I’m Pregnant! Where do I Start?

When pregnant with my first baby, I had read a few books, listened to some podcasts, and bought a hypnobirthing course that were essential to the knowledge I gained in pregnancy. I knew a homebirth was what I wanted, but it is so taboo in our current culture! I believed in my body and thought it would give birth no matter where I was! This lead to me contacting our doula (@ritualbirthco) and Private Practice Midwife (@stirlingmidwifery) within months of giving birth to find out if they would support a HBAC (home birth after caesarean). This made it easy to send an ‘I’m Pregnant!’ email to both of them who had been waiting! 

This isn’t always the case. Most of us don’t start thinking about these things until much later in pregnancy! If you’re pregnant and not sure where to start, I would recommend finding a source of information that you enjoy! This could be a book, or podcast, or hypnobirthing affirmations and meditations. On the following slide there are a few that I have found essential to birth prep with my first, and now second!