The Better Birth podcast with Erin Fung

Having a higher BMI can often affect the advice and recommendations given by your midwife when it comes to your antenatal care and birth options. Fatphobia is rife within the NHS, and people with a higher BMI experience discrimination, fat shaming and stigmatised care. Laura from Plus Size Pregnancy talks to me about the challenges people having a higher BMI in pregnancy can experience, and how to...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk as well as on instagram and Facebook @betterbirthuk. In this episode I hear all about Katie's births and how hypnobirthing transformed her experience. Having had a fairly positive first birth, Katie thought that was as good as births get, but after learnin...

In this episode I talk to the hugely knowledgeable Midwife, lecturer and biomechanics expert, Molly O'Brien. Molly has dedicated decades to midwifery and the study of the importance of positioning during pregnancy and labour, and shares some of her essential and fascinating knowledge on the topic. If you're pregnant, or a birth worker, this episode is both essential and vital listening! If...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk as well as on instagram and Facebook @betterbirthuk. This episode is extremely special to me because it's one of my fantastic clients, Alex! Alex took a complete course with me and split it over 8 weeks with her partner Frankie, and totally absorbed and im...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk as well as on instagram and Facebook @betterbirthuk.  In this episode I talk to Karolina, a first time mum and self confessed control freak who took a hypnobirthing course out of a desire to learn about and influence her first child's birth as much as...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode, I talk to Ruth. Ruth, a doula, planned to have a home birth, but the birth of her second child ended up in an unplanned caesarean. She discusses her thought processes in navigating the birth, and why despite having a c-section, she feels...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to Sarah, who chose to have a home birth but was faced with the prospect of the hospital not having anyone to send. We talk about the importance of preparing and planning, making informed decisions, and why her birth was so positive...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I chat to Holly, who had a positive home birth after a traumatic first birth. She discusses what made it so positive, and how important it is having an informed and confident birthing partner is to advocate for you in birth.

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to Emma, who has lupus and had medical complications during her pregnancy with her son. Despite this, she had an extremely positive induced labour, and recounts what happened on the day and what made it such an empowering and positi...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode Lotty tells me about her recent birth, which changed from a planned home birth to hospital transfer and instrumental birth. Despite the changes, and prolonged labour due to a suboptimal position of baby, Lotty feels hugely positive about h...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to Jasmine about her second birth, which was so much more positive after her traumatic first birth. She tells me what made it positive and why preparation alongside hypnobirthing is so important.

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to Morgan, who, after having a traumatic premature first birth, went on to have a healing and amazing positive birth with her second child, who was born in the first week of the first lockdown of the pandemic! 

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode, Nat describes how her unplanned home birth attended by paramedics was the most empowering and positive experience of her life.

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I chat to Helen, who is a paramedic, NCT teacher, hypnobirthing instructor and mum of 6! She talks me through 3 of her births (all 6 were positive), which include a super fast car park birth, a positive induction, and a home free birth. 

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I chat to Luce about the birth of her daughter Koko. Luce had a c-section when she had her son, and initially had decided on another c-section with her daughter, but then decided to try for a VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean). Luce talk...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I chat to Kora about the birth of her son. Kora tells me about how she fell in to hypnobirthing practice during pregnancy without really understanding what it was or how it worked, and went on to largely follow her instincts throughout lab...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I chat to Gemma, mum of two, who had two very different yet positive births. Her first was planned to be a home birth but ended up as a labour ward induction, yet she still feels positive and empowered, and her second birth was the home bi...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode, I listen to Katie Yorath talk about the births of her two children. Katie's first birth and second look very different, but both were positive, and she explains why her husband was integral in making the first so positive despite it going...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode, I talk to Olivia, who gave birth in 2020 in the middle of the COVID19 pandemic. She talks about the birth of Ted, and why it was such a positive experience despite the ongoing pandemic.

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to Louise Charles. Louise is a personal trainer, fellow hypnobirthing instructor and also a mum of 3! She discusses her three very different births, what made them positive, as well as reflects on circumstances that may have impacte...

Welcome to season 3 of the Better Birth podcast! The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. This season is all about POSITIVE BIRTH STORIES! In the first of a series of birth stories, I talk to Bex about the birth of her second child, and what made it such a positive experience.

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to Matt, The Male Doula! Matt is a birth and postnatal doula as well as Bowen therapist, and in this episode, we talk about how he got in to birth work, the prejudices he's experienced in his work, the highs and the lows, as well as...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I talk to doula and artist Cam Light. Cam is a talented illustrator who's birth affirmation card decks have been massively popular. We discuss why affirmations have power, as well as the US maternity system, her journey in to midwifery, an...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. Craniosteopathy is a brilliant gentle treatment perfect for babies, but what exactly does it involve? I chat to osteopath Süheyla from Osteowellbeing about this form of treatment, and the ailments it can help solve.  If you'd like to find out more, you ca...

The Better Birth podcast is hosted by hypnobirthing and antenatal teacher Erin Fung. You can find out more about Erin at www.better-birth.co.uk. In this episode I chat to the wonderful Charlie Edun. Charlie, a doula and hypnobirthing teacher, is doing an MA looking at the dissonance between what we tell women about birth (e.g., choices) and the reality of birth (e.g, that it's largely institutiona...