Planning your Birth

KGHypnobirthing (KGH) can turn a scary and clinical experience into a safe and empowering one – knowing how to have a calm, confident and informed c-section experience allows you to feel some of the benefits of a natural birth and have a positive birth experience, even if your birth takes an unexpe…

I wonder if breech births will be considered normal in ten or twenty years’ time, just as they were 20 years ago? What is Normal? Most babies are born head down in the cephalic presentation. A few individualists, about 4%, decide that head up, bottom down, is best for them. It may be because of th…

Before I became a KG Hypnobirthing teacher, I had the idea that midwives were lovely people to have around when you were having a baby, but if you wanted the best knowledge you went to an obstetrician. Over more than a decade that I have been teaching hypnobirthing, my view has changed entirely, an…

You find out you are pregnant and automatically Google ‘due date calculator’. You go to your 12-week dating scan to give you that definitive due date. Just one single day. Once you are given this date, you are so excited you shout it from the rooftops. And rightly so! Who shouldn’t know about your…

To have a doula to care for you at birth has become more usual over the last few years. So what is a doula, and what does she do? Doula is the Greek word for female slave, and it has been adopted to describe someone who supports a woman giving birth. She is not medically qualified, but a doula has…