Baby Imogen decided not to make an early appearance, so we reached our elective C- Section date and decided that was the best way to bring her into the world . I used the Hypnobirthing breathing and relaxation techniques you taught us Louise, throughout the C-Section....
I discovered my baby was breech (bottom down) at about 33 weeks. From then on, I tried everything I could do to turn the baby, from scrubbing floors, handstands in the pool, moxibustion, acupuncture, to even the having an External Cephalic Version (ECV), where the...
At 12am Monday night my waters broke, hoping for a nice relaxing labour staying at home for as long as possible. I went back to bed where I started having contractions every 5 minutes, 40 minutes later I had passed blood and was instructed to go straight to hospital....
After being admitted for induction, the pessary did it’s initial job causing very mild surges getting me to 2.5cm. Mark was allowed to visit between 9am and 9pm and we went for 2 daily walks around the hospital grounds. I listened to my MP3s, refreshed myself on...
Baby Eloise was born on Wednesday after being in pre-labour for two days. I was getting worked up and felt like labour would never happen, I needed to reset! So I sat down and listened to my birth affirmations and MP3’s on repeat for several hours whilst the surges...
