Better Birth Blog
Information on hypnobirthing, pregnancy and birth
IT'S NOT YOUR JOB TO DEFEND YOUR BIRTH DECISIONS
You can choose to do whatever you wish to do without having to create a powerpoint presentation, without arriving with the latest research or without beating them over the head with your Dr Sara Wickham book.
To push or not to push. Do you really have to push in labour?
We as mammals require exactly what every other mammal requires to give birth. Calm, dim lighting, no distractions, no unwanted observers and no questions.
Does Hypnobirthing Work?
The most important thing to know about hypnobirthing is that you cannot actually fail at it.
Choice.
Choice is something that you will always have and it isn’t something that anyone can take away from you. To learn about birth with an antenatal hypnobirthing course gives you choices over where and how you will birth.
We Have A Birth Problem And It Is This…
Why are we teaching physiological birth when hospitals and birth centres are not actually offering normal physiological birth? There is a chasm occurring between antenatal classes and birth reality. When we change birth, birth changes.
The fear of induction is growing.
How has something that was only meant for situations when either mum or baby were unwell now become so normalised? How has something so regularly known to fail become the one thing that women are guaranteed they will be offered in their care?
What are the benefits of skin to skin post birth?
Can you even imagine now that there was once a time when it was considered bad to let a new mother see her baby, until that baby was washed clean and fully dressed?