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Feel prepared, confident and excited for your birth. I am an experienced midwife providing holistic support for your pregnancy, birth and beyond.

Antenatal & Hypnobirthing courses, Birthing Body Balance classes & workshops, and much more!

02/01/2026

If you're new here - Welcome to Balacing Birth!

Are you're pregnant or planning to be? Then this post is a great place to start to see how I could support you in preparing for your positive birth.

I offer Calm & Confident Birth courses - whether you're planning a natural birth, a planned caesarean or anything in between.

Pregnancy movement & Relaxation classes for a more comfortable pregnancy and and easier birth.

And many more services from an experienced midwife.

Whether you're a first time mum, or wanting things to go differently this time around - I'm here to support you.

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31/12/2025

Here’s to a year of empowered pregnancies and positive births ✨ with Balancing Birth

Hypnobirthing
Pregnancy relaxation
Pregnancy Movement and exercise classes (like Pregnancy yoga)
Postnatal support
Birth Ready workshops

Let's have a chat about how I can support you 🤍

30/12/2025

Prepare for a positive birth AND fsin skills for life with HYPNOBIRTHING.

What you learn in a hypnobirthing course goes way beyond your birth.

Balancing Birth offers Hypnobirthing courses to prepare for every type of birth, whether you're planning a natural birth, one requiring interventions, or a carsarean birth. Hypnobirthing can help your birth experience to be a more positive one, which has the knock-on effect of a more straight-forward experience of new parenthood.

Research shows that Hypnobirthing significantly reduces labour pain, anxiety, and postnatal depression.

Get in touch to find out how I can support you to prepare for your birth 🤍

Bron x

Experience midwife, Hypnobirthing teacher, pregnancy movement specialist, bespoke postnatal support in your own home.

24/12/2025

Our 24th and final day of Birth tips for Advent from Balancing Birth 🤍

Pregnancy can be full of excitement, questions, emotions, fears and many thoughts going roubd in your head!

Journaling is a simple but powerful tool to slow everything down - to listen to yourself, connect with your baby, and gently prepare for birth.

You don’t need to write pages.
You don’t need the “right” words.
You just need a quiet moment and permission to be real and let your thoughts flow.

Getting your thoughts down on paper during pregnancy can help you to:
✨ process emotions
✨ release fears around birth
✨ build confidence in your body
✨ feel more connected to your baby
✨ create a calmer mindset for birth

Here are a few prompts to get you started (if you need them):

1. What fears or worries are coming up for you around birth - and what would help me feel safer?

2. How am I really feeling in my body and mind today?

3. What does an “easier birth” feel like in my body when I imagine it?

4. What support do I want during labour and birth?

5. What am I proud of myself for in this pregnancy?

6. What does my baby really need from me right now?

Try just a few minutes a day and see what comes up for you 🤍

Hypnobirthing courses and birth prep for your body and mind from an experienced midwife.
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, and North London.

22/12/2025

Day 22 and we have another book recommendation.

Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by .rachel.reed is a must read pregnancy book!

It takes you on a beautiful journey that validates both the physical and psychological transformation that comes with pregnancy and birth. Providing lots of evidence based information entwined in the aincent wisdom of birth. No matter how you think you're planning to have your baby, it's worth a read. It might shift your perspective.

21/12/2025

Day 21 - Balancing Birth Advent brings you Tips for avoiding an epidural.

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Not everyone wants to avoid an epidural. but a lot of people do...so here are a few tips.

I actually missed out possibly the MOST IMPORTANT one! Which is allowing labout to start on it's own (whenever possible).

A hypnobirthing course is also a full antenatal preparation course - so will give you
✨️ Calm & Confidence for your birth
✨️ Birth partner prep
✨️ Knowledge
✨️ Tools
✨️ Strategies
✨️ Navigating the maternity system
✨️ Nervous system calming to manage pain more easily

I'd love to support you in preparing for a more positive birth.

Drop me a comment and I'll be in touch! 🤍

Courses in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire & North London. Also offered online anywhere in the world 🌎

19/12/2025

Day 19 and we're taking about 'Due dates' or EDD (estimated date of delivery)

People often get really fixed on that date from early in pregnancy, so if, or more commonly WHEN that date comes and goes and baby hasn't yet arrived, it starts feeling stressful, when it is in fact totally normal.

Normal length of pregnancy is anything from 37 to 42 weeks.
Only around 5% of babies are born on their due date.
Around 50% of babies are born after 40 weeks
Statically first time mums are on average likely to birth their baby just over 41 weeks.

It has recently become fairly standard practice to 'offer' induction of labour at 41 weeks (until recently it was 41+5), meaning there are likely many women being induced, when if they'd just waited a couple of days that would have laboured naturally.

Just because an induction is being offered based on guidelines, it doesn’t necessarily mean it's the right choice for you and your baby. You always have the right to accept or decline any care that is offered. You can choose to just wait, or you can choose to have baby monitored to check their wellbeing if you choose to await natural labour.

Please read the book In your own time by during your pregnancy. It will really help you make informed decisions that are right for you at the end of pregnancy.

I'm an experienced midwife who is passionate about informed choice. I offer POWER HOUR calls where you can discuss your options for anything pregnancy or birth related that you feel you need more support of guidance with.

18/12/2025

Day 18 of Balancing Birth Advent

Using simple hacks like these are a great way to protect your birthing bubble, your hormonal cocktail to keep labour flowing.

That seemingly simple journey to hospital (if that's where you're having baby) can bring on the adrenaline...traffic, noises, uncertainty and anxiety about what's going to happen when you arrive. All this can make your oxytocin go into hiding for a while! These simple tools can help though.

You you do find your labour slows in this situation, don't worry, just do what you can to get the oxytocin flowing again when you arrive...dim lighting, cuddles, birth partner reminding you you're safe and supported...and thing will be going again soon!

A Hypnobirthing course helps prepare your for situations like this and gives you and your birth partner loads of tools to use, as well as the confidence of knowing what to expect, and a big dose of calm to go with it! 🤍

Hypnobirthing courses in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, & North London
With an experienced midwife!

16/12/2025

Our Day 16 advent tip is about setting boundaries in the postnatal period.

It's not always easy, but protecting your space for you, your baby and your family is important, and needs to come above other peoples sometime fragile egos! This is a good role for partners to step in and gatekeep (this can become challenging if it's their mum that needs some words! 😬).

All my Hypnobirthing course include a postnatal preparation and planning session to help you feel ready for your postnatal time as well as for birth!

Here are a few polite, but firm responses to common situations. No need to over explain or justify!

Situation:
Baby is being passed around, or someone reaches out without asking.
Response:
“We’re keeping cuddles limited right now — thank you for understanding."

Situation:
“I’ll take them - you need a break.”
Response:
“I appreciate the offer, but I’ve got this. Thank you”
or
“Thank you, but they settle best with me right now.”

Situation:
“I’ll give the bottle!” / “Let me feed them.”
Response:
“We’re keeping feeds as a special time just between us for now.”
or
“Thanks for offering, but the current advice to limit feeding to just the main carers”

Situation:
“Surely s/he can't be hungry again?! You only fed an hour ago”
Response:
“We’re comfortable with reponsive feeding. Frequent feeding is very normal for newborns, and it's helping boost my milk supply”
or
“We’re following guidance, and it's working well for our baby and for us.”

Situation:
“In my day, we didn’t do it like that.”
Response:
“Things have changed a lot, and this works for us. We'll ask for advice if we feel we need it”
or
“I understand you're just trying to help, but we’re happy with our choices.”

Borehamwood, Hertfordshire and North London
Hypnobirthing
Pregnancy Exercise & Relaxation classes
1:1 power hour sessions to discuss anything you may need support with.
Postnatal Mama Nurturing

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