by Vicki Hobbs | Dec 8, 2018 | Maternity
With Christmas fast approaching the word around social media pregnancy groups is that their Obstetrician has booked them in to be induced at 38 weeks before Christmas to avoid the rush and lack of staff or because their Obstetrician is going on holidays. Christmas and...
by Vicki Hobbs | Sep 27, 2018 | Birthing Stories, Hypnobirthing
Sheryl shares her birth story after completing the Hypnobirthing Australia program and highlights how she only just made it to the hospital in time as she started to get the urge to bear down on arrival at the hospital. Sometimes mums can second guess themselves...
by Vicki Hobbs | Sep 21, 2018 | Birth, Birthing Stories, Hypnobirthing
On the 28th of April at almost 35 weeks pregnant we had a wonderful surprise when we welcomed our baby girl into the world. It certainly wasn’t in the way we expected and yet given the chance I wouldn’t change a thing. I had just finished up work and was...
by Vicki Hobbs | Aug 30, 2018 | Birth, VBAC
Women do not need to be told “all that matters is a healthy baby” because she is the one growing and nurturing her baby. You can be sure that she is thinking and feeling that her first priority is a healthy baby – nobody needs to tell her this and she will forever be...
by Vicki Hobbs | Aug 13, 2018 | Birth, Maternity, VBAC
The Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW) have released the Australian Mothers and Babies 2016 report and it is disappointing to see that the national caesarean rate continues to rise and is well outside the World Health Organisation recommendations of...
by Vicki Hobbs | Aug 4, 2018 | Birthing Stories
I didn’t realise I needed a doula until I didn’t have one at the birth of my first child. Although my first birth was ‘successful’ I deeply missed having an advocate and was left feeling bullied, disempowered and like I had been robbed of the...
by Vicki Hobbs | Aug 3, 2018 | Birthing Stories
Your birth choices will have a huge impact on the way you give birth and may also affect your postpartum experience so you have to be prepared. Anastasia shares her birth story and how important it was for her to do independent childbirth classes and have an...
by Vicki Hobbs | Aug 3, 2018 | Birthing Stories
Thankyou to Deb and Pete for sharing Oliver’s birth story, which didn’t quite go to plan but with the tools and techniques they had learnt from my Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes they were able to adapt to their change in circumstances so they still had a...
by Vicki Hobbs | Jul 31, 2018 | Birth, Birthing Stories, Hypnobirthing
I was 38+6 on Tuesday the 7th November 2017 when our wonderful midwife Linda visited in the afternoon. The previous weekend we had held a birthday party for our not-quite four-year-old, I’d had my last day of work on Monday and I had joked that once I’d...
by Vicki Hobbs | Jul 23, 2018 | Birth, Maternity
It’s interesting to see the responses from women to women who share what they are planning for their birth or their experience of having a “good birth” on social media. Natural birth – what are you trying to prove? You won’t get a medal. These are just some of the...
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