Birth preparation & hypnobirthing
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I bet you're feeling a mixure of excitement and nerves for what's ahead of you. It might be the first time you're doing this, or maybe your 5th+, and you're looking for hypnobirthing and birth preparation support to help you feel confident, connected and calm in the approach to your baby's arrival.
Everyone is so different, and I hugely believe that your birth prep needs to be as individual as you are - holistic and focused on how you FEEL. I'm not here to teach you how to birth, but to help you connect mind & body, and figure out what's important to you.
My hypnobirthing courses are informal, interactive, and tailored to you as much as possible. Packed with knowledge, insight, and tools and techniques to practise - hypnobirthing can help you prepare for ALL kinds of births, from homebirths, to assisted hospital births, to caesarean births.
Group hypnobirthing essentials short courses
What is hypnobirthing? It's a way to reduce fear and anxiety around birth, and help you prepare for the most positive birth possible, however it unfolds. Whatever kind of birth you're planning, from a homebirth, midwife led unit birth, hospital birth to caesarean birth, you want to go into it feeling as prepared as possible, with tools and techniques to support you and your birth partner. This is not about having the perfect birth, that doesn't exist! What is actually important to you? My classes will help you feel calmer and more connected to yourself, and help you to gain confidence in your abilities and navigating changes in labour or your birth plans.
In person classes based in South cerney at Berry Farm (near Cirencester/swindon), perfect from the second trimester onwards and suitable for your birth partner to attend with you too, or you're welcome to attend solo. In one, 4hr weekend session, my hypnobirthing essentials courses includes a mixture of antenatal education, breathing & relaxation techniques, understanding the maternity system, and so much more. I also provide online resources and a supportive community of expectant families to connect with over whatsapp. You receive:
- A 4hr in-person weekend session
- Online resources to refer back to
- Access to a group whatsapp to support and cheer each other on and form connections
- Access to The Calm Birth School hypnobirthing tracks and handbook
- Free access to my pregnancy yoga online classes
- Free access to my postnatal yoga online classes
- 10% discount from my maternity and newborn photography services
Upcoming courses are £95 per couple, held at Berry Farm (south cerney)
July course - 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th 4 x Wednesdays
Sept course - Sat 27th, 11-3pm
Nov course - Nov 9th, 9.30-1.30pm
Jan course - TBC
A range of topics covered:
- all things hypnobirthing (fear release, breathing techniques, visualisations, affirmations, connecting mind and body)
- all things birth and body education (how your body and uterus work, what helps this and what hinders, how your birth partner can support you physically and emotionally, comfort measures and pain relief options, places of birth, labour flow/stages and the golden hour)
- navigating birth paths (vaginal, assisted and caesarean birth, induction, how to make decisions, navigating the maternity system, forming your birth preferences)
- all things postpartum (breastfeeding your baby, sleep, your recovery)
moving & breathing for birth - an online short course (coming soon...)
This is perfect from the second trimester onwards and suitable for your birth partner to practise with you tool This is a practical session where you get to practise breathing techniques, movements and positions for birth, learn about how your amazing body works in birth, and how to work with it in birth. We look at labour flow and explore tools to support you through interventions like induction, monitoring, epidural use and c-section. We look at how your birth partner can support you through massage, counterpressure and other techniques, that will help them build confidence in how they can help you in labour.
Coming soon...