My name is Antoinette Watt. I am an HypnoBirthing® mum, a certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner and an Affiliate of the HypnoBirthing® Institute.
When I fell pregnant with Emily I was excited yet, like most women, apprehensive about what lay ahead. I dreamed of having a fear-free, stress-free pregnancy and of giving my baby the best and safest entry into the world that I possibly could. I knew that there had to be another way than the usual pain and drug filled labour.
After much research I felt despondent until I was recommended HypnoBirthing® by a Hypnotherapist I was seeing at the time to give up smoking. This led me to read Marie Mongan’s book HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method. Everything we read made absolute sense to both me and my husband and I immediately enrolled on the course.
I have everything to thank Marie Mongan and my HypnoBirthing® Practitioner for! My pregnancy was calm, free of fear and stress. My labour played out exactly how I had visualized it – beautiful, serene, entirely drug free, comfortable and at home!
I spent most of my labour in a birth pool utilizing the techniques taught on the course. My midwives could barely tell when I was having a surge and our student midwife spent most of my labour reading my HypnoBirthing® book!
I birthed Emily on our sofa at 6:42pm and spent the rest of the evening together with my new family. My husband was amazing and fully involved in Emily’s birth, which made our family bond even stronger.
I could not wait to share my amazing birthing experience and HypnoBirthing® with other women! I therefore decided to train as a HypnoBirthing® Practitioner in order to help other women realize their own dreams of gentle comfortable birthing.
Although I chose to birth at home, HypnoBirthing techniques can be used in any setting and as effectively help women in both hospital and birthing unit/center settings.
Our second baby was born on the 28th October at home, in the birth pool after a 4.5 hour labour. It was, once again, a fantastic entirely natural HypnoBirth with not even a thought given to any pain relief! I spent much of my labour watching Michael McIntyre for extra endorphin release (works marvellously!) and then simply relaxing in the pool until he was born. He is an absolute joy with as lovely a temperament as our daughter.
Here is link to a very powerful surge around 2 hours before our son made his appearance!
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With HypnoBirthing® your dream birth can and will also come true!
HypnoBirthing® - Comfortable, Natural, Gentle Childbirth
