Hi My name is Joanna Chilton. I live in the village of Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. I am a proud mom to 8 wonderful children, ages ranging from 2 – 23. As a qualified doula I wanted to add to what I could offer my clients in terms of their best birthing experience. I decided to qualify further as a hypnobirthing instructor. The majority of people view birth as mostly physical but I know 100% that the births where I was mentally in the game, they had the best outcomes. Hypnobirthing is about preparing you mentally.
Of my 8 births, I had 2 hospital births, 2 midwife centre births and 4 home births. Did you know that 1 in 3 women describe their birth experience as traumatic? I am one of those statistics. My own experience is what fuelled my fire of passion to do all that I can to assist other mothers to have their optimal, non traumatic birth.
I chose to train with The Calm Birth School as their approach and ethos appealed to me the most.
I offer either standalone Hypnobirthing classes or along side sessions with my birth preparation as a client wanting doula support.
I offer WYIM support, that is, support With You In Mind; You don’t have to want a home birth or birth centre experience! This is for you if you want to learn the skills to calm yourself quickly and easily, understand the physiology and mechanism of birth, learn techniques to assist your body’s natural ability to birth a baby (or babies), regardless of where you choose to birth.
You will come away understanding how you can influence and even take control of your own birth experience, plus how to effectively make decisions surrounding birth and navigate the NHS!
I believe that having personally experienced the top three places women choose to birth, I am in a good position to offer support, education, guidance and advocacy to ensure the optimal birthing experience for all my clients regardless of where they choose to birth.