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Laura Igiehon shares her story of training with Birthlight
I cannot believe that I get to do this work everyday, what an absolute privilege! I actually have a corporate media background. I had a career at the BBC for a long time before I had my first child. When I returned from maternity leave I tried desperately to focus at work but I had…
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Birthlight training was the springboard that nurtured my passion for connecting mothers, parents, carers, children…
Alice Panascia shares her story of Birthlight training in Perinatal Yoga, Postnatal Yoga, Baby and Toddler Yoga and what she has been doing since. Moving to London in my mid-twenties with a background in Media and Photography, I always harbored a quiet dream of becoming a yoga teacher. However, self-doubt, time, and financial constraints kept…
Birthlight Conference: Water nurture: a priority for the world.
Andrea Andrews, Swimming Instructor, Director of The Lifesaving Foundation, National Aquaphobia Trainer Assessor and licensed Miracle Swimming instructor for adults spoke on ‘Water nurture: a priority for the world’. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1209800514?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 How to help people float: International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328712455_How_to_Help_People_Float The Challenge of Water Entries: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358262239_The_Challenge_of_Water_Entries https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-andrews-a2914258 https://www.lifesavingfoundation.ie/cat/lf.html
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Birthlight Conference: ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother…’
Keynote by Professor Charlotte Faircloth (Professor of Family and Society at the UCL Social Research Institute and Project Leader of the BAM50 project, London, Trustee of Birthlight): spoke on her project ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother…whilst becoming a mother’? working with Ann Oakley and some more personal reflections’. This project examines women’s transition to motherhood…
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Birthlight Conference: Birth and early life: lighting the way with joy, hope, love and health.
Lesley Page CBE, Former President of the Royal College of Midwives visiting professor of midwifery at King’s College London, Patron of Birthlight presented her reflections on ‘Birth and early life: lighting the way with joy, hope, love and health’. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1209793419?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleypage
Birthlight Mini Conference: Françoise’s Homage to Michel Odent
See Françoise Freedman’s tribute to Michel Odent, who passed away last August, given at the Birthlight mini conference on the 6th July 2026, Homerton College, Cambridge. Michel Odent presented at many Birthlight Conferences in the past. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1209716198?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 “So many words commonly used to describe childbirth- support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided- suggest that…
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