Your Birth Story

Your Birth Story Empowering ALL births with science-based Hypnobirthing, Antenatal education, pregnancy relaxation & Doula support.

Helping women and birth partners feel confident and informed every step of the way. Your Birth Story stays with you forever...Don't wing it Our mission at Your Birth story, is to empower and inspire women, and their partners, to take control of their birthing experience. We believe in using the body's natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, and more comfortable birth. Our unique, accessible, and comprehensive approach to antenatal and postnatal education provides tools for every type of birth journey. We prioritize evidence-based methods and tools that can be used in all types of birth, recognizing that knowledge is power. Our goal is to empower every person to start their birth story with the statement "I chose," and to feel confident and in control throughout the entire birthing process.

25/01/2026

I absolutely love teaching the birth partner skills course.

Th8s one day workshop leaves your birth partner understanding and feeling confident in

- navigating the NHS system
- advocating for your wishes
- ensuring you get individualised care
- offering comfort techniques
- creating a safe amd calm environment

Don't just expect your birth partner to know what to do. Liklihood is, they've never needed to ask so many questions or had to hold space for anyone in the same way before. Give them an opportunity to support you how to want.

DM to join the waiting list for next xourse dates coming soon.....

You shouldn’t have to manage the room to bring your baby into the world.Your birth partner wants to support you.You want...
22/01/2026

You shouldn’t have to manage the room to bring your baby into the world.

Your birth partner wants to support you.
You want to trust them enough to let go.

Because for birth to unfold, you need to move out of your thinking brain and into your trusting, instinctive body.

And that’s hard to do when you’re the one who usually carries the mental load.

You’ve read the books.
You’ve taken the classes.

But during birth, you are not the one who needs to remember what to do.

Your only job is to listen to your body.
Your birth partner’s job is to be the thinking brain—calm, confident, and grounded.

That’s where the real magic happens: in preparation.

When your birth partner has the tools, language, and confidence to lead, protect, and advocate, you’re free to surrender fully to your birth—without managing, reminding, or directing anyone in the room.

The Birth Team Ready Course is designed to do exactly that.

It gives your birth partner the same foundational tools as a doula going far deeper than a standard antenatal or hypnobirthing course.

This is where birth partners transform from support person to anchor.

From unsure to steady.
From well-meaning to truly prepared.

Birth partner → doula-level support.

So you can birth in your power.

Book your discovery call today and build the birth team you deserve.

21/01/2026

This week, two women walked into class with very different stories and left walking the same path of trust in their bodies.

One is pregnant for the first time.

Everything feels new. New sensations. New questions. A quiet wondering of, Will my body know what to do?

The other is pregnant for the second time

She’s been through birth before. She carries wisdom and memories. Some empowering, some that still live in her body as tension.

Both stepped onto the mat and explored the Miles Circuit for pregnancy

Not as an exercise to “do right"

but as a conversation with their bodies.

As they moved through each position, maybe something shifted.

Mayne the circuit became a way to understand how her baby can settle, how her p elvis can open, how movement not force supports labour. Maybe Fear softened into curiosity. Curiosity into confidence.

Perhaps it gave permission to move differently this time. To release old holding patterns. To prepare her body for a birth that feels more spacious, more supported, more aligned.

The Miles Circuit isn’t about controlling birth.
It’s about creating conditions

* for baby to find an optimal position
* for the pelvis to move freely
* for labour to flow with less resistance

And most importantly, it reminds each woman of this truth:

✨ *Your body already knows the way.* ✨

My role? I’m just the guide, offering weekly space, gentle biomechanics, and nervous system support so each woman can step fully into her own story.

Different pregnancies.
Different histories.
Same intention: a calmer, more connected journey toward birth.

And it all begins with showing up, one week at a time. 🤍

You want to trust your body.You want the birth you deserve and are capable ofYou want to feel heard and seen for the cha...
21/01/2026

You want to trust your body.
You want the birth you deserve and are capable of
You want to feel heard and seen for the challenges you've already gone through to get here...

But too often protocols shout louder than evidence and intutition

You dont want to fight, you want to work with your team to build a plan that works for you.

As your birth doula that is exactly how I help so many families navigate the NHS system. We work together with you at the center so that you can birthbin a way that feels informed and empowered, whatever that looks like for you!

I have 4 birth doula spaces left between now and August. Book your discovery call today to get started on feeling confident, seen and valued.

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19/01/2026

✨ Fully booked for your due date? You still have options.*✨

I’m currently fully booked for some upcoming due dates but that doesn’t mean you can’t work with me as your doula 🤍

There is more than one way to have my support in your birth space.

💫 The Birth Team Ready Course was thoughtfully designed for families who:
• found me too late
• don’t want / can’t make the full doula investment
• still want the confidence, calm, and advocacy a doula brings

This is so much more than a private antenatal or hypnobirthing course.

It deeply prepares your birth partner to:
✔ feel calm and confident
✔ understand your options
✔ advocate clearly and respectfully
✔ support you emotionally and physically

✨ Essentially, your birth partner becomes your doula.

Families often share how empowering it feels to walk into birth feeling prepared as a team, and midwives recommend this course for how well it supports communication, confidence, and informed decision-making.

Check out the 5***** reviews, including from midwives who have taken the course to see how it helped them and their birth partners

Book a free discovery call now to see if this is the right choice for you amd your birth partner

19/01/2026

How are we only in January and I am already almost fully booked for families who want to feel informed, empowered and truly respected in their birth space.

If you’re wondering when to book your doula, the answer really is sooner rather than later. While I occasionally have last minute availability if a baby arrives earlier than expected, I am usually fully booked months in advance.

I have already said no to more families this year than I did in the whole of 2025. If last year taught me anything, it’s that saying no to families who aren’t aligned creates space for the ones I genuinely connect with and can serve wholeheartedly. (A whole reel to come on that soon)

I’m proud to be the highest rated and one of the most booked doulas across Berkshire and Hampshire, with over 56 five star Google reviews from families I’ve supported. This isn’t a hobby or a side hustle for me, it is my full time focus and my absolute priority.

If you’d like to see whether we’re a good fit, take a look at my reviews and then book your free discovery call or face to face coffee. If you don’t want to miss out, now is the time to book.

And to all the families who have already made this commitment to themselves and their babies, thank you. I am truly honoured to walk this journey with you.

Ahh I like this trend. 2016 was a very care free year. I travelled lots both in and out of work with colleagues who beca...
17/01/2026

Ahh I like this trend. 2016 was a very care free year. I travelled lots both in and out of work with colleagues who became best friends. Honestly not much has changed only with 2 kids in tow, slightly less mountain time and not so many festivals..... ok so lots has changed. But I wouldn't change anything for the world!

Pregnancy flow and relaxation Join us this week as we explore a new movement and breath to support labour and birth. Plu...
12/01/2026

Pregnancy flow and relaxation

Join us this week as we explore a new movement and breath to support labour and birth. Plus this week's topic is centered around your different options in each birth location. Yes there is more than 1 choice.

Making the decision of where to birth has the biggest impact on how birth unfolds. Come learn the data behind the location and what is or isn't available in each one to help you make your informed decision based on facts and your gut.

in Mortimer

Book here: https://www.your-birth-story.com/pregnancy-yoga-reading

08/01/2026

Birth partner skills workshop is fully booked!!!

If you missed out on a space here are ypur options:

😃 Book the Birth Team Ready course, designed to give your birth partner the skills and toolkit of a doula.

Recomened by midwives: Wendy, midwife said "she reminded me why I went into midwifery in the first place"

😊 Get a group (min 2 birth teams) of pregnant friends together and host your own birth partners workshop in your home or mine (max 3 birth teams) on a date that suits you

😇 Comment with your due Month to be the first to know about new dates coming soon

06/01/2026

We’ve been sold a lie… 👀

"Knowledge is power."
But here’s the truth most pregnant women only realise after birth:

👉 knowledge alone isn’t power if you don’t embody it.

I hear it all the time:
“I read the hypnobirthing book.”
“I took the course.”
“But it didn’t work.”

And it’s not because you failed.
It’s because knowing how birth works is very different from living it in your body

You can understand breathing techniques intellectually…
but if you haven’t practised breathing through intensity, your body won’t reach for it in labour.

You can know about relaxation…
but if your nervous system hasn’t felt safety and softness, it won’t switch on when it matters.

You can know how physiology works…
but if you haven’t moved your body to support optimal positioning, knowledge stays stuck in your head.

✨ Empowering birth comes from embodiment.
From practising. Repeating. Feeling. Questioning. Integrating.

From asking questions at antenatal appointments so confidence replaces fear.
From knowing , not just in your mind, but in your bones that you are capable.

So no…
Knowledge isn’t power.
🔥 Action is.

And that’s exactly why I run weekly Pregnancy Flow Classes, a space to put your knowledge into action through:
• Breathwork
• Relaxation
• Birth-supportive movement
• Nervous system regulation
• Deep body trust

🌀 Every Wednesday at 6pm
📍 Mortimer

Come embody what you’re learning.
Come practise before birth asks you to.
Come build confidence that lasts beyond the classroom.

Your birth deserves more than information, it deserves integration

05/01/2026

Welcome to January with Your Birth Story ✨

This month is jam packed with classes and workshops to support you through pregnancy and birth.

Join my weekly Pregnancy Flow classes every Wednesday at Soulbarns in Mortimer. This is where hypnobirthing meets pregnancy yoga. We build body and mind confidence through biomechanics, breathwork for birth, and deep relaxation.

There are just a few final spaces left on my Birth Partner Skills Workshop. Your birth partner will leave with a clear understanding of their role, hands on techniques for comfort and pain relief, and a practical toolkit for advocacy so they can fully support you in achieving the birth you want.

And finally, one of my January doula babies has already made their appearance, which means I have a last minute birth doula space available. This is open to anyone with an estimated due date before 10th February. Maybe you have been thinking about a doula but felt it was too late, or perhaps the final weeks have brought some unexpected challenges. I am available to support one more January or early February birth.

Book a discovery call now 🤍

20/12/2025

I know exercise is good for me… so why did it take a half marathon to actually get me moving? 🏃‍♀️

Intellectually, I’ve always known that regular exercise matters. And yet… I rarely did it.

Right now, I’m training for a half marathon.
I hate running.
10k feels hard mentally, physically, logistically.
Every run is a negotiation with myself.

But I’m still showing up. Why?

Because this is my brother’s first half marathon, and I want to share that experience with him.

That emotional driver is connection, meaning, shared purpose which is what gets me out the door. Not the facts about fitness. Not the data. Not the “shoulds”.

And this is exactly what I see in birth preparation.

Intellectual knowledge about birth, physiology, interventions, options, choices is hugely valuable. It matters. But it’s only half the story.

Birth isn’t lived in the thinking mind alone. It’s lived in the body. In sensation. In emotion. In instinct.

Without an emotional why, knowledge often stays in the head but we lose our head in birth so it becomes nonsense

As a Hypnobirthing coach, this is the heart of my work. Helping clients move beyond knowing… and into embodying their why.

When they do, I see it clearly:
✨ More mental resilience
✨ More trust in their bodies
✨ More physical strength in birth

Because emotional commitment fuels embodied action.

So I’ll leave you with this:

What is the emotional driver behind the birth you desire and have you taken time to truly connect with it?

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