This wonderful couple didn’t do a hypnobirthing course with me, but they are parents that I have always admired since we had babies at similar times, and they agreed to share their positive VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean) with me! This is especially important, as Megan couldn’t find many positive VBAC stories for herself when …
The birth of baby Rosie Claire and Ben joined one of my group courses in 2023, ready to learn how to avoid anything that would be a repeat of their previous traumatic first birth experience. They started the course using words like “traumatic”, “scared of the unknown” and “out of control” to describe how they …
The birth of baby Louie The wonderfully funny and caring Clare and Danny joined my course after lots of persuasion from me with their third (very surprise) pregnancy in 2023. They started the course using words like “terrified”, “powerless” and “out of control” to describe how they felt about birth, especially after previous experience(s). Reading …
Three days after my nineteenth birthday in 2013, my life was turned on its head and I experienced one of the worst days of my life. It’s something that I’m very open about when the subject is brought up, but people often don’t know how to ask me about it, and I have felt it’s …
This story starts with two very unexpected pink lines. Two pink lines that turned my world upside-down, inside-out, and back-to-front. They were the most astonishing pink lines that I have ever seen in my life and the world stopped for a second when I first saw them. On 19th November 2020 I was left completely …
I stumbled upon hypnobirthing when I was laying in the bath around half-way through my first pregnancy and I was listening to the audio book of ‘Happy Mum, Happy Baby’ by Giovanna Fletcher (I love that woman!). She spoke about how she ENJOYED labour and birth and basically breathed her babies out, and I thought …