Welcome to a more relaxed, natural birthing experience.
Natural Childbirth
We believe it is the right of every woman to have the best birthing experience possible. We aim to empower parents to experience the magic of natural childbirth so your baby has the best start in life.
We have found that during their first pregnancy, some women can become a little stressed or anxious. This may be because of the stories they’ve heard from friends and family or just because they don’t know what to expect.
It’s not just first time mums that feel like this, sometimes women who have had a difficult childbirth experience can also feel anxious. In truth it doesn't matter what the reason is, if you’re feeling overwhelmed or simply nervous and want some help and support the Handford Natural Birthing programme could be perfect for you.
Having a baby is one of the most important moments in your life, one that you’ll want to remember as positive and empowering. Our aim is to help you to have the best possible natural childbirth experience, with the least amount of outside intervention. By attending our hypnobirthing antenatal classes, you will learn a range of hypnotherapy techniques that you can use during childbirth so that you and your baby can have a calm, comfortable and relaxed natural birthing experience; an experience where you are in control.
The Handford Natural Birthing programme has been designed to work with a woman’s physiology rather than against it. These techniques can be used before conception to help with fertility issues, during pregnancy, right through to the birth and beyond.
The work we do with parents is based on solid research of the risks and benefits of the options available. We explain the science of how the body is designed, and teach techniques which gives you the best chance to have a pain free, drug free birthing experience. We can’t emphasise enough the importance of empowering couples to enable you to make well informed decisions for yourselves.
Dads and birthing partners have a very important role to play, which is all about how they can support and protect the mother. So we explore all the options, address any concerns and anxieties they may have - so that Dads and birthing partners can step into this role and feel included in the pregnancy and birth.
And perhaps most importantly, a major benefit of this programme is that babies enter this world feeling calm and alert. This creates the blueprint for how they form relationships with others and these babies remain calmer and more relaxed as they develop and grow.
If you are looking for antenatal classes in Kent and want to learn more about this natural birthing programme, you can explore the website and then contact us for a chat and discover if this is just what you’ve been looking for.
About us
Sandra Handford has worked with a wide range of women and couples to develop this hypnobirthing programme following her own experience of childbirth in the 1980s.
Due to an unrelated complication that occurred during her pregnancy, which meant a protracted stay in hospital before the birth of her son, Sandra found that her life was taken over by the medics who looked after her.
She found herself going along with the decisions because she assumed that the medical staff around her must know what was best for her. The result was that she felt out of control.
Following a difficult birth and a slow recovery by both mother and baby, Sandra began to talk to other Mums about their experiences and was surprised to discover that even when they had had no medical problems, they had had very similar experiences.
The more she heard, the more passionate she became about working with couples to develop a natural childbirth programme that works with a woman’s physiology rather than against it.
Fertility
Without a doubt infertility creates an enormous amount stress for women and their partners. It can be divided into several different areas, each of which brings its own stresses and anxieties.
First there is the stage when you've been trying to get pregnant, each month as the time approaches when your period is due; you feel a little bit excited, 'Will I be pregnant?' you try to keep the feeling in check, just in case it hasn't happened. Your period arrives, you feel a little disappointed but it is early days – maybe next month...
The next month passes, your anticipation and excitement build, followed by disappointment. Each time it's a little bit worse than the month before, until your cycle of hope and disappointment changes to doubt, stress and dread. For some couples sex is no longer a wonderful, loving, joyful time, it becomes a chore and can eventually become linked to anxiety and disappointment – putting a huge strain on the relationship itself.
Then you might move into the next stage, seeing the doctor – attending clinics for blood tests and so on. As a couple you may have spent many months under the microscope, and have had to endure the most intrusive and personal medical intervention and your stress levels are at an all time high. And the worst of all is when almost everyone tells you to relax and it'll just happen, everyone has a story of this happening and each time you hear that, you feel that somehow you've failed, and so the pressure mounts again.
Well the good news is that we have a tried and tested programme that can help you to manage the stress, to release the anxieties and the emotional blocks to becoming pregnant. Most women don't even realise that because their bodies are working as they are designed to do, that there is something unrecognised that is 'protecting' them from becoming pregnant.
If any of this sounds familiar and you’d like to find out how we could help you, then contact us for a chat.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Master of Clinical Hypnotherapy
A member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
A member of the Hypnobirthing Association
A member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
Service Categories
Hypnobirthing, Hypnotherapist, Natural Fertility Management, NLP, Pregnancy Massage, Reflexology
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