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We provide support and education for every step of your journey from fertility, pregnancy, birth to baby. Whether you choose the flexibility of private hypnobirthing classes or a relaxed, group active birth workshop you and your partner will feel prepared and confident as you approach your birth

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Antenatal Classes

All of our antenatal classes are designed to reduce stress, increase confidence and prepare for the most positive birth experience possible.

Testimonials

Don't just take our word for it! We have supported hundreds of women and couples in Warwickshire. Read some of their stories here.

Pregnant Again?

Whether you have previously used hypnobirthing or not we have something to help you feel ready, alleviate worries and fears and start to gain confidence about your next birth.

Why Hypnobirthing?

You will learn simple yet powerful techniques in a well thought out system of deep relaxation, breathing and self-hypnosis to stay emotionally and physically calm during labour. Hypnobirthing teaches you how to change any fearful, negative expectations of birth into positive expectations. This enables you to feel mentally ready for your own birth journey. Deep relaxation is the optimum physical and mental state for labour; promoting all the hormones that support the body in producing effective contractions and, surprisingly assisting with pain relief.

Benefits of Hypnobirthing include :

Eliminates anxiety and fear about birth, increasing confidence and reducing stress.
Achieve a shorter and more efficient labour.
Reduce tiredness so that you remain alert and energised during labour and birth.
Greatly reduces the need for medication and intervention.
Develop skills that will enable you to deal with times of stress and tiredness after birth.

Leonie Darch is an experienced and qualified Antenatal Teacher and Hypnotherapist specialising in Women's Health and Wellbeing. Leonie is registered with the National Federation of Antenatal Educators (www.FEDANT.org) and The Warwickshire Pregnancy and Birth Network (www.pregnancyandbirthnetwork.co.uk) so you can feel confident in her knowledge, experience and qualifications as a Practitioner. For more information on Leonie's story click here

"Incredible!! I couldn't have gone through labour without this wonderful woman Leonie Darch and her hypnobirthing programme!! She taught me everything I needed to know to have a calm relaxed birth xx"

"I can recommend Leonie and hypnobirthing from experience! I was very anxious about giving birth and very squeamish and scared of hospitals. After doing the hypnobirthing course with Leonie I had a natural birth with just a bit of gas and air! Leonie is truly amazing!"

"Brilliant classes for anyone who would like to have a relaxed and comfortable birth. Leonie is great and made me and my partner feel confident about the birth of our first baby. By using the techniques we practiced with Leonie I had a very quick and natural labour"

Read more testimonials and birth stories here!

BBC Radio Interview - Listen Here!

Leonie recently featured on 'Health Matters' on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio. Listen to her talk about the important role that HypnoBirthing plays!

Reviews

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Jo Thompson

2018-05-30T19:54:42+0000

Leonie was an absolute god send, I am so grateful to of met her and have her be part of my pregnancy journey. I had an amazing birth which I was fully in control of and managed without any pain relief or intervention. I believe this is all down to hypnobirthing with Leonie. She made me relax, feel confident and prepare for the most amazing day of my life. I think my experience would of been a whole lot different if I hadn’t of learnt about hypnobirthing. Not only is she lovely and caring, she is truely passionate about what she does and made me feel completely relaxed everytime. I also had counselling sessions with Leonie as my pregnancy coincided with a difficult time in my life and she helped me through so much. My hypnotherapy sessions with her gave me clarity and focus and I have since recommended her services to many of my friends. I cannot praise Leonie and hypnobirthing enough x

Kristina Curtis

2018-05-05T10:23:20+0000

Leonie offered professional and yet friendly sessions on hypnobirthing. She really helped me not to fear the labour and I went on to have a very positive birthing experience with no drugs apart from some gas and air. I would highly recommend her to anyone who would like to use hypnobirthing to manage their labour.

Sophie Lawrie

2017-12-05T20:34:18+0000

What an amazing experience from start to finish.... myself and my partner attended Leonie’s 1:1 course, and we thoroughly enjoyed it all, including the labour and birth of our little girl!She is our first baby, however not once was we scared or nervous throughout the labour or birth, and this was 100% down to what we learnt with Leonie. Practicing daily, allowed us to feel prepared for everything which labour threw at us.In the end we had a perfect labour and birth for us, which was a water birth, at a midwife led unit, only taking paracetamol and of course practicing everything we had learnt from Leonie!It was magical and we felt in total control throughout the whole pregnancy/ birth � and we have you to thank for this Leonie xx

Lucy King

2017-11-14T11:29:43+0000

Hypnobirthing with Leonie was one of the best things I did. It played a huge part in making the birth of my second child a wonderful experience. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Victoria Davies

2017-05-21T16:28:39+0000

We attended one of leonie's weekend workshops for an introduction to hypnobirthing. To be quite frank, in 2 hours she changed my perception of birth and allowed me to challenge everything I knew about birth from the first time round. I wish I had met her with my first pregnancy. To appreciate your pregnancy can end in 'your' birth was a huge psychological shift for me and challenged everything I have been lead to believe about birth and I can't thank her enough for that.

Helen St John-Claire

2017-02-20T19:36:06+0000

I would highly recommend hypnobirthing with Leonie. I started a course following a recommendation. We'd experienced a very traumatic first birth with my son and was anxious for no2 to be a much better experience. The sessions gave me the confidence in myself and the tools I needed to be positive and make the difference. I ended up opting for a home birth in the last weeks (which was never even a consideration when I started), which led to a beautiful, relaxed, natural labour and birth at home. My husband was astonished how well I managed and in turn it's made me proud. I could never have achieved it without Leonie and hypnobirthing. I urge anyone to try it- even if you're a sceptic- you might just be surprised.

Lisa Davies

2016-11-01T17:31:31+0000

Leonie was fantastic, my partner and I attended a bond and breathe session with her to get an overview of what hypno birthing was all about after a friend recommended it to us. We decided to opt for a 121 session to focus on fears afterwards plus were practising daily at home with the tracks. Without the support and guidance we received from Leonie and the wonders of hypno birthing our 3 day Marathon induction could have easily ended up in a c section. Instead we were able to reserve enough energy in the early stages to have the most positive labour possible for us. We would recommend Leonie every time and if we decide to have another child will be going back to Leonie for refreshers. Thanks for being so friendly, and understanding, plus advising us on how best to use the techniques through a medical labour. Xxx

Lisa Jordan

2015-03-05T07:54:56+0000

Incredible!! I couldn't have gone through labour without this wonderful women Leonie Darch and her hypnobirthing programme!! She taught me everything I needed to know to have a calm relaxed birth xx

Gia York

2014-11-19T16:39:34+0000

Having been recommended Leonie's hypnobirthing classes by a friend, we met with leonie to understand exactly what it involved and we really wanted to give it a go. The sessions with leonie learning how to relax were lovely and having to practice relaxing during pregnancy couldn't have been more perfect. On the day our beautiful Austin arrived, we were able to stay at home for a lot longer than we originally thought before going into hospital and using some of the techniques taught by leonie, we were able to keep it a more relaxed affair than it would have been without her input and education. I'm already thinking about baby number 2 (tho no plans made) and I definitely want to spend more time practicing during pregnancy and have a full hypnobirth at home. I would never have had the confidence to do this previously and I'm very grateful for having met and worked with Leonie.

Sarah Geraghty

2014-03-07T16:59:42+0000

Leonies hypnobirthing sessions have been fantastic! I have also loved the relax and breathe Friday mornings as "top up" sessions to add to the hypnobirthing sessions. The hypnobirthing has been so helpful in pregnancy to help me get in to a relaxed and positive place in terms of how positive I feel about the birth, I am really looking forward to it! But it has also helped me to feel relaxed in pregnancy and just enjoy every moment! The whole package Leonie offers has given us lots of knowledge about the physiology of the body and baby in Labour so we feel relaxed about the birth, and the relaxation techniques have been great, I'm looking forward to using them during birth and I"m sure I will call upon up them in parenting life too! Leonie is a warm and positive teacher and the lodge is a perfect, tranquil setting for the hypnobirthing sessions

Rob Geraghty

2014-03-02T21:42:06+0000

I've really enjoyed hypnobirthing with Leonie. I feel that it has put Sarah and I in a relaxed and confident place for the birth of our first child. Leonie is very warm and I've enjoyed the sessions at the lodge. It's all very practical and down-to-earth stuff which will help us to welcome BabyG into the world in a peaceful and calm way.

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