Birth Stories

Natural Birth

Laura and Tom’s HypnoBirth Story
I had a long latent labour of 48 hours which included being turned away twice from the hospital (!) But, when my waters finally broke and we were admitted to Barnet Midwife Led Unit, Sebastian came along after just over an hour in the birth pool. Complete with the...
Lauren and Ben’s Hypnobirth, First Baby
Lauren had a sweep done by the Midwife, and went in to labour at about 1am. The day was a blur but after going in to the hospital with around 4 60 second surges every 10 mins, Lauren was somehow only 3cm dilated. The 3cm really threw Lauren and at that stage, her...
Mandy’s Hypnobirth (First Baby)
On Monday morning I woke up and knew I felt different; my surges were coming, but very mildly (period like pains) but were on and off all day. I had 6 surges on my 20 min walk so I rang the MLU who said it's time to come in. So off we went and I still felt so calm,...

Natural Birth Story

I wanted to say thanks to hypnobirthing I felt so in control of my body and mind in the hours before active labour and even right in the midst of it. For that I will be forever thankful to the wise hippo programme. On Monday morning I woke up and knew I felt different...

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