“I’m terrified of giving birth, how will I bear the pain?”

“On TV, it looks risky and dangerous!”

 “I’m scared of losing control.”

“I don’t want my birth to get hijacked by the hospital.”

 “How can something that big come out of an opening so small?”

Does this sound like you? If you’re frightened of giving birth or you had a traumatic first birth and want something better this time, then look no further! My birth preparation sessions will show you how to create the birth of your dreams!

Birth Preparation

Birth is a truly sacred moment in which the veil between visible and invisible worlds is drawn open. A labouring woman’s body is a portal through which grace comes pouring in. The birth of a new human being onto the planet deserves our utmost respect and conscious awareness. It’s way too important to leave to chance. The beauty of our humanity is that we have the power to co-create what we desire. Nowhere is this more important than at birth.

Three Sessions

My three sessions are individually tailored to you as a couple to give you the knowledge and skills to pro-actively create the birth experience you desire. After having shared this knowledge successfully with hundreds of couples, I know what works. As a woman, you learn how to harness the creative power of your mind to effectively handle the strong sensations of labour and birth, and how to direct the process to your intended outcome. As a partner, you learn about your pivotal role and the practical techniques to create safety and comfort for your beloved in labour. Together, you become a team creating the perfect environment for birth to be safe, effective and powerful.

A positive birth doesn’t just happen; you have to know how create it. It’s not rocket science, yet because birth is something that happens behind closed doors inside hospitals, many pregnant women don’t know what they don’t know. My birth preparation gives you simple, practical wisdom that’s based in the physiology of the female body and the natural laws that govern labour. If you want to birth from your centre of power as a woman, then good preparation is essential.

Topics covered

My sessions blend factual information with firsthand experience. Together, you learn about and experience deep relaxation, practical breathing and endorphin-producing techniques, how to use your imagination to modify sensations and how to create a safe physiological birth space – inside yourself and externally. My approach is couple-focussed, so both of you experience the various processes and leave with a clear understanding of your different roles during labour and birth. I work with individual couples rather than groups because it creates a private space for clients to freely explore what they need to know to give birth well.

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1. Understanding the natural laws that govern labour and birth

Birth is an elemental process fuelled by the same energy that creates wind, waves, fire and storm. When you understand the natural laws that govern labour and birth, you can collaborate with them fully. To birth in harmony with those natural laws and bring your baby into the world in your own time and way is one of the most powerful things you can do as a woman. It activates deep trust in your instinctive body knowing and creates a strong foundation for confident mothering. My guided tour of the physiology of labour and birth enables you to understand how your body and hormones work, how your brain changes during labour, and how to enter deeply altered states of mind without fear – so that your body can do what it’s designed to do without interference.

2. Freedom from fear

Many women have an excessive fear of giving birth. When large numbers of intelligent women are terrified of a healthy female body process, we have to ask why.  Our cultural mythology about birth (or the story we tell ourselves) is that birth is a terrifying medical emergency that’s beyond the capacity of most women to endure, and that technology, drugs and medical specialists are necessary for the safety of baby and mother. It’s so important to understand that this ‘story’ is socially constructed and perpetuated by the media. And equally important to know that it’s entirely possible to unplug from this stereotyping of women as flawed machines and to create an understanding of birth based on the physiology of the female body and the laws of nature that govern the process.  When you have an opportunity to dismantle your fears, you can use the power of your mind to create a beautiful, safe, empowering experience.

3. How to Manage the Strong Sensations of Labour (aka Pain Relief!)

When you learn how to reliably access your deep relaxation response, it becomes your greatest ally during birth. The sensations of labour can be intense and prolonged – like running a marathon. In deep states of relaxation, your hormones and womb and vagina can function according to the design, without the distortions of fear and tension. When a labouring woman is fearful, her body ends up fighting itself; the more she tenses up, the more the sensations are felt as painful. If a woman doesn’t feel safe, high adrenaline levels can prevent her cervix from dilating effectively; that’s painful. When she’s dismantled her fears and feels safe, and knows how to access her deep relaxation response, she can handle the strong sensations of labour with her own inner resources.

In deep relaxation, you might experience the sensations of labour as tightening, pressure or waves of sensation that have no name. Many clients have told me there should be another word for labour ‘pain’ because they didn’t experience anything they’d describe as painful. Others have said that yes, it was intense, uncomfortable, even painful; yet it never occurred to them to ask for pain relief because the sensations were within their capacity to handle and they never doubted it.

Giving birth is one of the most powerful, sacred things you can do as a woman. Don’t leave it to chance. Take responsibility for creating the birth you want. Prepare for it by understanding how your body works and how to align with the natural process. Let me show you how to really claim your birthing power! Give me a call today.