I wasn’t always “into” birth. In fact, I was the opposite.

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I was a corporate career climber, structured, strategic, and very used to being in control. Pregnancy didn’t feel like something to lean into… it felt like something to get through with a reward of a baby

I found the idea of labour completely overwhelming, often saying "how is 'that' getting of of 'there?'....

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But then something unexpected happened.

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The only antenatal class near my office in waterloo was hypnobirthing. Which honestly I thought sounded like we'd be sat around chanting and beating drums, not really my vibe. But the teacher was different. No fluff. No vague spirituality. Just science, physiology, and the connection between the brain and the body. As a senior manager teaching other leaders and sales people in the organisation about behaviour, decision-making, and how people respond under pressure, this was a language and a concept i was already familiar with. So when birth was explained through that lens, the nervous system, hormones, environment, it clicked instantly.

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And I went all in.

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By the end of my pregnancy, I was deep in the research, the evidence, the psychology of a pysiological birth. Birth, in my mind, had completely been reframed.

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When labour arrived, I felt calm, empowered and able to surrender. And if I’m honest? I thought it was all me.

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All the preparation. All the mindset work. I’d cracked the code.

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So when people said, “you were so lucky to have a good birth”…It made me really cross. Perhaps a little to prove them all wrong, I left my corporate career and set up Your Birth Story, delivering scienced based hypnobirthing classes to 100's of expectant families. I honestly believed that I was preparing them to have a birth just like mine...... 

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But what I naïvely, and perhaps arrogantly, didn’t realise then what I now see so clearly is this:

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I was lucky.

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• I went into spontaneous labour at 38 weeks, avoiding the induction pathway many women face and that I definetly was not prepared for

• A delayed tube meant I missed a growth scan so there was no “big baby” label placed on me and I had no idea this scan was optional

• The birth centre was open and the pool was available, something i now know is unusual 

• My husband is actually a scientist so was all in on Hypnobirthing, a luxury that I know many women don't have

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So yes, through Hypnobirthing, my mind was prepared. But the system? The environment? The timing? it was all luck.​​

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Time and time again, despite believing my classes were the best around because they were not cookie cutter mainstream Hypnobirthing, the same stories were coming up from the families i worked with. Women doing "everything right"…but  still feeling rushed, pressured, or derailed. Not because their bodies had failed them or because their mindset wasn't "positive" enough. But because the system isn’t designed for physiological birth. It’s designed for efficiency, timelines, risk management. And I recognised it immediately because I came from that world.

 

That realisation changed everything and I decided to start preserving birth more deeply.​

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Now, I help you protect your birth experience in a system that isn’t built for it, so you can navigate the NHS with clarity, confidence, and strong, consistent support so you can move through the NHS feeling clear, confident, and deeply supported, while trusting your body, your hormones, and your nervous system to guide you into a powerful birth.