There is no one way to give birth. As you are individual so your labour will be individual.

Parenting is exhausting. And wonderful.

Worrying and uplifting.

The worst of you and equally the very best.

The light from the street-lamps outside was lighting up her face and hair....and it hit me. It hit me so hard my breath caught. It is coming to an end. There is a point where this will stop.

If you watch a labouring woman getting into a birth pool you can clearly see why water births are so popular. The whole body, from the head down, softens....relaxes...releases. There is a long sigh.

I was talking about this with my oldest daughter the other day. The concept of just not engaging with people who only mean to rile you.

How did it happen? When did it happen?

The birth partner was resigned to being just a hand.

A hand that would be held hard. Very hard.

Oh the Baby Blues. Nature’s present to new mothers.

I do not know a single mother who has not found herself at some point between days 3 & 10 post birth, sitting on her kitchen floor crying over spilt breast milk.

The doorway to success in hypnobirthing is the unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind not only holds information that is outside your consciousness, but it also manages sensations and bodily functions.

We can access the unconscious mind through hypnosis and this is the bedrock of hypnobirthing.

This blog was prompted by the wonderful post on Instagram by @birthtraumasupportfamily who pointed out an article in The Telegraph titled 'Mumsnet is driving women to request caesarean sections, a leading midwife has warned'.

I often say to my clients that what it takes to get baby ‘in’ is exactly what it takes to get baby ‘out’. The positive hormones and responses required to feeling safe, loved, calm and confident. When we feel out of control and scared the body processes this in a different way to the calm and happy response.

I suppose the question here may be, ‘What is a third space?’.

Fertility is something that like many women I always took for granted.

It isn't about how you birth...whether you do so vaginally or via c-section or whether you decide to use an epidural or gas and air.

Need a reason to book a hypnobirthing course? Here are ten!

That’s all we want, isn’t it? A chance to truly appreciate and own the intense experience that is giving birth. So why does it go so wrong for so many?