Birth Stories
“Our beautiful baby girl was born in the early hours of the morning - wide-eyed, alert and perfectly calm”
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Mindy's story
I started the HypnoBirthing classes just 5 weeks before my baby was due. The theory behind it made sense - I loved the idea of understanding what the body naturally does as it goes into labour and therefore how I could work with it to make it as good an experience as possible.
Four days before her estimated due date our baby decided it was time to make her way into the world, My waters broke early in the morning and nothing more happened so I got on with the laundry, collected my husband from the airport, went shopping for some baby-essentials and then home for lunch.
I started to feel surges later in the afternoon so I started to focus on the relaxation I’d been doing to the CD over the last few weeks. My husband ran a bath for me that evening and was fantastic at helping me relax and continue using my breathing techniques.
I got so comfortable in the bath that I was in no rush to go to the hospital (one reason I held off was so that we didn’t have to drive through any rush-hour traffic on the way!!) When we did eventually head for hospital that night, we only did so in case baby decided to arrive while we were still at home!
I was assessed as soon as I arrived at the labour ward and the midwife was so surprised to find that I was fully dilated – she even asked me if I’d had any idea how far gone I was (obviously I had no idea – first pregnancy so nothing to compare it to!) Our beautiful baby girl was born in the early hours of the morning - wide-eyed, alert and perfectly calm – I’m sure this was in part because we hadn’t used any pain relief of any kind. She is now 11 weeks old and is such an easy-going little girl, she’s just a delight to be with and look after.
I guess going through birth is a different experience for everyone but I would definitely recommend HypnoBirthing. You have nothing to lose and to me it felt like the most natural approach to take. You really do have a lot more control over how your body behaves through childbirth than all those TV programmes and Hollywood movies would have you believe!
Mindy, Victor and Malina Bojkova - Coalville
