Hypnobirthing on a Building Site?
January 25, 2010 – 7:30 pmThe venue for the Teddington Hypnobirthing classes is right beside the Thames and really lovely, but on Saturday at about 8pm (the class was due to start the next morning) I received an email saying the builders hadn’t finished the work they were doing so there would be no smell of paint but most of the building had been prepared for painting on Monday.
When I got there - half an hour early to forestall any problems - it looked as if I was walking onto a building site and my heart sank; hardly the calm and peaceful environment I liked to create for my Hypnobirthing classes.
After much moving of heavy furniture and equipment, I had the room we were going to use (not the one we normally use with the lovely view of the river) in tolerable shape and at the beginning of the class I said:
‘We have a choice. We can either spend the day moaning about the state of the building, or we can thoroughly enjoy a wonderful Hypnobirthing class. I think it would be much more fun and more productive to do the latter and, to help you and show that I really am sorry about the state of the building, I’ll give you all a free CD of the background music I use on the course which I usually have avilable for sale. So let’s have a really good day together.’
And we did!
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