Group Hypnobirthing Classes in SE London & Kent

Understand what's happening in your body during labour, how your mind can influence your experience, and begin practising the breathing and relaxation techniques you'll use throughout birth.

• The science of what your body ACTUALLY does during labour

• The different stages of birth

• Mind over matter: managing pain in labour

• Using natural hypnosis for birth

• Breathing techniques for labour

Get hands-on with practical tools including massage, acupressure, movement, positions and comfort techniques - while learning exactly how your birth partner can support you.

• Massage techniques for labour

• Acupressure and aromatherapy for labour

• How to write your Birth Plan

• Birth Partner tools

• Hypnobirthing for Caesarean births

Put everything together and prepare for different possibilities, including induction, waterbirth and caesarean birth, so you feel informed, flexible and confident whatever happens.

• Birth positions for an easier birth

• Waterbirths and their benefits for mum and baby

• Confident decision making: How to have a positive induction

• How to “breathe your baby out”

• How to avoid tearing during birth

• The third stage of labour: placenta birth and the golden hour

Hypnobirthing is a complete antenatal education course, designed to fully prepare you for birth.

By understanding the science of exactly what your body is designed to do during birth, Hypnobirthing will teach you practical tools and techniques to help you work with your body, rather than against it.

Hypnobirthing is scientific and evidence-based (nothing woo-woo here!) and in recent years more and more women are choosing to prepare for birth using Hypnobirthing techniques.

You can join our antenatal Hypnobirthing courses any time after your 12 week scan, right up to 37 or 38 weeks! Most women choose to join a Hypnobirthing course in the second trimester of their pregnancy, when they have the most energy.

Starting Hypnobirthing earlier in your pregnancy (ideally around 20 -25 weeks) allows you more time to practice the techniques ahead of the big day, as well as benefitting from the relaxation tools to fully enjoy your pregnancy without feeling anxious about birth.

On the other hand, many women decide to join our Group Hypnobirthing Course when they are 30-36 weeks pregnant, to coincide with discussing their birth plan with their midwife, which also works very well. The choice is yours!

I strongly recommend birth partners do the course with you so that you are both on the same page and able to prepare together. Your birth partner should be someone who you trust to fully support you on the big day. This could be your actual partner, or it could be your mum, a close friend, a sister, or whoever you trust most with this important job! 

Often women are concerned about their partners being sceptical. But I promise, once they have understood what Hypnobirthing is, how scientific, logical and practical it all is, they will be completely on board!

They will be your biggest source of support, and will have such an important role in the birth room. Being able to learn and practice the techniques together during your pregnancy will ensure you are both fully prepared for the big day. 

Our courses are perfect if you are expecting to have your baby at Darent Valley Hospital, Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH), Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Lewisham Hospital, Croydon Maternirty, Maidstone birth centre, St Thomas, Kings College or any of the central London hospitals (including birth centres & midwife-led units).

We currently have five venues in South East London and Kent for our Group Hypnobirthing courses:

• Rise & Glow Births HQ, Abbey Wood (South East London)
• North Cray Neighbourhood Centre, Sidcup (Bexley)
• St Mary's Community Centre, Eltham (Greenwich)
• John Lewis, Bluewater Shopping Centre, Greenhithe (Kent)
• SE6 - Lewisham