Claire Nutt, Massage Midwife

Encouraging our children to be wonderful wild beings As a picture book author-illustrator, I am always subconsciously looking for another story or image. I try to look for something that speaks to me, ideally something that grabs me and ignites enough interest and passion to convert it into words and art. Usually, it hits when I least expect it, as wi...

We are delighted to announce this Information Session for Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week focusing on Pregnancy Sickness and Hyperemesis Gravidarum.

Join our member as she chats with Charlotte Howden and Lindsay Salmon from about symptoms, treatment options and the support available.

As the PSS website states 'up to 90% of pregnancies are affected by some degree of nausea/ pregnancy sickness and 1-3% experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum - this is a condition at the extreme end of the pregnancy sickness spectrum. and is debilitating for sufferers.'

Pregnancy Sickness Support have a wonderful selection of support channels including their helpline, email support ,a WhatsApp chat and peer supporters.

They also have a health care professionals hub which highlights the new RCOG guidelines and CPD training.

Do join this session on 29th April at 1pm on the Instagram Live.

“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals of gentle parenting. So don’t ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. That is perfect parenting.”
L.R. Knost - The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline.

Harold Gilman - Mother and Child, 1918.

Can being on all-fours (hands and knees) help a baby rotate? Actually not more than other positions. So why do so many birthie folks say it does?
This advice comes from a 1980s study that was never able to be replicated. Six more studies showed no statistical difference.
Can being on all-fours help a labor? Yes! First, it’s more comfortable compared to lying on one’s back or sometimes, one’s side. The sacrum is more mobile than lying down. A massage or therapeutic bodywork on the back and pelvis feels “great” in this position. What feels great during labor is relative to labor, right? Keep all-fours on the list of birth positions but not on the list of recommendations to turn a posterior or breech baby.

“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”
Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women, 1978.

Marcelo Jorge - Lemanjah is the Queen of the Sea.

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Chicken skin ♥️

One Fine Day: David Byrne Performs His Hymn of Optimism and Countercultural Anthem of Resistance and Resilience with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus “I complete my tasks, one by one. I remove my masks, when I am done…”

New for 2024: Massage workshops for midwives, student midwives, doulas, antenatal educators & hypnobirthing teachers
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“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all”
Harriet Van Horne

N.C.Wyeth - The Recipe Book, Mrs. N. C. Wyeth in the Kitchen, 1933.

Availability this week!

Tues 16th 1700 & 1830
Thurs 17th 1700 & 1830
Friday 18th 1900
Sat 19th 1030, 1300, 1430

Easy to book online; www.clairenutt.co.uk
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This is true; every approach must reflect a woman and birthing persons specific physiological and psychological needs, wants and sense of safety… there is no one fits all….

The word 'routine' is key here. Interventions are not 'good' or 'bad'. Some interventions (eg. massage/touch) can support physiology and improve the experience of birth. However, no intervention should be routine for all women. Women can and do birth without any interventions, natural or medical.
https://www.rachelreed.website/rcrp

Forearm massage.. what are the benefits?
A lot of clients have described this part of my massage as feeling ‘ironed out’, and the broad flow triggers a sense of lovely confusion or wonder, as you aren’t really sure what’s going on, or what/where/how you are feeling the stroke. This then leads to a sense of letting go, as you are anchored on this wonder, and that leaves room for nothing else.
This broad movement is a great warmer for bigger areas like the back and thighs, and soothes after deeper, focused work (where the elbows come in for example)… and is complemented by a wide stance, enabling a way of working across the whole body at once, from top to toe.
Big movements, big flow, deep relaxation.
Forearm work is a key characteristic of Lomi Lomi but certainly not isolated to this style. Body mechanics and working from the hips is key, as is a relaxed wrist (unless going for more depth and pressure).
Therapist wise, I still swear that beginning to learn Lomi on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2001 with Nancy Kahalewai and then in 2005 in Kauai with Maka’ala Yates, has ensured the longevity and health of my therapist career, and that I am still massaging 24 years after that first ITEC course. I highly recommend Lomi to all you massage therapists looking for the most complete way of working!

Massage | Massage Therapy | Pregnancy Massage | Massage | Nottingham | Midwife | Online Resources | Claire Nutt | 24 years experiencePregnancy Massage Pregnancy massage Massage therapy Nottingham Uk and Online Learn massage for pregnancy & birth Claire Nutt Midwife Back Pain Headaches Antenatal Prenatal PostnatalPregnancy Massage | Nottingham

A couple of massage spaces left for Saturday… 😍

Good morning! This weeks updated availability… you can book via DMs or directly through my website and google, or order an online voucher to cheer up your pregnant bestie this week!

Digging deeper to clarify…

The 'fetal ejection reflex' is NOT the 'Ferguson reflex' (spontaneous pushing). Yet, I see the terms used incorrectly and interchangeably everywhere. I think this is a symptom of our current recirculation of surface-level misinformation in the birth culture. As a stickler for detail I twitch every time I see the term 'fetal ejection reflex' misused 🥴🤣 I usually save these types of longer rants for the Collective, but here you go...

FERGUSON REFLEX
Discussed in an article by James Kenneth Wallace Ferguson in 1941 (another female bodily function named after a man). AKA 'utero-pituitary reflex' relates to when the baby's head descends and stretches the cervix and pelvic tissues stimulating receptors in these tissues to create a feedback loop that increases oxytocin and changes the contraction pattern to stronger and more expulsive. This is the normal uncontrollable spontaneous urge to push.

FETUS EJECTION REFLEX
This term was initially coined by Newton, Foshee and Newton concerning experiments on mice. Michel Odent applied the term to physiological human birth in his article 'The Fetus Ejection Reflex'. In the article, Odent discusses his theory of physiologic fear where the fetus ejection reflex is initiated by a surge of adrenaline and catecholamines. This reflex results in an extremely fast birth ie. immediate ejection of the baby as an evolutionary survival mechanism initiated by a threat (predator) at the end of labour. In his article, Odent writes "The fetus ejection reflex must not be confused with the Ferguson reflex. The Ferguson reflex is triggered by the pressure of the presenting part on the perineal muscles–in other words, local factors–while the fetus ejection reflex can start much earlier and is not triggered by local factors."
You can find more birth-related information on my blog, podcast, YouTube, articles, books, courses and collective at www.rachelreed.website

Good morning! This weeks updated availability… you can book via DMs or directly through my website and google, or order an online voucher to cheer up your pregnant bestie this week!

Reviews are so important to us therapists; Have you had a massage with me and be happy to share? This applies to pregnancy and postnatal massage and those who have experienced Lomilomi or other holistic massages with me (I appreciate Google is bringing up the pregnancy aspect first in this post! Working to amend). THANKYOU! As a massage therapist now starting afresh in a new city, this is even more greatly appreciated than usual!

I am also always keen to learn, grow and strengthen my practice. If you have feedback regarding improvements, please email me at [email protected] or [email protected], or send me a DM! Thank you, so much!

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Waiting for your due date 📅🤓🥰

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Of course you don’t, but I’m seeing a load of posts where people are feeling the pressure.

So here’s your reminder that just carrying on with everything you’re already doing and juggling is more than enough. Especially if you have a baby/ young children, are parenting alone or have a disability, health problem or any of the many additional challenges in life that mean we don’t need more pressure just because it’s a certain date.

We often focus on all the things we want to change or think we should do ‘better’ whilst ignoring all the amazing things we are doing and the things we’re coping with. And how much time and effort we’re already dedicating to that.

If it’s important to you to make changes, crack on. But unless something has changed in your life recently and you’ve got more space/ time/ money to support you in making a change, there’s probably a reason why you’re not already doing it - and that’s because you’re already doing so much. And that so much is already more than enough.

Saying that, it depends on what you’re resolving to do. Diets/ fitness/ whatever all focus on you doing more or putting more effort in (whilst criticising yourself). But other stuff could be great …

Saying no more to things that you don’t enjoy or are overwhelming you. Or yes to more things that make you happy

Making small changes for the right reasons such as doing more exercise that you enjoy for stress relief, getting outside or because you like the feeling of being stronger. Not because diet culture tells you to.

Doing less full stop (I’m eyeing this one up)

Caring less about what other people think especially when it comes to decisions about how you care for your child

Passing over as much mental load as possible

Seeing the friends you want more and the people you’d rather not, less. Introvert exclusions apply here - it might just be more time to have a catch up online 😂

Focusing on being a ‘good enough’ parent and realising you don’t have to make things perfect

Being much kinder to yourself and not letting your brain talk to you in a way you’d never talk to a friend

Buying more trainers (or kittens) 😂

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
Neil Gaiman

Sophus Jacobsen - Dusk over a Winter Forest, 1889.