Welcome to 'Birthing with Confidence


My name is Brenda I am a clinical Hypnotherapist/Hypnobirthing teacher  and a practicing HSE Community Midwife with over 20 years of international birthing experience and now based in Co Laois.

But first congratulations on your pregnancy!


So my mission is to empower you with knowledge and tools; to ignite confidence in you to create the dream birth experience you want and deserve..  I specialise in 'Hypnobirthing and Mindfulness' classes'   as part of a comprehensive  holistic  antenatal education programme  to keep you updated (with the evidence!), informed, and inspired, but that will also resonate with your own intuitive knowing to prepare for your most transformative life experience...... your birth;  that you can look back on with pride and warmth.

 

 - Your birth story starts in your mind so lets make it extraordinary! I will teach you how to change the way you view birth,  to trust your own authority, power and intuition, to deeply ground yourself and to embody your birth. I will teach you to become more consciously aware of tapping into your own bodily rhythms with the aim of reducing the volume of sensation around birth.


-  I will guide you to use your mind, body and spirit to stay focussed and in control, to draw on creative visualisations and effective breathwork, to get into that 'flow birth state' that can facilitate great ease in your body during labour (i.e whilst understanding fetal optimum positioning, bio mechanics/muscles and fascia! ).


- Understanding fear releasing to replace anxiety with confidence. Developing effective coping strategies to reframe the birth that you want through Hypnosis no matter what way baby presents;  Medical pain relief options are covered as well to allow you to make informed decisions that align with your birth preferences


- I want you to be excited and confident about your upcoming birth seeing it as a 'magical time' ....as a celebration of life and love!  Your pregnancy is truly a transformational journey of creation and growth.

And your baby is preparing too!


-I cover everything for your birth preparation whether it is a hospital birth, an induction, a homebirth, a VBAC or a caesarian section.


-I offer in person and sometimes online classes. There is also a free winnerflow and demo with every deluxe Hypnobirthing course booking.


-Thanks so much for coming on here.  If there is anything you don't see please get in touch and we can chat about it.


Wishing you so much joy in mind,body and spirit


Brenda xx


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Services

Hypnobirthing Deluxe Package

The most popular!

Consists of

  • 2 days of Hypnobirthing and Minfulness class preparation.
  • A Complete and Holistic Antenatal Education Programme
  • An optimum fetal positioning class (OFP),
  • Winnerflow demo 
  • A baby born care class 
  • A breastfeeding class(BF)


 


Refresher class offered at end of your pregnancy.

Costs may be claimed back through your health insurance.

Please check your individual policy.

See list of classes available

Antenatal

Package

Consists of

  • Basic 1 day Antenatal package combinging an active birth workshop.







 Breastfeeding Classes.(ibclc)

Consists of

  • Breastfeeding classes (4 hours)- how to prepare yourself for breastfeeding in the early days. Avoiding the pitfalls and to understand what drives your baby behaviour at birth for the better!
  • Comes with detailed notes and videos.


Next Class date - Contact Brenda



Costs may be claimed back through your health insurance.

Please check your individual policy.


Mindfulness/ Relaxation Class

 

These classes are already a major part of the main Hypnobirthing antenatal preparation programme.


However there are seperate Mindfulness classes and these have finished now for the Summer. These classes run over 4 weeks.


These can be an amazing experience for you and your baby and can be taken at any part of your pregnancy..or after xx







Hypnobirthing

Hypnobirthing has been now in existence for nearly 25 years and there are many styles now and one could argue that it has become  somewhat diluted from the original method. I trained with Marie Mongan Mongan Method in 2009 who is universally known as the original ‘Mother of Hypnobirthing’. I was so inspired by her depth of training that I later trained and became a Hypnotherapist as I was bowled over with the power of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. 
So Hypnobirthing uses Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, to change the way you will think about your birth, change behaviours that no longer support you and to change your mindset for the better around birth through the use of effective techniques. Being open to the philosopy and practising techniques for 30 mins is a must every day before the birth. Hypnobirthing does not mean that you will be in a trance or asleep. Rather you will be able to chat and be in good spirits-totally relaxed but fully in control. You will always be aware of what is happening during your birthing. You will have conditioned your mind to relax seeing birth as a very normal physiological event of the body.
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How can Hypnobirthing help me?

 Through a programme of deep relaxation, self-hypnosis, hypnotherapy, visualisations, mindfulness, and education, you will learn to release emotions tied to fear-based stories and misinformation, and you are helped to see birth as normal. You learn to trust that your body knows how to bring your baby/ babies into the world in the calm and gentle way that nature intended.

As you embark on this journey of pregnancy ( whether 1st or 5th!) you will start to realise that positive birthing is less about luck or genetics and more about education, effective preparation and planning, confidence, intuition and what we women are born to do!. With this programme you will have the tools and techniques to get the birth you want and deserve.

 In my many years of experience teaching 100's of couples I have come to understand fully that in order to prepare a couple for a complete Hypnobirthing  birth package like the present 'deluxe' special  a 2 day course is warranted to accomodate the range of complementary therapies offered for support, ie  optimal fetal position exercises, acupressure, homeopathy, aromatherapy or the option of how to use the acclaimed 'winner flow' breathing device alongside Hypnobirthing. When couples return a week later questions can be answered and /or perhaps a tweak to any of the techniques for further benefit. 
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What are the benefits of hypnobirthing?

Research has shown that Hypnobirthing can help to:

Create a calm easier, peaceful birth experience by teaching deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tension and pain. It can empower you to relax deeply, using your creative visualisation to tap in to your inate wisdom and resilience and getting your birth team to focus on your comfort measures.
  • Reduces the need for an episiotomy and reduces the likelihood of surgical birth. Why you don’t have to push! And all underpinned by research!
  • Alleviates fatigue during labour, leaving you with more energy for the actual birth and the energy afterwards to enjoy baby during those early precious bonding days
  • Provide a supportive integral role for your birthing partner
  • Promotes deeper bonding for you, baby and your birthing partner
  • Encourges a more rapid postnatal recovery
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