I remember when I met my midwife for the first time during my booking. She surprised me by asking where I would like to have my baby. I answered: "At hospital of course!" I had never considered I could or would have a baby anywhere else but in a hospital. It was only later in my pregnancy that a student midwife asked if I'd considered a homebirth that I realised it was a real possibility.

The more I thought about it and looked into homebirth, the more I decided "this is what I want". My husband wasn't quite so enthusiastic, but after having a chat with my midwife and reading up on it, he agreed that it was a good idea. The reality was that it wasn't just a good idea, but the best decision I've ever made.

I had a fantastic labour and wonderful homebirth, which consequently inspired me to train as a midwife myself.

Thank you so much (again) for letting me come along and observe/take part in your classes - they were brilliant!

Take care,
Jenny Spriggs

...who was born at 7.06am on Friday March 19th 2010, weighing 7lbs, 8 ounces (3.4kg)

He is a very contented boy and his parents are delighted. All doing well.

Love,
Jane and Jay

Hi Katherine,

We wanted to let you know that we had our David on 6th November 2009 that was exactly his due date, everything was marvelous we followed the Hypnobirthing techniques and had the best experience ever.

We took the October Hypnobirthing sessions so had just 1 month left for reading the book listening the CD and practicing the relaxation techniques we came across to the Hypnobirthing quite late but anyway decided to do it as definitely we wanted a labor to remember we did not want to be like some couples that don't want to speak about it due all they passed through so we wanted something special for remembering and telling everybody and definitely we did it.

Andy, Tanya & Jasper Howell are thrilled to announce the arrival of Poppy Annabel, born on Saturday 3rd April at 9.30am weighing 5lbs 1oz.

From the day we commenced our hypnobirthing course my attitude towards the birth of my child changed dramatically. An event that I was secretly dreading turned into something that I was really looking forward to. My partner was extremely supportive and towards the end of our pregnancy we were practicing at least one of the relaxation exercises each day.

On the evening of 20th July we went to bed at about midnight. I was cleaning my teeth when I felt a couple of lower twinges but convinced myself they were nothing as I knew if I actually believed I was in going into labour I would be too excited to sleep.

At 2:30am I switched the light on and asked Chris what was happening (as a father of 3 I thought he might have more of an idea than me!) to which he replied that he thought I was in labour. I immediately panicked as I hadn’t washed my hair for 4 days and had no intention of giving birth to my first child with greasy hair! I hopped into the shower and whilst in there my surges dropped to one about every 10 minutes to one every 4 minutes – something that at the time I put down to the impact of the water – goodness knows why! They continued every 4 minutes whilst I was blow drying my hair and, whilst for a couple of them I put down the dryer to concentrate on my breathing, the majority of the surges came and went with no discomfort.