Megan Rossiter

About

birth-ed® offers group and private Antenatal and Hypnobirthing courses throughout Surrey and London.

The moment you’ve been waiting for as long as you can remember! Peeing on a stick (probably several sticks.. and maybe your hand a little bit too..) month and after month until there it was, that second little blue line.. Maybe you needed one of those expensive test with the words just to be sure. Yep. Pregnant. WOW!

Suddenly the Facebook Ads are all Mothercare and John Lewis.. (Probably all that secret baby clothes browsing you’ve been doing!) Time goes so… slowly… up to your first scan… and there they are, your tiny, perfect baby wriggling around on the screen. Hello baby!

20 weeks comes and goes, your mind starts wondering to the very near future.. the part where the baby has to come out! And you realise you’ve spent approximately 50 hours researching which buggy to buy and 50 seconds researching what your birth might look like! Sure you’ve got an idea- you want to feel calm, in control, informed, supported- but how do you make that happen?

At birth-ed® we’ve built our reputation on sharing not only practical tools and techniques to use during birth, but by sharing and unpicking a TON of evidence based information about birth. On the birth-ed® Course you won’t just learn what an epidural is, how an induction works, when instrumental birth might be offered, (or any other aspect of birth you might be wondering about) but you’ll learn about the actual risks, benefits, when it might be useful or not and how to make ANY birth experience truly positive.

Fast forward to 41 weeks, they’re chatting induction, but you’re not worried. You know all these decisions are yours. You know how to make any situation positive. Maybe your birth ends up looking exactly how you always dreamt it. Maybe on paper, it couldn’t be further from the ‘plan’. Whatever happens you feel like a SUPERHERO! You are so (rightfully) proud of yourself. Things might have been so different if you didn’t have these tools at your fingertips. But, you BLOODY DID IT!

Want to make that story your reality? Come join us for one of our groups, private or online courses!

About Megan, founder of birth-ed®.

‘My love for all things birthing came long before I discovered hypnobirthing, and I began my midwifery training in 2015. On this journey, I’ve been lucky enough to support many women through labour and birthing their babies, so when it came to giving birth myself I felt pretty prepared, right? Wrong!

I had an in depth understanding of the mechanisms of birth, hospital protocols and medical procedures, but I needed a way of understanding me. This body, this baby! WE had never done this before. That’s when a friend introduced us to hypnobirthing! And it changed me! As a mother, as a student midwife, as a person!

The course was amazing. Within just a few sessions, and some practice at home, I was able to relax, more deeply than I ever had before (which was welcomed during a very difficult pregnancy). My partner felt involved and the three of us felt connected (Me, Hubby and the Baby that is!). We were thrown one complexity after the other, and the prospect of ‘induction’ loomed over us. The glorious home birth plans we had made went out of the window, but thanks to hypnobirthing, we took everything thrown at us in our stride, and went on to have a calm, connected, beautiful birth! I would do it again tomorrow.

But it wasn’t simply the hypnobirthing techniques that made this possible. The combination of the practical, relaxation tools of hypnobirthing AND the insider knowledge of my choices, options and HOW to get them, is what led to my positive experience and later formed the foundations of birth-ed®. I often joke in our courses that I could run a whole two day workshop on ‘navigating the maternity system’. And it’s THIS that sets a birth-ed® Course aside from any other hypnobirthing or antenatal course. You will leave any of our courses not only with a thorough understanding of the physiology of birth, and a whole toolbox of hypnobirthing techniques; but also with the ability to make informed, thought through decisions, to get the most out of your care providers and to access safe, but personalised care.

I am SO excited to share all this with you, if you're ready to make your dream birth a reality, please get in touch!’