Local info - Antenatal

Aquanatal classes: 
Central Park Pool - Tuesday 9am - 10am
Plympton Pool - Monday 11am - 12noon
China Fleet - Friday 9.45am - 10-30am
Ivybridge Leisure Centre - Thursday 10.30am - 11.30am

Pregnancy Yoga

Mellow Mammas Pregnancy Yoga
Yoga is a complete holistic system of balancing and harmonising body mind and spirit. Developing a yoga practice now will be of great benefit in helping you to enjoy your pregnancy. Pregnancy is a time of transition so whether you already have a yoga practice or if you are coming to yoga for the first time, approaching the birth of your baby is a wonderful time to start. Yoga when practiced during pregnancy helps to keep your body supple, relieves stress and anxiety increases vitality and helps to maintain your health and well being while also giving you practices that you can use to help you adjust to both the joys and the challenges of pregnancy , birth and motherhood.

Yoga classes for pregnancy are designed to help you to boost your energy levels and refresh when you feel tired. Yoga postures and movements are approached in a safe and appropriate way, they are done slowly with meditative awareness and breathing practices are combined throughout. The gentle stretching helps to tone muscles without strain, breathing practices help to induce feelings of calm, meditation, visualisation and relaxation techniques help to remove fatigue replacing it with positive thoughts and feel good hormones which help the body work at its optimum efficiency. Pregnancy yoga is a wonderful way for mother and baby to bond.

Smooth pregnancy and a natural childbirth are just some of the benefits of yoga. Yoga works wonders on the physical and mental development of the foetus. Ensuring a healthy baby is every parents dream and yoga helps you do just that.

Mellow Mammas Pregnancy Yoga helps you to relax and connect with your unborn baby in a safe and peaceful environment. We are registered and certified by the Guild of Pregnancy and Post Natal Fitness Instructors recommended by midwives.

* Sweetpea's Childrens Centre 290559. Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm cost - £2.50 (subsidised by Sweetpeas, booking may be required)

* Devonshire Health & Racquet Club. Monday 7pm - 8pm. Members free, Non-members £5.00

Pregnancy Yoga with Gay Kent
Tuesday 5pm - 6.30 Swarthmore Adult Education Centre, Mutley Plain, Plymouth

Pregnancy Yoga with Julia Hopkins
Posture, breathwork, relaxation and positions for labour. On-going weekly class in Ashburton for women 15+ weeks.
Tel: 01364 653214 Email: juliah@dsl.pipex.com

LEILA SEEL Yoga Therapist YTh Dip (YBT) Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7
Tel: 01548 854 774 Email: leilaseel@rainbow-kingsbridge.fsnet.co.uk

Specialises in pregnancy yoga, mother & baby yoga and & meditation
Leila trained with Devon School of Yoga in 1994 and during that time attended several Ayurveda Workshops at Ickwell Bury with Dr. Vasant Lad and Robert Svoboda. In 1997 she gained the Yoga Therapy Diploma from YBT and for a short while was a member of the YBT Yoga teaching team at the Ayurvedic Charitable Hospital in Ormond St.

Leila teaches a pregnancy yoga class in Kingsbridge and shares the teaching of Mother & Baby Yoga with Sarah Wood, alternating weeks in Totnes and Kingsbridge and assisting each other. She also runs an after-school class for Staff and VIth formers at the local comprehensive school and several general classes as well as one-to-one tuition and a Gentle Yoga class wich is suitable for women recovering from, or working through, breast cancer.

Back and Pelvic pain in Pregnancy

Mutley chiropractic clinic, for the safe and gentle relief from pregnancy related low back pain, symphysis pubis dysfunction and other pregnancy related conditions such as nausea, indigestion and constipation. Also cranial work for skull strains in infants,colic, feeding and sleeping problems. For advice or to make an appointment please call Michelle Peters on 01752 222050.


Devon and Cornwall Independant Midwives
How would you like traditional midwifery care where you see the same midwife at every antenatal appointment? How would you like to be certain that your midwife will be with you when you have your baby? How would you like to have as many post natal visits, in your own home, as you feel you need and expert advice on breastfeeding and newborn care? With an Independent Midwife all this is possible!

We provide all your antenatal care in your own home which enables you to get to know us and build a trusting relationship. Then, when your baby is due we go on call for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So when you go into labour not only do you know there will definitely be a midwife available for your home birth but it will be a familiar and friendly face! Imagine someone who will not only provide your clinical care, but also knows you well enough to provide the nurture and support that you need.

Nicky and Mandy believe in supporting you to have the birth that you want. We are experienced in natural, home and water birth and HVBAC (Home Vaginal Birth After Caesarean) and Nicky is a fully qualified HypnoBirthing practitioner.

I firmly believe that my homebirth would not have happened were it not for their support. They were fantastic and both I and my husband would recommend them in an instant. 2nd time mum, first baby born in hospital.

Tel: 01752 721505 www.dcim.co.uk

Children's Centres

There are many Childrens Centres across Plymouth offering fantastic opportunites for both parents to be and new parents. Antenatal classes, baby massage, baby social groups to name but a few.  For more details please see the Plymouth City Council website where you will find details of your nearest Children's Centre. http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/homepage/education/earlyyearsandchildcare/childrenscentres.htm