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It’s got to be time that all that chat around birth changes, surely?! People are all too quick to share their horror story of birth in a way that gives them some kind of ‘one up’ on you if they’ve survived a horror. I just don’t get it – maybe they just want people toContinue reading “Prepare for it. Nail it. Rave about it.”

So many people have asked me what a doula is… How can they support? How can teaching hypnobirthing through The Wise Hippo help in labour? First and foremost I believe in YOU. I believe in your ability to prepare, I believe in your ability to birth and I believe in your ability to be aContinue reading “I believe in you. End of.”

I am the first person to think positively about anything, and I really am. I’m a total ‘cup half full’ kinda person and the older I get the more I realise it really is just the way I look at the world as opposed to any need to make it that way. BUT, sometimes IContinue reading “Thank you for saying “yes, it’s shit”.”

*and sometimes that journey doesn’t need to include eggy kids or endless snacks! Today I had a bit of a revelation that sometimes the magic happens in the journey rather than the destination. I know this isn’t a new notion, but today it just hit me! Whether it be the food, the activities or theContinue reading “It can totally all be about the journey *”

All my working life, I’ve enjoyed work. I mean… I’ve ‘liked’ it. Got the odd kick here and there, got paid ‘enough’ money and was ‘good’ at what I did. I had fun with my frolleagues (that’s what I call friends from work) and actually, some are now my nearest and dearest. But that’s it.Continue reading “I want this for me, and that’s ok…”

A friend of mine who is 31 weeks pregnant with her first baby put a post on facebook asking what hypnobirthing was all about. I gave her a quick brain dump on it all and thought i’d share on here… Ok… so HYPNOBIRTHING… In lots of ways I think the term ‘hypnobirthing’ gets talked aboutContinue reading “What is hypnobirthing?”

I can’t help but notice the amount of grandmothers I see out with their grand children day in day out.  I don’t just mean families all out together, I mean grandmas taking on the role of the child minder day in and day out. It totally makes sense with the cost of childcare, I getContinue reading “The original mothers”

Since the moment I fell pregnant with my first born, the feelings I had and continue to have about my body have completely shifted. It’s like I was able to see my body in it’s complete being for the first time. I used to fixate on the negatives and the way my body didn’t meetContinue reading “Love your body?”

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