On the Saturday night through to Sunday morning I was ill with an upset stomach and sickness. By Sunday morning it had eased off but I was getting random period-style cramps but I felt so weak from the night before I remember really hoping that it wasn’t the start of labour as at this point I was 40...

✨“Estrela” was playing when you were born.

When we found out you were coming, not even in my wildest and most beautiful dreams did I imagine it would be like this - that this would be the way you’d arrive.

My “painful” contractions began at 3:30 a.m. on June 23rd, although in the days leading up t...

At 40 + 5, I had a midwife appointment where we discussed doing a membrane sweep. During the examination, I wasnʼt yet dilated, so we agreed to book another appointment at 41 weeks, just a week before my scheduled induction. I really wanted to give my body a chance to go into labour naturally.

At 4...

When I found out I was pregnant and completing my self referral to the hospital maternity services, they ask where you would like to give birth and all my instincts told me I wanted to have a home birth. 

This was my first birth and after listening to friends and family who had given birth and the ...

First time mum Kristina and her partner Sam share their positive birth experience at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich (London). 

Key facts:

• 28th September 2023
• 1st baby
• 8lbs 1oz - arrived 4 days early
• 6 hour delivery with no interventions
• Delayed cord clamping and Golden hour
• Minor tea
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Hypnobirthing is for every type of birth. It's not just for natural births and water births, but it's also incredibly valuable for medicalised births. The most important thing is not the mechanics of how your baby is born, but how you FEEL about your experience before, during and after birth...

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First-time Mum Lucy had an amazing positive birth in Lewisham Birth Centre in Greenwich, exactly as she had planned. Here's Lucy telling her story in her own words:

"I had a sweep on my due date and started having contractions 3 hours later. I was on and off for 24 hours with all of the distraction...

First time Mum Becky was told throughout her pregnancy that her baby was measuring "big". After additional growth scans, she was offered an induction. Read about how Becky confidently made decisions that were right for her and her baby and enjoyed a wonderful positive birth. 

My ‘dream birth’ was a...

“When it came to the birth the breathing techniques were fundamental in handling the contractions. I used the hypnobirthing tracks and breathing whilst labouring at home and nothing else. When I got to the hospital I was already 6cm!

Due to being 6cm it closed off pethidine as a pain option due to it...

I was blessed to have a low-risk and pretty healthy pregnancy, despite suffering with vomiting and nausea for the 9 months, along with hip pain during a certain period. 

 Once I reached 37 weeks pregnant, I was experiencing braxton hicks often. They would come at random times and of varying intensi...

First time parents Steph and Ben decided to have a homebirth after having their private 1:1 hypnobirthing classes with me.

They transferred to the St Thomas's homebirth midwifery team for their antenatal care, hired a birth pool and got everything ready to meet their baby boy in the comfort of thei...

I was 37 weeks and 2 days pregnant when labour started on the Saturday morning. I was expecting to have another few weeks before birth, but I’d felt symptoms building over the week prior that gave me an inkling our little girl might make a surprise arrival. Whilst I hadn’t nested in the traditional ...