BIRTH BOX

Your midwife trains for years. Your doula supports birth for years. But neither of them has something your birth partner has.

They know you. The small things. The look on your face that means something's wrong before you've said a word. The way you go quiet when you actually need someone to stay close.

No amount of birth knowledge replaces that.

Which is exactly why preparing together matters so much. Not just you learning the tools, both of you. So your birth partner knows how to hold space, how to advocate, when to speak and when to simply stay present.

My free masterclass has a whole section on this, how your birth partner can advocate for you, protect your space, and actually know what to do when it matters.

Watch now via the link in my bio. Free until 23rd August.

Head to the link in my bio to watch my most loved masterclass!

Only until the 23rd August, my pain management class will be available to watch totally free!

Watch now! Link in bio xx

https://pop-that-mumma.kit.com/birthprepmasterclass

Birth partners get told to "be there," but rarely get shown what that actually means in practice.

I've created a track specifically for birth partners, inside Birth Box and the Oxytocin Bubble, to help them prepare in the same way you are.

Send to your birth partner now ❤️

Hypnobirthing-positive-birth.com/birthbox

There's a stage of labour where your body can take over completely and it's called the fetal ejection reflex.

When you feel safe enough and undisturbed enough, your body can start bearing down and moving your baby out on its own.

You might still feel an urge to push along with it. Some women don't do anything at all and just feel it happen.

It doesn't happen for everyone, and that's okay too. But it's worth knowing your body might already know exactly what to do.

Did you experience this, or were you coached to push the whole way through?

We sometimes hear people say that a caesarean is an easy option but that is not true as a C-section is major abdominal surgery.

Your surgeon works through seven layers, skin, fat, muscle sheath, the abdominal muscles themselves, the peritoneum, the uterus, and finally to your baby.

Then all of that gets closed back up, layer by layer, while you recover from surgery and learn to care for a newborn at the same time.

Whichever way you birth, you still give birth to your baby and it can still be an incredible experience ❤️

Did you have a caesarean birth?
Share your comments below xx

Mama Nurse Tina

Distractions make labour harder, not easier.

Bright lights, noise, people talking, being asked questions, all of it pulls you into your head, when what your body actually needs is to stay out of it.

Internal calm isn't a nice extra in labour. It's part of how your body produces oxytocin, the hormone that makes contractions work efficiently.

An eye mask and the Oxytocin Bubble in your ears can shut a lot of that out. No visual distraction, no need to engage with what's happening around you, just your breath and your own internal state.

Find out more about how the Oxytocin Bubble can keep you in your zone - Link in bio # # #

Ever wondered how Hypnobirthing actually works??

We've all been conditioned to fear birth in some way or another and so hypnobirthing works on changing that through knowledge, meditation and mindset work.

Thousands of women have now used my online hypnobirthing program Birth Box to prepare for birth and I receive daily messages from mums around the world, sharing their stories with me!

You can find out more and start your birth prep here 👇🏾

https://www.hypnobirthing-positive-birth.com/birthbox

🇺🇸 We've got a USA edition too

https://www.hypnobirthing-positive-birth.com/birthboxhypnobirthingus

What did you do when you went into labour? Share below!