Hope and Honey offer HypnoBirthing, Fertility Coaching, Private Antenatal Classes and Birth Pool Hire in Perth, Western Australia. Here is a birth story from a HypnoBirthing client, a 2nd time mum who benefited hugely from the whole journey of HypnoBirthing.
"I was 40
weeks + 5 days it was Saturday the 7th February. I was relaxed and
not at all anxious about the +5days I was very keen to let labour start
naturally without any intervention. I had been swimming everyday and walking as
much as possible to support this. I went to bed the night before after eating a
vindaloo curry and slept as usual with no signs of anything happening.
I woke up at 0730hrs and was planning on swimming again with my husband and
daughter, I felt some tightening shortly after I ate breakfast at around 8am, I
wasn’t sure that it was a contraction so I carried on getting ready for the
pool. I felt a few more tightening sensations and began to think that it was
contractions. I used an app on my phone to time them and had 3more in very
close succession, I realised at this point that I probably wouldn’t go swimming
however I didn’t rush to ring the hospital or anything like that as I was keen
to stay home as long as possible. |
| K & Baby B after their gentle, calm HypnoBirth |
I put on my affirmations and had a shower and got dressed my surges continued every 2 minutes and were getting more intense. I did my relaxation breathing and continued with the affirmations whilst walking around the house. I called a neighbour to look after my daughter and I just felt really calm about it all at this point. At 1010am, all of a sudden with the next contraction I felt a real sense of pressure and I was very nauseous. I instantly knew the head was bearing down, I felt scared at this point and called the hospital. I was very uncomfortable and anxious. We arrived at the hospital at 1040am, I knew the baby was well on its way to being born my contractions were further apart but lasting for longer. I stood at the side of the bed trying to restore my inner calm and just trying to do my surge breaths.
The midwife
attached some monitoring and then examined me confirming I was fully dilated
but membranes were intact. I was instructed to begin pushing whenever I felt
the surges, I was asked to lie on the bed at this point which I really found
uncomfortable but my obstetrician needed to rupture my membranes because she
saw that baby looked tired from the monitoring and was suspecting meconium in
the waters. Once the membranes were ruptured there was indeed meconium present
and so a paediatrician was called, I was putting lots of energy into my
breathing but fear had defiantly taken over at this point. I was experiencing a
lot of pain and wanted it to be over.
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| Karen, Baby B and Big Sister M |
Luckily I
didn’t have to wait long as my beautiful baby girl was born exactly 1 hour
after arrival at the hospital at 1140hrs, only 3.5 hours after the onset of
labour. I did have an episiotomy because Beatrice had her hand up on her face
during delivery.
Hypnobirthing was a real journey for me, it
helped me plan out and make decisions about how I wanted my birth to be. I
planned it, I visualised it and it happened. My hypnobirthing practitioner
really opened my mind and introduced me to techniques and therapies I hadn't
known before. It was about more than just the labour itself and I feel I
benefited hugely, I will and have recommended it."
Karenna from Hope and Honey says - "K had a very quick first birth with her first daughter nine years previously. In some ways because it was so quick, there was a bit of fear still there from this birth even though overall the experience had been positive. So through HypnoBirthing, we worked on reducing that fear and by the end of the classes, K was really looking forward to the birth and had planned out everything she wanted. I'm so pleased for them both that their journey was as they wanted, loved working with them and love keeping in touch with them and seeing pictures of Baby B growing up already!"
