Award-winning Hypnobirthing, Antenatal and Postnatal Classes taught by Midwives
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31/08/2025
What an amazing email to wake up to this weekend from a client of our August group’s course - we’re so happy you love our course as much as we do 🫶🏼✨
“I just wanted to email to thank you and Jan for the last 4 weeks hypnobirthing classes. One of the reasons I’d always been avoidant about having children was the fear of giving birth and when I found out I was pregnant, initially I’d just thought I’d have a c-section.
Although I had got past that, before joining the classes, my thought was still that I’d like a water birth but if I can’t then ‘give me all the drugs’. Although I know that’s fine if it’s what I choose, I no longer feel it’s part of my preference and now feel excited about the whole experience.
Even better it’s changed N’s thoughts too as I think he thought I was being a bit ‘hippy’ with some of my preferences before the classes but now he’s fully on board and understands why.
It’s an amazing course and I’d recommend it to anyone! The knowledge and thought involved is wonderful. It was lovely meeting you both as well and thank you again!”
👉🏼Want to join us?! Don’t leave your antenatal education to chance! Drop us a DM or visit www.positivebirthjersey.co.uk ❤️
28/08/2025
A real full circle moment! 🥹💫
27 years ago, Jan ‘caught’ Ellie as she entered the world! Jan was Ellie’s mum’s midwife during labour, and this month Ellie and her partner joined us for their Hypnobirthing & Antenatal Course.
What a very special priviledge 🥰
28/08/2025
22/08/2025
✨New Professional Standards for Supporting Choice in Maternity Care✨👇🏼
The regulatory body for midwives, The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) have, just yesterday, published new standards for midwives in supporting women’s choices in maternity care. Midwives are duty-bound to provide respectful and compassionate care to women regardless of the choices that they make, or whether midwives personally agree with those choices.
However, the reality is that many midwives find this difficult due to fear of reprisal, institutional barriers, inadequate training in advocacy skills, lack of clinical confidence, power imbalances and cultural concerns within clinical practice (Kloester et al, 2022; RCM, 2022). There is indeed a significant lack of informed decision making for women accessing modern-day maternity care (Kloester et al, 2022).
What does the NMC’s new guidance *actually* mean in practice?
👉🏼Midwives should practice in a way that ensures women’s voices are heard, and their choices respected - even if those choices fall outside of ‘recommended guidance’
👉🏼Women can make their own choices about where they choose to give birth, and with whom - when women make choices that fall outside of recommended guidance, every effort should be made to form personalised care plans that ensure the best outcomes for women and their babies
👉🏼Women have a right to access all, some or no maternity care at all - this choice should be respected
👉🏼Women who decline aspects of care should not be expected to justify that decision
👉🏼Healthcare professionals should use language that is not coercive; women should receive in-depth explanations of the risks, benefits and alternatives of their care
👉🏼Midwives should completely respect, without judgement or prejudice, women who choose alternative care, care outside of guidance or who decline elements of their care
🏥In addition to the above, providers of maternity care (e.g. healthcare employers, hospitals and organisations) should:
👆🏼Proactively support and encourage midwives to promote women’s choice and holistic, woman-centred care
👆🏼Provide options for different birth place settings - including homebirth, midwife-led birth centres and hospitals
👆🏼Be honest and open with women about suspension of certain care services, and when these will likely be reinstated
👆🏼Ensure that any withdrawal or suspension of a service is proportionate, absolutely necessary and reviewed on a regular basis to ensure maternity services are re-instated at the earliest opportunity
The above new standards aren’t negotiable - they exist to put women at the centre of their care, to provide safe and compassionate maternity care and to ensure that women who make alternative choices aren’t deemed as ‘difficult’ or ‘irresponsible’ - but that their choices are respected in a way that is free from coercion or pressure.
�To read the new NMC guidance, see below.
Beautiful happy mamas and babes from our March course met today 💕 Photos like these make our hearts so happy 😗
Our courses aren’t just about antenatal education & birth preparation; they’re about building friendships, a support network and connections that we hope will last for months and years to come.
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17/08/2025
All dates for our award-winning, 5-star rated midwife-led courses are now available & open for booking right up until March 2026! 🌟
Including our best-selling group Hypnobirthing & Antenatal courses, refresher courses, our Mindful Breastfeeding & Postnatal Preparation course and our NEW Biomechanics & Active Birth Workshop!
If you live in Jersey and want to know how best to prepare yourself to navigate the modern-day maternity system & your journey to birth and parenthood, we’ve got you covered ❤️👇🏼
Professionals who discuss the risks and benefits of induction should be open and honest, and use evidence-based information, when discussing the link between induction and caesarean. It simply isn’t honest to say that induction doesn’t increase the chance of c-section. This article is incredibly useful 👇🏼
Induction and the chance of a caesarean: what’s the evidence? Many factors can affect the chance of induction of labour leading to caesarean birth. This page explains why the evidence is not as clear as is often stated. www.aims.org.uk/information/item/induction-and-caesarean
13/08/2025
Client Testimonial - Eloise’s VBAC Hypnobirthing course and subsequent birth story ❤️
“I couldn’t recommend May’s Hypnobirthing courses enough! After a planned c-section in 2022 and prior abdominal surgery, we decided that a natural birth would be preferable for our daughter in 2025. We opted for the 1:1 course with May which gave us the chance to thoroughly discuss any concerns or questions.
Despite being existing parents we learnt so much, particularly about the anatomical elements of natural birth and the different stages of labour. We also attended the Biomechanics course which helped move our baby into the right place for birth and taught me a few new positions which I ended up using in labour.
We had a very positive water VBAC, with our daughter delivered on her due date! Active labour only took 5 hours and our sweet girl was delivered in the hospital pool at 10.09pm. By 5pm the next day we were back at home with our 3 year old and the morning after that we walked to Gunsite for breakfast! I am so grateful for all of the advice from May and to the wonderful midwives who looked after us on the day.
This photo was taken in early labour at 4pm, with Clemmie born by 10pm.”
02/08/2025
Kicking off August with our Biomechanics & Active Birth Workshop this morning! 💥☀️
Thank you so much to all those who joined me to learn about these amazing techniques. 🤸
August is set to be a busy month! We also have:
🌟Our group Antenatal & Hypnobirthing course starting next week
💫Our group Refresher course full of returning clients expecting their second babies
🌟A new client starting her private Antenatal & Hypnobirthing 1:1 course
💫An at-home private biomechanics course for a new client
Lots of variety this month which makes us very happy 😍 if you’d like to book a course or session with us, visit: www.positivebirthjersey.co.uk
30/07/2025
home birth story Birthrights 'Access Denied: Restrictions on Home Birth in the UK' Report Case Study blog long read maternity care a second-time mum with hospital anxiety and a home birth agreed, found out the service was suspended at 32 weeks pregnant
20/07/2025
NEW - BIOMECHANICS FOR BIRTH WORKSHOP!🤸
📆Sat 2nd August 2025
📔£60 for 1.5 hour workshop for you & your birth partner
Biomechanics quite simply means the study of biology and the mechanisms of movement. In January 2025, midwife May qualified in training with the incredible Molly O’Brien to support women and their partners in both pregnancy and labour to utilise biomechanics techniques.
These techniques, when used during labour and birth are - quite simply - amazing and can alter the course of labour. In a recent study published by Lennon (2024) in the British Journal of Midwifery, the use of biomechanic techniques during labour and birth increased the rate of spontaneous labour from 57.2% to 72.2%, reducing the need for induction of labour from 42.8% to 27.8%, with emergency c-section rates following induction dropping from 33.1% to 23.8%.
Many NHS trusts in the UK are now including biomechanics during labour as standard, and that’s why I am so excited to now be able to deliver this workshop to expectant parents during their pregnancy
This is an active and interactive workshop, lasting 1.5 hours. We will cover a variety of biomechanic techniques to help open the pelvis, encourage descent of baby through the pelvis, reduce pain, and encourage baby into an optimal position. The techniques are simple and easy for your partner to remember and use in labour. You’ll also receive a guide to take home.
Biomechanic techniques are simple, effective techniques that you and your birth partner can learn together in pregnancy to significantly increase your chance of a shorter, spontaneous labour. These techniques are also incredibly useful in optimising your baby’s position, i.e. turning a ‘back to back’ baby and therefore optimising space in your pelvis.
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Antenatal and Postnatal Classes Taught by Midwives for Positive, Fun and Fearless Parents!
Being pregnant can be pretty hard, right?! Never mind all the birth horror stories that people seem to love to overshare, the unwanted advice from people you’ve just met in the supermarket or perhaps the panic and apprehension that creeps in as the birth gets closer! BUT what about if you got together with a like-minded bunch of parents for some fantastic pregnancy and birth preparation, and threw in a some awesome Midwives and Hypnobirthing teachers (if we do say so ourselves!)? We think (and know!) you’d feel pretty calm, confident and EXCITED (yes, really!) for a positive birth experience - whatever that looks like to you.
Positive Birth Jersey offers midwife-led Hypnobirthing classes, as well as Mindful Breastfeeding and Postnatal preparation programmes. So, what sets Positive Birth Jersey Hypnobirthing classes above the rest?! Our classes are SO much more than just Hypnobirthing! We, of course, equip you with the full toolbox of amazing Hypnobirthing and relaxation techniques, but also deliver a full antenatal and birth preparation programme - from the physiology of labour and birth, how to navigate the modern maternity system, understanding research and recommendations, and how to make informed decisions that are right for you (believe it or not, there are many decisions and choices you will have to make during your pregnancy and birth - and guess what, you're in control!)
We appreciate that sometimes things do not go to plan. Birth can, at times, be unpredictable. It is therefore very important for women and their birth partners to have the knowledge and tools to get the best from the situation that they may find themselves in during labour and birth, and it is important for you to understand the implications of the choices you may be required to make (and, believe it or not, there are lot of decisions and choices to make during labour and birth!)
You are likely to already have thought about your ideal birth and your preferences during birth. Hypnobirthing can help you remain calm, in control and relaxed during your birth experience, whatever the path that your labour may take. Giving birth to your baby can be a positive, empowering and amazing experience - and that’s where we come in!
Forward-thinking, modern, inspiring and fun, Hypnobirthing and parenthood preparation courses with Positive Birth Jersey make a difference to your experience of giving birth, and give you the tools to give your baby the best start in life. We are confident when we say that you will leave our classes feeling inspired, informed, calm, confident and prepared for positive birth and parenthood - whatever that may look like to you!
