A little bit of background “You’ve got to be in the room with me” I said to my fiancé Karl when I was at least 20 weeks pregnant, I was of course talking about during labour and his response was fairly apprehensive to say the least. I mean it was all very new still, and already I was talking about the grand finale (let’s grow the baby ...

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Thank you for your words of encouragement the night before our daughter was born.I was so overwhelmed (and still am) to think that you took time out of your busy day to call me – I’m extremely grateful!Not only have I had two amazing natural births using your wisdom and techniques but my patience and empathy has developed as I grow and evolve ...

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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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