Positive Birth Stories
Reading other mum’s birth stories can be so very helpful when preparing for your own birth. What did they choose and why? How did they work with changes or problems? What worked and what did not? How did it affect the birth using Hypnobirthing skills? Most importantly though it allows you to see that birth can be a positive and life-affirming experience irrespective of the path that that birth took.
So, settle back, have a good read and enjoy.
Amanda’s Surprise Breech Homebirth HBAC
When Caymans butt started coming out Tiffany confirmed with a flashlight and then took my hands and said ok Amanda your baby is breech. I was like ok cool we got this.
Sarah’s Calm Birth Centre Birth.
Very early Sunday morning around 12:30am contractions began. By 12:45am they were regular, around 1 minute duration every 1-2 minutes. We called the birth center and they said to go ahead and come in. Wow- that was quick!
A confident birth of a big baby.
When I thought I was having a large baby I wasn’t wrong, this little guy arrived at a whopping 11lbs of gorgeous kissable rolls.
Ivy-Mae's positive hypnobirth.
Whilst in the bath the surges started to get stronger and closer together. My partner downloaded a tracking app and started to track them. I got out the bath at about 5:30am and went and sat on the yoga ball. I was still very calm and singing along to my surges.
Vita's birth of river.
I don’t know first hand what a long or complicated labour feels like and I know that makes me lucky. But the thing with fast births is that they are just that: fast. You don’t have time to process what is happening, you barely have time to catch your breath between surges. You really need to keep your wits about you as you don’t have the time or headspace to talk things through.
Charlotte's second positive home birth using hypnobirthing
In the end everything happened very quickly but calmly. I felt my first surge around 11pm and after relaxing on my ball and concentrating on my breathing, I let my husband Tom know and asked him to prepare our living room.
Camilla's birth of Honor - with induction for Obstetric Cholestasis
After a fairly traumatic first birth, where I started with aromatherapy in the pool and, 36 hours later, ended up flat on my back in a brightly lit room with a load of midwives screaming at me to push, and then a very unwell baby, I turned to your hypnobirthing course in the hope it would help me feel a bit more in control for my second birth.