This website is specifically designed for mothers and birthing partners who are seeking a calmer, safer and more comfortable birthing experience in the Costa del Sol.
My name is Juliette and my husband and I have been living in and around Estepona, Malaga for the last 11 years. Due to work commitments we spent a short period of time in the U.K during 2007 and it was while I was there that I discovered HypnoBirthing®. I was pregnant with our second child and looking for a different experience of birth. My first birth was what you would call a fairly normal hospital birth. 12 hours in labour - 1 shot of pethadine and lots of entonox! I thought it was a great birth until I experienced my second. HypnoBirthing® really is incredible. Lots of people are sceptical at first but once you have used it during labour you will never want to birth again using any other techniques.
My birth was natural with no artificial pain relief, all I used were the techniques that I had learnt on my HypnoBirthing® course. I loved every single moment of my labour and birth and a few weeks after I decided to train as a HypnoBirthing® practitioner so I could share this knowledge with other ladies in Spain. Allowing women to trust in themselves and their own bodies to birth as nature intended.
Giving birth in Spain is over medicalised and I am fully aware that there are limited options here regarding birth and pain relief. Epidurals are the most commonly used form of pain relief here in the Costa del Sol. Normally once this has been administered they will then use a syntocinon (synthetic oxytocin) drip, this will unnaturally speed up your labour often causing too frequent and strong contractions. This in itself could cause foetal distress thus leading to intervention.
This is just one of the reasons why I feel HypnoBirthing® is so needed here in Spain. When you are going into an unfamiliar environment in hospital, often not understanding the language, your adrenaline is bound to kick in, stopping the production of oxytocin which is essential for the progress of natural labour. It is at this time that you need to stay as relaxed as you possibly can. With the use of HypnoBirthing® techniques you are able to stay calm, comfortable and in control of your labour, allowing yourself to go deeper into relaxation and allowing your birth to follow the natural pathway that you have both wished for and that your both deserve.
Birth should be a beautiful & calm, enjoyable experience for mother, baby and birth companion.... a memory that you will treasure and want to remember forever.
There is another way!
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"My dream is that every woman, everywhere, will know the joy of a safe, satisfying birth for both her baby and herself - one she'll not need to forget"
