Catherine Ruddy BSc (Health Studies) RGN, RM, Dip Aromatherapy, Dip Body massage.
Catherine originally trained as a Registered General Nurse and then as a Registered Midwife. Catherine has now been a midwife for Eighteen years.
She has worked both in the hospital and community settings and is currently working as a midwife in Glasgow combining Community and Birthing suite duties to give a more complete service in pregnancy and to new mums. She has assisted many women to have their babies both in hospital and at home and has always believed that women have an instinctive ability to birth their own babies with minimal help from the medical profession.
Catherine has three children oldest being 21 years. All Three of her children were laboured and born without the use of any medicated pain relief, a decision that she conciously made and then sourced natural methods of pain relief these being deep relaxation and hypnosis.
This gave her such a feeling of achievement and enthusiasim, she felt she needed to study further.Catherine is now a fully qualified HypnoBirthing® instructor and can help provide couples with information about pregnancy and childbirth that they can use in their daily lives both before, during and after birth enabling them to lead calm, relaxed, empowered and positive lives.
Whether it is the first child or fourth child the birth of any child is a hugely rewarding experience one which will never be repeated for that particular child. So with a holistic approach and invaluable experience Catherine will teach you these Hypnobirthing® techniques in a relaxed supportive environment that is vary informative and a lot of fun.