Active Birth
Ireland
Evidence-Based Care
Meets Ancient Wisdom
Your body’s instinctive knowledge knows exactly how to bring your baby into the world.
Active Birth can be fundamental in helping you tap into this innate wisdom — the kind often lost in our busy, modern world.It’s time to understand how your body’s physiology is designed to help you. Release fear and build confidence in this powerful, beautiful and natural process. And integrate movement and relaxation techniques that will facilitate a positive birth experience.
All so you can make the best choices about your care.
It's time for women and their birth partners to epxerience the benefits of a truly informed birth.
At Active Birth Ireland, we empower you to:
- Be equipped with hands-on, practical and evidence-based support to prepare for birth
- Be informed, empowered and confident in your decisions. What we share with you is invaluable, realistic, practical and enjoyable, helping you to navigate your journey into parenthood
- Experience yoga for labour, including breathwork, birthing positions for the first and second stages of labour as well as hypnobirthing
- Learn the tools to open into the intuitive wisdom within you to have a positive birth experience
The 8 Lessons in our Active Birth Workshop
The Active Birth Ireland workshop is a high-calibre offering for you to learn about, and be prepared for, a physiological birth. After thos workshop, our aim is that you feel more confident in yourself and your ability to navigate the birth journey positively.
BONUS
› Access to online hypnobirthing and meditation recordings
› A 64-page Active Birth booklet
1.
Hormones in labour
Learn how to work with your hormones for a more efficient and instinctual birth. Relaxation and meditation techniques will encourage this physiological response.
2.
Informed with evidence-based knowledge
Release fear and build confidence with precise, trustworthy information for labour and birth.
3.
Active & upright birthing positions
In Yoga for Labour, explore the positions most beneficial during the first and second stages of labour.
4.
Optimal Baby Positioning
Your baby’s position is shaped by your abdominal and pelvic muscles, ligaments and connective tissue. Learning to release tension or torsion in the soft tissues and pelvis may be helpful in promoting labour.
5.
Hypnobirthing
The mind isn’t the enemy in labour! In fact, we can use its ability to focus for sustained periods to assist in the progress of labour. Hypnobirthing also prepares your being in the weeks leading up to birth.
6.
Designing your birth cocoon
Environment is paramount in a woman’s birth experience. We’ll show you how to create your optimal birthing space, whether in a hospital, birthing centre or at home.
7.
Breathing for pregnancy and the stages of labour
Reduce fear and the experience of pain. Building a breathwork practice gives you tools to move through labour with more ease by moving into an altered state of consciousness. Other breathing patterns help you birth your baby more safely and with reduced tearing.
8.
Postpartum recovery & support
Learn about infant nutrition, lactation, and breastfeeding. Also, knowing what to expect postpartum allows for you and your partner to ensure you and baby are safe and cared for.
Active Birth Ireland Founders
I am an experienced Midwife, having the privilege to continuously learn from colleagues, women and families.
I honed my Midwifery skills while working in the visionary London “Birth Unit”, where we pioneered Active Birth and Waterbirth in the UK; our clinical practice valued individualized care and education, while simultaneously, our clientele benefitted from a supportive range of complementary therapies (aromatherapy, homeopathy, hypnobirthing, acupuncture, yoga, nutrition, cranio-sacral therapy and more), counseling and psychotherapy, in their journey into parenthood..
These skills continue to inform my practice today.
My philosophy is that birth is a physiological process that unfolds from the time of conception.
Understanding our environment, culture, physiology and how our body works, optimizes pregnancy, birth and parenting for the majority and welcomes safe medical intervention when appropriate.
I have enjoyed unique positions as Director of Nursing and Midwifery throughout my career and led, practiced, developed and grown, established and new multispecialty hospitals, in different cultural settings.
These services focus on Reproductive/ Women and Children’s healthcare whilst elevating the art of Midwifery, Active Birth and Waterbirth, within a holistic Family Centered Care framework.
As President of the Midwives Section, Emirates Nursing Association, I helped raise the profile of Midwifery, locally and internationally, focusing on skilled practice and mentorship for Young Midwife Leaders.
In latter years I set up and managed Fertility Services to aide, counsel and support both general and population specific infertility needs.
I share a strong belief that robust education and knowledge closes the door to fear. My aim is to help women and pregnant people develop an inner confidence that they will make informed decisions that will never put themselves or their baby at risk.
Noreen
Rosie
I am a qualified prenatal, postnatal and fertility yoga teacher.
I’ve been sharing prenatal yoga since 2020 and have supported women through pregnancy, and into motherhood. I am a passionate educator of practices that empower women to change the script — to enhance their likelihood of a strong, beautiful, mindful pregnancy. I also take great joy in passing on the knowledge on how yogic practices can help women work with their hormones for a positive birth experience.
As a professional who cares for women both in pregnancy and into postpartum, I see the impact of having really sound knowledge, practices, and support going into birth. A line from Midwife Ashley Booth Young really stands out as a guiding light in my work:
“Although the popularly desired outcome is ‘healthy mother, healthy baby,’ I think there is room in that equation for ‘happy, non-traumatized, empowered and elated mother and baby.”
Next Workshop
(More to come nationwide very soon…)
7th December, Satruday 10-4:30
The Yoga Nook, Carrigadrohid, Co. Cork
20 mins from Ballincollig
40 mins from Killarney
Investment: €140 (This workshop is classed as birth education/ antenatal class under insurance, the average compensation for these is €75-€200.)
Workshops non-refundable, or exchangeable. If you’ve any questions at all dear ones, please email us. 🙂
Irish Maternity Services are continuing to provide a wide range of high quality, safe services to low-risk, healthy women and babies as well as those with complex medical needs.
These services are capable of providing life-saving care, when appropriate.
Often there is a focus on pathology rather than health. Our increased Induction rates, birth complications and Caesarean Section rates reflect issues of “too little too late; too much too soon”, in maternity care. As well as a reliance on technology rather than skilled care providers, due staff shortages and thus fragmented care.
Institution led care rather than person-centred care, contributes to the prevalence of reported birth trauma.
It is important for you and your partner to be well informed to foster trust, equity and equality in your relationship with the healthcare system.
Holding onto evidence based information, having courage and co-creating autonomy will enable you to make collaborative decisions.
Active Birth Ireland offers tools and support during your journey to help you understand the physiology of birth, the need for intervention when necessary and navigate the system positively.
Birth matters.
Frequently
asked
questions
The Active Birth workshops are suitable from 20 weeks.
Couples active birth workshops are coming soon. These sessions will focus on both birth, postpartum and learning to navigate life together as parents.
Disclaimer
Active Birth is designed for mothers who wish to birth naturally, have a healthy pregnancy and no medical complications during pregnancy, labour and birth.
There are many aspects of Active Birth that can be used in combination with medical intervention.
Our website offers information and is not a substitute for professional care, diagnosis and treatment, from doctors and midwives.
Active Birth Ireland accepts no liability.
We advise that you do not disregard professional medical advice and other trusted evidence based information, when making your decisions.