Hypnobirthing For All

24/05/2022

Effective breathing in labour can help keep you calm, in control and keep the labour flowing smoothly. It also helps send oxygenated blood to the uterus which is great for mum and baby.

Mastering the breathing takes practice and creating visualisations alongside your breathing can help you stay on track.

I love to imagine the image of a rose unfolding and gently opening. This could be compared to the the cervix gently softening, ripening and opening, just like a rose.

What do you like to visualise?

20/05/2022

🧊THE ICEBERG THEORY

How we think about the brain in birth is fascinating! Understanding how and why your brain works the way it does in birth will help you understand why using hypnobirthing techniques work so well.

So to appreciate this, think of the brain like an iceberg, where only 5% of our decisions are made in the conscious mind at the tip of the iceberg (where our rational and logical thinking take place) whilst 95% of our decisions have already been made within our subconscious mind without us even knowing (beneath the surface). Isn’t that a bit freaky!

So as the birthing brain sits in our subconscious mind (where most of the action takes place) we are going to need to work pretty hard at consciously influencing our birthing brain which over time may have been filled with negative messages and imagery around birth. This is possible, with practice, and hypnobirthing will teach you how you can do this so you can work towards a positive birth experience. I can’t wait to teach you more!

18/05/2022

Yes that is right, our bodies are made for birth! Trust your body and tell yourself again and again. Stick this message all around your house so it can’t be missed.

Right now maybe it’s hard to believe this and trust your own body, especially if over your lifetime you have taken on more negative than positive messages around birth. Now is the time to sway this balance and build up the positive birth file as you prepare for birth.

Hypnobirthing will give you a deeper understanding of how beautifully designed our system is set up for birth and how we can work with our body and our baby effectively to help aid this process.

10/05/2022

BRAINS was honestly one of the most useful tools I learnt in hypnobirthing.

I used it on a few occasions in the leadup to my birth and during my labour each time I was faced with a decision. It was also a huge help for my birth partner to refer to when he was communicating with my care providers, at some points without me when I was totally in the zone and he was doing the talking! It helped us stay calm and work through each decision in a logical manner so we knew our options and felt like each decision was our own.

So in summary here it is explained...

B - What are the BENEFITS of the suggested course of action and the benefits for you and your baby.

R - What about the RISKS that come with this procedure (asking for clear facts and solid evidence).

A- What are the other alternatives or courses of action you can take? Then use your BRAINS again.

I - What does your intuition tell you, when tuning into your body and your baby.

N - What about doing nothing? Even if we just wait a little? This might only be 10 minutes, an hour, a day or a week?

S - Remember smiling will help in so many ways and we add this on at the end! A smile will help you relax and relaxing your jaw automatically relaxes your pelvic area helping baby move down.

05/05/2022

Happy International Midwives Day 2022

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14/04/2022

In the Complete Hypnobirthing Programme you will learn so much to prepare you for a calm and confident birth.
Here is a brief summary!
🔷PHYSIOLOGY OF BIRTH: So we actually know what’s going on in our bodies in pregnancy and birth.
🔷POSITIVE BELIEF: The positive belief that birth can be the most wonderful experience for a woman and her birth partner. Think POSITIVE BIRTH instead of natural birth. There is no judgement or bias here. It doesn’t matter how you choose to give birth.
🔷FEAR RELEASE TECHNIQUES: To help you deal with what are often a lifetime of fears that we have built up over time. We will work through the fears by using tools and techniques to help release your fears.
🔷How to relax deeply using BREATHING TECHNIQUES, VISUALISATIONS and MP3s in ANY environment
🔷BIRTHING POSITIONS: Optimal positions to help you birth your baby more easily and comfortably
🔷MOTHERS INSTINCT: How to tune into your own body, trust your body to work naturally and in harmony with your baby. Come to understand how perfectly designed it is for birth.
🔷PRODUCTION OF BIRTHING HORMONES: Wow they are amazing! You will learn how to work with them and work with the birthing environment to help.
🔷BIRTH PLANS and BIRTH PREPARATION: Understand not to have a set plan. The idea is that in creating your birth plan you are learning you have choices and learning what your choices are.
🔷INFORMED CHOICE: By being more informed, you have the knowledge to navigate your birth whatever path it takes.

14/04/2022

Hi, I am Annabel and wanted to introduce myself...

For the last 10 years I have worked in the UK as an acupuncturist and loved every second of it. I have supported many pregnant ladies in all stages of pregnancy and post-partum, with birth preparation being a big part of my practice. After repeatedly hearing positive stories from my patients and friends who had practiced hypnobirthing, I wanted to be able to add this to my skillset and even better, try hypnobirthing out myself for the birth of my baby.

I trained with The Little Birth Company in 2020. This all coincided with the first few months of Covid19 at a time when there were so many unknowns. Having a baby in the middle of a pandemic was never the plan but neither did I plan to take 7 years to fall pregnant!

So after years of fertility struggles and anticipating the worst, I wanted to turn my birth experience around to a positive experience and look forward to the birth of my baby I had so longed for.

Let me warn you that my birth had it’s fair share of twists and turns, and often people ask me whether the hypnobirthing actually worked? Yes, it certainly did! For me, the hypnobirthing served itself as a brilliant tool throughout all stages of my labour and really helped me at the most challenging points. I came away from the birth with no regrets and certainly feel I had a positive birth experience.

14/04/2022

Hi, welcome to Hypnobirthing For All.

I am so happy to be able to share with you my learnings on how to prepare for a positive birth.

There is often a common misconception that Hypnobirthing is only suited for low risk pregnant women, wanting to have a drug-free birth, maybe at home or in a birth centre. Whilst women can certainly strive for this, Hypnobirthing For All supports ALL women, ALL types of births in ALL types of settings, and will help you navigate any unexpected turns should they arise.

For more information on my courses please visit www.hypnobirthingforall.com