I had been practicing my affirmations, relaxation and breathing every day for weeks and that helped give me the courage and flexibility to accept that this was the best scenario for a healthy mum and bub. I especially focused on the affirmation, ‘I am prepared for whatever turn my birthing may take’.
So far Zaria is a very placid and calm baby and only gets upset when she is hungry or experiencing wind. I believe she is like this because of the wonderfully calm labour/birth she had which wouldn’t have happened without Hypnobirthing. The pregnancy was much the same due to the practice of hynobirthing everyday! John and I thank you for teaching us how to have a more calm and relaxing birth beneficial to him, myself and our baby.
Up until just now we hadn’t yet decided on a middle name for Zoe, we have decided to call her Zoe Melissa, as a beautiful reminder of what was a beautiful way of entering the world. We never even met in person, unless you count Skype, but you had such a massive impact on us and our birthing experience it seems very fitting. You were in both our heads at different points and deserve huge credit for how our birthing turned out. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts!
When I relaxed things moved so much more quickly. I think HypnoBirthing gave me some tools to relax and take control of what was happening. It also gave me the confidence to even attempt a vaginal birth which was a big step for me given all the horror stories I’d been told!
“I am prepared for whatever turn my birthing takes”. Read how this couple utilised their HypnoBirthing techniques to ensure that when their birthing took an unexpected turn (Caesarean) they were able to remain calm and focused to create a positive birthing experience that they will cherish forever.
Birth Breathing – would you guess that here I am breathing my baby out? The delivery itself was the most amazing experience – having had a very traumatic ‘instrumental delivery’ last time, I never knew that it would feel so amazing to deliver my own baby. I felt so incredibly powerful and it healed me in a way that almost 3 years of counselling had been unable to do!
Louella and Nicholas, from Mt Isa, Queensland, learnt HypnoBirthing via Skype sessions. This is what they say… “Hypnobirthing really helped me to release all my fears about birthing, to listen to my own self and body to believe that I could birth naturally. Thank you Hypnobirthing Australia!!!”
I cannot thank you enough. The strength and support of your voice in your CD, the positivity that flooded me every time I thought about you during the birth, and the excitement you would have when I finally told you that I had my baby in my arms helped more than I could ever say. After the birth, I noticed a quote on my midwife’s bag which very much sums up my experience:
“We have a secret in our culture and it’s not that childbirth is painful, it’s that women are strong.”
Although it was a long birth, it was still a very empowering experience for both of us, no horror stories here! The best part was when I had given birth I was still able to hop up, carry my baby, and walk back to my room. (In fact we got in trouble for taking our 6 hour old son to the cafe with us, we were on such a high).
