I remember when I met my midwife for the first time during my booking. She surprised me by asking where I would like to have my baby. I answered: "At hospital of course!" I had never considered I could or would have a baby anywhere else but in a hospital. It was only later in my pregnancy that a student midwife asked if I'd considered a homebirth ...

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Our beautiful baby boy was born last Saturday morning at home as planned using purely the incredible hypnobirthing techniques you taught us.  If you remember my main concern about giving birth this time around was that our second child's hypnobirth experience was SO amazing I didn't think that our third child's birth could ever match it...how ...

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I am writing to say thank you for all of the support and guidance that you provided my husband and I in relation to the birth of our baby son Jake, and also to explain our hypnobirthing experience. I first came across hypnobirthing when I was on holiday in Sri Lanka about four months into my pregnancy. As I lay there, with time to contemplate what...

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I wanted to thank you in helping to transform an experience I was approaching with great trepidation into something beautiful and empowering. You may remember that this is our second baby and I tore badly the first time. The medical advice was to have a c-section to avoid potentially long term consequences of tearing again. It was only when we ...

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My fiancé and I attended a weekend course at Guys and St. Thomas in November, and whilst we weren’t the most vocal members of the group (probably passing through relatively unnoticed) we came away hugely affected by what we had learnt and the power we now felt we had.  So much so that we decided there and then to have a home birth for ...

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After a somewhat medicalized hospital birth with my daughter 18 months ago, I approached the birth of my son with an open mind. I was super keen to get my home birth this time but instead of being fixated on it, I reminded myself that birth can often change path along the way and that if I needed to go to hospital again, that was ok. I also was ...

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