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.
Li Ee & Joe’s Second Birth Using Hypnobirthing
We've just had our second baby and had an even better experience than the first time…
Shachar’s Birth Centre Birth
After a few seconds I felt something overcome me, I can’t really explain what it was, but it was supposedly this powerful surge and the next thing I heard was: “There’s the head”. My body literally pushed the entire head out with one surge without me having to do anything!
Emily’s birth - A calm, unplanned caesarean.
When the medical staff told me on the day I was completely relaxed and thought, ‘that’s fine, this is how my baby is supposed to arrive’.
Natasha’s Home Birth Following a Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM).
Once the head was out, the body came out quickly and the sensation was the weirdest thing I’ve ever felt! My husband told me to “look down” but I was still in shock and couldn’t believe that I really had just given birth.
A Redemptive Birth with a Positive Induction using Hypnobirthing.
I will always be grateful for my hypnobirth. It truly was redemptive and gave me tools I know I will use for the rest of my life.
Steph’s Positive Hospital Birth
I want to scream my birth story from the rooftops. Women are so badass!
My birth didn't go to plan. No water birth, no time or room to set up our diffuser, LED candles, affirmation cards etc. But it was the most amazing experience of my life.
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.
Dimitra and James' home birth hypnobirth
I remember feeling "high" from my own endorphins, empowered and relaxed. I remember feeling strong and mighty, completely focused on birthing my baby and not caring about anything/anyone else in the room.
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.
How learning enables a calm birth — Li Ee and Joe
Before we attended your course, we were both quite apprehensive about the birth, but after your course, we felt so much better, calmer and positive about it. I listened to your tracks almost everyday, and over the weeks grew in confidence of my ability to birth our baby and was no longer fearful of labour and birth.
Hannah’s Birth — The power of visualisations for birth.
I had listened to the hypnobirthing recordings nearly every night, sometimes twice a day, since we first met, when I was 34 weeks pregnant.