Connected Hypno & Birthing

Connected Hypno & Birthing Birth Story Listening Session. Private Midwifery and Home Birth Services. Offering group classes upstairs at Vitality Semaphore, 69 Semaphore Road.

Connected Hypno & Birthing is engaging, informative independent childbirth education offering both group & private Hypnobirthing Australia™️ Positive Birth Program Classes. Independent Childbirth Educator, Certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner, Registered Midwife and Birth Story Listener. Hi, I’m Nikki Jones and I offer Hypnobirthing Australia Group and Private Classes and Birth Story Li

stenings Sessions Face to Face in Adelaide or via Zoom for anyone around the world. I am passionate about empowering women and their birth partners, educating and sharing knowledge, to know they have choice, power and feel supported. I feel providing up-to-date, evidence based education and information supports making informed decisions towards having a positive, calm, safe and beautiful birth experience. I have been a midwife for over 12 years now; having worked in Midwifery Group Practice providing women centred continuity of care before, previously taught hospital antenatal childbirth classes and birthed 3 babies - 2 of my own being hypnobubs. Being a hypnobirthing mum myself, knowing the techniques, that they work, helped me have a positive, empowering and enjoyable birth experiences. I want to share those techniques and connect with each couple that I teach, my goal is for you to leave feeling confident, relaxed, supported with a positive mindset, abundance of knowledge and tools to achieve your own unique positive and empowering pregnancy, birth and start to parenting. I also offer private classes in the comfort of clients homes and private session in conjunction with the Online Hypnobubs Course and Birth Story Listening Session to help women feel heard and make sense of their birth story. If you’re keen to know more please get in contact with me.

30/05/2026

Can’t wait to see this, SAPPM will be holding a screening later this year…

12/05/2026

“Women’s bodies were designed for birth” is only helpful advice if we actually prepare women for birth. 🙃

As a doula of 10 years, here are the biggest things I’ve seen ACTUALLY help women achieve the birth they want, especially unmedicated:

1. Your provider matters more than your birth plan.
A supportive provider makes any environment better.
An unsupportive one can derail even the best plan.

2. Don’t go to the hospital too early.
The earlier you go in, the more likely the cascade of interventions becomes. Labor hormones work best when you feel safe, private, and unobserved.

3. Your nervous system affects your labor.
Bright lights, fear, tension, constant interruptions, feeling watched… all can slow labor down.

4. Stay upright and moving OR fully rest.
That half-sitting hospital bed position wastes energy and often slows progress.

5. Prepare your partner to advocate.
You should not have to explain your wishes mid-contraction while someone’s asking questions. 😵‍💫

6. Learn pain coping BEFORE labor.
Breathing, water, vocalization, counter pressure, positions, combs, affirmations, movement…
Don’t wait until transition to figure out what helps.

7. Pelvic balance matters.
Chiropractic care, movement, positioning, mobility work, stretching, spinning babies, etc. can genuinely affect comfort and baby positioning.

8. Fear changes birth.
Tense body = tense labor.
Understanding contractions as pressure/waves with purpose instead of something “going wrong” can completely shift the experience.

9. Read positive birth stories.
Most women are flooded with traumatic birth content their entire pregnancy. Your mindset going into labor matters more than people realize.

10. Birth doesn’t end at delivery.
Having postpartum support lined up lowers anxiety going INTO birth too. Your brain feels safer when it knows you’ll be cared for afterward.

Birth is incredibly physical.
But it’s also hormonal,
mental,
emotional,
and environmental
in ways most women are never taught. 🤍

What helped you MOST during labor? 👇

July Group Hypnobirthing Workshop 19th & 26th 202610am to 5-5:30pm both days at Vitality Semaphore. Already filling so d...
12/05/2026

July Group Hypnobirthing Workshop 19th & 26th 2026
10am to 5-5:30pm both days at Vitality Semaphore.

Already filling so don’t leave it too late to join. Next group after this will be October.

The ideal time to do a class is anywhere between 20-34 weeks of your pregnancy but have had couple between 18weeks right up to 38weeks in my classes before, so it’s never too late to learn.
The cost is $570 per couple, an investment you make in having a positive and informed birth with independent evidence informed, empowering childbirth education with a Registered Midwife with Endorsement.
Book in directly via my website to secure your spot or contact me to find out more or to book in.

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2026 Today I am grateful, especially to the midwives close me, that I have the pr...
05/05/2026

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2026
Today I am grateful, especially to the midwives close me, that I have the privilege to learn from and work with everyday. They are as strong as the women we care for and provide unwavering support to not only women but also to each other as midwives.

Here’s to a million more midwives, if you get the chance please sign the petition for one million more midwives.

26/04/2026

Raspberry leaf tea - or capsules - is one of those things that comes up again and again in pregnancy conversations.

Some women choose to drink it, and swear by it. Others think it doesn't work at all.

But what does the evidence say?

And what can we learn from looking at why there isn't always good evidence on topics like this one?

Find out in my blog post, What's the evidence for raspberry leaf tea?

https://www.sarawickham.com/questions-and-answers/whats-the-evidence-for-raspberry-leaf-tea/

April/May Group Workshop 2026 has 3 spots left if anyone would like to join us. April 26th & May 3rd 202610am to 5-5:30p...
14/04/2026

April/May Group Workshop 2026 has 3 spots left if anyone would like to join us.

April 26th & May 3rd 2026
10am to 5-5:30pm both days
at Vitality Semaphore

The ideal time to do a class is anywhere between 20-34 weeks of your pregnancy but have had couple between 18weeks right up to 38weeks in my classes before, so it’s never too late to learn.
The cost is $570 per couple, an investment you make in having a positive and informed birth with independent evidence informed, empowering childbirth education with a Registered Midwife with Endorsement.

Book in directly via my website to secure your spot or contact me to find out more or to book in.

Next group is in July which is filling already and then October will be my last group class for 2026 as I have had to cancel December due to private midwifery clients. I am open to running one in January so if you want it please let me know.

I’m fully booked for the year and I am definitely having January 2027 off. As for the rest of next year, I don’t know wh...
14/04/2026

I’m fully booked for the year and I am definitely having January 2027 off. As for the rest of next year, I don’t know what it looks like for me just yet so for now I am not taking on any further clients until further notice.

I want to thank all the clients that have chosen me to care for them and walk along side them for their journey’s. It is a privilege I don’t take for granted.

09/04/2026

Is the recommendation of induction for advanced maternal age truly based on sound evidence?

Or is it illogical when you break down and really look at the issues?

What do older women need to know about the evidence in this area?

We hear from more and more women who are told that they need induction of labour because they are older.

This issue also arose when the NICE guideline on induction of labour was revised in 2021.

The recommendation to offer earlier induction to older women was not included in the final guideline.

But we know it’s still being offered.

As I wrote when the guideline was published:

“One of the most controversial aspects of the draft [NICE] guideline was the proposed recommendation that earlier induction be offered to certain groups of women, including older women, larger women and women who conceived via IVF or ARTs.

It is clear that some groups of women/babies have a slightly higher chance of stillbirth compared to other groups.

But data on this are often crude, the absolute risk may not be that high and we often have no trial evidence to show whether or not induction of labour would make a difference.” (Wickham 2021).

I’ve written more about induction for advanced maternal age in two of my books.

Those are Inducing Labour: making informed decisions and In Your Own Time: how western medicine controls that start of labour and why this needs to stop.

I also have a blog post on induction for advanced maternal age.

Find it at https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/induction-for-advanced-maternal-age/

I hope you’ll find it useful.

If you do, you can support my work by buying my books and recommending them to others.

And by the way, there’s one thing we don’t say often enough to older women who get pregnant:

Congratulations 🥰💕😍🎉

08/04/2026

Amen 🙏🏻

I have been MIA on socials as life has just been well…busy! And it seems many I speak to are in the same boat. Regardles...
29/11/2025

I have been MIA on socials as life has just been well…busy! And it seems many I speak to are in the same boat.

Regardless I thought this deserved a spot on the grid to say I am now taking private midwifery clients on in 2026. Covering the western suburbs of Adelaide and it is in a limited capacity for now.
I am already grateful for all the enquiries and bookings I have had already.
I am almost fully booked for the first half of 2026, with only a couple of spots left for March.
I am not taking on any clients for February as my youngest is starting school. I am having time off at the end of July/beginning of August for The Convergence of Rebellious Midwives so I am unavailable during that time.
It is strongly recommended to contact a private midwifery as early as possible if you are considering Homebirth as many do book it early.
Please feel free to contact me to ask any questions and if you have an enquiry.

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