Hello and welcome to the Get Your Glow About podcast, a wellness podcast to help you get your glow back.

I'm joined today by the wonderful Clodagh Connell and Mary Claire Leila, the creators of mindful birth and company, the dream birth company.

Inspired by their own experiences of birth and previous experience

as a qualified nurse and mindfulness teacher, they were inspired to set up the dream birth

company to help prepare expecting parents to have their dream birth. We spoke all about the

mindfulness techniques that have helped their clients, why community and motherhood is so

important and how we can support expectant parents and ourselves. I hope you love this episode.

Let's bring on the wonderful Cloda and Mary Claire. Mary Claire and Clouder, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you, thank you so much for having us. So we're going to be talking

about birth and specifically around mindful birth, hypno birthing. And this is something that I feel like

I'm hearing about so much more. It's not something I dived into personally, but I did do a few

little breathing things and a few meditations around it and I did really enjoy it.

So just give me a little overview of what mindful birthing is. Well, mindfulness itself is paying

attention to the present moment. And when you take the tools of mindfulness and apply them to

your pregnancy and birth, you can actually go on to have an amazing breath that's free of anxiety

and fear.

We basically take the best bits of mindfulness, the best bits of hypno-breathing and merge them

together to create something new and really simple, yeah, really modern.

So it's hugely about the breath, right?

It's a lot of breathing techniques, meditation techniques.

Could you walk us through one of them?

I know you've got your wonderful calm breath technique. Just so we can start to experience it right now.

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