12/01/2024
It’s been a while since I’ve introduced myself on here so thought I would share a bit about Me & my love for Hypnobirthing 🥰
Hi, I am Wendy, Hypnobirthing Instructor, Midwife, Doula & Co Founder & Owner of The Little Birth Company. The Little Birth Company is an award winning and leading provider of Hypnobirthing Classes and Hypnobirthing Teacher Training in the UK and Globally.
I am Mum to Charlie & Alfie, Step Mum to Leah & Carys, Nanna to Lowen and married to Paul. Born and bred in Manchester I’ve been living down South since I qualified as a Midwife in 1997.
I started off my career in the birth world by following my childhood dream and training as a Midwife back in the 90s.
Following 3yrs training I worked as a Midwife at a busy Maternity Unit in Berkshire for the bulk of my Midwifery Career. Supporting pregnant and birthing women & families has and always will be my passion however my day job saw me venturing down the path of sexual health where I managed the sexual health outreach team for the NHS for over 11 years.
During the years and in between having my own two children, both incredibly positive experiences, I couldn’t help but reflect on the frequent traumatic journey’s to birth that I witnessed on so many occasions.
I first discovered Hypnobirthing following the birth of my eldest son which prompted a return to Midwifery. On one of my last shifts at the local Maternity Unit I was lucky enough to support an incredible couple who were using Hypnobirthing for the birth of their first son. I was hooked. I had no idea what Hypnobirthing actually was but I was blown away by how this mama birthed her baby comfortably and confidently with epic support from her birth partner. In all honestly I had become disillusioned about birth, endless intervention which seemed to dominate the majority of births. It had become a rare site to see someone actually birth their baby without interference or interventions that in so many births felt unnecessary! Medicalised births seemed to be the norm rather than the exception and it was becoming apparent that a large percentage of women were experiencing significant trauma as a result of their birth experience.
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