The Endorphine Effect
May 16th, 2012
Endorphine’s are our natural pain and stress reliever’s – perfect to help in labour. Here is a great video about how to stimulate and understand Endophine’s.
Water Birth at Home
April 26th, 2012
Sarah Buchanan has written a very informative article on water birth at home. She has a wonderful website which focuses on natural childbirth and well worth a visit for those interested in keeping birth normal. I had a water birth at home and my baby was 10lbs 2ozs – i needed no pain releif and [...]
Birth Affirmations
April 11th, 2012
Why do we need birth affirmations? Well, once you start to convince yourself that you are able to birth the way nature intended, you usually have a far more positive and comfortable birthing experience. Affirmations (or suggestions) are used to ‘condition’ your mind to change the way you think and feel about birth. Here’s a great [...]
A Good Message for Birthing Parents
April 8th, 2012
Suzanne Arms is an American Childbirth Author and she has put together this documented video about birth. It’s a very positive message.
Lizzie and Richard’s little Eden…
April 2nd, 2012
Hi Sophie, Just a little note to thank you so much for all of your help preparing us for the birth of Eden and to let you know how it all went. After a week of breathing through hours of regular surges which were brought on by walks in the gorgeous sunshine, my waters broke [...]
Royal College of Midwives Campaign to Support Normal Birth
March 21st, 2012
The Royal College of Midwives have an online campaign and information website to support normal and natural birth practices. It’s a great site with useful information and certainly worth your support if you are pro keeping birth normal. This is just what we need!
Anne-Marie and Nick welcome Baby Maia
March 17th, 2012
So I can’t say that I had a “traditional” hypno birth as seen in all the videos … but I certainly managed to use some of the tools … but alot went out the door as I surrendered my body to the overwhelmingly physical experience. It was intensely quick – just over 6 hours from start to [...]
Baby Jacobs Birth
March 12th, 2012
Just wanted to send you an official announcement and and huge thank you for enabling us to bring our baby Jacob into the world as calmly as possible. Jacob John was born at home on Monday 13th February at 5.50am weighing a mighty 9lbs 13! Not sure that was part of the plan! So, so pleased [...]
Mother-Infant Bonding
February 28th, 2012
Joseph Chiltern Pearce discusses the effect our emotions affect our cognitive state and brilliantly explains how a mother and child have to and need to bond in the first 18 months, otherwise affecting the infant as they grow up in life – affecting their intelligence and their social interactions. Here’s what this amazing man has [...]
Ina May Gaskin talks sense
February 27th, 2012
I saw Ina May gaskin present at an NCT event a couple of years ago and was inspired. She may be small, but she talks big! She talked about her many years as a midwife and all she has seen – so much natural birth success is The Farm is anything to go by. One [...]
Natural Childbirth – great new website!
February 21st, 2012
A fellow HypnoBirthing practitioner has recently started a new website for everything you want to and need to know about natural childbirth and parenting. I highly recommend you visit this site for relevant information and it looks good too! Here’s the latest article about the role of the Royal College of Midwives – an interesting [...]
Breast is best…. for Dad’s too!
February 18th, 2012
Great article by Patrick Hauser for the new website – http://www.naturalchildbirth.co/uk – a brilliant site! So is breast best?
