The Birth of Zachary: First Time Mum and Darent Valley Birth Centre
Jen was a first time mum who came to my pregnancy yoga classes, planning for a natural birth at darent valley birth centre.
The Birth of Jude: A Hypnobirthing Refresher Course for Baby Number Three
Sarah and Lee booked me for a private refresher hypnobirthing course at their home in Sidcup. They’d had a straight forward first birth followed by a difficult second birth. They had been told their third pregnancy would be classed as high risk so they wanted to learn some techniques to stay calm during the birth. […]
The Birth of Chester: A Calm Birth with Gestational Diabetes
Rebecca came to my weekly pregnancy yoga classes in Dartford as part of her preparation for a calm, natural birth. Towards the end of her pregnancy she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and asked me for some support about what her options were. Here is her story, the birth of Chester I just wanted to […]
The Birth of Orla: VBAC at the Birth Centre
My first birth did not go as I had hoped. I was panicking and got told to go to the labour ward due to reduced movements (which wasn’t really the case, I just wasn’t monitoring the movements) rather than the birth centre. I was 7cm dilated at admission and ended up getting an epidural so […]
The Birth of Maya: An Induced Labour Using Hypnobirthing
I am very happy to report that all went well with the induction and I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Saturday (39+2 weeks). She weighed 2.66 kg so the estimates were accurate! I found the positive induction stories on your blog (along with all the other hypnobirthing techniques you’ve taught me!) super helpful […]
The Birth of Betty: Calm, Elective C-section
I started going to Colleen’s Saturday pregnancy class when I was about four months pregnant, and also booked on to her hypnobirthing course. As a first time mum all I knew about giving birth was from TV and movies, and this generally made me quite anxious and fearful of giving birth. Colleen’s hypnobirthing course really […]