Lovely home birth with first baby-18th November 2010 
I found out about Caroline and Chrissy four weeks before my baby was due when I was informed by my NHS midwife that the home birth I was planning was very unlikely to happen due to resources. As I was adamant that I wanted a home birth I decided to look into hiring an independent midwife and found Caroline and Chrissy's website.
Upon meeting them it was clear to myself and my husband that we wanted them both to be present at our baby's birth; for the security of knowing who would be looking after us and that the birth would take place at home. I immediately felt very at ease with them both, particularly as they shared my views on how birthing should be and it was evident they would take into consideration my wishes throughout the process. This was particularly important to me due to the hypnobirthing course I had completed and Caroline took time to understand this. As part of my birth preparation I had also been practicing natal hypnotherapy which Caroline is a practitioner of, so again this gave me extra confidence in the support I would be given.
My antenatal care was divided equally between them due to the short period of time before my due date, and Caroline was the lead midwife in labour with Chrissy attending for the final few hours. Labour and birth went as planned in a calm and relaxed manner with use of the birthing pool, no drugs, soft lighting, music and candles and choccy biscuits and chats between contractions! Caroline and Chrissy were excellent support, taking into consideration my wishes at all times. At 8.08pm our beautiful daughter Mia was born and we enjoyed skin to skin contact and time on the breast for an hour before my husband cut the cord and the placenta was born. My husband then had bonding time whilst I had a lovely bath and Chrissy and Caroline tidied up. By 11.15pm the three of us were all tucked up in bed and Chrissy and Caroline left us to it.
I can't stress enough how positive an experience Mia's birth was and also the quality of ante-natal and post-natal care we have received. Mia is a very content and relaxed baby who is feeding really well, which I believe is a combination of her calm birth and the hypnobirthing / natal hypnotherapy preparation. 
I will definitely be using Chrissy and Caroline with any future babies, only this time it will be care from the start of pregnancy rather than 4 weeks before due date. Thank you both so much!!
Emma, Nigel and Mia Foster