Last Sunday I held the FIRST EVER Calm Waves HypnoBirthing Coffee Morning! It was such a lovely morning full of new parents, expecting parents and brand new babies (oh and lots of cake!). I was absolutely thrilled to see some of my lovely HypnoBirthing families again and to finally meet their beautiful babies. It was fantastic to see the families chatting away about their birth experiences, bouncing parenting ideas off each other and swapping tips and advice. Some had taken the course together and have since become good friends. Others had taken a private course with me. But it was great to see them all coming together with the shared experience of welcoming their babies into the world us
It was four years ago yesterday that my little son, Forest, was born into this world. Four years! Where did that time go? As I'm sitting here remembering those first special moments of Forest's life, I thought I would share with you his birth story. I was past my "due date". 5 days over to be exact, and the midwives were talking of induction or doing a "sweep". Myself and my husband, Nik, wanted our baby's birth to be as natural as possible and having recently completed our HypnoBirthing course with the lovely Gilly Gibbin, we politely declined and tried some more natural ways instead. I listened to Rainbow Relaxation, affirmations, Nik did a fear release hypnosis script for me. I felt
