HypnoBirthing Christchurch
Mindful Mumma Hypnobirthing is committed to empowering women and their birthing companions to create positive birth experiences and supporting women in pregnancy, birth and beyond.
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Love your amazing day! Learn breathing, relaxation, and hypnosis techniques to soothe the nervous system and quiet the mind for labour and birth. These thorough, thoughtful sessions will equip you to connect to your birth experience with presence of mind and work with your body. In addition to the techniques and hypnosis, these sessions are rich with information about what you might expect on your birthing day. While everybody’s birth is different, and there is no one “right” way, every mother deserves to be free from unnecessary fears and anxiety, and feel equipped to move through choices or challenges with calm and clarity. Come and discover how to allow for your birth to be calm, empowering and a positive memory to cherish.
About me - Bec Marshall
Hi! I’m Bec!
The face behind Mindful Mumma Hypnobirthing.
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards”
This quote humbles me as I reflect on my journey of how I landed here as a Holistic Fertility, Birth and Post-Partum Educator.
I have always had an extraordinary interest in natural health and believe that it has been a deep part buried within me since I was a little girl. Yet, if you had told me prior to four years ago that I would be working predominantly with the mind-body connection for birth, I wouldn’t have believed you. This vision developed and grew through my own experience when I became pregnant with my daughter, Bella who was born 23 August 2017.
One afternoon at the early stages of my pregnancy, I sat down with my friend Sarah, feeling highly anxious about what was to come, she suggested I read “HypnoBirthing – The Mongan Method” – From that moment on, my life changed. Curious by nature, I immediately ordered and rapidly read the book within three days. It taught me that hypnobirthing was a logical way to approach birth and I secured the last spot on a course. The course totally changed how I viewed birth. I realised that all my visions of birth were based on other people’s experiences. I was conditioned by beliefs that were not my own, with little understanding of how the physical process of birth even worked. In a short amount of time, I had gone from being paralysed with fear to being excited about going into labour. My husband Kane and I practiced the techniques daily, and the three of us grew closer all the time. I can honestly say I poured my heart and soul into what I was taught, and all the practice paid off entirely when my daughter decided it was time to make her grand entrance, earth side. The journey of her birth was the most rewarding, empowering, beautiful, and life-affirming thing I have ever experienced.
Having had such an uplifting and empowering experience, I absolutely knew I had to share this with other women that I decided to train as a HypnoBirthing Educator, as I believe every woman should be able to embrace childbirth feeling empowered, informed, confident and without fear.
My work is about giving women the information they need to understand their wonderful bodies on a mind, body and soul level and planning for their birth experience. I passionately believe that birth experience matters. Many studies have shown that a positive birth experience has a profound impact on maternal, psychological, and emotional wellbeing and enables women to embark on motherhood feeling confident, strong and capable. This is why hypnobirthing is for all births; a course will equip you with the skills needed to navigate your birth, whether that be at home or in hospital, feeling empowered and in control.
My journey is ongoing, as I work day-to-day as a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, specializing in stress and anxiety. I would be honoured to be part of this transformative time in your life, helping you prepare for a positive childbirth experience.