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Interviews and resources to support you to feel more confident about giving birth. Feminist perspectives and paradigm shifting.

Kemi Johnson – Birth Confidence Summit

Trigger warning. We do mention risks of death and a dead baby story at one point in this interview. Not in any detail but be aware if this may be something that is difficult to hear for you.

Kemi Johnson - Bio 
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My reason for being is family and childbirth. I am an independent midwife aka midwife birthkeeper, and KG Hypnobirthing teacher  My own births have taken decades for me to heal from and I want better for parents and their little ones. We all have work to do. Let's go!

Although the Positive Birth Groups mentioned in the interview are no longer in existence the movement is still running and you can check it out here and read The Positive Birth Book by the Founder Milli Hill. Local in dependent groups can still be found.

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Kemi shares how she felt the calling to be a midwife from the age of 15 and how she resisted it until she eventually just had to do it!  Her fears and back pedalling helps her understand women's fears. 

4.30 She used to minimise herself and felt small, wanting to be no bother and this all changed when she had her son and his birth was not good for either of them. Now she no longer hands over responsibility to someone just because of a badge and a few letters.

7.17 Kemi's first child  talking to her in the womb with opinions on what she was eating where she was going. He guided her in everything except for the induction where she was too fearful with adrenalin and excitement which drowned out his voice.  Your baby has a personality and voice, tune in to listen.

Why are we using the word risk on a woman carrying out a bodily function that has been done for millenia? The current paradigm of considering a woman in danger or dangerous is crazy . We can no longer pretend this level of intervention and interference  is best for baby as there are plenty of studies and science that prove otherwise.

12.11 We have to point out the interventions save lives whenever we say they are being used too much but who is pointing out they also kill? This happens. Would the baby have died if there had not been the intervention?

14.00  Know what induction entails and that it is not a guarantee. Kemi thought she would pop a pill then meet her baby in 20 minutes so was excited. Instead she met with a cascade of interventions and a traumatic birth.  

It’s a special thing to let a baby out and have a cocktail of hormones, a dance.  Just like in a dance if there are a couple of things out of place it makes things more  difficult.

1840 The mismatch between the 80% who say they want intervention free birth as 'natural; as possible and the reality.

Kemi is a KGHypnobirthing teacher, and the advantage of a course and hiring an expert is they can read everything so you don;'t have to and crunch down on what is relevant and needed to you and guide you on your path. 

24.53  If you are facing induction ask for more information . Don’t do what I did, Go  woo hoo and grab my case! 

26.00 How Kemi's role in debating society helped her find her voice and despite a strong voice she still notices that it is often the man who is listened to in the room. We need to start in school and celebrate women's bodies including menarche so we are confident to speak up before we become mothers

32.00  You will have skills you learnt in other areas of your life that you can draw on. There are dormant skills that get awakened in pregnancy.kills learning early that you would need later. Something in life that is a skill they can draw on go inside to find it.

Find your voice and use it. Our voices are going to get louder and louder.  Try attending a Positive Birth Movement Group and feel the support of like-minded peers.

35.00 Choose your place of labour carefully to avoid fighting in pregnancy and labour.

3735 The birthing field. There is a bigger energy than Kemi she can feel working through her.  Let it help and guide you.  Find a quiet place where you can hear this.

Be aware that you may have confidence but the system doesn't  or it wouldn't be giving 90% of women sweeps to get labour going.

4328 Kemi wants a revolution and to work herself out of a job. 

46 We are reaching a tipping point: First they laugh, then they hate us, then we win.

47.46 We can know all about what will happen and have practised hypnobirthing relaxation techniques but we have to deal with fears or wont be able to make decisions and access skills,  Be around people who are confident in birth, It's the only way we get onto the planet

Mandy Rees – Birth Confidence Summit

Mandy Rees Bio,

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I am Mandy Rees, an expert in mum and baby wellness and a coach/guide for women. Everything I do is centred around the physical and emotional health of mums and babies; from conception and then for life. I am the founder of Blossom Yoga and Wellbeing and the mum of two wonderful daughters, Grace and Neave. I know how amazing, scary, empowering and overwhelming motherhood can be.

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Mandy compares birth to running a marathon and she knows both having given birth to two children and run ten marathons. She feels the marathon is more mindset than physicality and it was giving birth that gave her the confidence to run. Just as you would train for a marathon we do need to prepare for birth

7.40  How the system creates an atmosphere of fear and that following the system blindly takes away people choices putting them on  a route that serves the system and not that mum and baby.

10.45 Classing you as high risk for a big baby may become a self fulfilling prophecy as it creates fear and may be inaccurate but were you told that?  Check the information and evidence base to make a decision.

Look after your body in pregnancy to keep the positioning optimal and the body in good shape and create space for the baby.

Consider whether you really want growth scans. Can you trust your body is growing a baby without?

18..00 Learning to trust your own intuition and act on it is a big one. This is a challenge as the longer you wait the scarier the pressure from the system to induce. Check what the risks really are, get the proper statistics. Your instincts will tell you if your baby is ready.

22.00 Remember the baby is not an inanimate being and is trying to help you so go inside and focus and communicate with your baby and with touch. Practising breathing with connection in pregnancy will feel like a safe place you can repeat with the baby to reassure your baby once born.

26.00 Our logical society struggles with what it sees as weird or woo woo and  mums may feel a bit weird talking to baby in pregnancy. This is not new. Try sitting there with hand on baby and asking them how they feel and explore their fears and your fears and explain that you have confidence in them.

30.45 It boils down to stop scaring mums, stop making them frightened and frightened of making choices.  Do not accept the dead baby card thrown at you.

The current problem of go in for normal appointment and see that they are booked in for two sweeps and an induction  and they don’t know that it is optional.  Mandy wants everyone women to know they don’t have to do this. Can cancel them or choose

34.00  We shouldn't have to go through a poor first time to learn how to say no and get birth that we want.  Mandy sees some miracle transformations over time in her class so don't be afraid to take steps to release your fears.

37.15 We need to hear more positive birth stories. They are out there but women hold back and can be shamed for having a great story. If you have a negative story find someone who is not pregnant to unpick that with.

 42.58 Mandy shares her hardest challenge was bringing the baby home over the actual birth and how becoming a mother helped her learn to ask for help.   Asking for help is strong not weak Know that struggling is not failing and you are not a bad mum.

52.10  Don’t allow system to do it to you. It is  your body, your baby, your choice. Find out the information you need so that when the  time comes for birth you understand what you want. Never be disappointed. Know it is not your fault know three are choices out there

I've guided hundreds of mums and babies through pregnancy and birth and been there to support even more women in their post-natal journey. I believe that the stronger the connection between mothers and their children, the easier our journeys are. We are a mother for life and we need to be supported. I have created in Blossom what I needed as a new, anxious and overwhelmed mum. My classes and coaching are designed with mothers and their babies at their very heart. They are for mothers to come together and to grow; physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Joy Horner – Birth Confidence Summit

Joy Horner Bio

Joy is an independent Midwife and childbirth Educator based in Somerset. She initially trained as a nurse in 1984, and has been a midwife for 19 years. Her 2 children gifted her with totally different births, deepening her compassion for birthing families. For the last 14 years she has been an independent Midwife serving a high risk caseload. Her specialisms include providing loving care after previous trauma, facilitating breech birth, and providing holistic care at home or in hospital. 

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Joy shares her winding route to being a midwife twice, in the 80's and now and how things have changed.

5.06 Joy had two different birth experiences despite preparing in a similar way and wants women to know this can happen. In her first he was brow presentation which can lead to a necessary C section which it did for Joy. 

Her second was 'popped out in time for tea ' in a straight forwards hospital birth.

9.30  How both births were transformative in their own way and made her a better midwife. A good lesson is you can't intellectualise your way through birth.  Joy learnt the difference between obstructed labour and normal labour and can spot this quickly now to support women better.

14.33 All about breech birth.  Joy has been on a journey with the famous and now deceased midwife Mary Cronk.  Yes there are additional risks to breech birth but there are also additional risk factors with a caesarean so putting risk into perspective is useful.  Stop frightening the life out of women with risks.

Make sure your care provider is skilled and up to date. If they say breech is more dangerous than c-section of mention the Hannah Trial,they are not up to date with current research. .

19.29 Being on all fours and using gravity negates the need for half the manoeuvres that a skilled midwife knows and can use if necessary. Breech or head down Joy has rarely, never? seen any woman choose to lie on her back with her feet in the air.

23.15 Some useful things to know about breech babies so they don't feel like an emergency if they happen to you.

28.55 Why Joy is becoming more hands off the more she practices and why her role as witness is so important.

33.19 Using art with pregnant women uses the artistic side of brain The right side. Joy recommends the book, Birthing from within by Pamela England.

Exercise - Give five minutes to draw 'The Gates of birth' or sometimes  'The baby within'  A powerful way to see what comes out, in once case it revealed trauma that needed to be released that the woman had thought was complete.

39.00 Thinking of yourself in pregnancy and postnatal as reflecting the four season in nature. 

40.00   Joy recommends a mother blessing over a baby shower and to pass a list around to get friends to commit to postnatal support tasks.

Don’t ask for better demand better and expect it.

48.00  Joy reminds you that human rights issue don’t stop in labour and birth. You can do what the hell you like and your body is designed for this.  We don’t need all this intervention and interference. We haven’t evolved out of being able to birth and most people can give birth successfully with happy and healthy outcomes without even seeing a midwife or doctor.

 Joy's take home: You’ve got it.

She believes that birth is a natural event for which we've been beautifully designed, and that peace on earth really does begin with birth.


Zoe Challenor – Birth Confidence Summit

Some useful social support groups that get mentioned.

The Positive Birth Movement - a global network of free to attend peer groups to discuss positive birth

Facebook Groups - Home Birth UK, VBAC support group UK  who also support elective caesareans. 

Zoe Challenor Bio

Zoë Challenor is a founder and director of B'Opera, a Birmingham-based children's opera company who make beautiful music for tiny ears through interactive performances for babies, toddlers and their grown-ups.
Zoë combines a career in singing with a passion for education. A prize-winning graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she was a conductor and teacher at Trinity Laban Junior Department in London until recently, and delivers singing workshops and projects for Welsh National Opera.

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Becoming pregnancy with her second was when Zoe realised that she needed to do things differently to avoid the trauma of the birth of her first child. She spent a lot of time unpacking beliefs and blocks and had a very different experience second time around.

2.44 How common it is to be well educated in many areas, yet still know nothing about birth or that there is a need to know certain things about the system you are giving birth in. Second time Zoe, sought information, someone to support in labour and to choose her provider carefully. Someone who would respect her choice to have a vbac.

6.20 Becoming aware of the deeper context of a system built by men for men that does not serve women well and how to make the system work for you despite that.

8.10 The beautiful empowering feeling of taking charge that made a difference despite the postnatal period being hard and less than a bed of roses.

 9.50 Birth and Fear of dying  How giving birth is connected to dying and helped release Zoe's fear of dying.  Being scared of dying  is not weird, birth death and life are close together and intimately entwined.

12.25 Zoe's advice to her younger self.  Be around birth more and learn it is a part of ordinary life not scary. Release fears. The fears and conditions around the birth caused the pain of the first.Particularly, let go of any  'good girl' conditioning. She who doesn't want to take up space or rock the boat or question authority too much.

20.52 The ongoing journey of stopping heaping guilt on herself for what happened in the first birth. Learning our children have some say in this and how her second birth has helped the relationship with her first child too.

25.59  Alexander Techniques teaches that education is a process of drawing out what is within and Zoe would like to see a way of building bridges through education that draws out the confidence in women that they are made to give birth and can do it. 

28.40 Parallels of singing and giving birth and the connection between  your jaw and your vagina.  Connection of breathing and birth. In singing using the breath to do breathing exercise and the way we harness the breath and energy applies to both singing and birth.

37.36  Read more positive stories is a good starting point, such as those in Ina may gaskin's book, Guide to childbirth  Process what happened in any previous birth experience and learn to say no if that is a problem for you.  Invest in your birth, and invest in you as a woman as it will make all the difference. It is really important, will stay with you until day you die don’t forget. Respect it.

42.00  Be conscious with what you surround yourself with as although you are designed to do this the conditioning is powerful and takes work to unpick it and it is necessary to do this work which I was unaware of first time round.

Jennie Harrison – Birth Confidence Summit

Jennie Harrison Bio

Jennie is an Energy  Healer, Birth Trauma Specialist and Connected Parenting Coach.
She has been working with mums and their children for 8 years, helping them to be free from their traumatic experiences and all of the challenges that are connected to traumatic and difficult births. Jennie helps mums to understand why they and their children are struggling, and provides them with gentle and empowering ways to have calmer, happier family lives.

Jennie is currently launching her Energy Essentials course  for mums who want to have more calm, less stress and more energy for themselves whilst providing the best mental energetic and emotional support for their children as possible. You can find out all about that here 

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During her first pregnancy Jennie read the book ​The  secret life of the unborn child which was a game changer for her as she changed the way she was looking after herself. Jennie had two different pregnancies and births 

2.17 Her first birth was difficult and she used energy healing to release trauma, cranial osteopathy for her son and CBT for her PTSD. She also got an official apology from the hospital for the mismanagement of her birth.
Due to this the second time she knew her choices and had an amazing experience.

4.51  Her birth changed the trajectory of her life,  She left her consultancy work and set up her own business 8 years ago now. During 8 years she noticed that underlying the majority of presenting conditions for the children she worked with  were issues related to birth trauma or difficult pregnancies. Now she works with mums and babies together to release and heal these traumas using energy healing.

11.26 To prepare for birth Jennie suggests giving yourself space to connect with yourself regularly and then with your baby. Talk to them and be aware they have consciousness and are not just a bundle of cells. Imagine their personality and connect to the actual person inside you.  The information in The secret life of the unborn child

Connect with people who will be your cheerleaders.

How being informed, supported and empowered made all the difference in her second pregnancy despite significant pressure to follow a different path ( induction and testing) than she wanted and felt was right for her. Despite being gaslighted throughout pregnancy and being told she couldn't do it she gave birth at home in calm circumstances.

17.00  Jennie shares her second birth story and wants you to Know you have  everything  inside you and let your mother bear come out to help you stand your ground. With the right kind of support you will achieve what you can feel you can do inside.

21.00 A discussion of different natural remedies a ( e.g. arnica for after pains) and eating the placenta to help restore nutrients and iron and how we can recover much better than we may expect when we nurture out bodies in this way. 

26.52  The importance of tapping into inner knowledge and power that Jennie learnt with her second.  Practise in pregnancy to do it and then will be able to do it in labour too. It can be a simple and quick self care practice and it will help you adjust to your new identity.

30.00 Jennie's vision for the future is that we have a greater understanding of all aspects of pregnancy and motherhood, that we are not just physical beings and unborn babies have emotions too. That we can let go of what we held onto growing up so our children don't have to carry the same baggage.

33.00  Jennie shares how her own birth affected  her with the birth of her own child and how the pattern of separation anxiety was triggered and so she was able to go back and heal it.  She sees this passing down of patterns across the generations with the majority of the women she works with.

36.42 To start releasing fears get them out of your head and onto paper.  Then find a method that works for you to release them e.g. Reiki or eft or other method.

38.50 You have everything inside you ready to tap into. Remember your baby has chosen you , it is not an accident.

Clare Ford – Birth Confidence Summit

Clare Ford's Bio and Free Gift

Click to download Clare's three tips to manage stress in conception and early pregnancy.


Clare Ford is an award-winning coach, speaker and author of ​How to have a Positive and Empowering Pregnancy

Clare, a mum herself with a background in education and healing, has inspired and worked with parents and children for over 15 years.  She believes in “putting love at the heart of what matters most” – you and your family.

As a sought after intuitive pregnancy and parenting coach, Clare regularly offers inspiring workshops and transformational in-depth coaching programmes that help clients achieve new heights of success, meaning, and spiritual aliveness. 

Clare is on a mission to create a ripple effect of global transformation by raising awareness of and offering healing and mindset solutions to mental and emotional health issues and was finalist for Business Vision and Legacy at the MPower Awards 2018 and 2019. Having overcome emotional abuse in childhood and marriage, severe depression and anxiety and post-natal depression, she is more than qualified to walk this path in guiding others to greatness and has spoken about this on radio.

You can get in touch with Clare via her website Beautiful Souls. ( where you can access her webinar - 5 mindset techniques for a positive pregnancy)

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Every birth is different with different family dynamics,

First recommendation as a mum to be is to get informed without getting overwhelmed by information. Make a plan that fits your values.

4.48  Along with information you need to be empowered so as not to hand power over and trust your intuition. Bring your heart and soul into the equation along with your mind.

6.48  Build your intuition muscle in advance so you know what your inner voice sounds like and can call on it when needed.

Use anchors- e.g. mudra or hand movement to trigger relaxation.

9.34 The power of intention - spoken out loud and written down. Intuition is your surf board and connection to Source is the sea. You need your intention to get on the board and in the sea.

3 Small Steps to confidence you can take every day. 1.  take three slow breaths. and ask, What is wrong with now? 2. Notice your thoughts and what you say to yourself and accept those thoughts that are trying to keep you alive so 3, choose to change those thoughts when unhelpful.

1552 Let go of your perfectionism. You don’t have to give birth perfectly, you don't have to look perfect as you walk out of hospital. Imperfection is the new perfect. 

19.44  The importance of connection on the maternal bond with your baby. New studies in epigenetics have proven long term benefits can change trajectory of child and adult life already starting in the womb by taking time to connect every day for just a few minutes. This may massively boost your confidence afterwards as you continue to intuitively parent  and help reduce possibility of postnatal depression

21.28 Clare's journey through Post Natal Depression and out the other side.  It's not classist it's not sexist , don't feel guilty. 

25.21 Beautiful Souls Vision Statement – my mission is to raise the vibration of our next generation.  How conscious connection and maternal bond in utero is crucial. We are birthing new outside the box thinkers, creative people and visionaries who will move humanity forwards  and they need a different start to fulfil their potential. 

27.00 Working backwards to the womb to heal-supported by epigenetics a lot of emotional traumas that present been teaching twenty years later on in life can be prevented by taking action now in pregnancy by connecting with your baby and being consciously aware of thoughts.  This knowledge and science is cutting edge stuff so don’t feel guilty if  it's new to you. Never too late to heal.  ​

31.22 Become aware of our thoughts and environment and how others energy is affecting us and make caring choices for ourselves  accordingly

Use your voice. Tap into your intuition. Ask questions about procedures and be prepared to change caregivers. Stand in your no.

Practice standing in your no. and delegate supporters to do it on your behalf so you don’t have to do it in labour as you need to feel safe and heard.  you are the Goddess in that space you are the key person bringing new life into this world what greater gift can you gift to humanity so step up to this and be that.

Make sure your inner and outer team are all on the same page. What you are doing is huge and humbling at the same time. Miracle sacred. You are that too. You are amazing.

Lorna Phillip – Birth Confidence Summit

Lorna Phillip's Bio

She goes by the name of ‘Birmingham Doula’ but that’s a bit of a misnomer because Lorna Phillip has supported births all over the West Midlands and beyond.

With her desire to serve birthing women and their families more deeply, she offers birth and postnatal support that goes beyond the standard because, as she says, there’s nothing standard about giving birth and parenting a new-born!


Lorna is a mother to 2 grown-ups and a grandmother to 2 little boys; she brings a wealth of experience to her work and a unique mix of current thinking, granny wisdom and a healthy dose of humour.

It’s her pragmatic and nurturing approach that attracts clients who are seeking a birth professional who can assist them to navigate their way through the maternity system and support them to transition smoothly through two of life’s most major events – birth and parenthood.

To find out more about Lorna’s birth and postnatal services, visit her website – Birmingham Doula

Bonus: If you've enjoyed this you may like to listen to Lorna's previous interview giving the low down on exactly what a Doula does.


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Lorna is a mum to two adults born 89 and 93 and Grandma to two little boys age 3 and 1. She retrained as a doula when during a deputy manager role with Sure Start Children’s centre she realised the importance of women's birth stories and how many were not as positive as they could be.

3.50 What makes a difference in a nutshell is being listened to and responded to with respect not like a naughty school girl who wants too much.

Tips to help  if you are not being listened to.  1 Know you can ask questions. 2 ask for time 3.Know its not your fault if you don't understand at first.

If still not happy sack them off.! Do your research just as you would choosing a school for your child.

8.00  What is the nonsense of " This is my plan for you, this is what we are going to do."?

Take someone along for appointments, write down your list of questions and tick them off.

11.45 Know you have time. Presented in a you’ve got to make your mind up now , ask for time there usually is some.

14.25  How quickly atmospheres can change both in a positive and negative direction in the birthing room and how to ensure you keep the right atmosphere in the room. 

18.30. What you do as a doula is more about how you are rather than what you do.

19.30 Getting your needs met and being a Good Enough Parent

26.28 But a doula is not for me. Who is the type of person that benefits from doula care? 

27.00  Part of Lorna's vision for the future includes more honesty and transparency of the real challenges of parenting when there is so much fakery on line.

29.00 What is confidence? 

33.00 Starting off on the back foot.  How asserting yourself can be even tougher for WOC when you may face people.s assumptions of you.  How to deal with prejudice: Once you've exhausted questions and discussions  Lorna remind women they do have the choice to change caregivers 

Sack them off!

40.00T What we need is nothing short of a birthing revolution.  We need those who are  observing these things to be confident to call it out.

 Drop perfection  and just be good enough

Rebecca Schiller – Birth Confidence Summit


 Links to BirthRights Fact Sheets, Aims and Rebecca's books. Scroll down for time stamps and Rebecca's bio.

BirthRights  A charity dedicated to ensuring women receive the dignity and respect they deserve in pregnancy and childbirth  Find a range of Factsheets to support you in every birth situation.

AIMS - The Association for Improvement in the Maternity Services  - campaigning for a better birth for all. They sell a fantastic range of small books and leaflets including ​ Am I allowed?  for a small cost.

Rebecca is the author of two books:

Rebecca Schiller's Bio

Rebecca Schiller is the co-founder of Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity and an occasional doula. She writes about parenting, women's health and lifestyle and is a regular contributor to the Guardian and a wide-range of publications. She is the author of  Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan. and Why Human Rights in Childbirth Matter.  She's mostly found on her ramshackle smallholding with her husband, two children, a motley crew of animals and an overgrown garden.

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We start with how in a short space of time Rebecca went from a dream job with American Human Rights NGO to  becoming a Doula and co-founding a charity working with human rights in childbirth after the birth of her first child threw her into a completely new world. 

3.20   Consent and the long term larger impacts of subjects that may seem of minimal importance in larger conversations such as a healthy baby is all that matters. Plus the mismatch that exists between women's rights ( in UK) and the idea of consent and equality and the reality on the ground.

 14.30   A summary of the main rights and knowing that you should have everything explained to you in a way that's relevant to you and that you can understand.  Know that you can for whatever, reason irrational or rational or for no reason at all decline anything that is offered to you without undue pressure or coercion. 

17.39  Being lucky in her first pregnancy when she did not know her rights or the system. For example was under the clock for induction after my waters broke and would have had the induction because she didn't know she could refuse, but labour started just in time. 

21.00  Looking at what leads to birth trauma- and what protects you from feeling traumatised no matter what happens in your birth. Particularly being listened to, aware of what is going on and having some level of control over the process. 

26.30 The special patriarchal trick that is a red herring for women and birth workers: To debate which kind of birth is best and put our energies against each other instead or joining together.

3030  Defining positive birth so that positive and medicalised are not in opposition  to each other particularly as  currently most women do have some kind of intervention and are in hospital.  Her No Guilt Pregnancy guide helps you to consider what you need that transcends place of birth and can be achieved no matter what kind of birth you have.

32.20 Elective c-sections are one of biggest area of her work in human rights with some of the most distressing stories.  The hard no in response to the request creates distrust, anxiety  and fear. Encouraging kindness and support instead of the brutality of the system

40.43 How both of Rebecca's children surprised her with their births and what she learnt about herself in the process.

46.30  The importance of investing in support as you can never prepare for the surprises but can be supported through the unexpected.

Reframing language so that on a subtle level a woman's body belongs to her not to the establishment.  My house my rules. Why home birth is a great choice for people-pleasers and rule -followers.

1hr09  The woman is always the greatest expert in the room and her birth.

Remember  You Matter


Charlotte Kanyi – Birth Confidence Summit

Here is the book I mentioned where you can find the full story of the birth of my first son in 2010. Water Birth: Stories to inspire and Inform Edited by Milli Hill

And here is the birth Story of Musa, my third child.

Links to find out more about the healing tools that most helped Charlotte clear out all her blocks to having the birth she wanted.


  • 1. The NPA Process - a simple way to stop taking things personally
  • 2. The Journey™ by Brandon Bays where you can download a  free ebook.


Charlotte's Bio 

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Charlotte supports scared, doubtful and overwhelmed women to uncover and clear out the hidden roots of your fear of giving birth so that you can confidently create the birth you dream of. The one calling to you that you have been pushing away as you can't quite believe it could really be achievable for you.    She guides you on your own unique path to the confident you that has been lost and hidden inside you and helps you to speak up for what you truly want in life. 

She lives with her husband and three boisterous boys who have been her guides companions and teachers on her journey to confidence.  She loves to relax in nature especially wild camping in wilderness areas and at home she loves to potter in her garden sanctuary.

  • Her Vision for the future of birth and motherhood in brief
  • 3.59  Why she decided to host a Birth Confidence Summit 
  • Her Background and how her own birth experience led her to focus on supporting women to be confident giving birth
  • 5.20 You, the mother are the ultimate expert in your birth
  • 8.30 The true nature of confidence according to Charlotte, why it is so important in birth and also completely attainable for you.
  • 14.10  What blocks to confidence may look like and including the biggest block that lies under many patterns of behaviour- not believing you have value or your needs matter.
  • 20.30 How my training as a Journey Practitioner led me to uncover and heal my own traumatic birth experience which ultimately led me to where I am today
  • The ingredients  you need to make a good recipe for confidence
  • 25.25 How each of the births of my three children led me deeper into an unshakeable confidence in who I am and how I show up in the world.
  • 38.55 Why giving birth before the midwives arrived didn't scare me.
  • Final thought and wish for YOU to create the best birth for you.
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