Hypnobirthing With Holly

01/06/2024

This is the Parent Pack you will recieve through your door when you book a hypnobirthing, antenatal and birth education course with me! To find out more about my 12 hour course, click the link below 🤍

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoPvr6gpF_ePG7Oezt_ObOFCmCbNqeHK99Mbzp0PI_kB6cpg/viewform

13/05/2024

It is so sad that this is the case, but it is not unknown to us birth keepers.

Becoming educated on birth is the only way to stop these things from happening, and by simply saying NO 💚

MPs heard "harrowing stories" from women, including some who said they were left in blood-soaked sheets.

02/05/2024

🏳️‍🌈A monthly cuppa club for LGBTQIA+ parents and families.

🏳️‍⚧️Held in our family friendly cafe, this cuppa club is a chance to meet and socialise with other LGBTQIA+ parents and families looking for friendship and support.

💜Families of every definition are welcome! Single Parents, first-time Expecting Parents, Foster Parents, or those families thinking about taking the plunge are also very welcome.

☕️We ask you to book your place for FREE so that we can monitor numbers and communicate with you about future events and meet ups. However, we do ask that you support us by purchasing a hot drink or cold drink from our cafe. We do have sandwiches, cake and sundries available to purchase too.

If you would like to join us this weekend then please use the link below 👇🏼

https://happy-mama.classforkids.io/info/2008

02/05/2024

🤰Birth places, and their benefits and thing to consider!

Have you thought of where you are going to give birth? Or where have you already given birth previously?

I, personally, had my son in a birth centre attached to a hospital! They had so many aids to help labour along, they allowed music and they had mood lighting - SUPER relaxing! 💜💚

01/05/2024

Does your search engine history look like this? Then you could benefit from my Hypnobirthing, Antenatal and Birth Education course! It consists of12 hours of pure birth knowledge, covered over 3 hours a day for 4 weeks.

The main aim of the course is to remove any negative presumptions from mother and birthing partner, about birth, and replace them with realistic birthing expectations.
We want to educate and empower you, so that you can have a positive birth experience!

Follow the link below to book in for my June and July courses!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lmnpfKNuJnPsvQY8Krkisc4EQPOpl6iI6LzZXvkw_4g/edit

17/04/2024

**EDIT** - places on the April course are now full. However we will run this course again. If you would like to be put on the waiting list & be alerted when it’s run again please do email kathryndivirgilio@pandasfoundation.org.uk - thanks

Thanks to some funding we received last Christmas, we are excited to let you know that we have some limited, fully funded places available for this brilliant course for Dads "The Silent Struggle: Mental Wellbeing Skills for Dads", run by our in-house, experienced mental health therapist and registered health professional, Kathryn Di Virgilio .parentmentalhealth

The course is designed to help navigate the journey of fatherhood with confidence and resilience this specialised therapy course and workshop series tailored to support dads and dads-to-be.

For more information, and to register your interest, head over to https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/how-we-can-support-you/mental-wellbeing-skills-for-dads/

Please do share this opportunity - thank you!
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17/04/2024

😌 Are you looking for a calm, physiological birth? Have you looked into a private midwife, birth centre or homebirth?

🏨 Hospitals are amazing places, and it is the automatic assumption that that is where you go to give birth.
Within the hospital, they have certain guidelines and protocols to adhere to, otherwise they will get into trouble. The guidelines and protocols are great, for the correct person, but for the others, they are under this one-size-fits-all blanket of care.

🗣This blanket of care can prevent you from having a physiological birth, especially due to the stretch of the NHS. It is unlikely you will have time for labour to progress naturally
continuity of care, 1:1 care, birth partner with you all of the time and even food 24/7, resulting in no physiological birth and most likely an intervention filled one.

💜 Within my course we will look deeper into the understanding of this in session three. Any questions can be sent to my messages on here, on Facebook or via email at hypnobirthingholly@gmail.com

08/04/2024

ips to keep you in the calm nervous system, to allow labour to progress efficiently.

To understand the impact of these tips more, join my online course!

31/03/2024

Day three 🐰

🎁 Win 4 positive labour visualisations 🎁

How to win : How many eggs are in the jar?
If you are correct, you have a chance to win 4 positive labour visualisation! 3 people from the comments with the correct answer will be chosen at random tonight at 9pm.

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30/03/2024

🐰 Easter Competition- Day 2 🐰

You could win 5 printable POSITIVE BIRTH AFFIRMATIONS 🎉

📢 How to win - There are some hidden bunny ears within this video. Find the word, like this post and comment below.

➡️5 people with the correct answer will be chosen tonight randomly at 8pm. Good luck!

29/03/2024

🐰🎉IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE FOUR DAY WEEKEND, and I'm doing an Easter game every day until Monday. 🎉🐰

🎁 You can be in with the chance to win some birth and labour freebies for four days! 🎁

Today, you can be in with the chance to win a "Positive Birth Stories Only" printable poster and a hypbobirthing mother door sign for hospital birth 💜

How to win:
NO CHEATING
Like and comment the answer. 3 people will be chosen at random this evening. Good luck 🎉

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26/03/2024

I am so so excited for this! I'm personally going to watch this in the cinema in Milton Keynes on April the 15th, but there are viewings all over the country!

Watch the trailer, even that is empowering 💜💚

Our film poster, isn't she a beauty. Tickets onsale now via our website and demand films. National Q & A tour commencing January onwards.
Photo by Brisbane local photographer Olive Juice Lifestyle and gorgeous mother, Jessica from Mother Moon Hypnobirthing

20/03/2024

This is slightly different to my normal posts, but this is important.

Unfortunatley, the threart of Child Services
because a person does not aggree with the healthcare provider's opinions happens ALOT.
Coercion is a huge reason why many people give in to interventions.
🗣 If you feel as if you are being coerced into something, try to use these:

- "I'm not sure this is right for me, who else can I talk to about this?"
- "Thank you for explaining that, I will go away and think about this for my next appointment"
- "I have not decided if I want to do that, please can you tell me the risks and benefits again?"
- "Could you please write this down for me so I can take it away and do my own research?"

Listen to your instinct, does this feel right to you? If not, take it away, research into it, look at the risks and benefits, and look at it again now you have all of the information.

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28/02/2024

❌️DECLINE THAT CALL, QUEEN❌️

Many parents come to the end of their pregnancy, they think “i’ll have an induction because everyone else does” and we live in a world where we want everything to be planned and know when everything is happening.
“I’ll have my induction next tuesday because I have child care” “or “i’ll have an induction on this day because it’s valentines day and it’ll be cute”, there’s lots of different reasons.

But do you really know the process of induction???

The process of an induction is not a way to have a quick birth, it can actually take days!
An induction of labour has three stages, and the third stage is having a synthetic oxytocin drip. Having the synthetic drip does not release your natural pain killers, endorphins (which are 20x or 200x, depending on which research you look at, stronger than MORPHINE), resulting in requesting strong pain killers, and you are more likely to have an intervention filled birth.

Decline the call and let baby come when they are ready, because as we know, baby knows best. 👶

16/02/2024

🏷With a label of gestational diabetes, many think that their fate is sealed - they’re going to have an induction and their baby will be delivered early because the baby will be too big and have shoulder dystocia. This is not 100% the case.

➡️In the second imagine, there is a comparison of each group, one with high levels of glucose in their blood, and one with normal amounts of glucose in their blood, but the suggestions for early induction are the same.
(Just a disclaimer, this isn't how a real risk profile/medical report would look like, I only made this for easy reading)

🗣Yes, if your blood glucose levels are high throughout pregnancy, there is a higher risk of baby being bigger, shoulder dystocia (where the baby's shoulder gets stuck in the mother's pelvis whilst in labour), and induction before 40 weeks is suggested to stop baby from “getting too big”.
BUT if your blood glucose levels are normal throughout pregnancy, you SHOULD be treated as someone without the GD label, and not be induced early to “prevent a big baby”.

🥼Caregivers should have a distinction between the differences within the groups of people with gestational diabetes, to prevent babies being born before they’re ready and causing other complications.

💜💚Want to find out more birth information you might not be told about? Follow this page, instagram account hypnobirthingwithhollyj and join my online courses (coming soon)! 💚💜

06/02/2024

👏 You're damn right you are! 👏

Look at you over there, growing a miracle, going through morning sickness, handling the big changes to your body and hormones (to say the least) .. AND you look still look GORGEOUS?! Come on, you can conquer anything, especially birth.
Your body is made to birth your baby, it's well organsied and it has everything it needs to make birth smooth and comfortable.
So, put your worries aside, relax your mind and TRUST your body.

Are you wondering what the heck I'm talking about? Follow my pages for lesson dates (COMING SOON) or
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