Mar 26, 2015
On today's podcast I chat with best-selling childbirth author Sophie Fletcher about how you can best prepare for a positive birth. Sophie, a clinicial Hypnotherapist, is also the founder of Mindful Mamma, an organisation that, among other things, runs classes for parents to be to prepare for a calm, confident and...
Mar 19, 2015
Well, if you've been through it, you'll have a pretty good idea, but if you ask any woman who has yet to have a baby what she knows about childbirth you are probably going to hear things like
"...it happens in a hospital..."
"...it hurts..."
"...you need drugs, injections, doctors,...
Mar 11, 2015
When I first found out I was pregnant for the first time, along with the delight at my news, I was also utterly terrified. It wasn’t the idea of having and raising a child; it was the idea of GIVING BIRTH! I’d tell anyone who would listen that I’d want to be given ALL THE DRUGS in the WORLD just to COPE with the...
Mar 11, 2015
Pregnancy, while a beautiful and wonderful thing, can also be hugely stressful. It's a time of massive change, both pysically and emotionally. If it's your first pregnancy, then your life is about to change forever. Not only will you trying to prepare mentally for something which is...
Mar 10, 2015
For the majority of women of childbearing age who have not given birth, the idea of a fear free childbirth is unheard of ...isn't childbirth pretty scary? It’s even scary to those that HAVE given birth, especially if things didn’t go too well. And yet this fear is misplaced, and stems from a cocktail of...