My website and contact details

My website and email are having a blip!

Please contact me via eyeswithsparkle@hotmail.com if you need me!

Signing off for a little while!

Tomorrow I am going in hospital for surgery and have been advised to take a little time off.

So there is likely to be a bit of a gap in postings here for a while.

Please keep in touch by email as I will look at them every now and then but please be patient for a reply.

If urgent please contact Clive via http://www.clivegott.com/

Best wishes!

Elaine Hanzak

www.hanzak.com

International Infection Prevention Week

Since this is International Infection Prevention Week, perhaps the readers of my Blog would be interested to know that Kimberly-Clark Health Care is on the forefront of protecting patients from Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and has put together a campaign dedicated to that prevention called HAI Watch: Not on My Watch.

They've created a site that has information for both healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers.

Find it here

http://haiwatchnews.com

Elaine Hanzak

www.hanzak.com

Home Start volunteers - great people!

On Tuesday this week I had the pleasure of presenting my story and knowledge around postnatal depression to Home Start volunteers in St. Helens.

I highly recommend this charity if you know of a family with children under 5 years old who need some extra support.

http://www.home-start.org.uk/

They help to increase the confidence and independence of families by:

* Visiting families in their own homes to offer support, friendship and practical assistance
* Reassuring parents that their childcare problems are not unusual or unique
* Encouraging parents' strengths and emotional well-being for the ultimate benefit of their children
* Trying to get the fun back into family life



So who do you know who needs this support? Or have you time to spare to become a volunteer?

Elaine Hanzak

www.hanzak.com

'Childbirth sparked mum's mental hell'

One of the mums who has been in contact with me is making an impact on spreading awareness of puerperal psychosis at the moment.

Joanne was on GMTV last week and now has been featured in her local paper.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Childbirth-sparked-mum39s-mental-hell.5741011.jp

Keep up the good work Joanne!

Elaine Hanzak

www.hanzak.com

The Baby Show and Greatvine.com

On Friday I went down to London for the day to be on a stand with other experts at The Babyshow with Greatvine.com. https://www.greatvine.com/

Greatvine.com offers you individual advice and support, by phone,
direct from the country's best experts.

We've hand-picked the finest professionals so you receive help you can trust.
Together, the experts have more than 2,000 years of experience helping the public.

1. Choose an expert
2. Book a call
3. Dial in for individual, trustworthy advice

The Baby Show http://www.thebabyshow.co.uk/
was packed with relevant stands, information and demonstrations. Also lots of freebies which I collected for my sister and Clive's niece who are both expecting babies.

It was a great opportunity to chat to some of the other of the experts listed on the Greatvine site.

These included:

Maggie Howell, who has some great CD's and products on natal hypnotherapy.
http://www.natalhypnotherapy.co.uk/index.html
www.greatvine.com/maggie_howell

Delphi Ellis - who has a wealth of knowledge on antenatal depression (see posting on my blog on this).
www.greatvine.com/delphi_ellis

Jo Tantum, specialist in sleep and twins.
http://www.babysecretsltd.com/
www.greatvine.com/jo_tantum

Caroline Cosgrove, who has Baby Concierge shopping services - brilliant to save time for any mums to be. http://www.babyconcierge.co.uk/
www.greatvine.com/caroline_cosgrove

Geraldine Lee, a nurse and personal development coach in women's mental health.
www.greatvine.com/geraldine_lee


A fitness expert Vicky Warr www.beez-kneez.co.uk


I also had a chat with the editor of Prima Baby who were one of the main sponsors of the event. www.babyexpert.com

Judging by the calibre of the dynamic team at Greatvine.com and the quality of the experts I had the pleasure of meeting it is a fantastic source of advice for people.
Have a look!

Elaine Hanzak

www.hanzak.com
www.greatvine.com/elaine_hanzak

Antenatal depression

Several people in the past have asked me about antenatal depression and as I did not experience it I feel I cannot comment on it. However, I now know a lady who can!

Whilst at The Baby Show in London on Friday with Greatvine.com https://www.greatvine.com/ I met another expert. Delphi Ellis did suffer from antenatal depression and has set up a website to help others called Depression in Pregnancy Care. Visit http://dipcare.org/

It was great to meet up with Delphi and we found we had much in common.

Her other website is linked with her profession as helping with holistic wellness using the power of dreams. http://delphilife.com
She was on This Morning today with Phillip and Holly.
http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/

See her Greatvine profile at
https://www.greatvine.com/?cID=consultant_profile&consultantId=1775

See my profile at
https://www.greatvine.com/?cID=consultant_profile&consultantId=1369

Keep up the excleent work Delphi!

Elaine Hanzak

www.hanzak.com