expectations

Don’t make me Blush

Nov 7, 2017

Recently, I found myself obsessively searching for cushions. In my spare moments, when I could have been playing with my kids, talking to my husband, reading a book…anything else  at all… I was discreetly picking up my phone and scrolling through endless websites...

The Stuff of Legend

Feb 22, 2017

One of the first things I talk about in my sessions with hypnobirthing couples is the influence of stories. In particular, negative  birth stories. There exists an implicit understanding in our society that birth is just going to be awful. In the West, it’s...
The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line

May 8, 2011

At what point do you become a mum? When you meet your baby for the first time, or 9 months before that when you feel a little stirring in your tummy and think “Could I be pregnant? Or was it just wind….”Those first few days after conception, as with all aspects of...
Trying Times

Trying Times

Feb 19, 2011

The decision to ‘try’ for a baby may come after days, weeks or months of discussion, or may come out of the blue. Considering the fairly minimal effort which could take place in the actual act of procreation, it seems strange that we refer to this as ‘trying’. Rather,...