Aberdeenshire Articles

Today we’re unpacking something your body has known since caveman days: fight, flight, freeze and comparing it to birthing flow.   Most of us know the fight-flight-freeze response. You see danger, your body floods with adrenaline. Muscles tense, pupils dilate, heart...

Today we’re talking about the brain and birth.   Now, when people think about labour, they usually picture the uterus, the cervix, the physical side of things. But honestly? Your brain might just be the most important organ in the room. Episode TranscriptHello and...

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...

We met our beautiful baby girl Sunny in the early hours of Thursday morning, at home in the pool. My surges started on Sunday afternoon after Easter lunch, but were few and far between. On Monday I carried on nesting as normal, practicing my slow breathing and resting...