Well we had our first day of the course yesterday and I am soooooooo excited. I feel soooo empowered and much more confident than I already was about the birth of this little man.

Just wondering if there are any other prior or potential hypnobirther's out there? I would love to chat about it!

My HypnoBirthing Instructor is Di Gardner, those who went to the BellyBelly event may remember a talk she gave. And whilst I was thoroughly impressed with her talk she's even more impressive in person!

We learnt some really great breathing/relaxation techniques, along with watching some really inspiring birthing videos. It was so amazing to watch women give birth so calmly and completely in control. We talked alot about empowering us in labour and how support is really important, the importance of the fathers/other support person's role are and what rights we have as patients. I'm really lucky that my Ob really supports HypnoBirthing, but I'm going to make sure I make my preferences made clear to the hospital staff too.

I'm currently reading "HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method" Along with "25 ways to awaken your birth Power" and they are both fantastic books.

I can't wait till my next class as we will be doing the practice birth

I'll keep you posted on our second class, and in about 12-14 weeks our HypnoBirthing experience.

Hopefully there's some more hypnobirther's out there

*hugs*
Cailin