Positive birth stories
Happy Parents Happy Baby is committed to helping you have a positive birth experience, however your baby is born.
Thousands of parents join our courses every year and no two birth stories are the same.
On these pages you can read positive birth stories from our course graduates who have experienced home births, inductions, Caesarean (abdominal) births, water births, forceps, breach births, twins and multiple births and births using hypnobirthing.
We really hope that reading these stories will inspire you to know that a positive birth is something that you too can experience. You will also be able to pick up some super-helpful tips, as new parents share the things that made all the difference to their experience.
If you would like to share your positive birth story with us, please get in touch - we’d really love to hear from you.
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- Basildon Hospital
- Basingstoke and North Hants Hospital
- Birmingham CIty Hospital
- Brighton Royal Sussex Hospital
- Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
- Clapham HPHB Course
- Croydon Birth Centre
- East Surrey Hospital
- Forest Gate HPHB Course
- Forest Hill HPHB Course
- Guy's Hospital
- HPHB Forest Gate Course
- HPHB Fulham Course
- HPHB Greenwich Course
- HPHB Hackney Course
- HPHB Leigh-on-Sea
- HPHB Leyton & Leytonstone
- HPHB Stoke Newington Course
- HPHB Virtual Course
- HPHB Walthamstow
- Homerton Home Birth Team
- Homerton Hospital
- Islington HPHB Course
- Kings College Hospital
- Kings Hospital
- Leigh-on-Sea HPHB Course
- Lewisham Birth Centre
- Lewisham Hospital
- Newham Birth Centre
- Newham Hospital
- Nottingham City Hospital
- Princess Royal Maternity Hospital Glasgow
- Royal London Hospital
- Southend Hospital
- St George's Hospital
- St Michael's Hospital
- St Peter's Hospital
- Stoke Newington HPHB Course
- Stratford HPHB Course
- The Portland Hospital
- Tunbridge Wells Hospital
- UCLH
- Walthamstow HPHB Course
- Whipps Cross Hospital
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- ILBLC
- IVF pregnancy
- NICU
- TENS Machine
- TTTS
- UFO birth positions
- active labour
- baby blues
- birth centre
- birth par
- birth partner
- birth pool
- birth preferences
- birthing stool
- breastfeeding
- breathing techniques
- breech
- caesarean section
- colostrum harvesting
- dad
- delayed cord clamping
- diamorphine
- entonox
- epidural
- episiotomy
- first time parents
- forceps
- gas and air
- gestational diabetes
- growth scans
- home birth
- hypnobirthing
- hypnobirthing c-section
- induction of labour
- instrumental birth
- jaundice
- kings college hospital
- massage
- meconium
- midwife
- miscarriage
- morning sickness
- mucus plug
- multiple births
- natural birth
- neonatal doctor
- obstetric cholestasis
- pelvic gurdle pain
A positive planned c section: Rhea’s birth story
Marina had a C-Section after finding out her baby was breech. This wasn’t her preferred birth option but she thanks HPHB for preparing her for all birth outcomes and for teaching her hypnobirthing breathing techniques which kept her calm in the theatre.
A positive second labour: Cody’s birth story
After wanting a VBAC – Vaginal Birth after Caesarean – but their journey unfolding in different ways, Sam felt reassured through Happy Parents. Happy Baby. about why things might not go the way they planned, what could happen instead and understanding options from a medical point of view.
A positive c section: Hudson’s birth story
Melanie enjoyed her pregnancy and although her birth didn’t go the way she’d hoped, it was still really positive and seeing Husdon for the first time was magical. Happy Parents. Happy Baby. helped prepare Melanie to be flexible to change and to take time in getting to know each other as a family after the birth.