Eden Birthing Exeter

🌿Hypnobirthing equips you with the knowledge to give fully informed consent for any decisions that you make during your pregnancy & birth- leaving the power rightly in your hands.

🌿By equipping you with empowering questions you can make sure you have gathered all of the information that you need to make the decisions that are best for you and your baby, freely and without coercion.

🌿Through discussing your options, you can communicate your wishes clearly with your birthing team, and withdraw your consent at any time.

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🌿Communication should be an essential element of any antenatal education, but unfortunately it is often over-looked.

At Eden Birthing we spend time looking at:
🌿Understanding how your mind and body communicate and the effect of this
🌿Fully including birth partners in all of the sessions so that you can communicate as a wonderful team and they can be the best advocate and support
🌿Tools to aid communication with your care provider, including how to use the BRAIN acronym + powerful questions.

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🌿If our bodies are running on fear, we become tense & fuelled by adrenaline which reduces the oxygen flow to our body parts that are key for labour & birth, causing an increase in pain & distress.

🌿Hypnobirthing breaks into the fear/tension/pain cycle, empowering the mind & body to relax, and often leading to a much more manageable & comfortable birthing experience.

🌿Comfortable in your incredible body
🌿Comfortable in your mind
🌿Comfortable with your environment
🌿Comfortable with your birthing team

🌿So many people approach birth with an all-consuming fear, and the idea of being calm feels so far off any reality.

🌿Hypnobirthing aims to realign the subconscious and conscious mind with positive & realistic expectations and knowledge around birth, removing fear from the equation and instead replacing it with calm.

🌿When your mind is calm, your body can and will work more effectively and efficiently.

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🌿Overwhelmed by all the information, opinions and options when it comes to pregnancy and birth?

We get it!

🌿At Eden Birthing we spend time looking at many elements of care that will be offered to you and what your options are, using the best available evidence.

🌿We seek to empower you to trust in the choices that you make, knowing with confidence that they are the right decisions for you and your baby.

🌿We have a wealth of resources that we can signpost you to if you need further help in understanding your options.

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🌿At Eden Birthing we know that you can not control every element of how a pregnancy and birth play out, but we also know from years of experience that there are so many steps you can take to stop you from feeling overwhelmed, out of control or disempowered during your experience.

How?
🌿Become informed about your choices
🌿Understand how the maternity service works
🌿Appreciate how your physiology & hormones work
🌿Empower your birth partner

..and so much more!

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🌿Eden Birthing equips you with the knowledge & tools you need to approach your birth with confidence: through understanding the incredible physiology that is working during pregnancy and birth, being equipped with questions to ask health professionals, knowing what your options are when it comes to your birth preferences, listening to carefully crafted relaxations and so so much more!

🌿Confidence in your body
🌿Confidence in your decision making
🌿Confidence in your birthing partner
🌿Confidence in the professionals
🌿Confidence in your baby

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📣Calling all birth partners! 📣

Feeling overwhelmed by the thought of supporting your loved one through labour and birth?
Not sure what your role actually is?
Nervous you're not going to be helpful?
Anxious and scared about the 'what ifs'?

🌿Eden Birthing courses are designed to build your confidence, knowledge & toolkit as a birth partner as we know that you're the most important member of the team around the pregnant person.

🌿Our courses spend time looking specifically at the birth partners role, both in pregnancy and birth. From growing as an advocate & fearless encourager, to understanding how to best protect and support the birthing body, understanding the stages of labour, and meeting your baby for the first time.

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🌿What is 'biomechanics'?

Charlene & Emily are both trained by OptimalBirth- a program built by midwife Molly O'Brien. A combination of simple positions and exercises in pregnancy, alongside supported simple manoeuvres in labour, biomechanics is proven to overcome problems of mechanical obstructions in labour.

It's about promoting optimal baby position and effective body preparation by viewing the body as a whole, and acknowledging the intertwined relationship between the body's fascia, baby's positioning and labour & birth experience.

Eden Birthing courses spend time looking at biomechanics, including key exercises and troubleshooting in pregnancy and labour.

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🌿Another study has been published showing the benefits & effectiveness of hypnobirthing! Sounds good, hey?

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A new study has found that “Hypnobirthing is associated with a significant reduction in the use of epidural analgesia, greater use of water immersion, and decreased odds of caesarean section.” (Lee et al 2026.) The researchers write that, “There is strong demand from birthing women for safe and effective strategies for support during labour and birth.” “Hypnosis is a potentially side effect free self-administered pain management strategy however few studies have explored the association between women’s use of HypnoBirthing and analgesia utilisation and mode of birth.” (Lee et al 2026). This study looked at the experiences and outcomes of 1322 pairs of women in Australia. Half used hypnobirthing, and half did not. The results were positive, though the authors also discuss the limitations that are inevitable when carrying out this kind of research. “The findings of our study suggest that the use of HypnoBirthing during labour was associated with statistically significantly reductions in the use of epidural analgesia and increased utilisation of water immersion and likelihood of achieving an unassisted vaginal birth.” (Lee et al 2026). “We conclude that the use of HypnoBirthing can further support women who aim to avoid pharmacological analgesia and related interventions. Maternity services should explore ways to provide women with increased access to HypnoBirthing training.” (Lee et al 2026). You can read the study in full at https://www.womenandbirth.org/article/S1871-5192(26)00056-9/fulltext For birth information, books, and updates on new research and thinking, visit www.sarawickham.com