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The big Q… How do I get my baby to sleep?
Top 5 Tips for guiding baby into good sleep habits:
• 1: My first tip would be swaddling! Sometimes, we try swaddling and baby gets cross and we think “My baby hates to be swaddled!”- For a few,
Gemma’s Birth Story
You finally get the positive test and after the initial anxiety of getting to that 12 week scan has passed, thoughts turn to labour, or at least they do for most people. Me? I figured there was no poi
Snowed in in labour
I’m sitting here looking outside to the blizzard that surrounds my house. With the trouble that many of the midwives are having getting into hospital to work it makes you think what about the la
What I HATE about Hypnobirthing
One thing I HATE about Hypnobirthing.
“My body is made to give birth, naturally”
“My body is built to give birth”
“I trust my body and its ability to give birth.”
“M
Breastfeeding – it’s a suckers’ game!
For the purposes of this mini-piece, I have tried to imagine that I am a bearded, 5’9”, slightly-introverted, new father. I will be channelling my husband and trying to see the last 11 weeks of ou
Hypnobirthing Caesarean Ellie’s Birth
Ellie used hypnobirthing in her pregnancy for preparation for her VBAC and used hypnobirthing for her caesarean birth.
My First Baby
Two and a bit years ago I was bouncing on my birthing ball watching
Shani’s Birth Story
I suppose my birth story starts about 3 weeks before when I attended The Bump To Baby Chapter Hypnobirthing class. I remember saying to Beth, “I’ve only got 3 weeks left and I haven’
What did Hypnobirthing ever do for us?
What did Hypnobirthing ever do for us?
Channeling the sentiment of Monty Python, I am left thinking about exactly what we did gain from our Hypnobirthing course. I’ve read lots of blogs and testimon
Jamie’s Hypnobirth “I reached 10cm dilation with just co-codamol.”
Like most Mums to be, the thought of giving birth made me feel anxious. However, in equal parts, I felt strongly that my body would know what to do. I felt it was important to focus on the positive fe
How exercise taught me to get through childbirth
“You can do this, keep pushing on. You’ve been through childbirth.” This is the mantra I repeated in my head over and over again when I pushed my body to its physical limits climbing three of th
“My body knew exactly what it was doing and I remember thinking, ‘my body can do this. I was built to do this’.” Danni’s Birth Story.
In 1982 my mother gave birth to me with the assistance of hypnobirthing. She told me the birth experience was beautiful and she was in control throughout. 30 years later, I was in labour with my first