Dear Katharine, I am Padma from India, residing in the UK. I attended your Hypnobirthing class last August at St. Thomas London. Me and my husband Jay are elated to announce the arrival of our little son Yajur on 29th Nov. His arrival was 100% natural with no medical intervention nor any form of pain relief (in medical terms). My early phase of ...

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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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Just like my first pregnancy my due date came ... and went. I had bursts of false labour or Braxton Hicks in the weeks before but nothing really happened. Then eight days later, in the evening whilst my husband, Ash, watched football, I relaxed watching TV upstairs. I then went to bed and slept for maybe an hour until just before midnight when...

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Our baby girl arrived safely and peacefully in her own time at home Saturday at 13.30 a few days after we spoke on the phone about my fears of induction.  I will email you our birth story in case it helps others in the same situation but I wanted to let you know as the phone call we had really relaxed me and I made lots of plans that weekend ...

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