GentleBirth Pregnancy App

Love it

I used this app to help prepare me for birth. It’s been amazing. I love how it tracks your progress, encouraging you to practice. Little everyday. I used the tracks during birth as well and it was extremely helpful. The postpartum exercises and meditations are great in those early newborn phases too. I 100% recommend it. The free stuff is great but I paid to access all resources and it’s been well worth it.

Worth every penny this has been an amazing support handling all the big and small feelings that’s crop up during pregnancy. I’m much calmer about birth and a lot of that has to do with using gentle birth. There’s also loads of helpful hypnosis tracks for other things like going to the dentist, sleep, changes of plans. The Hypnobirthing tracks around pregnancy and labour are amazing though, there’s ones for c-sections, inductions, unexpected changes of plans, imagery for pushing, so many options for all kinds of births.

Great app but too expensive to have running every month

I had the best birth I could have ever had thanks to this app. The regular practices of mindfulness, hypnotherapy, breathing made such a difference in my labour experience and my initial maternity approach.

The surge timer thingy had a focussing pep talk over it, like “you’re nearly at the peak, you can do anything for a minute” kind of thing. It literally got me through my 4 day Labour just something to focus on and someone’s voice to guide me on the long nights. Thank you! (I think I paid for 1 month full subscription then cancelled after birth - would recommend!)

I started my Gentlebirth journey at 30 weeks pregnant and been doing it for around 4 weeks now. The content is great and has helped me keep calm & relaxed in the lead up to my birth, but I can’t help but feel like there is too much content and it’s overwhelming! I’m a really busy mum-to-be and unfortunately got lots of complications in the pregnancy (therefore lots of appointments) as well as juggling a full-time job and a business. So I find it hard to “make time” for the sessions, as a lot of them can’t be listened to whilst out & about/driving/carrying out everyday tasks. Lots of them require you to be sat or laying still for at least 15 minutes. And with 4-5 sessions automatically allocated every day, totalling an hour of time, it can be a bit overwhelming for a first time mum-to-be. I can’t help but feel that because I don’t have the time to be sat still for an hour a day, that I’m automatically going to be underprepared or I’m not putting in enough effort. I wish there was an indicator/key next to the title of each session to say if its best for laying in bed/sitting/can be listened to whilst driving. Would make it easier than having to listen to the beginning few minutes of every session to work out what I have time for! I absolutely love the Sleep Sanctuary sessions, and find that I fall asleep much easier now. I love them and listen to it most evenings! Also the Cocoon of Calm session is great.

I’ve used this app for 1 week without realising it was a free trial. I’ve had great sleep for this whole week and was really excited to continue using it for the next month and a half until labour. However, now it wants me to go premium to continue using it and it’s just far too expensive for me to even consider. EDIT: My partner pointed out that I’d spend more on a takeaway on a Friday night. I agreed with him and subscribed. I’m pleased I did and have decided I think this is worth the cost. I’m feeling less anxious and more confident about my upcoming labour.

THIS APP GOT ME THROUGH MY PREGNANCY!!! Breastfeeding and now at 6m when I really need some help with my wellbeing!! It had wellness section!!!!! This app is just Brilliant I honestly can’t express how glad I am that I found it it’s honestly the best app that I purchased would recommend it

It’s encouraging me to practise a little each day