The Birth Specialists Ltd is a joint venture of two women who are dedicated and passionate about helping women and their birth partners to prepare for childbirth mentally, emotionally and physically.

Jackie and Janay are the authors of their amazing book about preparing you for the day of labour - Secrets of Confident Childbirth. They wrote this book together with Vanessa Turner and it provides knowledge and proven methods to empower women to have a gentle birth experience.

There is a wealth of information available to women about pregnancy, but very little to actually prepare her for the day of labour. The Birth Specialists have put together a range of no-nonsense products, books and CD’s to give confidence and knowledge to all expecting mothers and reassure them that birth is a natural and celebrated event.

Every year, Jackie and Janay help women to reconnect with their natural instincts and abilities to birth their babies gently. These simple and easy to use techniques really work, as they work with your body and mind.

The Birth Specialists philosophy is simple; We aim to prepare you and your birth partner for childbirth with information, knowledge, simple practical techniques.

Jackie Fletcher

Jackie always wanted and loved children. It didn't take long after her marriage to realise that creating a baby was not a simple process. This process highlighted how powerful Jackie's beliefs and past programming influenced her experience in trying to start a family. Trying many complementary therapies led her to successfully utilize hypnosis during IVF which had a profound shift in her understanding of the connection between body and mind and resulted in a twin pregnancy.

In 2003 when her twin boys were 6 months old, Jackie trained as a "HypnoBirthing" practitioner and what she learnt on the course was to be life changing. Using hypnosis for childbirth through her pregnancy gave amazing results and helped to maintain calm and awareness. Her subsequent antenatal educational training helped her to realise that, as a first time mum, she had passed her birthing experience over to her caregivers and the medical profession rather than trusting her own inner wisdom as a birthing woman. If she had had the knowledge of fully understanding how her body worked during pregnancy and birth, her own birth may not have ended in a caesarian at 37 weeks.

This knowledge and subsequent learnings in the field of antenatal and mind/body preparation inspired Jackie to work with and support other birthing parents in a variety of therapeutic disciplines. Her sadness from not experiencing fully the normal and natural event of birth itself was the catalyst for her dedication to work with pregnant women. And through this she also realised her dream...

Empowering couples to make choices about birth, encouraging them to learn about their bodies and minds as powerful tools to prepare for birth, gives a child a solid start in life and forms a strong foundation for health, self esteem and confidence.

Jackie is open to let others know she used to live in fear and since she applied the birthing principles to her own life she now lives in trust and confidence, she has taken back her power and trusts that the human body is able to heal itself in so many ways as we get our minds into the right space.

EFT Practitioner (Level 3)
IET (Integrated Energy Techniques) Diploma
Clinical Hypnotherapist (Dip Hyp)
HypnoBirthing Practitioner
Doula

Janay Alexander

Janay has embraced a vision to really make a difference in people's lives. Her inspiration comes from knowing the body and mind are intrinsically linked and that birth is a natural and celebrated event.

Her joy at work is evident through her commitment to her clients and the passion she shares for helping and empowering them to achieve a gentle birth. Fostering a belief of possibility, all made easier with laughter and fun.

Qualifying in 2004 began her dream to help people make the changes in their lives they wanted.

Janay began treating women with post natal depression, her success in improving the lives of these women led to invitations to national study days in Maternity Care.

Spreading the message of how hypnosis helps women with post natal depression led Janay to ponder how we can prevent post natal depression, rather than deal with the effects. This quest started her work with pregnant women as she began using hypnosis for childbirth.

Dr Miriam Stoppard commented at a talk: "that was one of the most illuminating papers I have read in a very long time". Dr Miriam Stoppard's new book: 'Bonding with your Bump' is a summary of Janay's approach with hypnosis. Janay's work with Pregnancy and Birth has also been recognised in other local and national newspapers.

Janay's absolute admiration for the female body, how it conceives and grows a baby in 40 weeks is evident in her passion and respect for nature's natural process of pregnancy and birth. Her mission to encourage women to appreciate their natural birthing bodies and claim back their inner power prevents post natal depression and also allows couples to have an enjoyable experience of birth.

Janay is a qualified Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, Trainee Doula and Hynosis for Fertility Therapist.

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