Pregnancy

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YOUR complete birth and postnatal preparation course

Antenatal & hypnobirthing course in cornwall

  • Exploring your options when it comes to birth planning and knowing what to expect in different scenarios, with lots of information for birth partners.

  • Supporting you to get in the best mindset for birth with an abundance of practical tools for you to feel more comfortable, calm and confident.

  • Getting yourself equipped with the knowledge about what’s normal, how to support your healing and ways to support this transformational time.

Bringing together my extensive experience as a doula attending births and knowledge as a birth educator to provide you with a comprehensive course to prepare you for birth and life after having a baby.

"The course is incredibly thorough and interspersed with wisdom from her own doula experience. As a result of finding emily, my whole birth experience was transformed”

— First time parent

THE COURSE

  • Birth unpacked

    Birth Physiology
    Optimising the essential birthing hormones
    Stages of labour
    The first few hours after the birth

  • Birth space

    Choosing where to give birth
    Pain management in different settings
    Creating an optimal environment
    The role of the birth partner

  • Birth Planning

    Understanding interventions
    Induction of labour
    Caesarean birth
    Decision making tools

  • Birth Mindset ~ Hypnobrthing

    Why we need to address our fears
    Breathing techniques
    Creating Positive Affirmations
    Using my Hypnobirthing tracks

  • Birth Power

    Biomechanics -working with your body
    Movement and positions
    Massage for labour
    Tools for every stage of labour

  • Newborn baby

    What’s normal for newborns
    Bathing and nappies
    Recognising their cues and soothing
    Newborn sleep

  • Feeding your baby

    Understanding how milk production works
    Getting breastfeeding off to a good start
    Latching and positions
    Bottle feeding

  • Newborn You

    The fourth trimester and becoming a parent
    Mental health, healing and recovery
    Navigating decisions and getting support
    Writing a postnatal plan

  • Resources include

    Five Hypnobirthing tracks recorded by me
    A copy of a Hypnobirthing book
    Online resource folder and course companion
    Helpful handouts

join me

  • 15 hours of learning and preparation - usually taught over 5 sessions

  • comprehensive hypnobirthing course, antenatal and postnatal preparation

  • a bundle of resources to support you

  • a COPY OF “HYPNOBIRTHING - Breathing in short pants” by dani diosi

  • Hypnobirthing tracks recorded by me

  • Lots of time to make friends

  • My ongoing support - reach out to me anytime with your questions

  • postnatal reunion

    YOUR INVESTMENT: £255
    I ask for a £50 deposit to secure your place. If you would like to discuss a payment plan, please do get in touch.

    CANCELLATION: If you cancel with less than two weeks before the start of the course - the £50 deposit is retained or an alternative date offered if possible.

    If a face to face class cannot be delivered due to Covid-19 or any other unprecedented event, we will complete the course via Zoom.

Emily Bray Doula and Hypnobirthing Teacher sitting at The Family Space, Cornwall

MY WHY

Autumn 2023 saw the launch of my Antenatal and Hypnobirthing Course. I’ve been running my Hypnobirthing courses since 2019 which have always been a comprehensive approach to preparing for birth. However, I think people are sometimes confused by the word Hypnobirthing. I wanted to make this simpler.

Whilst Hypnobirthing is in itself a comprehensive antenatal course, I was finding that people would do another antenatal course, plus my Hypnobirthing course and then my postnatal preparation course as an add on. I am so passionate about people putting just as much focus in to their fourth trimester planning, I needed to make it completely embedded in my course.

I wanted to bring all of these components together, giving you the whole spectrum of support and preparation whilst making it more cost effective for you.

I know a big reason for taking a course is to also make friends with other parents, so there are now more sessions, giving you time to build your friendships with other parents.

2024 courses

i am currently on maternity leave until autumn 2024

I hope to resume courses in the Autumn of 2024 and will add the dates here as soon as confirmed. If you would like to express interest for a course from September 2024 onwards, please let me know via the contact form below and I will be in touch with the dates when released. If you would like a private course, please do get in touch as I may have some availability in the Summer of 2024.

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Please let me know if you have any questions about the course or if you would like to join my waiting list for an Autumn or Winter course 2024.

  • "The single best decision I made throughout my pregnancy was to sign up for a hypnobirthing course. Emily is an incredible person who taught me how I had the strength within myself to calmly and confidently birth our baby"

    Birth centre, first baby

  • "It was the most overwhelming, empowering feeling and the most positive birth experience! I went from being terrified of having a baby to being excited to do it again!"

    Delivery suite, first baby

  • "Although caesarean wasn’t ever our plan A, I still feel that she was born in as calm and relaxed a way as possible"

    Caesarean birth, first baby

  • "I can’t thank you enough for changing my mindset on birth. Without your hypnobirthing course, we would not have had the positive, magical birthing experience we had"

    Delivery suite, first baby

  • "We had an amazing birth experience this time round. We really wouldn’t have had such a positive birth experience without the awesome positive birth preparation tools and guidance you provided us with!"

    Home birth, second baby