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Fun antenatal classes for birth confidence. Group courses Hackney & Online. 121 short courses.

01/09/2025

After 5 years, working with just shy of 800 families in East London and around the world I am closing Hackney Hypnobirthing.

I’ve met some wonderful people and made incredible friends but I’m a firm believer in accepting when something no longer serves you and it’s time to stop.

I am proud of what I built and I’m very much at peace with saying goodbye to working in the perinatal space.
 Thank you to (almost) everyone I’ve worked with over the last few years. I have learnt so much and I am beyond grateful.

This account will be closed very shortly
and my website will be live until the end of the year.

My parting words for those navigating this dumpster fire of a maternity system…

* Refer yourself to your local homebirth team. Best hack for getting close to continuity of midwifery care.

* Hire a doula - especially if you want a chance of a physiological birth in a hospital will help you find one.

* Being your romantic partner is not a free pass to the birth. If you don’t think they can advocate for you and protect and respect your birth plans or think doctors know best then they shouldn’t be there OR see above point.

* If funds allow, book an independent midwife. Not a private one, that is NOT the same.

* Take an independent hypnobirthing course and preferably run by someone outside of the NHS.

* If you want to learn anything worth knowing then don’t do NCT, Bump & Baby or Happy Parent, Happy baby - you’ll probably make friends and you might get lucky with a decent teacher but the course content is by and large a steaming pile of 💩

* Read everything .rachel.reed and have ever written.

* Listen to the podcast. If you’re still going to “go with the flow” after that, then good luck to ya.

* Respect birth, trust your instincts.

Smell ya later! 👋🏻

29/07/2025

From stories to grid where it belongs.

From today and for the foreseeable, £5 from every group hypnobirthing booking will be donated to

23/07/2025

✨ First time homebirth ✨

This positive birth story is not without challenges.

Long labours can take every last mental, physical and psychological reserve that you have.

Being informed, having a fantastic supportive birth partner, wonderful midwifery AND solid contingency plans can make a huge difference.

Thank you so much for sharing Anna. So glad I shared it before your beautiful boy started senior school 😆

17/07/2025

Few new people around here off the back of some snarky posts & reels(!) so thought I’d reintroduce myself in all my frizzy-haired glory. ➰

I’m Anna, mother of two, wife of one and passionate Hypnobirthing teacher based in Hackney, East London.

My mission is to prepare you with a fun, practical and realistic toolkit for a confident and positive birth experience, as individual as you are.

Alongside this, essential advocacy skills to navigate the maternity system… and I’m not pulling ANY punches about that last bit. To water that down is to do you a disservice.

I don’t empower you, you empower yourself!

3 facts about me

🙋🏼‍♀️Eldest of 3 girls
🍋‍🟩🌶️Lime pickle enthusiast
📺Never happier than sat on my arse watching TV.. ideally something aimed at the elderly with ads for walk-in baths.

I run monthly free intro sessions online and in person. Why not come along and join the 100s of families people who have gone into their birth feeling powerful and ready.

07/07/2025

You can do hard things.

I am completely in awe of the strength and power of birthing bodies. In the power of a toolkit to help you manage, in the power of great birth partner support.

Does that mean I’m anti-pain relief? Absolutely not.

I’m a passionate advocate for discussing pain in great detail and how you might mitigate some of the potential cons that may come with it.

The power is in the information.

That’s why I believe my realistic, balanced and nuanced course supports bodily autonomy in it’s fullest sense.

I’d love to help you get informed and prepared to navigate your birth experience.

12/06/2025

Just your annual reminder about the first intervention in your care - and it aint evidence-based.

Your baby doesn’t know what their due date is.

It’s not an evacuation date.

If you’ve got other risk factors you may be recommended to bring your pregnancy to an end well before this.

What you decide about that is entirely up to you but I’d really recommend investigating what that might mean for you and your baby.

In Your Own Time by Sara Wickham is a great start.

Hannah Dalen’s research on Induction is sobering. DM if you’d like the link to that study.

When did your baby arrive? Lemme know in the poll below…

12/05/2025

Sing it Daniel!

The MOST important bits of my course is sorting the facts from assumptions and opinions.

For example: Telling a friend or family member you’re planning a homebirth, many of my clients are met with this response..

OPINION - “Why would you do something so risky? It’s much safer to be in hospital”.

FACT - Swathes of data demonstrates that planning a homebirth is not only very safe for parents and babies but shows improved outcomes, reduction in interventions and higher satisfaction levels for parents.

Personally I advocate for not telling people your plans - do you need their opinions and do they need to know?

It’s not just “laypeople” who are capable of passing off opinions as fact. Medics do it too ALL. THE. TIME. (Homebirth = brain damage, Vaginal Examinations are essential, CTG monitoring improves outcomes!?) but that’s a WHOLE other post for another time.

Evidence and data isn’t everything. Your emotional and psychological safety is paramount for birth but sorting fact from fiction is a damn good place to start working that out.

My job is to sign post you to the evidence to help you unlock what safety in birth means to you personally, and help you uncover that gut intuition - trusting that you’ll know what feels best and right for you.   I’d really love to help, drop me a DM to discuss how we could work together.

30/04/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Positive, nuanced and practical birth preparation courses.

I’m so proud to be able to offer a selection of different antenatal options to suit your needs.

My group courses offer comprehensive antental preparation over 4 sessions. It’s a great way to learn alongside other likeminded parents to be.

My private full course gives more room for individualised preparation and can slot in around your diary - either at your home or online.

The 2.5 hour short courses are fast paced, essential hypnobirthing techniques or refresher info for those who’ve done hypnobirthing before. An opportunity to discuss subsequent birth(s) and what you may want to keep/do differently.

My 2 hr short course for planned caesarean supports you through learning the process, great relaxation techniques and recovery.

My antenatal session is an hour to help support you with whatever you feel you might be missing and answer your questions.

Two monthly free Intro sessions give you an opportunity to try before you buy and leave with some great freebies.

DM today, I’d love to hear from you.

24/04/2025

An unplanned caesarean birth story in honour of caesarean birth awareness month.

One thing I know for certain is that risk is deeply personal. So whilst sharing stats can be helpful for context, for some even when the actual risk number is 1 in 200 or 0.5% (as is the case here for uterine rupture after a caesarean) this can still present too much fear to dismiss with numbers.

Megan felt more comfortable to follow the hospital policy and have continuous monitoring, but she also wanted to be able to move freely and knew she could request mobile monitoring to help with this.

I think this is such a great example of the diversity and nuance of what informs a positive birth experience - even when things don’t go as planned - you can still feel positive about your decisions and what is available to you.

“I didn’t get my VBAC that I so wanted but I felt so much more empowered to make decisions that were important to me. I felt prepared with a c-section plan in case things didn’t go the way we wanted. I am so grateful to have gone into labour natural and felt like I could make informed decisions every step of the way”.

Thank you so much for sharing Megan! x

15/04/2025

I generally loathe when someone indicates their post is “contraversial” because it rarely is so I’m not going to do that here, but I suspect people may disagree with me. Lets see?!

I read a post fairly recently that essentially boiled down to your body is perfectly designed, you don’t need to do anything for birth or consider biomechanics in labour.

To me that sort of assumed that we float around in a vacuum, unaffected by modern life and I’m never interested in black and white thinking, always searching for the nuance.

I’m not saying that everyone has to spend every waking moment thinking about what their body is doing or finding ways to obsessively turn a baby in pregnancy, that is totally counterproductive.

However, a gentle awareness of not slouching the whole time, a bit of mindful movement each day and yes I do think seeing a professional to assess you, even if there are no aches and pains can be super beneficial.

All my clients get stacks of easy to follow sign posting to biomechanics on my online hub - from videos and content from pelvic floor and soas release to perineal massage to rebozo, side lying release, miles circuit. Loads of stuff!

Control what you can in pregnancy and then be reassured that we live in a time where we have the means to intervene where appropriate. Thank goodness.

31/03/2025

Heard of hypnobirthing but assume it’s not for you because of how it sounds?

Yeah me too, until it radically changed the way I thought about and subsequently gave birth.

Why not come along to my Intro to Hypnobirthing session and hear what it actually is and why my courses have hundreds of 5 star reviews.

We’ll talk about…

🧬 The science of hypnobirthing

💕 How labour is powered by hormones and how to amp them up

🫶🏻How your partner can support you

🧰 Some great relaxation tools

✊🏻 Your options and choices in the maternity system

You’ll leave feeling excited with some tips, discounts and freebies on the night.

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Monday	10am - 9pm
Tuesday	10am - 9pm
Wednesday	10am - 9pm
Thursday	10am - 9pm
Friday	10am - 9pm

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http://www.hackneyhypnobirthing.com/

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