Jewel Richards
West Auckland HypnoBirthing Teacher
I have 2 wonderful boisterous boys, Brân and Indigo. We have recently moved back to New Zealand after 10 years of living in London where I trained as a HypnoBirthing Practitioner following the birth of my second son.
I had an amazing water birth with my first son but felt strongly that I wanted to be better prepared leading up to the birth of my second.
My first labour was full of the unknown and I didn’t feel that I had much knowledge or control over what my body was doing. I was in denial about what would happen and felt unprepared with an attitude of ‘I would like a natural drug free birth……but if I ask for drugs – give them to me!’
HypnoBirthing gave me the knowledge I needed and a sense of control. I went into the birth feeling like I had tools in my belt and a sound understanding of my body and the process of birth that was strongly grounded in reality. This helped my husband immensely too!
I felt strong and empowered to trust that my body knew how to birth and I had practiced the techniques so often that they were a part of me and still are.
I felt relaxed, confident and informed which enabled me to roll with it when things didn’t quite go smoothly and still create the safe environment that I wanted.
I am extremely passionate about getting this information out to expectant couples to enable them to fully prepare themselves mind, body and soul for the birth of their baby. To empower mums to use their own natural birthing instincts to create a celebrated, relaxed, comfortable and peaceful birth that will be remembered always with love.
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