KG Hypnobirthing Stories

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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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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