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Mindset, tools, techniques, information, evidence and support for a positive, empowering birth.

Hypnobirthing and pregnancy relaxation classes in Hockley, Rochford, Southend, Essex. Hypnobirthing teaches couples tools and techniques for a calm birth.

02/12/2025

Are you blessed with a bump this Christmas!?

If you are, congratulations, exciting times ahead! 🙌🏻

If you’ve managed to get the tree up, well done! A little harder to manage with a bump on board ❤️

And if you would like to jump on my hypnobirthing January course I have two spaces left. We start on the 5th. 7pm.

Come and cosy up on my sofa and prepare for your beautiful birth x

25/11/2025

Subtle coercion can be difficult to detect. It often can go unnoticed.
It can slowly but surely chip away at confidence, makes a labouring mum question herself and can do a lot of damage!

Said in a relaxing calm manner when that woman is in labour trying to shut off her thinking brain, her subconscious is still listening and the information it hears is I’m not doing enough, something is wrong, there is a fix to this that is outside of me…

How to deal with it?

Be aware! Firstly be aware of subtle coercive, that it can happen and what it can sound like.

Prepare your birthing partner - he or she can remind this person that the suggestion is not necessary or needed or wanted alternatively hire a doula to support you in this way.

Consider a birth plan which says ‘do not offer…’
do not suggest …’
YOU of course can always ask for what you want or need in any given moment.

Do a good mindset focussed Hypnobirthing course - it is a powerful tool to protect yourself because it builds trust in yourself, creates a positive mindset and a space for you to retreat. Our Babies in Waiting course offers all this and also offers excellent support for birth partners and birth planning.

19/11/2025

It was all about the toddlers today at our coffee morning meet up.

It’s one of the things I love about these monthly offerings that this community goes far and beyond the baby stage.

If you’re pregnant and want to know more about the services I offer, reach out and and say hi ❤️

Next meet up Wednesday 17th December.

24/07/2025

Before I wind down for summer a shout out about the next group Hypnobirthing course here at Babies in Waiting Hockley.

Contact me, Karen, to receive full details via email and to book your spot on the sofa 💜

09/07/2025

July coffee morning ❤️

A beautiful morning for this months coffee morning, so lovely to get outside (spot Fidel having a little relax on the chair in the garden 🥰)

A big Babies In Waiting welcome to Daisy for her first coffee morning ☺️

These mornings run monthly. They are free to my clients past and present and open to anyone interested in my support here at Babies In Waiting Hockley.

Come and be part of our little community 😊

Next meet up will be September as summer holidays are calling
☀️ ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

25/06/2025

‘Thank you again for all your guidance, support and knowledge it honestly changed our outlook on everything and gave us a voice during my labour’

Feeling very happy and grateful to have received these words yesterday.
Having your voice heard is a key part of a positive birth.

Being confident in your wishes and beliefs and advocating for yourself matters. Your partner too.

Contact me to book your space on an upcoming course

06/06/2025

Hypnobirthing literally means birthing in a relaxed state. It doesn’t mean all of labour and birth is relaxing but that crucially in the moments of power and intensity through your labour you have an anchor of calm and trust. You have tools and techniques and a mindset that supports you. This babies in waiting course is a full antenatal course with ongoing support and resources. And this one is the last before the Summer.

Normal monthly dates will begin again in September. I have two spaces left for this current course available. If you’d like to jump in and grab the last spot please contact me, Karen, to book in and join us.

16/05/2025

𝐹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈

We are often conditioned from very young to not pay attention to our own feelings. Instead we are told, listen to our mum, dad, brother, doctor, teacher, that ‘other’ person….

Animals don’t do this.
They pay close attention to that feeling, that intuition, that inner wisdom. It serves them in so many ways, to keep safe and find help when needed.

Feelings are energy.

The feelings or energy we have in labour and pregnancy are THE most valuable source of information.

They help us really tap into what we want and need.

Listen to those feelings whatever they are and equally stop listening to people outside of you over and above what you are feeling inwardly.

Listening to others over and above ourselves can look like this;

If you want a home birth but your head or ‘other’ person has been talking you out of it and you’re now planning a hospital birth.
If you want a physiological birth but your head has been talking you into a planned caesarean.
If you want your toddler at home when you labour but your head or someone else is telling you it’s not a good idea.
If you want to push but an ‘other’ is questioning the timing.

Follow the feelings, gather information if needed and see where it takes you.

If the feeling, the energy, is good it will lead you to the right place

Don’t let your head or someone else’s talk you out of greatness!

08/05/2025

𝒮𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓁𝓎𝓈𝒾𝓈

This is more common than you might think. There are so many studies about induction. Some studies show marginal benefits and some show none. Less common are the studies undertaken to show the harm.
This study looking specifically at ‘big’ babies is evaluated brilliantly here (and in more detail on her website) by Sara Wickham

Re-analysing data to get a preferred outcome is not unusual in the medical world.

Please check out and her website to find full non biased information about a whole range of topics and book onto one of our upcoming course!

29/04/2025

𝐼 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎

Last night, at our last hypnobirthing session of this month, we talked a lot about induction

The process, the statistics, the risks and possible benefits

It is also so important when discussing induction to also talk about the benefits of waiting for spontaneous labour

There are so many 💜

If you want to know more, contact me to book onto an upcoming course

09/04/2025

You hold the power. Your body chooses.

This is a beautiful reminder of the complexity and power of our female bodies.

Repost from
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For years, we’ve heard it told like a high-stakes race — millions of s***m, racing through the reproductive system like Olympic swimmers, all in a desperate dash to be the first to reach the egg.
The fittest wins.
The prize? Fertilization.
Cue the heroic soundtrack.

But that tale?
It’s mostly myth, deeply rooted in a male-centric view of reproduction.

Thanks to a 2020 study, we now know the egg isn’t a passive prize at the finish line — it’s a powerful decision-maker in its own right.

Turns out, the egg and s***m communicate.
The egg releases chemoattractants — specific chemical signals — that draw in preferred s***m.
And for the others?
She slows them down with a repelling signal.
Cervical mucus, particularly L-mucus, filters out weak or low-quality s***m before they even get a chance to swim.

As researcher Fitzpatrick put it:

> “Follicular fluid from one female was better at attracting s***m from one male, while follicular fluid from another female was better at attracting s***m from a different male…”

Translation?
It’s about compatibility. It’s her body, her choice — down to a molecular level.

And once she’s made that choice and one lucky s***m starts penetrating the egg, she shuts it all down.
The egg releases a chemical that causes every other s***m’s head to literally pop off.
Yes — mass decapitation.
No second chances. No backup winners. No maybes.
Just the one she chose.

Oh, and let’s not forget the poetic ending:

S***m? Smallest cell in the human body.

Egg? Largest.

She’s been running the show all along.
It’s about time we told the story right.

Just lifting the curtain on the biological brilliance of women’s bodies.
Reproduction isn’t a race. It’s a conversation — and she gets the final word.

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Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm
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