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Podcast Episode 9 – How to Stay Calm When Everyone has an Opinion About Your Birth.

In this episode I'm sharing how to stay calm when everyone has an opinion about your birth, including what compels people to comment, setting boundaries, finding that calm again and a reminder that this is your birth, no one else's. If you're currently putting up with...

The Importance of Hypnosis in Hypnobirthing

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...

Things I Wish I’d Known Before Having my First Baby

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...

Sam’s Birth Story – A Home Water Birth VBAC in Aberdeen

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...