The Fourth Trimester Podcast | Series 01 Episode 03

Lisa Mather

Mindful births

 

Lisa Mather is a hypnobirthing expert and founder of the Mindful Births company. She teaches couples how to have a mindful and positive birth experience. She has two young children. In this episode, she shares her own experience of birth and recovery.

EXTRACT

the Importance of Mindfulness

 

MiNDFUL BIRTHS

 

In this episode of The Fourth Trimester podcast we discuss; 

  • How Lisa got into hypnobirthing and the huge mindset change that hypnobirthing gave her, from feeling terrified and that she couldn’t go through with birth to feeling excited and confident about her labour 

  • Her birth stories and the tools and techniques she used (and didn’t) 

  • Postpartum recovery with a second child 

  • The importance of staying present, being compassionate with yourself and she shares tools to stay in the moment 

  • Finding new self-care practices as a mother, when you don’t have lots of time 

  • Her experience of processing her birth experience and how reflection allowed her to move from disappointment to feeling like a superhero

Lisa runs online hypnobirthing classes for more information and dates of upcoming courses, please head over to Mindful Births.

Lisa shares some beautiful tools and techniques in our episode. I’ve pulled out my two favourite recommendations for self-care in the fourth trimester and detailed these in this blog post.