Adam and I just wanted to extend our heartfelt thanks again for your hypnobirthing refresher course and your amazing support towards the end of our pregnancy. Much like our first birth - despite medical issues, we were able to have another beautiful birth experience which we will always treasure. Your support and the knowledge you shared helped us advocate for our birth preferences and we used many of the hypnobirthing resources to help us stay calm through a stressful last few weeks of pregnancy. Doing a refresher course was the best decision we made this pregnancy because it reminded us of everything we learned last pregnancy and having support outside of the hospital again was absolutely invaluable. 

I was really looking forward to experiencing labour and birth and meeting our beautiful baby. The hypno course allowed me to birth feeling knowledgeable, confident and empowered. My husband also felt more prepared and confident as my birth support person to assist me during labour.

I still want to pinch myself when thinking and talking about our beautiful birth. All these weeks I had visualised our ideal birth scenario of staying home for as long as possible during labour before then having a water birth without the need of any medication, which is exactly what became reality for us.

Months earlier, my best friend had urged me to look in to Hypno, I was apprehensive - the common misconception is that Hypno is all about salt lamps, crystals & birth plans, we thought it would be too ‘woo-woo’ for us. Little did we know it would lead us to having the most incredible birthing experience.

We planned for an active labour and I was very happy to continue to move around the room as much as I could. Quite quickly the surges became closer together and I felt a deep pressure and felt the urge to push. Mike read affirmations and kept me calm, my favourite one was 'each surges brings me closer to my baby'.

On the 21/12/22 I gave birth to a beautiful healthy boy. His name is Tom Paul Fleming and he is absolutely perfect! Weighing 3040grams.

The birth was such a magical experience and I feel like Rohan and I were so calm and in control of every decision we made throughout the day.

I looked into Hypnobirthing because I wanted both my partner and I to be equally involved in the birthing journey. I wanted him to feel informed and myself, and I wanted the in-person interaction, not a zoom call. I also wanted to have all the knowledge in a positive way but backed up by research and evidence. 

From the very beginning, I felt stressed about the day I would give birth to my baby. I always knew that a very important thing during labour would be the breathing techniques so I started looking for courses that would teach me how to breath and all the practical tools I needed for my labour.

I think like any first time mothers to be, you are always a little bit anxious/scared about the birthing part as it’s something you don’t know. I was no exception. I wanted to inform myself and equip myself with as much knowledge as possible . I thought there were only ever two ways to deliver a baby 1)via C section or 2) with an epidural.

I had read about hypnobirthing online from a couple of social media pages I follow and when a friend of mine who lives interstate mentioned she had enrolled herself to a course, it convinced me to do the same.

“Once we completed the HypnoBirthing course, we felt empowered as we now had the knowledge required to prepare for a calm, easy birth. We felt like we had choices on our birthing day, and this is mainly what helped us to feel empowered. I wrote up a birth plan, which I felt was more for us, as I now understood the choices that we may be faced with on our birthing day and knowledge is power.”

“ I highly recommend the HypnoBirthing course with Robina and I am so grateful that we did it. Ryan is also so thankful I encouraged him to do it, as he learnt techniques to guide & support me through labour, birth and the weeks after.”

“I am so grateful to you and the HypnoBirthing course we did to prepare for Isla’s birth.”