Has anyone had coaching for pregnancy or birth?

[AnnaGolawski]

Hi there
I am doing some research for a book into coaching for pregnancy and/or birth and wondered if anyone had had life coaching particlularly around pregnancy and giving birth? If so, please could you let me know what was useful about it?
Many thanks!

Anna can you clarify what you mean by life coaching? There are many different types of coaching going under different titles and in my experience 'life coaching' can mean anything from board level professional development support to a complete reassessment of your lifestyle including decor in your home! I'm not trying to be awkward, just looking for more info.
FWIW I am a Professional Development coach and have done some work with professional female individuals around career choices and the internal conficts felt around the subject of starting a family and wanting to continue a career.

Hi
I used the term "life coaching" as a generic term to cover all options of personal coaching and see if anyone has requested coaching specifically for pregnancy and birth. I'm really interested in what was useful about the coaching, the reasons they wanted to be coach and if they felt it made a difference to their pregnancy/birth. The title of the coach isn't so important - as I agree that there are so many coaching specialities and at the end of the day coaching is coaching :-) (I say that as a coach myself)

hi, i read a hypnobirthing book by marie mognan and took a one day course... that was very helpful.. i also read ina may gaskin guide to childbirth (it had an interesting perspective, but a bit dull and redundant at times) - i'd say get it and skim through it... would recommend both if you are interested in natural birth.

I'm an in-house coach at big city firm and trained as a "transition coach" - an in-house service we offer to our female professionals when they are preparing for maternity leave, starting to think about coming back to work and 3 months into their return. Shortly after training, I became a client myself so do not have clients on this but did experience a coaching session from a colleague to help in my preparation. I would be happy to discuss this experience: whilst my transition specific training focused on the practical things about preparing to wind down/hand over my role and remain in touch with work, the coach I worked with brought their wider coaching experience to the session which was much more about the things I had been blanking: my fears around the impact of a new baby on my relationship with my husband, the first massive life change I've undergone since the age of 20, etc. I found this a really helpful, safe space to examine, unpack and name some aspects of my upcoming motherhood I hadn't discussed with anyone.