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…
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.
Natalie’s Birth Centre Hypnobirth of Winnie
It was all so fast and I swear I was on another plane. She floated up in the tub as I flipped around and was so alert. I couldn’t believe it. That we are that powerful, that it felt that raw and real.
Jami’s Positive Hypnobirth Of Charlotte.
All of the education, practice, positive thinking, and hypnobirthing skills allowed me to have a birthing voice and to trust my body and my baby during the entire process.
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.
A positive VBAC birth story of a big baby
“And what’s amazing to me is pushing and delivery didn’t hurt! My husband said I had a smile during it. It felt more like a relief. What I felt I wouldn’t describe as painful or a ring of fire or anything like that. The sensation was more like a stretching.”
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.
Caroline's home birth: post-dates birth
Our son Phoenix was born at home the week before Christmas. As preparation for the birth, I did a hypnobirthing class and one free antenatal class, but we opted to not do all the antenatal classes that everyone seems to do. We wanted a home birth and felt that the hypnobirthing would be the most useful for us. I also did pregnancy yoga and read a small number of books
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.
Zoe's birth of Isabelle - The Comfort of spending as much time labouring at home as possible.
After having period like pain on and off since the previous Saturday 16th and increased Braxton Hicks contractions, real surges started around 10pm on Sunday night. I was in bed and tried to carry on sleeping to get some rest. By 1am surges were too strong and I had to move around. Scott joined me in the lounge and I started using a tens machine.
Nicola’s first birth.
I wanted to let you know our amazing news - our little angel arrived 8 days early on Sunday evening at 10.20pm.
I wanted to share our story as I know you love to hear them and also in case you want to share with other couples.
On Thursday and Friday nights last week whilst in bed I felt what I can only describe as a ‘burrowing’ feeling and I felt like the baby was trying to move down. I had only had my 38 week check 3 days earlier when I was told that his head was down but no fully engaged (I was fine with that as still had near enough 2 weeks to my ‘due’ date). I started to feel slightly uncomfortable towards that end of the week and I had a “conversation” with the baby on the Saturday and told him that I was ready to meet him when he was ready too.
Sure enough on Sunday morning when I got up to make a cup of tea, my waters broke. I called St George’s as was advised if waters break to let them know.