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All the love, Liz & The Team x
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Biography
Hello & Congratulations on your pregnancy!
I’m Charlie. I’m a hypnobirthing practitioner & Positive Birth Movement facilitator.
I’m also an ex-advertising director and a mother of three.
I am NOT a birth junkie.
I AM determined to provide couples with an honest & realistic information about what a positive birth experience can look like for them, and to support them as they meet the biggest transformation of their lives with focus, confidence & ease.
Enterprising. Determined. Strong willed. Energetic. Resourceful. Aspiring.
Goal-oriented. Industrious. Purposeful. Self-starting. Sharp. A complete control freak.
These characteristics were what made me successful in my career. They were also the things that fuelled my complete terror of birth. Like many women, when I became pregnant for the first time my initial delight was soon surpassed by abject fear. Having had to discount an elective caesarean due to my fear of needles, I settled on hypnobirthing as the birth preparation for me. It sounded like the perfect get-out-jail-free card. I’d just hit myself up with some trance state, and Whoop!, I’d have my baby.
In reality though, hypnobirthing is not as simple as that.
What I now know, having followed the Mongan Method while pregnant, trained & taught the Wise Hippo method since January 2014, and now teaching The Calm Birth Method, is that a Good Birth experience is not about candles & sandles, whale music or visualising opening lotus flowers. I now know that all those words up there / / are what hypnobirthing is about.
It’s about resilience, determination, practise, control, focus & knowledge.
It’s about helping women and their partners understand why they feel vulnerable and out of control. It’s about building a realistic and completely personal framework for what Good Birth means. It’s about supporting couples to manage this massive transformation as themselves – whether they’ll be welcoming a first child or a fifth.
Now I have three children, two boys & a girl. When my youngest was 2, I felt it was time for me to go ‘back to work’ in marketing, in London. So that’s what I did. After freelancing for 4 months I was increasingly frustrated by how maligned & marginalised motherhood is. It’s so often seen as something that diminishes women. Something to be packed away quietly in its appropriate place. Something niche. And that, for me is a large part of the problem women face.
82% of women become mothers, and 100% of us come from mothers, and yet pregnancy, birth & motherhood continues to be seen as a niche issue. Women are led to expect pain, trauma & suffering from birth. Birth is the transformative moment in most women’s lives. It heralds their new identity as Mother. It shifts the dynamics of their most intimate relationships, as well as the world at large. And yet. Despite #metoo. Despite #timesup. Despite a vibrant discussion on the dynamics of women & power, women are still led to anticipate that transformation accompanied by anxiety & fear.
Well, I’m here to tell you that despite the prevailing wisdom, it is possible to have a positive birth experience. There are no limits to the type of woman who walks away from birth feeling empowered, exhilarated & proud. You have a right to expect & create a Good Birth experience.
57 Bethel Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 3UE
Biography
It was August 2017. The Summer Holidays. I was a Secondary School Head of Drama who had just had a lovely summer break and was going back to work the following week. I was NEVER late on my period…ever…so one day late I decided to casually pop to the shops to get a pregnancy test. I then casually walked home, peed on the stick and waited. Went to the room where my partner was, looked down…and there it was “Pregnant”…I said two words…Not two words that I am proud of but at that moment in time those are the only two words that could utter from my lips (I won’t repeat them here but I shall leave them to your imagination!)
Following a miscarriage 6 months earlier, I was terrified. What if something goes wrong again? How will I handle it? I don’t want to feel like birth is a procedure being performed on me! I don’t want to feel violated. I don’t want to sit back and be poked and prodded! Ah!
As my pregnancy progressed, I decided to stop being scared and to start taking control and that’s when the wonderful Katie Stockdale from Peace, Love and Birth came in to my life with something I had never heard of before…HYPNOBIRTHING! I will be forever grateful to her for she has genuinely changed my life.
Although my birth experience had twists and turns, I handled them all. I was educated. I was in control. I was empowered to make choices and to ask questions. I was a Hypnobirthing Mother and nothing and nobody was going to throw me off my game. I was calm and I was positive.
I was so inspired by my own experience that I want to share these experiences with other women. I am passionate about antenatal and postnatal education. Being a Hypnobirthing Instructor will allow me to educate, empower and support women to have positive and calm birth experiences. I believe that every woman deserves to have a calm and positive birth experience and every baby deserves to be brought into the world in a calm and positive way and I believe that the way to achieve this, no matter what twists and turns your birth may take, is Hypnobirthing.
London E4
Biography
Im Jade, Im 29 (30 is coming for me!) I have two children and I am passionate about birth and women birthing in their own way.
I’ve had two amazing births.
One without using any birthing methods at all. I went in blind to what was about to happen and I was one of the very very lucky few that came out feeling positive about my birth. However I still felt overwhelmed. So much had happened that I was not expecting and although I felt good about my birth I knew next time round I wanted more control.
So I looked into hypnobirthing (the first time round the name hypnobirthing put me off! it sounds very wishy washy and that’s not me at all) and it clicked. It made so much sense. So I practised and learnt and took my new techniques with me to birth my daughter.
It was an incredible experience. She was born at home, in a pool and it was peaceful and I felt so powerful (she has not been peaceful since this moment unfortunately, you win some you lose some ay)
After she was born I realised how much of a badass I was and that’s where my urge to support other women came from! The more of us who go into birth with the knowledge and mindset that we need the better our births will be. And hopefully we can pass that power onto our daughters and so on and so forth.
35 Rolfe Crescent NN7 3NG
Biography
If you had asked me 2 years ago what I wanted to do with my life a hypnobirthing teacher was definitely not on the list. I would have probably said a hippo ? what?
It’s funny how life’s twist and turns take you to exactly where you should be.
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10 years ago I gave birth to the most wonderful baby girl. Her birth was not what I would call positive but it wasn’t until becoming pregnant with Florence, 8 years later, that I realised how much the trauma of Millie’s birth had and still does affect me (and possibly her) and how determined I was to not let that happen again.
Hypnobirthing gave me control, gave me my voice to say no … or yes … or maybe…. or simply why? It gave me options and choices that I never allowed myself 1st time round.
Florence was born naturally, at home using Hypnobirthing techniques. I can honestly say I loved giving birth. It was a relaxing, positive, loving, empowering experience and I was able to share that with my supportive partner, daughter and parents. I feel passionately that birth is about support, confidence and information and I found all of these thing through Hypnobirthing.
I now join Jade Gordon and her award winning company SONA mum. I am so excited to work with SONA mum and be able to share the techniques I used and have learned with other mothers, partners and their support networks, so that everyone can have and talk about positive births and remove the stigma and secrecy around birth, that instills so much fear and anxiety.
Happy Hypnobirthing and I look forward to meeting some of you very soon xxx
Georgina ?
Aberdeen Hypnobirthing Cookney AB39 3SA
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