THE POWER OF INTENTIONALITY
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The dictionary defines intentionality as being deliberate and purposeful with your actions. This choice to be intentional has a knock-on effect. As your self-awareness, self-esteem and self-trust grows, your relationships, wellbeing and resilience improve too. You become better able to take aligned action and therefore more likely to achieve your goals. Below are some specific examples about how intentionality can help you with birth, feeding and your postpartum season.
BIRTH
Taking an intentional approach to birth preparation will give you more clarity on how you want things to go and the options available to you. This knowledge will highlight where you need support and what tasks you need to do to meet these goals, reducing the overwhelm, and giving you some control back. Allowing people to support you will make you feel less alone, strengthen your connection to them, and give you confidence in your ability to handle any surprises that come up along the way. Investing in a comprehensive hypnobirthing course can increase the odds of you achieving your dream birth experience by giving you the tools, guidance and safe space you need to overcome any birth fears and finally put your needs first.
FEEDING
Breastfeeding, like any new skill, requires practice, support and time to get it right. Just because your body was designed to feed your baby, it doesn’t mean that feeding is always a skill that comes naturally or easily. Being intentional about how you want your feeding journey to go before your baby arrives can remove the guesswork, and make the early days a little easier. Explore why breastfeeding is important to you and the feelings that come up when you think about feeding your baby. This will give you clues about what goals will have the most impact for you within your feeding plan. Make a list of all the resources and contacts you may need if you encounter feeding struggles, and dedicate time for mindful feeds that focus on bonding with your baby without the pressure of external distractions. Booking onto an antenatal breastfeeding course can help you learn everything you need to know in advance, building confidence in your body’s ability to nourish your baby effectively and adding more people to your village.
POSTPARTUM
That fourth trimester is your rebirth season, the time when you are figuring out your new identity as a parent and how to balance that with who you are as an individual. It is a time of healing and getting to know your baby. Intentionality can help you tune into your needs and what you need from others to meet them. It can help you get organised before the baby arrives and order all the things, have all the necessary conversations and decide on the routines that will make those early days more easeful. It will give your partner more clarity on how to be of service, improve your communication skills, and ensure that your wishlist contains things you actually need. Our Mindful Baby course can help you reflect on how to take better care of yourself and how to meet your needs, while offering real-time latch support and advice to align you with a nourishing feeding experience for both you and your baby.
For more information on how my hypnobirthing and breastfeeding services can help you become more intentional, book in your free clarity call today.
Love, Megan
