OLIVIA SOUTHEY
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Do you want to feel prepared and excited about birth?

You want to be able to look forward to your baby's birth with confidence, trusting that you will be able to cope.  You might be nervous about how much labour will hurt and if you need a 'high pain threshold' (you don't).  Or wondering whether it is possible to have a positive birth experience after hearing some horror stories.  You wish that you could see the same person more than once as you navigate the maternity system.  You're hoping that your birth partner will understand how to support you. You are a busy, clever woman and you want to work with a safe pair of hands. .

​Sound like you? 

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I understand how important it is to feel that you are able to retain an element of control throughout the unpredictability of birth. I have discovered through my own births and the experiences of my clients that the most important keys to a positive birth experience are: loving and respectful support and the ability to work with the feelings of labour and birth so that you are not overwhelmed.

I teach simple, well-researched and totally safe techniques to help you birth with confidence.  I prepare your birth partner to be exactly what you need, and help you to make informed birth preferences. I give you the time to work out how you need to prepare for your baby's birth.  You may not feel like it now, but you are already your own best birth guru.  

By working with me you will learn how to use relaxation, breathing, visualisation and hypnotic states in accessible ways. This is what 'hypnobirthing' is and the experience of learning it is both soothing and structured - no mumbo-jumbo here. You will come away from our sessions with a full understanding of the physical, emotional and hormonal stages of labour and how to harness them to your benefit.

After our time together you will have made strategies for releasing or working with any specific fears and concerns that you have. You will feel confident that you can stay in control of any birth situation and know how to create an optimal birth environment.

When you work with me you will receive a level of continuity of care that can be hard to find in busy maternity services.  You will always receive support driven by your needs, not any form of birth ideology.  

You will be fierce and peaceful.  You will trust yourself to boss your birth. 

You can work with me by booking on to a group hypnobirthing course with a birth partner, or you can choose to do your hypnobirthing training in private sessions.  If you would like dedicated emotional and practical support during pregnancy and your birth, I can serve you as a doula. My doula clients can choose whether or not to add hypnobirthing teaching to their work with me. 

Are you interested in working with me? 

​You can schedule a no-pressure free 30 minute consultation with me by contacting me. 

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