ABOUT ME

Finding out I was pregnant with my son in 2021, I knew that I needed someone or something to guide me through pregnancy & birth, as to be honest, I was terrified and had no idea what to expect for either pregnancy or birth, apart from what I had seen online/tv and from friends who already had children. 

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So after many nights scrolling online, looking for something to help ease my worry and fear, I came across Hypnobirthing which literally ticked every box, it gave me something to anchor to and follow throughout my journey into the unknown! 

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I joined an online course, which taught both me and my partner all about the physiology of birth, meaning what was actually going to happen to my body, labour signs and the various stages of labour and birth. As a first time mum, I had 0 clue, so this was perfect in providing me as much information as I needed to know to feel confident and not completely in the dark!

 

We were taught different coping and breathing exercises to help me work with my body and to help get me through labour pains, sensations or waves as people like to call them, something that I 100% swear by, breathing correctly in birth is the best tool you will ever learn - and can be very useful post birth too! 

 

The course also centred on creating a positive mindset within pregnancy and for birth, by using self guided hypnosis relaxation mp3s and by repeating positive affirmations, which alongside my new knowledge of what happens to our bodies birth, completely reshaped my mindset from fear to excitement, which I never expected!

 

Learning hypnobirthing gave me so much knowledge of what to expect & some really useful techniques to have a wonderfully calm & magical waterbirth, even with a change of course near the end of my birth, as birth can be unpredictable, I still maintained my calm mindset and got through it one experience at a time! 

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As cliché as it sounds, from that day and many days after birth, thinking about what I had achieved made me train as a Hypnobirthing Teacher.