Ria Oliver: From event management to Birth Mind set Coach.
2021/08/17
Ria Oliva: Speaks openly about her three very different birth experiences.
In this interview, she explores, with us, the journey she has been on from working as an events coordinator to founding The Simple Birth Company, More about Ria:
I’m Ria Oliver, the owner of The Simple Birth Company and creator of the Positive Birth Mindset & Hypnobirthing Programme.
As the birth mindset coach, I utilise my skills as a hypnobirthing practitioner, neuro-linguistic programmer, birth trauma resolution practitioner and women’s emotional wellbeing specialist to help new and expectant parents prepare positively for birth and/or find emotional freedom in postpartum life.
I specialised in dealing with clients with pre or postnatal birth-related fear and anxiety. I created my signature Positive Birth Mindset & Hypnobirthing Programme to help my antenatal clients acknowledge and overcome their fears at a subconscious level. I help new and expectant mums re-frame previous negative experiences, identify the root of their fears, and acknowledge and alleviate anxieties to build confidence, positive birth expectancy, and emotional resilience.
The reason that I teach hypnobirthing, wellbeing and birth preparation is simple – I’m a mum too, and I know the impact birth has when it doesn’t go to plan, and I also know the impact it has when birth does go to plan and the mental load that we mothers carry.
I am a mum to two of my own Hypno-birthed babies, Fletcher (5 years) and Finley (3 years) and Autumn, who was born in September 2020, and we live in the rural town of Letchworth in Hertfordshire.
I started my own hypnobirthing journey in 2015 when I fell pregnant with my first child. My husband Michael and I signed up for local hypnobirthing classes, which enabled us to prepare for and genuinely look forward to the birth of our first child and feel like we were bringing him into this world together, team.
I went on to birth my son Fletcher in February 2016. While we encountered some unexpected and fairly major complications (baby was malpositioned, causing lack of descent, heart rate deceleration, episiotomy plus a natural tear, suction cup delivery and postpartum haemorrhage), I still had a really positive birth experience.
I know many people would wince at that birth story. Still, I credit hypnobirthing and emotional well-being, enabling me to stay calm and relaxed despite the changes and challenges I faced. So much of my experience was down to the fact that I felt listened to, respected, in control, and I had tools and knowledge to fall back on when I needed to make different choices.
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