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The Birth of Bailey: A Calm, Pre-term Birth at 36+5
Abbie attended pregnancy yoga in Dartford in her first pregnancy, she went into labour naturally at 36 weeks and had a calm, pre-term birth
Positive Birth at Darent Valley Delivery Suite
Mala completed a group hypnobirthing course and pregnancy yoga in Dartford with me, she had two positive births at Darent Valley delivery suite
The Birth of William: A Premature Hypnobirth
Anne completed an online hypnobirthing course with me in the preparation of her second birth, after having a premature first birth.

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
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
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
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

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