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.

Paula’s Midwife Led Unit Birth to Elective Caesarean
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

Paula’s Midwife Led Unit Birth to Elective Caesarean

‘So many people said afterwards that they were so sorry I didn't get to have a hypnobirth, to which I have replied that I did, hypnobirthing is not merely a drug-free vaginal delivery, it is the experience as a whole that you go through. The preparation and the mindset has left me with a really positive memory of what could be objectively viewed as an incredibly difficult labour.’

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The Positive Hypnobirth of Margot…
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

The Positive Hypnobirth of Margot…

I felt myself go inward and between contractions I couldn’t tell you were I was but I was relaxed and almost asleep. 50minutes later my husband is telling me we have a baby girl.

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Vita's birth of river.
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

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.

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