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 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 […]