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A tour of the female pelvis for pregnancy, labour and birth
A tour of the female pelvis for pregnancy, labour and birth

It is really useful to understand more about your pelvis and how it is amazingly built to open for labour and birth, to enable your baby to pass through. (

You may have been experiencing some discomfort during your pregnancy which has made you more aware of your pelvis.  This may be around the pelvic joints, or it maybe a sense of much more pressure down into the pelvic floor as there is a lot more weight than usual for it to hold up with your growing baby.  These experiences can come and go through pregnancy.

In this blog I share a video in which I give you a tour of your pelvis, and there are also some pictures and an overview of what I share in the video.

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Pregnancy YogaSarah CloverPregnancy YogaComment
10 Reasons to Try Yoga Nidra
10 Reasons to Try Yoga Nidra

Yoga nidra means ‘yogic sleep’. It is an effortless yoga relaxation and meditation practice that anyone can do, by themselves with an audio recording or with the guidance of a teacher in person.

Yoga nidra brings you to a deeply relaxed state of mind and body, whilst you are still awake. This is the state between sleep and wakefulness (called the hypnogogic state in psychology), where you float between consciousness and unconsciousness, being aware of the resting state of the body and mind as it is happening in the moment.

Yoga nidra has been shown to be effective in supporting and healing many areas of body and mind including stress, tension, anxiety, insomnia, pain, trauma, addiction and PTSD.

I have found yoga nidra to be one of the best ways to relax and release my body completely, and one of the easiest ways to enter the meditative space. It really is effortless.

In this blog I offer ten reasons why you should try yoga nidra, and a link to ten free yoga nidra practices on my website.

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Meditation, Ten Years, Yoga and Wellbeing, Yoga for Menopause, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Practice, Yoga Tips, Pregnancy YogaSarah CloverYoga Nidra, yoga tips, yoga practice, yoga for menopause, Pregnancy Yoga
Why you should learn to relax in pregnancy
Why you should learn to relax in pregnancy

We're not usually taught to relax, for some of us it's fairly easy to stop and chill out. For others it's really hard. Pregnancy may also bring additional challenges of physical discomforts and new worries as you navigate your pregnancy, labour and birth. Relaxation can be a challenge.

When we relax we support our parasympathetic nervous system, the side of our nervous system that dials down stress, anxiety and busy-ness. When we release tensions through the body we immediately feel better and this also helps to signal the mind to become more relaxed as well. When we relax, our heart rate slows and our breathing becomes more easeful.

Your baby feels everything that happens in your body. Tension and tightness, release and relaxation. A calm and relaxed body signals to your baby that all is well, they are safe and secure.

Read on to find tips on ways to relax and resources to help you…

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Yoga for Pregnancy, Pregnancy YogaSarah CloverPregnancy Yoga, relaxation, stress
4 books you should read if you are expecting a baby (and I wish I had read when I was pregnant)
4 books you should read if you are expecting a baby (and I wish I had read when I was pregnant)

Knowledge is power. If you are expecting a baby there is a wealth of information out there to support your pregnancy and birth, as you have no doubt discovered.


You've probably read some blogs, joined some apps and booked a pregnancy yoga class, new parent class or NCT class. You may have been given information by your midwife, or at antenatal appointments. Friends and family may have offered you advice.


Through all of this information is threaded the medical model of pregnancy, labour and birth, this is the basis for how we learn about pregnancy and birth.


Whilst the development of medicine and technology has supported the labour and birth process, in other ways it can get in the way. We have replaced handed down knowledge from generations of women, with medical rules and systems that makes pregnancy and birth appear to be a hospital procedure, something done to a woman, rather than a process led by and owned by the woman herself.


Here are 4 books that will give you wider information and help you to have an active labour and birth. They include tools and techniques to help your labour progress positively and even joyfully; how to ensure both mother and baby are well supported, empowered and able to make confident choices whether in hospital or at home. Everyone expecting a baby should read at least one of these – mother, partner and anyone supporting a mother and baby.

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Yoga for Pregnancy, Pregnancy YogaSarah CloverPregnancy Yoga