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Birth Trauma Awareness Week
This week is birth trauma awareness week. Fittingly, it’s also my due date week of my first (rainbow) baby. I had no idea about birth...
Anya Hayes
Jul 4, 20182 min read
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Once postnatal, always postnatal
There’s a general misconception about the “postnatal period” – differing opinions that it lasts from around 6 weeks…some say 9 months,...
Anya Hayes
May 30, 20186 min read
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You’ve just had a baby! What now?!
It’s a rollercoaster time, the newborn phase. It’s a watershed of all of the anticipation of the past nearly-year, finally holding your...
Anya Hayes
May 22, 20183 min read
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What I’d Give a New Mum
This week has been maternal mental health awareness week. The fact that there even IS a week dedicated to maternal mental health...
Anya Hayes
May 4, 20182 min read
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Returning to “normal” post-baby
You have a baby. You take it relatively easy for the first 6 weeks, maybe doing the odd squeeze of your pelvic floor (clenching your...
Anya Hayes
Apr 11, 20188 min read
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Rebirth post-caesarean
This month is Caesarean awareness month. First time round, I had that blissful naivety that as long as you “planned” your birth, in the...
Anya Hayes
Apr 11, 20184 min read
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The Pelvic Floor Patrol
We, the Pelvic Floor Patrol, are a team of 5 women who are all passionate about empowering women with health and wellbeing postnatally....
Anya Hayes
Mar 29, 20186 min read
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Pilates for Pregnancy
Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking to the Pilates PT Hollie Grant about all things passion-led career, pelvic floor, Pilates and...
Anya Hayes
Mar 20, 20182 min read
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The bounce back – postnatal fitness and health
This week I got together with an amazing group of women to have a very special meeting, with Baroness Cumberlege who is the Independent...
Anya Hayes
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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You’ve got this mamas! The Supermum Myth event in Norwich
You know those days with a small (or even slightly large) baby when you just think, actually it’s so much of a palaver getting out of the...
Anya Hayes
Jan 26, 20182 min read
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Scummy Mummies: How not to feel like a shit mum
Late last year Dr Rachel Andrew and I had the huge pleasure of being invited onto the Scummy Mummies podcast to talk about our book The...
Anya Hayes
Jan 9, 20184 min read
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Control freak? – Motherhood, identity, exhaustion, PND
I’ve never really thought of myself as a control freak, I’ve always thought I was relatively easy going and serene. But I guess, up until...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20185 min read
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New Year Wellness toolkit
New year, new you, all the headlines shout enthusiastically. We might write energetic resolutions in our new 2018 journals, or we might...
Anya Hayes
Jan 7, 20185 min read
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Birth Trauma – Trauma is not a normal part of birth
Today is Freddie’s birthday. This time 3 years ago I was lying in the postnatal ward, breastfeeding a newborn of two hours old. (Three...
Anya Hayes
Jan 5, 20189 min read
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Umami healing – the power of Miso
I’ve been really interested recently in Ayurveda, living life with an equilibrium with my body and the seasons to try and make sure I’m...
Anya Hayes
Jan 4, 20183 min read
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Diastasis whatsi? How to get rid of the “mum tum”
I was in two minds about the heading “get rid of” the mum tum because I’m all about celebrating and embracing mum hood and all its weird...
Anya Hayes
Jul 28, 20175 min read
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A letter to my new mum self
I went to an event today called Tea for PND, arranged by the amazing Jo from Lobella Loves. A room full of mums connecting and sharing...
Anya Hayes
Jul 14, 20175 min read
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Series: What’s in your toolkit? 4 – Suzy Reading: Part 1
I first connected with Suzy on Instagram last year, when I sensed a kindred spirit in her posts, an understanding of the relentless...
Anya Hayes
May 15, 20176 min read
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