HypnoBirthing Blog

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• What about the Baby?September 10, 2008
  Every mother wants the best for her baby, and they buy all sorts of toys to stimulate their interest and development, have attractive mobiles over the cot, and spend a fortune on a beautiful nursery, but what is really important to the baby? Birth must be the most important experience of our lives, and labour starts at [...]
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• Calm birthAugust 16, 2008
  One of the things about hypnobirthing is that midwives are frequently fooled by the calmness of the mother.  When you call the hospital thinking it’s time to go in, or when you call and ask the midwife to come to you for a home birth, what usually happens is that the father makes the call, [...]
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• Failed InductionAugust 11, 2008
  ‘Just after my due date I was advised that, if I didn’t have a sweep now I would have to be induced at term plus 10 days.’  (Note the ‘have to be’.  What about the discussion of options, statstics for and against, informed consent.)  The sweep caused bleeding which resulted in immediate admission to hospital.  [...]
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• HypnotherapyAugust 10, 2008
  I often think that the path a couple takes to reach a hypnobirthing course goes something like this: Before she gets pregnant, a woman has at the back of her mind that there’s always a caesarean as a soft option. Then she gets pregnant, does a bit of research, and realises that a caesarean isn’t [...]
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• New hypnobirthing course in TeddingtonAugust 6, 2008
  After a weekend off last weekend, I’m really looking forward to the hypnobirthing class starting in Teddington this coming Saturday.  The centre where we work in Teddington is right beside the River Thames with a glass wall overlooking the river.  As I sit with my back to the river, I fondly imagine that the couples on [...]
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• Membrane SweepAugust 2, 2008
  I had a lovely email today from one of the mothers I taught about her hypnobirthing birth.  The birth was drug free, pain free with no tearing and an amazing and wonderful experience, but her labour was 72 hours.  The baby arrived 4 days ‘late’.  Since, apparently, 85% of babies arrive after the so-called due [...]
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• Managing PainAugust 2, 2008
  ‘Managing Pain’ is the phrase on the lips of every care provider for women in labour.  Why is it assumed that pain is there in the first place?  I am fully aware that many women experience extreme pain in labour, but consider this for a moment.  Every other muscle in the human body, working in [...]
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• New ProgrammeJuly 21, 2008
  I know that the first thing a woman does when she discovers she’s pregnant is log on to her PC and start googling!  This is why we now have our programme of hypnobirthing classes arranged right through to June 2009.    So do have a look.  There are convenient classes wherever you live in the London [...]
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• Turning Breech BabiesJune 30, 2008
  Had a lovley email at the end of last week.  On Wednesday I did some hypnotherapy work to turn a breech baby.  I often wonder who I’m talking to.  Is it the mother, or is it the baby?  And how can it possibly work?  The next morning I had an email from her saying the [...]
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• More Birth StoriesJune 30, 2008
  I wasn’t teaching HypnoBirthing this weekend;  I was camping in Cornwall with my family instead.  But it was lovely to have two new birth stories in my inbox when I got home and lots of enquiries as well.  addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehypnobirthingcentre.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2Fmore-birth-stories%2F'; addthis_title = 'More+Birth+Stories'; addthis_pub = [...]
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