Dear Katharine, I attended your hypno birthing class almost 6 years ago in preparation for the birth of our first son. Since then I have welcomed two more little boys into the world, with my youngest born just 10 days ago. I wanted to thank you so much for your class and the knowledge you passed on all those years ago. Each of my boys was able to...

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Hi Katharine, Chris and I wanted to say thank you for taking us on the journey toward a birth experience we can share with a smile. We had our baby girl 6 days ago ... an unplanned homebirth because I hadn't realised how far I'd progressed because I was coping so well. So calm an experience it had been, that our baby girl was actually born with ...

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Sam, 44, is a mother to four children aged 13, 8, 5 and 16 months old.  After a traumatic first delivery, Sam vowed never to conceive again, until she had a chat with Katharine Graves about hypnobirthing and she changed her mind.. ‘I had always wanted four children, but following the birth of my first son at home I didn’t think I could ...

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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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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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I attended your hypnobirthing class one weekend at St Thomas'. I just wanted to let you know that I had a wonderful water birth at UCLH where everything went very well. Ask my waters broke prior to contractions, we had to go to the hospital. As my blood pressure was a little high (they mentioned induction!) they said they'd like to keep me in ...

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