BirthMagic Hypnobirthing
Your Body. Your Baby. Your Birth.
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Introduction
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Introduction
Welcome to BirthMagic Hypnobirthing
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What is hypnobirthing, anyway?
What is hypnobirthing? Why is it important? Who is it for?
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How Hypnobirthing Works
Learn how hypnobirthing works, and what it can do to support you during labour and birth.
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Your Body, Your Power
“Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.”
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Exercise: Fear Release
Explore and examine your fears and feeling around birth.
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Bonus Content: Extended Fear Release
Let your fears go.
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Your Body & Birth
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Your Body During Labour: Early Labour
Stages of Labour & What to Expect: Early Labour (“Separation”)
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Your Body During Labour: "Active" Labour
Stages of Labour & What to Expect: “Active” Labour (“Liminality”)
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Your Body During Labour: The Pushing Stage
Stages of Labour & What to Expect: The Pushing Stage (“Emergence”)
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Supporting Oxytocin
What hormones support birth?
Find What Feels Good: Harnessing and protecting our individual sources of the love hormone!
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Protecting Oxytocin
Curate your birth environment and protect your oxytocin bubble.
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Integration & The Golden Hour
Your baby is here! Learn about “the 3rd stage”, your placenta, and protecting your birth bubble even after you’ve given birth.
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Finding Your Coping Tools
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The Window of Tolerance
Finding your ways of coping in labour and staying within your personal “Window of Tolerance”
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Sensory Grounding
Learn how powerful sensory grounding tools can be in your labour and birth.
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Visualisation & Distraction
Learn about other coping tools you can use, including visualisation and distraction!
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Your Personal Coping Toolkit: Non-Medical Pain Management
Finding your own personal tools to stay within your Window of Tolerance
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Your Personal Coping Toolkit: Medical Pain Relief
Learn about the medical pain-relief options available, and decide which ones can become part of your toolkit.
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Exercise: Finding Your Calm & Birth Planning
Bring together all the tools that will work to help you feel calm and confident in labour and birth
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Self-Advocacy & Informed Consent
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The Importance of Self-Advocacy
Learn why self-advocacy is so important in pregnancy and birth.
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Your Birthing Space + Informed Consent
Protect Your Birth Zone: Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth: Informed Consent + Birth Rights
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Exercise: Practicing Advocacy
Getting comfortable with self-advocacy, for the birthing person and birth partner(s).
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Hypnobirthing
Meet Your Instructor
Hi, my name is Ash! I’m a birth & postnatal doula and antenatal educator in North Buckinghamshire. My focus is on supporting women and birthing people to bring all of themselves on their journey to parenthood, empowering them with the tools and knowledge they need to feel confident and supported, wherever their journey may take them.
My care is holistic and person-centred. All of my services are inclusive, trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ friendly (my pronouns are they/them) and neurodivergency affirming.
I am passionate about informed choice, and support births both at home and in hospitals – whatever is right for you! I believe in giving people the evidence-based knowledge and tools they need to make their own choices, whether that’s within the mainstream maternity care system or “birthing outside of guidelines”. I support people to bring their whole self to their pregnancy and birth experiences, maintaining their personal autonomy, and giving them the confidence to enjoy their pregnancy and birth experience as they grow into their new family.