Hypnobirthing Articles

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...

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...

3rd surprise baby girl, born at home at 41+2 weighing 8lbs 12oz. I had a wonderful home birth with my second baby, so knew I 100% wanted another home birth if possible. There were a few little bumps during pregnancy, at one point my platelets were quite low but did my...

In this post I'm sharing one of my own births, which I haven't actually done before, I share snippets with clients and talk about it sometimes, but this is from an email I sent to my hypnobirthing teachers very soon after the birth. Technically I have birth in Angus,...