by the mother and child, and so ultimately works to strengthen the mother-infant relationship. There is adaptive value in this behaviour in carer-infant relationships and, as a consequence, infant survival.

The study found that the effects of carrying on the infant’s parasympathetic nervous system were significant, and it provides a scientific understanding of this physiological infant response that could be beneficial for parents and early childhood educators to understand.

Considering the physiological response of the infant when being carried may lead to greater parent and carer patience, reduced frustration and an increased appreciation of age-old parenting techniques such as and parenting.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)00343-6

28/10/2019

I feel this to my core! 😂

28/10/2019

New mommy days are a time warp of feeding and changing ... Who else felt like this was their "every day" for a while? 💟

01/10/2019

After the age of 40 you should be talking to your doc about the need for mammograms and begin screening. After 45 it is recommended by international breast health organisations and breast cancer interest groups to screen annually. Early detection saves lives!

21/09/2019

17/09/2019

🔸Invisible Mother 🔸

It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way
one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and ask to be
taken to the store. Inside I'm thinking, 'Can't you see I'm on the phone?'

Obviously not; no one can see if I'm on the phone, or cooking, or sweeping
the floor, or even standing on my head in the corner, because no one can see
me at all. I'm invisible. The invisible Mom. Some days I am only a pair of
hands, nothing more! Can you fix this? Can you tie this? Can you open this??

Some days I'm not a pair of hands; I'm not even a human being. I'm a clock
to ask, 'What time is it?' I'm a satellite guide to answer, 'What number is
the Disney Channel?' I'm a car to order, 'Right around 5:30, please.'

Some days I'm a crystal ball; 'Where's my other sock?, Where's my phone?,
What's for dinner?'

I was certain that these were the hands that once held books and the eyes
that studied history, music and literature -but now, they had disappeared
into the peanut butter, never to be seen again. She's going, she's
going, she's gone!

One night, a group of us were having dinner, celebrating the return of a
friend from England . She had just gotten back from a fabulous trip, and she
was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in. I was sitting there,
looking around at the others all put together so well. It was hard not to
compare and feel sorry for myself. I was feeling pretty pathetic, when she
turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package, and said, 'I brought you
this.' It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe . I wasn't exactly
sure why she'd given it to me until I read her inscription: 'With admiration
for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees.'

In the days ahead I would read - no, devour - the book. And I would discover
what would become for me, four life-changing truths, after which I could
pattern my work:

1) No one can say who built the great cathedrals - we have no record
of their names.

2) These builders gave their whole lives for a work they would never
see finished.

3) They made great sacrifices and expected no credit.

4) The passion of their building was fuelled by their faith that the
eyes of God saw everything.

A story of legend in the book told of a rich man who came to visit the
cathedral while it was being built, and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird
on the inside of a beam. He was puzzled and asked the man,
'Why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that
will be covered by
the roof. No one will ever see it'

And the workman replied, 'Because God sees.'

I closed the book, feeling the missing piece fall into place. It was almost
as if I heard God whispering to me, 'I see you. I see the sacrifices you
make every day, even when no one around you does.

No act of kindness you've done, no sequin you've sewn on, no cupcake you've
baked, no Cub Scout meeting, no last minute errand is too small for me to
notice and smile over. You are building a great cathedral, but you can't see
right now what it will become.

I keep the right perspective when I see myself as a great builder. As one of
the people who show up at a job that they will never see finished, to work
on something that their name will never be on. The writer of the book went
so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever be built in our lifetime
because there are so few people willing to sacrifice to that degree.

When I really think about it, I don't want my son to tell the friend he's
bringing home from college for Thanksgiving, 'My Mom gets up at 4 in the
morning and bakes homemade pies, and then she hand bastes a turkey for 3
hours and presses all the linens for the table.' That would mean I'd built a
monument to myself. I just want him to want to come home. And then, if there
is anything more to say to his friend, he'd say, 'You're gonna love it
there...'

As mothers, we are building great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're
doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will marvel,
not only at what we have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the
world by the sacrifices of invisible mothers.

💖
➖Original author: Nicole Johnson

13/09/2019

Accurate much? 🤣

06/09/2019

Are you dreaming of sleeping again? That wonderful, restful (mostly) uninterrupted night of sleep? This article was a great help to us in understanding baby's night sleep patterns.

Why isn't your child isn't sleeping through the night? It boils down to a few things and they won't be able to sleep through the night until you fix them.