Positively Hypnobirthing

14/11/2025

29/10/2025

Off to the hospital in labour 🚗 and thinking 🤔… what do I need to help with comfort and staying in the zone? Because I get it… the thought of a car ride in active labour can make a you feel a bit nervous 🥺
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👇So here’s a checklist of things to have ready for your journey that might help you cope better, feel more comfortable and keep you in the zone:

✅ Firstly a towel to sit on for a bit more comfort and also just in case your waters release
✅ Or even better, pregnancy/disposable underwear for any bodily fluids. Partum Panties are awesome and the best for postpartum bleeding 👌
✅ Your pillow. The scent from your pillow will help you feel more safe and secure
✅ Face washer for your forehead and neck
✅ Wheat bag/heat pack to ease those intense back sensations
✅ Eye mask. This helps you to release your melatonin (dark hormone), and also cuts out distraction
✅ Bottle of water. Keep hydrated. And if you vomit, having some water to rinse after will be much needed
✅ Earbuds. Listen to your Hypnobirthing Australia™ tracks or calming birth music to keep you in the zone
✅ Essential Oil. This works great to relax you, especially if you’ve conditioned yourself to relax to that scent
✅ Bucket. Like I said above 👆 you might throw up and this will mean you’re well prepared👌
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Hope this helps in your labour 🤗
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🤓 Follow along for more tips, and if you like to learn more about how to prepare for your birth, along tools and techniques, come join my next Hypnobirthing Australia™ course on the Gold Coast or LIVE Online course. Click in my bio 🥰

25/10/2025

You don’t NEED to have an injection to birth your placenta… if there are no special circumstances or risk factors, waiting for your placenta to be born naturally, known as a hands-off approach, is a safe option and a really positive experience for both mum and baby.

It’s important to be informed about approaches to your care, which could be:

1️⃣ Active management (‘hands-on’ approach), which consists of being given syntocinon, clamping cord, & the placenta is usually pulled out using controlled cord traction.
2️⃣ Expected management (‘hands-off’ approach), waiting for the placenta to detach on it’s own by holding baby and stimulating the release of oxytocin… see below for ways to help facilitate a natural placenta delivery

🤓 Definitely discuss your choices with your care provider so you can be informed about what approach is going to be best for you.

If you’re hoping for a ‘hands-off’ approach, then you need to know how to support the process & work with your body, rather than against it 💪

🌟 Here’s some ways to support a physiological third stage (Expected management):

🧡 Keep lights dim… melatonin + oxytocin = uterine surges
🧡 Stay warm
🧡 Undisturbed, calm environment
🧡 Avoid unnecessary chatter
🧡 Skin-to-skin with baby
🧡 Let baby breastfeed or attempt the breast crawl
🧡 Breathe in baby’s scent - oxytocin boost
🧡 Upright positioning
🧡 Use your hypnobirthing breathing to bear down

Your body knows what to do, you just need to know how to support the process 💪

Follow for more birth tips, and if you and your partner want to feel fully prepared and confident for birth, come join my Hypnobirthing Australia™ course or Body Ready Birth workshop. I’d love to support you

13/10/2025

🎥 Great animation 👍 Was your baby breech? Breech is just another variation of normal.

It’s such a shame, though, that fewer and fewer providers are willing (or trained) to support vaginal breech birth 😔

12 and a half years ago, I had to fight for my vaginal breech birth. It wasn’t an easy road, but back then, the hospital did still support this option.

Now, I’ve supported couples through my Hypnobirthing Australia™ courses - birthing at that same hospital - who’ve been turned away and had to transfer elsewhere just to be given the chance of a vaginal breech birth.

It just feels like we’re going backwards in skill when it comes to breech, which is really sad, because every birth journey deserves to be honoured with options and support.

I really wish more providers would learn the skills to offer vaginal breech birth when that’s what families choose.

My own breech birth story was published in ‘Breech Without Border’s A Guide to Physiological Breech Birth’, which is helping educate more care providers around the world on evidence, best practices and the mechanisms of breech.

I truly hope breech birth doesn’t become a dying art form.

If you’d like to read my story, click the link in my bio under “My Breech Birth Story” - or head straight here 👇
https://positivelyhypnobirthing.com.au/2017/08/08/i-reached-down-to-find-a-little-leg-had-gently-graced-my-hand/

01/10/2025

“I had the feeling of wanting to bear down… and honestly 10 minutes after I got into the water our little baby boy was here.” This is Lauren’s Hypnobirthing Journey with Baby Cruz 🥹

I supported Lauren and Dan for their first hypnobirthing journey… and now I’ve had the absolute pleasure of taking them through the Hypnobirthing Australia™ Refresher course for baby number two ❤️

Lauren has written a beautiful birth story. She shares so many great tips and insights, like:
👉 staying calm at home for as long as possible
👉 ways of distracting in early labour by spending time with family and surrounded by love
👉 managing labour with a toddler
👉 having great support
👉 having a doula
👉 making raw noises and recognising signs of transition
👉 navigating the arrival at hospital
👉 making informed decisions
👉 MGP midwife advocating for mum’s preferences
👉 Positions
👉 experiencing the natural expulsive reflex
👉 physiological 3rd stage (placenta delivery)…

And then in Lauren’s words: “I had the feeling of wanting to bear down… and honestly 10 minutes after I got into the water our little baby boy was here.”

Aww… so beautiful! And couldn’t be happier for them 🥰

Click the link to read the full story - it’s a goodie 🥰

https://www.positivelyhypnobirthing.com.au/calm-empowered-water-birth-laurens-magical-hypnobirthing-journey-with-baby-cruz/


And if you’re prepping for birth again, just know, second time around doesn’t mean less support. You deserve to feel confident, capable, and held every step of the way 💫