About Emily

 

Emily McElarney is a mum of three beautiful children, all of whom were birthed in Dublin maternity hospitals.  

 

She is a huge advocate of informed choice and of promoting the normalcy of physiological birth.  Empowering mums and dads-to-be is hugely important to Emily, and her goal in classes is always to help couples empower themselves to make informed choices around the birth of their children.

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A FEDANT approved and accredited antenatal educator, Emily became a certified Hypnobirthing® The Mongan Method practitioner in 2012.  In 2015 she trained as an instructor of The Wise Hippo Birthing Programme, a fully comprehensive antenatal and hypnobirthing course with a focus on having 'the right birth on the day', no matter what path that birthing takes.

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A qualified and accredited yoga teacher, Emily teaches pre-natal yoga and postnatal mum & baby yoga in locations around Dublin including in Rush, Balbriggan and Dublin City Centre.  She also teaches active birthing workshops, positive birth preparation workshops and breastfeeding preparation workshops.

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Emily is also a fully trained and certified SBD; Birth and Bereavement Doula.  She is available to support and companion families through pregnancy loss and perinatal bereavement.

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In 2018 Emily trained as a Certified Infant Massage Instructor with the IAIM and she is accredited to Baby Massage Ireland.  

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In 2019, Emily returned to full-time education to study for a degree in Applied Social Studies and hopes to eventually bring her work around pregnancy, birth and early parenting to the field of social care and family support.

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A former journalist, Emily currently contributes to media discussion on birth and normalcy of birth on a regular bases.  She writes for several publications on birth, birth preparation and infant bonding and engagement.

 

You can see some of her media clippings here.

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Emily is not associated in any way with Gentlebirth or the Irish Positive Birth Conference

 

You can contact Emily on 0863856225 or emily@naturalbirth.ie