Here is my birth tale of baby number three, written, as he lies on my lap only a day old! We haven’t decided on a name yet, so I will just have to call him baby! So on paper his birth was around 2 hours, but of course that’s established labour, which doesn’t recognise all your hard work behind the scenes in the lead-up! This birth was a ...

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At last, and it feels as though your babies may all be teenagers by now, I am delighted to report the safe arrival of our baby boy, Gil. He arrived last Monday (St Patrick's Day) 14 days from his due date having been jigged into action. I had just the first pessary and then he raced into the world with a surprisingly quick labour. The 2nd stage was...

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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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We could never have anticipated how grateful we would be for having done the KGH weekend course. I went into labour three weeks early having travelled to home to Ireland for 24 hours for my mother in law’s funeral. For two people who were caught so off guard, with no hospital bag, belongings, and not in our own space, we ended up feeling very ...

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I was 39 weeks + 5 days and had felt a little under the weather all day. For some reason I was so sure I wouldn't give birth for another week so just tried to relax and not do much. I had been doing a Hypnobirthing teacher training course that week so attended the online session as usual. That evening I watched a comedy series, and at around ...

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My son turned 1 in August, and my husband and I attended your course in May 2019. It was honestly the best thing we did to prepare for the birth of our beautiful baby. We have had the most wonderful year with our son and it all began with the calm, natural birth we had hoped for. Our boy was born at 7.03am on August 7th, at 39 weeks + 1 . It was ...

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My pregnancy had been relatively easy and problem free, and I had had my heart set on a home water birth from very early on. I had had a difficult birth with my first baby 2 years ago. Despite being fully dilated in a MLU pool using my Hypnobirthing training and techniques, my baby became stuck in brow position, and I ...

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