Hypnobirthing and pre & postnatal yoga
As promised here is my birth story for Arabella Grace, born on Friday at 6:34am, weighing 9lbs 1oz and 59cm long (my longest baby!). Thank you again for all your support, yoga and our couple’s hypnobirthing refresher course! Our KG Hypnobirthing book is so well thumbed that it is falling to pieces! I’ve already decided […]
Third time mum Lisa, told her husband she’d drive herself to hospital when her waters broke during the night – because her two little girls were sleeping at the time. When her husband refused, all four of them got in the car and headed to the hospital, where the girls would be picked up by […]
First-time mum Olivia, thought she was being a bit dramatic when she first started to feel contractions, only to be examined and told she was fully dilated! Here’s Olivia’s truly inspiring birth story. Rex Lucca’s incredibly quick birth After leaving your yoga class on Saturday 24th July, I felt something was different and just put […]
One of the many great things about a home birth is that you can labour in your own time, without being under the time constraints that might be placed on you in a hospital. You’re also not under pressure to have a vaginal examination (VE) to determine if you’re in established labour, a pressure that […]
I’m so impressed with this mama, Lydia, from my pregnancy yoga class, who stood her ground and trusted her instincts when told she was ‘only 3cm’ dilated and would need to leave the birth centre room she was in. Lydia knew she was in established labour and said no, she wasn’t going anywhere: “The midwife […]
At 6pm, two hours after the drip had started, nothing was happening – we FaceTimed my two boys at home to say good night, as soon as I saw their faces (after only 5 mins on the phone) my contractions started thick and fast!! I often tell mums-to-be, that it generally gets easier with second […]
The warm water provided instant relief and within a few minutes my waters broke. Almost immediately I felt the urge to push and my son Alexander was born safely into the water 15 minutes later. I’m always encouraging the women I teach to think about using the pool for birth, almost without exception people say […]
Francesca had a slow start to labour but once things got going everything went perfectly. She gave birth to baby Rory five minutes after getting in the birth pool, and got to experience breathing her baby out, with no pushing needed: This time I really didn’t even feel like I did any pushing – my […]
I love this picture of Olga and baby Jamie shortly after birth, you can almost feel the oxytocin flowing. Olga had just been through a long induced birth, using the Foley Balloon Catheter, and whilst her labour sounds really hard work and potentially very stressful, her beautifully optimistic mindset means she experienced it differently. Olga […]
First time mum Jen had a really quick labour, arriving at hospital fully dilated and ready for birth, however things took a bit of a worrying turn once she arrived, when babies heart rate dropped, leading to an episiotomy and forceps delivery. I’m happy to say that Jen and her husband Rob did a hypnobirthing […]