PREGNANCY YOGA
Pregnancy yoga is a key tool for supporting natural birth. It is a rewarding practice to start as a beginner or continue an established practice while you are pregnant and is very safe. Yoga unites the body, mind, and spirit through breathing and movement and helps prepare you for birth and parenting.
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Benefits:
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improves your satisfaction with your birth experience.
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Can shorten the first stage of labor.
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Helps women cope with discomfort during birth.
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Gives the flexibility and strength that the body needs for childbirth.
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Gives the mother and child quality time and space to connect with each other.
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Offers tools to have immediate and easier access to relaxation, patience, and self-concentration which are essential elements for childbirth and motherhood.
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Services:
Join a weekly online yoga class.
Private classes can be arranged at your preferred location
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Providers:
Sophia Ortiz
In Greek and English
BABY MASSAGE
Baby massage is a very enjoyable practice for you and your baby. It will help you to get to know each other better and strengthen your precious bond, for life.
Benefits:
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​A sense of well-being and love for your baby and for yourself.
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Experience conscious touch that enhances your baby’s sense of self-identity
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Strengthens the bond between baby and caregiver
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Improves the quality and duration of sleep
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Positive effect on digestion and relief of colic
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Weight gain from better feeding
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Improves circulation, immune and neurological systems
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Better adaptation to the body and integration of your baby’s birth experience
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Services:
Join a 5 Week Course in person or online
Individual baby massage treatments
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Providers:
Sophia Michalopoulou
Leanne Samoilis
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In Greek and English
BREASTFEEDING
Breastfeeding is one of the best ways to support you and your baby’s short- and long-term health. Breastmilk is the perfect diet for a newborn and is packed with healthy protein, fats, micronutrients, and antibodies that change to suit each individual baby and mother.
Benefits:
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Stronger immune systems
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Fewer childhood illnesses and admissions to hospital
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Promotes healthy weight gain and helps prevent childhood obesity and the development of diabetes.
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Fewer ear infections, especially those that damage hearing.
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For mother, a quicker return to pre-pregnancy weight.
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A reduction in the risk of breast and ovarian cancer and helps with pregnancy spacing.
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Parents have up to six times less absenteeism from work
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Services:
Breastfeeding support antenatally and postnatally includes understanding the best way to start breastfeeding, how to recognize the good position and latch, how to understand if your baby is getting enough milk, and many more techniques and support to help you establish and sustain a healthy breastfeeding relationship.
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Providers:
Lena Kanta
Sophia de Rosa Ortiz
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In Greek and English
LET’S TALK ABOUT BIRTH!
On the first Monday of every month, the Pregnancy and Birth Network of Kerkyra invites you to a FREE online group chat.
This is safe space for you to ask questions, share your experiences and develop connections, support systems and friendships.
If you are planning a family, you’ve just found out you are pregnant if you are supporting a pregnant person, or interested in the subject professionally you are welcome to join us.
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Services:
Online via Zoom every first Monday of the month
19:00 to 20:30 EET (Athens)
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Providers:
Pregnancy and Birth Network Team
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In Greek and English
3 Step Rewind
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3 step rewind for birth trauma:
This process can be used for anything relating to birth or postnatal trauma & miscarriage.
35% of parents describe their birth as traumatic, 9% of those parents go on to suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome, research has shown that holding onto stress in our body can manifest itself as many things physically later. This is not a therapy; it is a safe & effective technique through relaxation and guided imagery that can be used on a recent or previous event that is affecting your everyday life.
You will still have all your memories, although you will be able to experience them without the trauma, guilt, sadness, anxiety, or negative emotions, allowing you to progress & live your best life. You will be awake & in full control of yourself & your body at all times.
Services
2-3 sessions required
Sessions approx.: 1 hour
Meeting at your preferred location
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Provided by
Leane Samoilis
In English
Birth Unplugged
BIRTH UNPLUGGED hosts guest speakers online every
3rd Monday of each month, that go into depth about different subjects that support and enhance the pregnancy, birth and parenting experience naturally.
You can catch the conversation live on Zoom during which you can participate with your own questions or watch a recording in your own time.
All proceeds go to support the work of the Pregnancy and Birth Network.
Massage & Reflexology
Pregnancy Massage, Reflexology
Pregnancy massage helps to stop the build-up of tension caused by extra weight in pregnancy, it maintains skin supplements that help to minimize stretchmarks & induce well-being, helping Mammy to be calm & relaxed, in preparation for an empowering birth.
Reflexology
The feet are a map of the body, by stimulating the reflexes using a pressure point technique it can energize or calm internal organs, each part of the foot corresponds to a different part of the body
• Removes toxins
• Boosts immune system
• Eases aches & pains
• Increases blood supply (improving circulation & skins appearance)
• Induce natural labor
• Can increase lactation
• Increases chance of getting pregnant, improving sperm & egg condition
• Can regulate periods
• Enhances well-being, improving mood & sleep (releases feel-good hormones)
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Services
Mobile & at home salon
Provided by
Leane Samoilis
English
