What's going to be in The Positive Birth Book?!

Did I mention I wrote a book?!

Yup. A whole flipping book.

I'm not going to lie to you, it wasn't easy. My partner, my mum, and Bing bunny all helped a lot.

People sometimes say, "I don't know how you did it!"

Well here's the answer. Like this:

As you can see, I had not spent very long on my 'look' that day.

Nor had I apparently had time to finish plastering my fireplace.

But never mind all that! What's in the Book?

I thought, as we are now in PUBLICATION MONTH!! That I would share with you the ACTUAL CONTENTS PAGES OF THE BOOK.

It will give you a much better idea of what you're going to get and why it took around three years of my life and an intimacy with the voiceover skills of Mark Rylance to write it.

Here you go! *drum roll*

Thank you patient partner, thank you patient babysitting mother, thank you patient three year old, thank you Mark and Bing.

I could not have done it without you!

More on this blog over the coming days as we countdown to the launch on March 16th!

In the meantime, you can preorder the book! That means you're one of the first to get your mitts on it. Here's how to do it:

On Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Positive-Birth-New-Approach-Pregnancy-Early-Weeks/1780664303/

Or for international shipping use Wordery: https://wordery.com/the-positive-birth-book-milli-hill-9781780664309

Or direct from the publisher: http://www.pinterandmartin.com/the-positive-birth-book.html

It should be available on Amazon.com later in the year.

Bye for now!

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