Musing and advice from one mother to another
We typically put a lot of effort into planning for our baby.
The nursery, the car seat, the pram, the teeny tiny clothes.
We may put a fair bit of consideration into planning for our birth.
An antenatal class, some reading, creating birth preferences, packing a hospital bag.
We might devote a bit of attention to breastfeeding.
Watching some videos, talking to friends, Googling lactation biscuits, buying some nursing bras.
But we usually don’t think about postpartum read more
I have actually been bursting to share this news for weeks!
And now I can finally tell everyone and anyone!
I have a feature in Peppermint Magazine!
The founder of Peppermint came to my January class to learn how to support her best friend.
They both got so much out of the course that she ended up contacting me afterwards about doing an interview for the next issue.
Cue much shrieking and smiling and dancing around my kitchen!
The interview ended up evolving into a feature on hypnobirthing, the read more
Sara was one of those women who came into class already sure of herself and of the birth that she wanted. Some women simply have this sort of internal determination from the beginning…and others gain it over the course of the Hypnobirthing Australia program. But even those who seem innately confident need the reassurance of additional information and additional tools!
Sara and her husband Mike took everything they learned in hypnobirthing and put it into practice.
They fully committed to the read more
This beautiful couple took hypnobirthing when she was around 20 weeks…as she said, she wanted to prepare for as natural a birth as possible but knew that she and her partner needed some information and some tools before birth
Her pregnancy was not without complications…her baby thought that 28 weeks might be a good time to arrive but then thankfully decided to stay put! And as she neared the end of her pregnancy there were concerns that her baby was measuring small and so an read more
Sami is a women’s health physio and so approached pregnancy and birth with an amazing amount of knowledge.
But even with all of that knowledge (or perhaps because of all that knowledge), she knew she needed to prepare in order to have the natural birth that she wanted. She opted for a private midwifery model of care, enrolled in Hypnobirthing Australia classes, and did yoga throughout her pregnancy.
And all of the effort resulted in a beautiful birth!
Her baby was in a posterior position but Sami was able to work with her body read more