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.
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.
Hayley’s positive birth of Adaline.
From now onwards, my surges were a lot more intense, with pretty much only 30seconds rest in between them! All I could do was breath the basic breath to get through them, and I found being on all fours was much much easier for the pain.
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.
An unmedicated homebirth using hypnobirthing.
Because having an unmedicated homebirth was so important to me. I realize that to some that sounds like the worst thing ever. But it was important to me to be IN my body so I could feel and experience everything.
Sarah’s Calm Birth Centre Birth.
Very early Sunday morning around 12:30am contractions began. By 12:45am they were regular, around 1 minute duration every 1-2 minutes. We called the birth center and they said to go ahead and come in. Wow- that was quick!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.