My aim is that my classes will foster a safe, supportive environment for couples to explore their feelings, anxieties, hopes and fears surrounding labour, birth & early parenting.

I want to empower couples and give them confidence in their inherent ability to manage their birth journey, wherever it may take them.

I would like to give women the chance to experience birth as I did and many more like le so that they join us in passing on the message to their friends and children – that birth is something special to be celebrated.

"I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you how much all 3 of us enjoyed your classes. From one educator to another you were great. I respected your honesty and I really liked the way you put so much info across, but in a fun, non threatening and interactive manner.”

"After two children from a previous marriage and a set of NHS classes, I learnt more that made sense from you in one morning than I had from any of the others.”

I have taught and trained with the NCT for the last 8 years. During the last few years I was concerned that the format of classes that explained c/sect, the cascade of intervention and monitoring, was not achieving my aims of supporting women in straightforward birth, in fact all it taught was fear. When I first met Maggie on a professional’s day, I felt that I had found what I had been looking for, a way to teach and pass on to women my passion for normal birth.

50 years ago women’s fear was about the ‘unknown’ and providing them with basic biological knowledge allayed their fears. Today the women I meet are afraid of the ‘known’. All they read, hear and see on television give them the message that birth is high-risk, dangerous and that women need ‘saving’ by the medical staff. Natal Hypnotherapy gives couples the tools to confront this culture of fear and replace it with trust and confidence in women’s ability to birth their babies.

My other skills

National Childbirth Educator

NCT Yoga for Pregnancy Teacher

BBcise Mother and Baby Exercise Teacher


Email: christine@friend.org.uk 


Tel: 0208 4417550

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