Mindful Natal®

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Prepare for birth, baby and postnatal recovery.

We’re here for you every step of the way whether you would prefer a vaginal birth or are planning for a caesarean birth.

  • Your Body

    • How to adapt your environment to support the stages of labour (vaginal birthers) and support the hormones of parenthood (all births)

    • How to create the optimal pregnancy, birth and postnatal environment however or wherever you meet baby. This is key for both your emotional and physical wellbeing

    Your Mind

    We take a mindfulness-based modern approach to hypnobirthing to ensure the tools apply to all birth scenarios, especially when so much is unknown. These tools will support you to feel relaxed and connected throughout your pregnancy and birth, however birth happens. They are also completely relevant for life, not just birthing!

    • Understanding the mind-body connection

    • Breathing techniques

    • Visualisation techniques

    • Positive affirmations

    • Relaxation audios

  • If you would like to birth your baby vaginally:

    • How to know when labour is starting

    • When to go to your chosen birth place or ask your care team to come to your home

    • The stages of labour and how to support each stage

    • Birth partners and how they can support the process

    • Birth place options and the differences between them (home, birth centre, labour ward)

    • Comfort measures and pain relief options

    • Induction methods and the risks and benefits of each

    • Navigating unexpected turns

    • Unplanned caesarean birth

    • Assisted birth

    • Writing your birth preferences & sharing them with your midwife / consultant

    If you are having a planned caesarean birth:

    • Preparing for an abdominal birth with your care team – questions to ask to help you to prepare

    • The day you meet your baby, what to expect and how you can adapt certain elements to feel more connected to the birth

    • Postnatal recovery options and important aspects to know

    • Writing your birth preferences & sharing them with your midwife / consultant

  • Postnatal Recovery

    We know that this is the part that a lot of parents don’t prepare for. It’s normal to think about the baby, and how to care for them. But what about you and your recovery? We educate you on what to expect in the hours, days, weeks and months post-birth and how to prepare for this incredibly important time. How you recover from birth really can pave the way for how you experience the early years as a new parent, and sometimes the rest of your life if it is a particularly difficult time. Read more about this part of our support here.

    Caring for baby

    As part of your course, you will be given access to the online PregnaHub® which hosts a comprehensive library of evidence-based, supportive information to prepare you for meeting your baby. We purposefully set this part of the course up as on-demand videos and reading so that you can refer back to it even when baby is born. We also like to keep it up-to-date as new study findings are released and new resources become available.

  • Duration: 6 hours of live learning

    In-person courses: From £495 / Zoom courses: From £450

    Ongoing support via WhatsApp

  • Access to the PregnaHub app is included with Mindful Natal Courses or as a standalone option:

    Access recorded classes, midwife & expert support in your pocket.

    • Ask the midwife & digital doula

    • Relaxation sessions & coaching

    • Postnatal preparation

    • Hypnobirthing Classes

    More details here…

Work With Me

Mindful Surrogacy®

Bespoke education and support for the whole surrogacy team. As a past surrogate myself, I understand the incredible uniqueness of this path to parenthood. We have supported over 100 surrogacy teams with their antenatal preparation, surrogate birth recovery and newborn care.

From the 12 week scan to the weeks post-birth, we’re here for you every step of the way.

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  • These sessions are tailored to your unique needs. Supporting all kinds of surrogacy journeys- whether you have endured a long and painful fertility road up until this point or you are embarking on your surrogacy journey with a view that it is your first and preferred option to creating/growing your family. Whether the surrogate is a first time surrogate or experienced in surrogacy, your teacher will support all of you with exactly what you need.

    Their purpose is to guide you on your journey to meeting long awaited and much loved baby/babies as an informed and knowledgeable team, together.

    • Preparing for the birth – Surrogacy in the NHS system, under private care or abroad

    • Creating your birth plan and preferences

    • What happens on the day of the birth (all scenarios)

    • Postnatal recovery for the surrogate

    • Bringing baby home for the intended parents

    • Equipment and packing for hospital or international journeys

    • Emotional and practical support around all of the above topics

  • One x 20 minute introduction call to get to know each other and start to understand what your needs are for the support. Then either:

    • UK journeys: Four hours tailored to intended parents

    • UK journeys: Six hours tailored to intended parents and surrogates (taken all together or separately)

    • International journeys: Six hours taken as 4 hours pre-birth and 2 hours post-birth whilst in-country

    For pricing please contact me.

  • Access to the online surrogacy hub is included with Mindful Surrogacy support, or as a standalone option:

    For surrogates:

    • Ask a midwife chat

    • Pregnancy yoga (recorded videos)

    • Birth preference template (tailored to surrogacy journeys)

    • Relaxation audios & affirmations (for surrogates and intended parents)

    For intended parents:

    • Ask a midwife chat

    • Comprehensive e-learning zone covering all aspects of newborn baby care inc. first aid, infant feeding and sleep

    • Parent & Baby yoga (recorded videos)

    • Community

    Access to the surrogacy hub is included up to 3 months post-birth.

Work With Me

  • "Emiliana fell from heaven I'm sure of it. As a surrogate, we had Jade help us as our Doula and honestly she has been an absolute blessing to the whole pregnancy progress. So knowledgeable and friendly and always on hand to help me when I'm whatsapping silly questions to her on a random Tuesday at 1am lol! If you invest in your pregnancy, you will absolutely feel and see the rewards instantly- this company is one of those investments. If I could give them a million stars, I would."

    — Megan

  • “We can never thank Em and TMBG enough for helping us in so many ways to have 2 of the most incredible home births. The new course is even better than the original.”

    — Rebecca

  • “A safe space & all the knowledge!! – The care, attention and safe place Emiliana created to ensure we both felt as prepared as we could for the birth of both of our children is something we’ll forever be grateful for. The honesty of which big pants to order to preparing our toddler and EVERYTHING in between! It was the perfectly put together course for us. We couldn’t recommend more! Thank you so much! ”

    — Freya

  • “Best course to prepare for birth and beyond – The Hypnobirthing course comes as a package of the mindful birth group and has great features. I loved my weekly pregnancy yoga and currently doing mummy and baby yoga postpartum which is included as well. They have a hub and you can ask midwives for advise and connect with other mummies. They have amazing resources throughout your journey of pregnancy and postpartum. Highly recommend this service for all ...”

    — A. Marjan