My Journey to Hypnobirthing

Hello, I’m Sam and I’m so excited that you have started your journey to parenthood. I’d love to share my journey to becoming a hypnobirthing teacher with you. I was working as a graphic designer in London for over 10 years and absolutely loved the creative work I got to do, but felt that there was something missing; I really wanted to help people. I was then extremely lucky to unexpectedly fall pregnant with my first beautiful little boy called Raife, who is now 2 years old. During my pregnancy with Raife I worked such long hours and was completely in denial about what was about to happen and had very little time for birth preparation. Ever since I was a little girl I’ve had a fear of pregnancy, birth and everything that came with it, so when I heard faint whispers about this mysterious ‘Hypnobirthing’ which meant you could have a pain free birth I knew I needed to do it. I just thought I’d buy the Katharine Grave’s book and give it a read on my commute, little did I know how much this would change my life. It opened a whole world that I didn’t even know existed.

During my pregnancy we bought a new house that needed a complete renovation, so we felt that there wasn’t enough money left over for us to do an in person hypnobirthing course (which I now 100% regret). My mind was blown by some of the science I learnt about my own body and the fact that I had never been taught this. Our bodies are a miracle!

With all of this new knowledge and tools to cope I then felt empowered to have the calm and relaxed birth that I hadn’t even thought possible before. My birth didn’t go quite to plan but despite that I had the most incredible experience and remained so calm and positive throughout the entire thing, all thanks to my Hypnobirthing practice. I really want to share all of this knowledge with the world to ensure that women can understand their bodies and take control of their own birth.


To read Raife’s positive birth story then please click here.