Welcome baby Enys!

Hello Hannah, 

We just wanted to let you know that our baby boy Enys Sidney was born on Tuesday morning weighing 9lbs exactly.

He was delivered via c-section, and even though I had planned for a vaginal water birth, I wanted you know that all of your techniques helped to keep it magical and I’m really happy with the birth experience I had. I felt calm throughout, and able to advocate for myself when I felt that an induction was not the best approach for us or our baby. The hypobirthing has also come in useful in the days after with breastfeeding and lack of sleep by just helping me to relax generally. 

We honestly cannot thank you enough! 

Best wishes,

Katie, Ross and Enys xx

My favourite kind of birth story!

Why is this my favourite kind of birth story? Because Poppy and James had their first Calm Birth with baby Matilda back in 2017, and used their techniques again for their second amazing positive birth with baby Arthur this week! I love it when clients tell me their news, it just makes my day. You can read Poppy & James’ first birth story here - I often read it out in class as it’s so lovely.

So this is the message I received from Poppy after Arthur’s birth:

Hi Hannah, this little beauty has arrived!

Thank you so so much for everything, again, honestly we feel absolutely blessed to have had two wonderfully positive birth experiences at RBH.

We managed to channel confidence we had from Matilda into this week, despite going a week overdue with talks of sweeps and inductions, and I kept the mantra that baby will know when it's ready. Just needs a bit of extra cooking!

And sure enough, we stayed at home on Wednesday having had contractions less than 10 mins apart since 7am and got to the hospital 9cm dilated and he was with us within 50 minutes of arriving!

The triage Midwife even poked her head around the door because she couldn't believe how calm I'd sounded on the phone deciding whether it was time to go in or not. Another incredible birth to add to your repertoire, we are truly thankful x

A gorgeously positive first birth

This lovely positive birth story came in a message from Jodie and partner Dan who had their first baby.

Hi Hannah, hope you guys are staying safe and well. Myself and Dan just wanted to let you know that Mia Grace arrived 3 weeks early on Mothers Day (she was due on 11th April). So glad she decided to come a day before lockdown started and everything became more scary!

My waters broke in the night, but surges didn't actually start for another 16 hours. Luckily my body allowed labour to progress and I didn't need any help in the form of the drip. I really believe the hypnobirthing helped with this, as I remained positive and calm all the way through even though the midwives kept mentioning induction to me.

After pushing for over an hour we realised that baby's head was turned, and I was taken to theatre for a spinal and forceps delivery. There wasn't a moment where I didn't feel calm and in control though even in a scary situation and I put that all down to everything you taught us.

So thank you so much, we really appreciate it and couldn't of done it without everything we learnt xx