Monthly Archives: January 2012

Beginner’s Guide to a Confident Birth

A friend this week asked if I could signpost them to some articles that could help some people they knew feel a little less afraid of birth.   So I searched all my resources for an appropriate article, something that was

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Birth in your own magical time.

There is a reason why I say no clocks or watches in the birth room. Focussing on the passing of time can actually slow it down, doesn’t time go faster when you are not fixated on a clock or watch?

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Help I’m a terrible mother!

“You’re going to think I’m a terrible mother….” is one of the most frequently heard phrases in my consulting room. I always think “yup you are a terrible mother, a terribly wonderful mother that the thought and instinct to do the

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Posted in birth, children, hypnobirthing, mindfulness, parenting, post-natal, Uncategorized

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A one day hypnosis and mindful birth class, set up in the UK in 2007. Our practitioners are professional hypnotherapists, antenatal teacher and midwives across the Midlands, Yorkshire, South West and South East helping women and their birthing partners to give birth confidently, and in control using breathing, relaxation, hypnosis and mindfulness.

  Links to our favourite   sites


Association of Independent Midwives
Home Birth
Kedi Simpson Talks Birth
Midwife Thinking
National Childbirth Trust
One World BIrth
Sarah Buckley's Website

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