"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."
"We’re pleased to announce that our precious little boy was welcomed into the world yesterday. He was 41+2days, 53cm long + 3.8kg of perfection! We had a beautiful water birth without any interventions at GCUH & applied plenty of the strategies we learned through the hypnobirthing course! "
"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."
"Hey Kate! We just wanted to let you know Jake and I welcomed our little man on Monday 25th March. We just wanted to thank you - it was a gruelling 60 hour labour with 3 surges every 10 minutes (my body didn’t dilate at the ‘regular’ pace)..."
"I pulled our beautiful baby out and onto my chest from the water at 5.27am. It was truly an incredible experience... People told me there was no way to prepare for what child birth would offer, and that anything I had practiced and learned would quickly go out the window. This could not be further from the truth!"
"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..."
"Just wanted to send you a pic and say thank you. This is Hannah Lorelai, she was born a week early last Monday with a drug and intervention free water birth at Redlands birth suite at Redlands birth suite, a very healthy 3.49kgs and only laboured in hospital for 5hrs."
"I instinctively felt the need to turn my body around with my back to the bath's edge and my hands gripping the edge. I seemed to be in some kind of spider man pose and I remember hearing Ellen say, that's it, that's your position."
"I could feel the "ring of fire" as his head was coming out. Our little boy was caught by Cam [birth partner] and passed through to me at 7:50pm. My total labour was about 4.5 hours and I was involuntarily pushing for about 1.5 hours....I can’t wait to birth again at home. It was a beautiful, empowering experience."
"He was a big boy measuring at 55cms long and 4520grams (9 pound 15oz) and I also had no tearing!"
