Never lost confidence in her ability to have a calm, relaxed birth
Hi Dany,
I've been meaning to get in touch with you for ages just to thank you again for your hypnobirthing sessions. They came in very useful a second round as we had a little boy, Reuben, six months ago. I have to say, hypnobirthing really worked for me this time. He was born at home and it was a really lovely experience, so different from the one I had with Hannah. I was so much calmer this time and it was so nice to have him at home on my own bed (Dan's side!).
It all started on the Friday morning, nothing more than period type cramps which were coming and going, nothing regular so I put these down to Braxton Hicks and even had a glass of wine that evening. I had a couple of cramps during the night but went straight off to sleep again. On the Saturday morning I'd had nothing at all and was getting a bit fed up thinking it was going to be another marathon labour like Hannah's. I'd been spotting since the Friday morning so mentioned it to the midwife who duly popped in. She said she'd give me a quick examination as I was over by 7 days again, and was shocked when she found I was 5-6cm! She left telling us to give her a ring if we got any regular surges. We had a bit of lunch to while away the time and I was started having fairly regular surges but they didn't feel strong enough that I wanted the midwife back, I found them all comfortable to breath through and the CD helped keep me relaxed. She came back later with another midwife and I was still happy to breath through them. I don't think she believed how far into labour I was and said that if I hadn't progressed when she examined me again she was going to think about breaking my waters. That's when she found out I was 9cm so left my waters intact. About an hour later I had a go with the gas and air (more for the fun of it as I'd enjoyed it so much with Hannah!). She then encouraged me on the bed (up to this point I'd been happy being upright) and onto my back which I wasn't too thrilled about. I overheard her saying to the other midwife that she couldn't understand why I wasn't pushing yet. I didn't say anything but stayed in my own little world nudging my baby along and after about 10 mins out popped lovely Reuben weighing 9lbs!
So hooray for hypnobirthing and a massive thank you to you.
Take care and thanks again from myself and Dan,
Vicki xx
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