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Hypnobirthing - should we bin the name and come up with something more appealing to the masses? In my opinion, no! But of course it's more nuanced than that. A question that's come up often in communities of hypnobirthing teachers over the past 10 years I've been...

As the saying goes 'you don't know what you don't know', and there were most definitely some big things I didn't know before having my first baby. I was fairly well informed (even after my midwife told me not to go reading lots of stuff or I'd get myself all confused...

I should start with the pregnancy and birth planning really. From the moment I had my first baby, I knew the second would have to be a homebirth. My eldest was born at 43+2 via emergency c-section, due to a long induction. Baby was fine, my body just got tired after...

When I gave birth to my first baby I had no strong preference over how baby was fed, as long as it was fed. However I thought I'd try breastfeeding. I was discharged from hospital and a couple of days later baby was weighed and I got the disappointing news that baby...