{"id":1690,"date":"2026-04-02T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:33:45","slug":"mal-kellys-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/mal-kellys-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>I felt confident and empowered enough to be present, aware and capable<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can only speak for myself as Kelly&#8217;s partner, but think the information and techniques definitely empowered me as a father to be. I felt I was set in good stead to know when to step forward to support, and when just to &#8216;be&#8217; there. The information Nancy shared on what to expect from clinicians helped us to keep &#8216;our feet on the ground&#8217; and make decisions based on how Kelly wanted her birth to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baby came when she was ready, again I can only speak for myself, but I felt confident and empowered enough to be present, aware and capable in the environment and situation that arose during B&#8217;s birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt confident and empowered enough to be present, aware and capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-partners-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birthright-hypnobirthing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}