My hypnobirthing journey started when I was 20 weeks pregnant with my first baby. A colleague put a copy of The Hypnobirthing Book by Katharine Graves on my desk and said “take what you want from it. I read it before my second birth and had a really positive experience; I felt in control the whole time.” I didn’t think hypnobirthing was very ...

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With my first, despite the awful morning sickness, I actually enjoyed my pregnancy. I managed to practice meditation and yoga as well as hypnobirthing techniques that I learnt from my hypnobirthing class with the wonderful Crystal. I even managed to keep to a healthy diet as I was craving fruits and vegetables most of the time. Overall I was in a ...

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We had decided very early on we wanted a water birth in a birth centre which also meant no epidural. I didn't know how I would feel about that at the time but as we were having our baby at UCLH, if I changed my mind and things didn't go to plan, we could always go to the labour ward. I suffer from Epilepsy and one of the battles was that my ...

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I had a crippling fear of birth for many, many years, so much so that it almost prevented me from having any children at all. When I fell pregnant, I heard of this ‘hypnobirthing’ and the possibility of having a baby at home, surrounded by your calm amenities such as fairy lights and aromatherapy and the familiarity of your own house - I felt...

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We would like to say a huge thank you, for the recent parent's hypnobirthing course that you led online. It was more informative and uplifting then I could’ve imagined, and it’s sparked many conversations subsequently, as the information seeps in. Your teaching has left us feeling empowered and informed, I feel enormously blessed to be ...

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It’s currently 5am and I am up feeding my beautiful daughter, she arrived 5 days ago and it crossed my mind that I had not emailed you to say a huge thank you! My birth was the best birth that I could have had and the run up to it was relaxed and confident (unlike many of my friends’), thanks to you! My partner was relaxed, confident and ...

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