From the moment I found out I was pregnant my friends had warned my husband that I would be screaming down the hospital and that he would end up battered and bruised. But I knew that it would be different, I didn’t want to be screaming and shouting and bringing negative energy into the room [...]

I had some worries in the first half of my pregnancy and when I told Jemma about this she said she hoped that after what I’d been through I’d have an easy birth and my baby would just pop out. And he did!
I’d never really understood what Braxton hicks were but for about a month [...]

Dearest Nadia and all Yoga mummys – it feels very strange to write this knowing that it will be read out will you all lie on your mats – I remember clearly listening to the birth stories curiously wondering how my birth would unfold.
So, let me begin. I decided halfway through my pregnancy that I [...]

Well, I can’t believe that after all this time, and so many classes of listening to other women’s stories that I finally get to write my own!
I absolutely loved listening to the other women’s birth experiences and always wondered what mine would be like. Would it be hard? Would it be long? Would I have [...]

At 12.22am on 15 March Megan Skye arrived safely into the big wide world!  My birth experience was truly amazing and one which I will remember for the rest of my life.  My partner Adam was the best birthing partner I could have wished for and without his constant support, encouragement, excellent massage technique and [...]

A Tale of Two Labours – By Nadia Raafat.
From c-section to home birthing, how one writer used the mistakes of her first birth to bring about the perfect second birth
Rohan’s Birth
I didn’t have any fear the first time – at least not during the pregnancy. But then I didn’t know what to expect. Regarding myself [...]

First Birth Story
It’s 3 months today that our little baby girl, Florence, was born and I’ve been promising for some weeks now to send through my birth story to share with your future ‘yoga mummies to be’.  So here we go…
Firstly, I want to thank you Nadia for encouraging us all to capture our birth [...]

First Birth Story
Hi Nadia
Here’s my birth story….As my due date came and went I began to get fed up with the waiting and fielding all the phone calls and emails asking if the baby had arrived. I had been feeling very emotional and out of control and I was convinced I had pre-natal depression. Is there [...]

First Birth Story
It was around 9pm on a Sunday when little Anneli started her final journey to meet us.  I had just finished replying to some emails, and the last message I wrote was to my dad, saying that I hoped the baby would come within the next 2 weeks (I was 38 weeks & [...]

This is the story of the birth of, after a 3 year wait and one miscarriage, the birth of our beautiful baby.
My story starts on Thursday 14th May 2009, the day before my due date, when being a paranoid pregnant-ee, I rang the antenatal unit at my hospital, St Thomas’, with a suspected urine infection. [...]