I met the lovely Laura at a local Mothercare Expectant Parent event that I was attending with Relaxed Birthing. From this initial meeting Laura signed up to my pregnancy relaxation classes which she attended for the last few months of her pregnancy. Laura has kindly shared her birth story here but pop over to her…
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I had the pleasure of meeting Rachel way back in June when she came along to my free hypnobirthing taster session at The Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham. Rachel decided to book a private course of hypnobirthing to prepare for the birth of her baby and came to pregnancy relaxation classes towards the end of her pregnancy.…
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I had the pleasure of meeting Catherine way back in June when she first started coming along to my weekly pregnancy relaxation classes. It seems like such a long time ago! It was a complete pleasure to get to know Catherine and see her bump grow as the weeks passed by. I feel so honoured…
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I am the first to tell the mums that come to my classes that it is so important for them to take time out and look after themselves during pregnancy and when their baby arrives. But I have increasingly become aware over the last few months that I have not been taking the advice I…
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Things have been rather busy here at Relaxed Birthing! Lots of exciting new stuff is happening and so I thought it might be helpful to write a quick post to let you know what I have been up to, and what is available and where! Nurture 4 Life At the beginning of the year…
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So this isn’t the blog post I was intending to write when I woke this morning but something happened during today that has really niggled me and I need to get it out! Today I popped to have a chat with a couple of male friends (it was work avoidance/procrastination!) and quickly the…
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Listening to my own advice… This is a bit of a different blog post for me today but one I felt I needed to do for various reasons. The photos above are of my SON. My cute, adorable, sweet, Paw-Patrol , Thomas the Tank Engine and tractor loving SON! I’m sure you didn’t miss…
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I had the pleasure of working with Naomi and Joel (and Naomi’s lovely mum!) for a Hypnobirthing course at the beginning of the year. Naomi read the book that I provide as part of the course, listened to the hypnobirthing scripts, used positive affirmations and visualizations and became more and more comfortable with trusting her instincts, her…
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It’s the age of the internet, and everything and anything is available to you at the click of a button. The popularity of distance learning, as a result, is ever on the rise, and now even hypnobirthing and antenatal education can be learnt from the comfort of your own home. Although it’s great that…
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Birth can be unpredictable, and sometimes it doesn’t go the way you plan or expect it to, and believe me, during the birth of my first child, Isabelle, I was no exception – my planned home birth ended in a caesarean (I’ll share my birth stories in a future post!). But the tools I had…
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