It’s a new year, and perhaps a whole new journey for you into parenthood, perhaps you have just found out you are pregnant and expecting this year, or maybe you are planning to have a family in the next couple of years. I believe this year is a year full of hope and excitement! So this year for me, is going to be about GROWTH, we are always learning and growing getting to know ourselves more and more, and becoming even more aware of who we are, especially now I am a mother myself.

Did you know that? Its incredible isn’t it, that our own bodies natural painkiller is actually more powerful and potent than the pharmaceutical drug morphine. During a physiological birth our birthing hormones play a very important part. There are three key hormones that come into play.

So firstly, hypnobirthing is supportive for all types of birth…and there are a lot of misconceptions around this as I hear ‘Oh I am having a Caesarean so I can’t use hypnobirthing.’

Inductions are not ‘bad’ they are sometimes offered a little too early or perhaps without the birthing mother and partner knowing more about what an induction entails and how it works and affects your own birthing hormones.

It is totally normal to feel anxious and fearful of anything that is unknown, we haven’t experienced birth before until we do for the first time and this is a major life event!

This is a day that I will never forget and I can’t wait to tell this incredible story to my daughter, Sienna one day.

For years I was told that I was too sensitive, not assertive enough and got upset too much. All of this was conditioning me to make me feel like I was weak, which I did for a long time.

When I first became pregnant, I was one of those people that I loved to have as much knowledge as possible, especially on things that were the unknown.

Hypnotherapy allowed me to celebrate and enjoy the day without anxiety or fear, so when I fell pregnant with my first child, it seemed only natural to try Hypnobirthing.