Great question and one I hear ALL THE TIME! ​ Hypnobirthing is a set of techniques designed to help you relax and lean into your labour and birth. These techniques and their effectiveness in labour and birth are firmly grounded in science - relaxing and feeling good helps release the good hormones to make labour more straight forward. My hypnobirthing course also covers the birth partner role, birth choices, birth environment, how the uterus works and much more.

Nothing and nobody can ever guarantee a pain free birth because everyone has a different threshold for pain and a different way of dealing with the pain or sensations of labour and birth. What I would say is hypnobirthing helps you to have a better birth experience and teaches you how to manage and cope with any feelings you are having - both physical and mental! I have had two hypno-births and I personally would not describe them as painful, I would use words more like intense and feeling sensations but not pain.

There are so many ways to answer this and I’m going to go through what I think are the most important answers! “Negativity.” How many people have told you how amazing labour is? Not that many? How many episodes of One Born Every Minute feature calm, confident labours and births? None! How many films or soaps show you a calm, confident birth? Not that many! So, what’s my point? We are conditioned to fear birth. Through media, through our dear friends and all their horror stories! Hypnobirthing is your tonic to this barrage of negativity. Hypnobirthing reminds you how flipping amazing your body is, it knows how to give birth, and so do you! You just need a little reminder. “Busy, busy, busy!” We are so busy these days aren’t we? Trying to do more and more and more. Where’s the space? When do we take a good, deep breath? Hypnobirthing is here for that, making space in your busy life to focus on the very big change that is coming. Space to breathe, space to relax and space to focus. “It’s all in the biology”. Hypnobirthing is centered in the biology of giving birth, hormones, physiology and connection between mind and body, that’s why it works so well. When you put all these things together, quite simply, hypnobirthing works. That’s why hypnobirthing.

I recommend any time between 28 and 32 weeks. I have had clients who have started earlier and later than this but this is the best time for you to get the practice in that you need and babies can arrive earlier than expected!

Do you want a calm, confident birth experience and at the end of it, you hold your baby in your arms and think, I bloody did that?! Then yes, hypnobirthing is for you.

Yes absolutely! Whoever you choose to have by your side, they are absolutely vital to your birth experience and I want them at all the sessions where possible!