Real birth stories Archives - Page 21 of 44 - The Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing

I don’t care about that carpet!

This week’s story comes from Hailey Schroder, who prepared for birth using The Calm Birth Method. My first contraction started at 8:19 a.m. on June 18, 2019. They were pretty regular, coming about every 15 minutes but I was able to sleep through them until about 10:00...

I Iet my mind wander to find something useful for my body to use to relax

This week’s birth story comes from TCBS Instructor Hayley Begner who is the founder of GiGi & Pickle in Finchley, London. Hayley first became interested in Hypnobirthing when she did TCBS Online programme! “On Thursday 6th September at 2.30 am and 41 weeks...

Apparently, I was the talk of the ward

Thank you to Toni & Craig Hansbury who did face to face refresher session with me (Liz!) in my local area of Solihull. This is the second time I have worked with this lovely couple and they are just fabulous. Congratulations to them both (and to their little girl...

It was absolutely the most amazing experiences of my life

Thank you to Fiona and Nick for sharing their Calm Birth Experience with us! This lovely couple attended a one to one session with Jenie Scholes from Empowered Bumps who is based in Southport, UK for the birth of their third child. This was my third baby and my second...

We were finally going to meet our amazing rainbow baby

Thank you to Zoe and Simon for sharing their Calm Birth Experience with us! This lovely couple attended an in person TCBS course with Jenie Scholes from Empowered Bumps who is based in Southport, UK. “In September 2018 my husband and I found ourselves gazing at a...

A perfectly wonderful breech caesarean

This week's story comes from a lovely couple who did a course with TCBS Instructor Jenie Scholes in Southport, UK. I reached out to Jenie when I found out I was pregnant with baby no.2 and set my heart on a natural birth after having to have a caesarean with my little...

We were just sat on the sofa with a well deserved pizza and a new baby

For the birth of my second child (My daughter Bowie) I decided to give Hypnobirthing a go. With my first birth I didn’t know a lot but think I am one of the lucky few who actually had a relatively positive birth even though I knew nothing. However when I found my self...

it was a moment of relief and happiness that still gets us both when we talk about it

Thank you to Hannah and Jon for sharing the story of Jesse’s birth. This lovely couple did a TCBS Hypnobirthing course with Anna Owen from Rock Your Birth based in Worcestershire, UK. “With our 'EDD' 11 days behind us and the 'induction' word being thrown about, we...

We are lucky to have been blessed with a very chilled-out baby

Thanks to Sarah & David from Skipton, Yorkshire in the UK for sharing their story with us! This lovely couple did a TCBS Hypnobirthing course with instructor Jessica Shipley from The Calm Mama Co “We were lucky enough to undertake a private hypnobirthing course...

This was the only moment during labour I became fearful

"I woke up around 11:30pm with light surges, so I went to the bathroom and then headed straight back to bed before my excitement could keep me awake. At 1:30am I awoke again and the surges had gotten stronger, another trip to the bathroom revealed I had a bloody show....