Jemma and Tom - The Essentials Workshop November 2024

My husband and I loved our hypnobirthing sessions with Laura, highly recommend. We have had 2 x private one-to-one sessions over zoom and they are worth every penny. The relaxation techniques are so valuable, we will likely use them throughout our life- not just in birth. I have gone from feeling fearful of birth, to feeling empowered and excited. We learnt multiple different breathing techniques and have built up our own personal library of ‘anchors’ to stimulate oxytocin (breathing, soft touch massage, affirmations, hypnosis MP3s, music, visualisation, aromatherapy etc). Even pre-birth, I have experienced instant benefits of hypnobirthing for baby and I. After several weeks of disturbed sleep, I am now sleeping all through the night by using Laura’s calming hypnosis MP3s before bed.
I am looking forward to the next few weeks of practising Hypnobirthing techniques at home to create a beautiful calm peaceful atmosphere in preparation for baby’s birth. Thank you Laura for all your support. These sessions have equipped me with knowledge, confidence and positivity.

We have recently finished our hypnobirthing sessions with Laura! We have enjoyed learning and understanding about a positive birth! Laura welcomed us into her home for our session in a lovely calm environment. Laura has given us so much support, tools and advice to work towards a positive birth, we can’t thank you enough!! 

I received these messages from Megan after the birth of her baby boy:

Hello, I’ve been meaning to message you to let you know how everything went! I absolutely loved every bit of it, I used everything I practiced, the dial down method, surge breathing and relaxing breathe. The square animation was so useful and the positive affirmations were on repeat (this helped so much)

Everything pretty much went the way I hoped, I used the birthing pool and that was a major pain relief and then just gas and air! He did decide he wanted to come out on the side with his hand first so after just over an hour of pushing I had to get out of the pool and explore other options, we did move rooms and the doctor had to come in but luckily just before he had to change the plan he arrived! Xx

Thank you for all of the support xx

As a first time Mum to be, nearing 30 weeks of my pregnancy, I started to think about the birth in more detail and bought a few books about hypnobirthing. I wasn’t quite sure where to start!I looked at a couple of courses online as well as the local area, and decided to go along to one of Laura’s taster sessions! I could tell straight away how passionate Laura was about helping women experience the most positive birth, no matter the circumstances, and after hearing the positive impact hypnobirthing had had on both her and her partner’s experiences of birth, I decided Laura would be the perfect person to guide us through this journey! As Laura put it herself, she had done all of the hard work, so I didn’t have to - which meant I could put my books down and learn in an environment that worked for me! She also managed to convince my birth partner that the course would be just as beneficial for him as it would be for me!
We opted for Laura’s full course, covering off all the basics of the science behind hypnobirthing as well as tools and tips to take forward to the birth and breaking it down into manageable topics so that it didn’t seem overwhelming! I would highly recommend the full course! For me personally, I found the different breathing techniques Laura taught us for each stage of labour super helpful in terms of preparation.
The added bonus was that as part of the course, we also managed to meet a lovely couple due a similar time to us, and we were able to share our thoughts about birth in a relaxed and non-judgmental environment, fuelled with lots of tea and biscuits! With Laura, I learnt that no question is a silly question and if she doesn’t have the answer to hand, she will make it her mission to find the answer to your question ASAP! While we can’t control the type of birth we have, with Laura’s help, both me and my partner feel so much more prepared and in control, knowing all of the options available to us and how to cope with each scenario. With my birth edging closer, dare I say it, I’m actually looking forward to the birth (which I never thought I’d say before starting the course!)
Thanks so much Laura, we’ve learnt so much and are feeling so much more prepared now thanks to all of the information you gave us! I’ve genuinely found the breathing techniques transformative!

As a mum to be for the first time there is always a lot of information around that comes to you whether you are looking for it or not. But the workshop with Laura has been one of those that you intended to do and you finish it with an enormous feeling of satisfaction and happiness for having done it! Reading about hypnobirth is always great but having someone that really knows about it explain it and guide you through it is something else. It has helped me and my partner a lot and we are looking forward to live this amazing experience that is giving birth more than ever!

-Alba

The workshop session with Laura has been amazing. In about 4 hours she gave us an in-depth insight into the hypnobirthing main topics and approach. As a birth partner I was worried that there wouldn’t be too much for me in it but it has been very revealing and I learnt a lot of practical and useful information to put into practice before and during labor that will definitely help me and my partner experience the birth in the best way possible.

-Enrique (Birth Partner)