Interactive Group Meetings
These parent meetings, led by a child specialist physician, Dr. Catherine Saxbe, provide support and advice for parents who seek to understand their children’s emotional and behavioural impulses and connect with them to nurture and educate. We will focus on effective ways to handle discipline, tantrums, frustration tolerance (yours and theirs!), sleep and attachment, refusals and resistance, play and creativity, self-worth, sibling rivalry, emotional language building, and independence-seeking. Join us for camaraderie and learning!
This is the first meeting of a four part workshop.
UNIT ONE: PARENT DEVELOPMENT (RAISING OURSELVES)
UNIT TWO: CHILD DEVELOPMENT
UNIT THREE: DISCIPLINE
UNIT FOUR: OUR CHILDREN AS PEOPLE.
Sign up for all four units or just the ones you would like. The per unit cost is €30 per person or €50 per couple. To reserve your space please write to info@belliesabroad.com
Dr. Catherine Saxbe
A mothers support network for readjusting to our new lives, and transformed selves as we become mothers. Join us in discussing our post birth melee of joy and dread, facing challenges and celebrating victories, post-partum depression and more. A place to share our complicated experiences of metamorphoses into the role of Mother while balancing the rest of our identities and wondering if we are “normal”. Both moms and moms-to-be are welcome.
Catherine Saxbe M.D.
This intensive course will take place over two days, each running from 10A – 530P with an hour break for lunch.
HypnoBirthing® teaches amazing relaxation techniques and tools. It introduces a level of calmness that allows for a much more comfortable and easier birth. With HypnoBirthing® you will learn to work with your body and allow it to do what it is so beautifully designed to do, birth! Your birthing partner will be fully educated and confident in their ability to support you during your birthing day and you, as a couple and a team will learn to work together to welcome your new baby in a manner that is so gentle and comforting for your new child.
What will you learn:
- Relaxation/Self-Hypnosis techniques to eliminate fear and tension that cause long labors and discomfort, replacing it with confidence, calm, and comfort.
- Visualisation, breathing and deepening techniques to produce a shorter, more comfortable labor.
- We debunk the myth that pain must accompany normal birthing.
- Why women in other cultures birth almost entirely free of discomfort and how to achieve it for yourself.
- How the mother’s body is designed to work in harmony with nature throughout labor.
- Practice in deep relaxation during and between uterine surges.
- The 4th trimester, postpartum bonding, the importance of delayed cord clamping, extended skin on skin and the breast crawl.
- Explaining the importance of having a well-made birthing plan and how to write it.
- The vital role of your birthing companion as your birthing-day unfolds.
If you would like to reserve your space, please write to info@belliesabroad.com
Click here for reading testimonials from Margaretha’s previous happy clients.
Giving Birth in Rome – How and Where: A Guided Tour.
Presenting the Birth Course I wish I had had! Learn what happens during labour and delivery, what to know for successful breastfeeding and how to take care of your newborn. This series of six meetings will include information on how your body changes during pregnancy, prenatal testing, the hormonal and physical processes that occur during labour and delivery, pain management, and what happens when you take your little one home. We discuss birth plans and, for those of you delivering in Rome, we cover information on Roman hospitals, clinics and home birth and the clarification of roles of the Italian medical professions. Our mission is to arm you with enough information so you can have a birth as close to the one you desire as possible. This course is run by Gabriella Pacini, midwife, lactation consultant (IBCLC) and counsellor and Kiersten Miller her sidekick.
Wednesday evenings from 715pm – 915pm starting June 13th.
Maximum 6 couples.
Please send emails to info@belliesabroad.com
Did you know that every week in Italy a child dies from choking on food or other objects? It seems absurd, no? Every parent or childcare worker should know the techniques to clear foreign objects from air passages. This course takes only two hours, only two hours to save a life!
Hosted by Salvamento Academy, an association that has a wonderful and ambitious goal: to ensure that everyone knows how to save a life.
If you would like to learn how to save a life book your place today as space is limited. The course will be an hour of theory followed by an hour of practical demonstrations and practice on mannequins.
At the end of the course you will receive a certificate of participation. Child care givers welcome.
June 21st from 7P-9P, €20 per person, location Bellies Abroad HQ in Via Mecenate.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED please send an email to info@belliesabroad.com.
“The birth” of the human microbiome: important steps for its development from conception to the first years of life”
The microbiome is the collective genome of the microbes that live both inside and on our body. Those microorganisms are very old friends of humans, but it is only recently that we realized their impact on our wellness and health.
Meeting with Fanette Fontaine, phD to talk about the preciousness of the human microbiome and its importance on our health.
Fanette Fontaine is a researcher in bacterial genetics and lecturer in microbiology at the University Paris-Diderot, France. She has been working for more that 15 years on bacteria but it is when she became a mother that she became fascinated by the microbiome and deep-dived into its development during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding.
Reserve your space in person or online via video by sending an email to info@belliesabroad.com
Dr. Fanette Fontaine
Giving Birth – How and Where: A Guided Tour.
Presenting the Birth Course I wish I had had! Learn what happens during labour and delivery, what to know for successful breastfeeding and how to take care of your newborn. This series of six meetings will include information on how your body changes during pregnancy, prenatal testing, the hormonal and physical processes that occur during labour and delivery, pain management, and what happens when you take your little one home. We discuss birth plans and, for those of you delivering in Rome, we cover information on Roman hospitals, clinics and home birth and the clarification of roles of the Italian medical professions. Our mission is to arm you with enough information so you can have a birth as close to the one you desire as possible. This course is run by Gabriella Pacini, midwife, lactation consultant (IBCLC) and counsellor and Kiersten Miller her sidekick.
Wednesday evenings from 7pm – 9pm starting September 12th.
Maximum 6 couples.
Please send emails to info@belliesabroad.com
Embracing Our Authentic Joy
This is a five-day / four-night spiritual workshop in Tuscany that happens just once per year. New York therapist Valerie Simon, LCSW, PAT, comes over to Italy to join Rome-based artist Claudia Palmira for a deeply transformational experience. We uniquely use psychodramatic techniques in combination with yoga and optional massage. The location is a gorgeous hilltop farmhouse with views extending to the Tyrrhenian Sea, enhancing the deep relaxation and letting go we do together.
It’s been said that it’s imperative to enjoy life!
Ye it is easy to lose sight of everything that brings us happiness with the chaos of our daily routines. Between family, work, finances, and so much more, we often forget everything that has led us to who we are, and what our deep pleasures and joy come from. In order to bring awareness and practical applications of happiness back to your real life though, you must first break away from real life. We will go deep in our explorations to uncover and support your version of joyful living.
Last minute booking is now available for anyone spontaneous enough to take the leap!
This intensive course will take place on the 29th & 30th of September, each running from 10A – 530P with an hour break for lunch.
HypnoBirthing® teaches amazing relaxation techniques and tools. It introduces a level of calmness that allows for a much more comfortable and easier birth. With HypnoBirthing® you will learn to work with your body and allow it to do what it is so beautifully designed to do, birth! Your birthing partner will be fully educated and confident in their ability to support you during your birthing day and you, as a couple and a team will learn to work together to welcome your new baby in a manner that is so gentle and comforting for your new child.
What will you learn:
- Relaxation/Self-Hypnosis techniques to eliminate fear and tension that cause long labors and discomfort.
- Visualisation, breathing and deepening techniques to produce a shorter, more comfortable labor.
- We debunk the myth that pain must accompany normal birthing.
- Why women in other cultures birth almost entirely free of discomfort and how to achieve it for yourself.
- How the mother’s body is designed to work in harmony with nature throughout labor and how to facilitate your birthing body to avoid discomfort.
- Practice in deep relaxation during and between contraction/surges.
- The 4th trimester, postpartum bonding, the importance of delayed cord clamping, extended skin on skin and the breast crawl.
- Explaining the importance of having a well-made birthing plan and how to write it.
- The vital role of your birthing companion as your birthing-day unfolds.
If you would like to reserve your space, please write to info@belliesabroad.com
Click here for reading testimonials from Margaretha’s previous happy clients.
