InHale - Antenatal & Baby Classes - Nottingham & Grantham

If you are due before September, this might be your last chance to attend a full course of Antenatal classes before little one arrives.

Hayley x
www.inhalebirth.com

I love to point mums with a malpositioned baby to the spinning babies website. Especially those with a breech. So many of my inHale mums have been able to move their little ones before birth using their techniques.

And they are so right with this post with regards to joining pregnancy yoga early on and finding a wonderful and supportive doula for your birth.

Hayley xx

And this is why I offer a full continuation of support from the first weeks of pregnancy, throughout your birth and all the way to your baby's first birthday.
That way you never feel alone.
I got you.

Hayley xx

Sorry for my silence over the past couple of weeks. I've been mostly off grid having an amazing time in Florida with my family.
But I'm back, tanned, a little jet lagged, but ready to dive back into all of my classes next week to catch up with you all and meet some new faces.

I'll be hitting the admin tomorrow so keep an eye out for your welcome messages from me over the next couple of days.
And if you haven't secured your space, I believe there are a few sessions that haven't yet sold out. So now is the time to join us whether you are expecting, or wanting to play and bond with your little one.

Hayley xx
www.inhalebirth.com

I supply 12oz cups for my complimentary drinks in my classes. It looks like I need to upgrade to the 16oz next time 😂🤣😴

Hayley xx

We often joke in class about how much you need to pack for holidays with a baby 👶. We discuss learning to play car tetris.

I'm here to tell you it gets easier when they get older..... Jokes.. This is the actual state of our car right now 🚗💼💼💼💼🙄. Maybe we can pack light when they move out 😂.

Wishing anyone else who is holidaying this week luck with cramming everything (including the kids) in.

Hayley xx

That's a wrap on my Antenatal and Baby classes for this term 🎉

We've had so much fun over the weeks, and I've shed so many tears saying goodbye this week to wonderful Mummies and babies who are off on new adventures, returning to work and starting nursery 😭, I wish them the best of luck, I'm going to miss you.

I'm off for a few weeks break now with my own little family. Then we'll be back for a short term before the summer break. So if you would like to join us be quick, Barrowby Wriggly Daisies is already sold out but I do still have spaces on my other courses and venues for now.

See you week commencing 17th June.

Hayley xx
www.inhalebirth.com

A b**b and bottle buffet can mean only one thing.... It's week 6 of my inHale - Birth to Baby course. After my expectant couples have learnt all they need to know about birthing options/techniques and baby care over the last 5 weeks. Tonight is dedicated to feeding, soothing and the 4th trimester.
Then all they have to do is sit back and wait for their precious little ones to arrive 😍.

Maybe you and your partner would like to join us on an upcoming term?

Hayley xx

My not so little Bean turned 14 on Monday. The years have flown and I am so in awe of the wonderful, kind and loving young man that he is.

The first picture was taken around 24 hours after his birth when everything was so very raw and I rember this moment so vividly all these years later.
I had experienced birth trauma that I hadn't even begun to process, my body was physically wrecked after a long labour and so many stitches holding me together.
I hadn't slept in 3 days between birth, hospital visiting hours and a new baby who had demanded to be fed continuously through his first night.

The photo was taken at around 6am as he finally slept (unsafely on a pillow on his side, but I wasn't about to move him now that he was finally peaceful) with me watching him like a hawk, counting down the minutes until I could escape the hospital and get the help and support I desperately craved at home from my family.

I want to hug that poor, broken, new mum that I was in 2010 and tell her everything would be alright. That she would eventually make peace with this overwhelming experience (with the help of rewind therapy which she would eventually offer to others).
I would tell her that what she experienced was not how things should be.
I would show her how she would draw strength from this time to not only research, practice for and experience a wonderfully positive birth a few years later. But to use this knowledge and power to set up her own business in 2014 in order to help hundreds of other families plan and realise their own positive birth experiences (and to help heal those who sadly didn't).

I am so very different from the person I was then. And my son is certainly very different, although he's still a gorgeous pillow thief (see the 2nd picture taken yesterday 😍) But the memories will always remain.
Your births will shape who you become, that's why investing in good, evidence based, antenatal education is so very important.
I have included the message that my wonderful friend sent to me on Monday to remind me of why inHale exists.

Hayley xx

Did you have a baby in January or February 2024?

Please tell us about your experiences by completing the . Your feedback will help the NHS to improve care for others using maternity services.
Look out for your invitation in the post or by SMS.

Find out more about the questions we ask or the purpose of the survey on the CQC website - https://www.cqc.org.uk/news/tell-us-what-your-maternity-care-was-you-2024

Looks like we are stuck with the parking issues for a little while longer until the ground dries out and the container can finally be moved.
As always try to avoid parking on the grass if at all possible for my classes in Saxondale.

Hayley X

You may have spotted the storage container in the village hall car park, actually you can’t miss it!

Seems it will be staying there for a little while longer, at least until the soggy ground behind the village hall has dried out and it’s safe for the crane to lift it into place. The village hall drains run along that section of land so extra care needs to be taken not to damage them whilst the ground is still soft. So fingers crossed for a spell of sunny dry weather.

We appreciate that the container is taking up valuable space so if the car park is full then please park in the lay-bys along the back road and not on the grass verges to avoid damaging them. Thank you.

If you have ever been in one of my antenatal classes you will have heard me explain the pain gateway theory, in order to help you to understand the science behind using a TENS machine or massage to dull the sensations of labour.
I often talk of the many nerve messages from all over your body, trying to race to your brain like little people running a relay and how many will be stopped by the pain gateways which only allow the strongest most dominant sensations to reach the brain.

I explain it in this easy to understand way so that it makes sense to all. But as I do, just know that these pictures are flashing up in my head 😊. These are the nervous system relay guys that I am talking about, trying to get their messages to be heard by the brain, some succeeding and some being held back by the gateways so that you can remain comfortable.

The reason for these images living rent free in my head is a wonderful 80s kids TV show about the body called Once Upon a Time - Life. I used to love this show as a child. It was very educational but also so fun at the same time. It is very likely the reason I teach my antenatal classes with the same ethos.

Hayley xx

🫄Pregnant? Live in Grantham, Lincolnshire or the surrounding areas?

😴 Prepare & relax with us tonight.
⏰ Join us from 7:30pm in Barrowby Reading Room
🫄Bond with your beautiful bump.
☺️ Sooth your aching body.
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Connect with other pregnant mums.
🧘🏼‍♀️ Enjoy 40 minutes of easy, gentle, flowing yoga & 20 minutes of uninterrupted relaxation.
🙏 Ask me anything pregnancy, birth or baby related.
☕ Enjoy a complimentary cuppa & a natter after class, or head straight home for the best night's sleep of the week.

Book online now for tonight or future weeks...
https://www.inhalebirth.com/blissful-bumps-pregnancy-yoga

Suitable from first scan to birth.
No previous yoga experience required.
Pay just £12 per session or block book for a discount

**These classes are also available to book for Tuesday night's in Upper Saxondale, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire**

Hayley xx
InHale - Antenatal & Baby Classes - Nottingham & Grantham

So many of my baby class mums enjoy these sessions as well.

Definitely worth a look if you want some postnatal exercise.
There are also similar classes at Rushcliffe Arena if you are out near West Bridgford.

Hayley xx

Bring a Baby Classes! 👶
Do you have a baby who can't yet walk and want to go to an exercise class? Why not bring them with you! 🤱

We have Bring a Baby Pilates 13:45 - 14:45 on Monday's
Bring a Baby Legs Bums and Tums 13:45 - 14:30 on Thursday's

These Classes are ran by Caroline our fully qualified pre and post natal group exercise instructor! Caroline is the perfect instructor to understand with your needs and work to your abilities during these classes! 🍼

Children from 12 weeks and older are welcome to join, up to the stage where there activity mobile and walking!

You are encouraged to bring your baby to these classes along with push chairs,toys, mats and anything you wish to bring to feel comfortable to exercise with your baby! 🍼

I love receiving reviews. It makes my heart happy to hear how much people enjoy my session and how much they get out of them.

Obviously constructive criticism would also be welcome when needed 😁.

But not only do reviews do wonders for my confidence 😉. Their real benefit is to help other parents make an informed decision on the right antenatal course or baby class provider for them.

I have amassed quite a few reviews over the 10 years that I have been in business. But since most people are in the throws of early parenthood when they complete their sessions with me, I understand that it's hard to find time to have a wee in peace let alone type out some feedback.

However it does mean the world to my small business to have up to date reviews in order to appear relevant on socials and to the almighty Google algorithms.

So if you have attended my classes and you magically find a spare moment in your busy day. I would love to hear a few words from you either on my page under reviews.
And/Or on my Google business page: https://g.page/r/CU774UDQEatwEBM/review

Hayley xx

All late spring term classes start this coming week with the last class of term on 23rd May.

✨Grantham classes are the usual 6 week block.
🌟Gamston classes are a 5 week block due to the May day bank holiday.
✨Saxondale classes are also 5 weeks due to polling day on 2nd May.

Last remaining spaces are filling fast. So join us this term for...
💫Fun
💫Peer Support
💫Bonding time with baby
💫Beneficial techniques to aid baby's comfort and development
💫Find your new best friends both in class and within our wider inHale community.

I can't wait to meet you or welcome you back

Hayley xx
Https://www.inhalebirth.com

**Home births are back in Notts! **
Finally! This is fantastic news for everyone hoping to birth in the comfort of their own homes.
I know quite a few mums who will be thrilled at this news ❤️.
Hayley xx

Hayley xx

Our enhanced 24-Hour Home Births Service has resumed.

From today mothers to be in Nottingham can benefit from the service following a temporary suspension.

The service meets a commitment made in 2023 to a sustainable 24-hour service which meets the needs of local birthing people and their families following a listening exercise with service users.

An initial suspension of the service was agreed in January whilst a review was carried out into how the service was staffed and supported, taking into consideration the changing patterns locally and nationally to develop a model that is sustainable and offers clarity to both patients and staff.

A decision has now been taken to resume with a new model with effect from Wednesday 27 March 2024.

Sharon Wallis, Director of Midwifery at NUH said: “We have always been committed to a full home birth service as we know it is the right thing to do for our mums to be, however we also have a responsibility to ensure any service can be safely staffed and sustainable. I want to thank local birthing people and their families for their patience while we have put plans in place, and am really pleased that we have been able to now offer a 24-hour service for those individuals that meet the criteria for a home birth.

“Our Home Birth team lead joined the Trust in January and we continue to recruit to a full team, and in the interim I am grateful to colleagues from our community and hospitals teams who have committed to additional shifts to enable us to offer the service now.”

If you want any further information, please talk to your midwife or consultant obstetrician.

On Thursday I am scheduled to have a operation on this part of my anatomy.

Those who have been in my classes over the last 20 months will know that my voice has been an ongoing issue since Sep of 2022 (yes these are vocal cords... What did you think they were? 🤔🤣).

Finally the pesky polyp (the lump sticking out of one cord in this picture) that causes me to lose my voice or sound weird, will be removed. I will have to endure complete vocal rest, then very limited talking for a couple of weeks... if you know me, you know how hard this is going to be 😳.

Only two more antanatal classes to teach with my current voice before I hopefully return new and improved next term.
That said if I still sound rough after Easter, please ignore me as getting back to full health will take between 6 to 8 weeks.

If you need to talk with me in the next couple of weeks, you can either phone me at any point tomorrow, or else message me via here or WhatsApp for the foreseeable as I won't be able to hold a phone conversation for a while.

Hayley xx
**these are not my vocal cords, but mine look very similar**

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If you are birthing in Lincolnshire and wanting to use a pool then you have some great choices available to you.

Water can make such a difference to your birthing experience.

Hayley xx

Happy 10th birthday to the birthing pool at Lincoln!

Choosing to give birth in water can increase relaxation and reduce the need for medical intervention and is used by almost one in three women for pain relief during labour... amazing!

I can 100% recommend the birthing pool at Lincoln. I used it in 2017 with my son Eddie (although I had to get out for his actual birth 😀). The pool is so warm and has great views of the cathedral

You can also hire birth pools for home births;

https://www.betterbirthlincolnshire.co.uk/birth-pool-hire

This is such an important topic of conversation, one I feel strongly about and one I always discuss in my antenatal classes.

Induction is offered to a huge proportion of my clients now and the stories I hear about the coercion that ensues when parents choose to make an informed decision and turn down the invitation is both upsetting and infuriating because I know the knock on effect or can have on their Birthing hormones.

I highly recommend you read this blog if you are pregnant. And buy all of sarawickham.com's books on induction so that you have a good understand of the facts.

Hayley xx

As someone who felt more than a little miffed that I had been awake for two nights birthing and had to spend yet another night awake alone; looking after a newborn that had no idea what day or night was whilst also nursing a large number of stitches on the postnatal ward. While my husband was sent home to sleep at the end of visiting hours.
I therefore realise that this seemingly small change is absolutely invaluable as a first step in helping these new little families share the load and begin to bond.

I know a lot of my clients will benefit from these new chairs 😍❤️.

Hayley x

No number, but all you need is a quick message to a your inHale class, or wider community WhatsApp group, and there your village are for conversation, advice or support 😍❤️.
I love our inHale Village.

Hayley xx

It was a great start to our Birth to Baby course tonight with 6 wonderful, expectant couples getting comfortable in my kitchen as we covered the hormones of birth, how to help and hinder their release, how the uterus works during labour, relaxation anchors, thinking about how position can make a difference to birth and we also learnt the first of our 3 beneficial breathing techniques.

So much knowledge covered already in just 2.5 hours. And we have 5 more weeks left.

Oh and of course there were plenty of snacks to keep everyone going.

Maybe you would like to join us on a future term.
If so you can sign up here..
https://www.inhalebirth.com/birth-to-baby-antenatal

Hayley xx

💕Baby due in late spring?💕

***Now Sold Out*** There are spaces still available for the rest of the year though.
I have just one couples space available for my comprehensive Birth to Baby Antenatal course starting this week in Upper Saxondale, Nottinghamshire (Wednesdays 6:46pm to 9:15pm for 6 weeks)

Due in June to Early Aug?
There are just 4 Spaces remaining in my next term starting 17th April.

Join us to...
💜Make friends
💜Be supported throughout your journey
💜Feel fully informed of your choices in birth
💜Learn breathing & relaxation techniques, comfort measures & the best positions for birth.
💜Gain confidence as a birth partner so that you can work as a team.
💜Understand the role of birth hormones & how to help or hinder their production.
💜All types of births covered, Home birth, Hypnobirthing Birthing centre, consultant led, induction, water birth, instrumental delivery, caesarean sections etc.
💜Prepare together for the early postnatal period.
💜 Learn to take care of your newborn from changing nappies to dressing, bathing to feeding, safe sleep to soothing and so much more.
💜Access class specific & wider inHale community WhatsApp groups for peer support & friendship.

Birth to Baby course is everything you need to know for the months ahead.

Contact me for more details or head to www.inhalebirth.com to book your space.

Hayley xx

Is your wriggly baby aged over 20 weeks but not yet walking?

Then I invite you to join the friendliest class around.
Each session includes....
💜 Movement bases songs to entertain and aid baby's development.
💜 Beneficial, Stretchy Baby Yoga
💜 A new and exciting theme each week
💜 A touch and feel story, and Sensory play section to match the theme.
💜 Small Class sizes so no one feels overwhelmed or lost in a crowd.
💜 A check in with Mum each week so that we can celebrate the wins and support through the lows.
💜 Access to class specific and wider inHale community WhatsApp groups to build friendships & a class leader who cares about you.
💜 Complimentary drinks and snacks to keep you fueled when you don't always get time to eat breakfast.
💜 Focused time to bond & play with baby while meeting your new Mummy BFFs

The themes for this early Spring term are...
Mermaid
Monkey
Train
Kitten
Unicorn
& of course an Easter Extravaganza!

My Grantham & Upper Saxondale venues are sold out already. But I still have spaces in Gamston, Nottingham if you are quick (classes start this Monday 10am to 11am)
https://www.inhalebirth.com/baby-classes-nottingham-grantham

Hayley xx