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Mum book reviews

Phenomenal Birth: Can’t believe I did this thing I was so scared of!

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When I met Steph as a first time pregnant mother at my Reclaim Your Birth Power workshop, she had a lot of fear around birth. In fact it was her number one fear – more than death!

Attending the workshop opened up that conversation and enabled her to look at birthing in a totally different way and gain a new perspective as well as calmness and peace around it. It was an amazing experience and she felt heard and understood which is so important when you are going through something so big and life changing.

At the workshop, Steph picked up the book A Modern Woman’s Guide to a Natural Empowering Birth and Birth Goddess Cards – they were like calm birth oracle cards and she pulled a card every day. The cards were so beautiful and reminded her of the positive outcomes that can happen with birth.

Her first birth was a phenomenal experience – for the first hour afterwards she kept saying “I did it, I did it, I can’t believe I did it!” (as someone who was completely petrified beforehand)

She says, both the book and cards were a great support throughout this whole process.

The second time round, Steph only had 5% fear and Katrina’s book and cards (which she revisited again) played a big part in that.

She would describe it as infusing positivity, a new perspective, dealing with any fears that are present and would highly recommend Katrina’s workshop, book and cards to other pregnant women.

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Ofri Marton – Beautiful Book for Anxious Pregnant Mothers

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Ofri Marton, mother and birth professional at Birthready, was anxious about childbirth before her first baby’s arrival.

She attended Katrina’s Birth Goddess workshop for expecting mums and got hold of “this beautiful book,” A Modern Woman’s Guide to A Natural Empowering Birth by Katrina Zaslavsky.(Afterword by Dr Sarah Buckley MD)

She felt she needed to read positive stories and find out what it’s like for a woman giving birth, feeling empowered and feeling assured.

Ofri found it really interesting to discover how they did it, that they felt strong, calm and excited about birth rather than the scary stories you normally hear when you ask your friends how their birth was. (not necessarily the headspace you want to be in before you give birth to your first child!)

She loved this book and reading all the positive birth experiences.

From terrified and anxious of childbirth to positive, excited & healed psyche

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Hi Katrina,

I haven’t finished all of your book yet, but already it has made such a difference to me.

Ever since I was young I have had a deep-seated fear of childbirth. I don’t know where it came from, but I would commonly experience nightmares about going into labour and childbirth which I found terrifying, years before even considering having a child.

Becoming pregnant I obviously was anxious about childbirth but buying your book has completely changed my outlook. I actually had a dream last night of going through labour and childbirth and instead of it being a nightmare, it was such a positive dream and I was so excited. I think it was a message to me that my psyche has finally healed. I have you to thank for that!

Thanks a lot and keep doing what you are doing!

Melissa

It gave me so much hope and empowerment for my own birth

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Hi! Nice to connect with you too! Yes I went through the Lamaze training in Sydney last year. I actually attended one of Tanya’s classes (Birthwell Birthright) in Melbourne when I was pregnant. It was a massive game changer for me in helping me get the confidence I needed for my birth.

She also gave us all a copy of YOUR book!

I read that everywhere. Train, tram, parks… and I cried openly and publicly almost constantly. It gave me so much hope and empowerment for my own birth. So much excitement. I saw so much beauty from those stories. I had it in my head that I’d have the kind of birth that could get published in that book!

{Did you have an amazing birth?} All things considered- absolutely!!! Changed my life. It was long long long, tiring, but the coolest f-ing thing I’ve ever done! 😄🙏 Hope I get to do it again!

~Denise Brigitte Georges, mother, Lamaze certified birth educator and doula (Melbourne Australia)

Your book helped me so much that I can’t thank you enough!

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“Your book helped me so much through my pregnancy that I can’t thank you enough! I told myself everyday I could do it and I did and am so proud of myself and the beautiful gift that came as my reward, my gorgeous son. It’s services like yours that are helping women be empowered with birthing and being more in tune with their bodies and babies. Thank you ❤️ ”

~ Amy Jenkinson

It’s definitely a “must read” book for every expecting family

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“After reading a lot of books throughout my pregnancy, I finally found this one, it’s definitely a “must read” book for every expecting family, it gave me all the positive and reassuring that I needed to guide me on my dream birth, with all those beautiful and powerful birth stories, many thanks to @katbirthgoddess to take your time sharing with all of us this amazing book!”

After reading this amazing book – A Modern Woman’s Guide to A Natural Empowering Birth, I was much more secure and I finally had my VBAC, thanks ~ Milia Simielli