First hypnobirthing session today. This turned out not to be the hideous middle class smug married experience I had been expecting, for the simple reason that I was the only person on the course. So no cheating with the breathing exercises then and slacking off half way through to scratch the many inevitable itches that…

The hypnobirthing craze continues. I have just purchased a set of five hypnobirthing classes.  They are in Hounslow, which is not the best location, but pretty much all the classes I could find were based in the so-called “Nappy Valley” area of South West London which stretches roughly from Herne Hill to somewhere just short…

I have just officially become a New Age Hippy Earth Mother Type. Well, perhaps not quite. I bought two books on hypnobirthing today, then decided I was going to get properly into it and try all the suggested “exercises,” unlike with the normal self-help, self-improvement tomes which I just read, nod head occasionally whilst maintaining…