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 [...]

The Con of Controlled Crying

January 31st, 2012

I don’t know about you, but when I was a child, my father was very much the type of man who believed that children should be left to “cry it out”.  His mother did it to him, so it must be the right way, right?  Infact my own mother and mother-in-law believed that I should [...]