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Suffering from Postnatal Depression? Baby Massage Can Help

The Fetal and Neonatal Stress Research Group at the Imperial College of London carried out a study about Postnatal depression and baby massage (study results). The aim of this study was to find out whether mothers with postnatal depression and their babies would benefit by attending baby massage sessions. A group who attended five massage […]

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Empty Nest?

You’ve looked after them for 18 years through the good times and the bad. You’ve been a parent, teacher, mentor, confidant, taxi service, chief cook and bottle washer and now they’ve gone. There’s a strange stillness around the home as you take down the to-do list, take a deep breath and wonder, ‘what next?’. “Empty

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Stress and Pain

Sometimes we can forget how much our minds and our bodies are connected. We can get so busy that we don’t realize that our bodies are carrying tension for long periods that our stresses have impacted our breathing and our stomachs have felt tight for hours. Long periods of anxiety and stress can lead to

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