"I knew it wouldn’t be long as when I was on all fours on the bed waiting for the pool to be filled I had the feeling of wanting to bear down and honestly 10 minutes after I got into the water our little baby boy was here."
"I had the same instinct as I did with Alvie and needed to lay on my side with my leg up to birth our beautiful chunky monkey. We did it all with no pain relief and just all our hypnobirthing tools from last time with you."
"From my first contraction at 9:30pm to her delivery at 10:38pm (on my bedroom floor!!) she was a speedy gal who wanted to be out asap. Paramedics walked through our door just as Hugo was catching her!"
"After our chat, I did all the things we discussed. Then late that afternoon on the drive to hospital for a check (due to my waters releasing 2 days earlier), I started getting cramps. Finally… I thought."
"The surges are big and back-to-back. All I can do is focus on reaching their peak. My mind was very much in athletic mode. The mantra was ingrained - these were natural sensations caused by my muscles working hard. I told myself at the end of each surge, I can do that again."
"My body was instinctively doing what it needed to do. I don’t think the midwives really realised how close I was to birth as about 20mins later my little babe popped out into the bath..."
"She was 4.570kg... I was in utter shock that I had just birthed an even bigger baby than my first and I didn’t have any tears and required no stitches... I wasn’t scared about birthing a big baby because I had so much faith in my body and knew if I’d done it once I could do it again."
"At 6.40am, Makybe was born, 9.6pounds/4.35 kilograms! I got my delayed cord clamping & golden hour as requested too. It was the most empowering & healing birth, the complete opposite to my first birth & I am so happy I was well informed & trusted my gut instinct & body."
"I found it really manageable with all these techniques... 5 hours in and I instinctively wanted to change positions. I laid on my side on the bed with a peanut ball between my legs and on each contraction I internally rotated my top leg to open the lower half of my pelvis, allowing baby to move down."
"He was a big boy measuring at 55cms long and 4520grams (9 pound 15oz) and I also had no tearing!"
