You have a list as long as your arm of things you 'must buy' before Baby arrives- so adding the cost of an antenatal class on top of that can feel like another expense on this list. So you might ask yourself, is investing in birth preparation classes really necessary? In short, yes!!!
The key word here is, investment. Deciding to sign up for a hypnobirthing course during your pregnancy truly should be viewed as an investment. An investment into building your antenatal knowledge and building the key skills to approach one of the most significant days of your life feeling informed, confident and calm.
Would you run a marathon without training first? Or walk into a critical exam without doing any revision? I doubt it. You’d want to turn up feeling prepared for what’s to come, right?
Well, birth should be no different.
What's more- is birth is often so negatively (and often times, inaccurately) portrayed in the mainstream media (film & television mostly) that we are often not just beginning from a position of neutrality when it comes to birth. When you dedicate the time to antenatal education, you learn of the inaccuracies and dramatizations of birth that we you likely have been exposed to, and the hinderance that bringing fear and tension into a birth scenario can cause to the natural birthing process.
With hypnobirthing, we prepare you with the knowledge and techniques to enable you to stay calm, informed and in control through your labour and birth. Research has shown that women who spend time preparing for birth during pregnancy are more likely to have smoother labours too!
Now you don’t have to worry… taking a course with me won’t require you to put on your running shoes or read endless books. There will be homework, but that will mostly consist of lots of relaxing with the course relaxation tracks and getting in tune with your own inner calm.
