Confident childbirth offers a friendly and effective approach to labour and delivery.

I use coaching, positive imagery and hypnotherapy to give mothers (and their partners) calm and control before, during and after birth.

Culturally we are led to believe childbirth to be a terrible, painful event, fear and anxiety is instilled from early on in your pregnancy with people only too willing to pass on gory and quite frightening details.

Approaching birth with these beliefs will ensure that the process your body is designed for, and is more than capable of dealing with, may well begin with a level of tension, fear and anxiety before you've even reached the hospital! Why not take back control, allow your body to do its work and free yourself from the negative thoughts. Nobody knows how your birth will go but approaching it calm, relaxed, happy and in control is going to give you and your baby the best start available.

You will Learn -

• Self-hypnosis: how to take yourself into a state of calm relaxation
• Personal visualisations to aid your labour and delivery
• How to focus constructively in order to manage the birth of your baby in the best way for you both
• How to remain positive, in control and importantly alert and in communication

These tools will help you to retain

• A sense of calm, confidence and control
• A healthy pregnancy

By the end of your sessions you may be surprised just how much your mindset has shifted, so that you can look forward to childbirth in a much more relaxed way than before. You'll have taken your mind and body through so many positive mental rehearsals for the birth that your body can be primed and fully prepared to go through its natural process very smoothly.

More and more people are concerned about the side effects of drugs the implications not only for themselves but for their baby. Taking control with hypnotherapy is gentle, effective and has no negative side effects. In fact the skills you learn are with you for life.

Private one to one sessions for mum to be with or without partner generally run for four sessions, please call or email for more information.