Birth Stories
Second baby, Hypnobirthing this time after a traumatic first birth. We contacted Louise for a hypnobirthing course after I was recommended by friends to try it when they had good birth experiences with hypnobirthing. I found the birth of my 1st child quite traumatic...
Orelia was born in the birthing pool, at Lister, exactly as we had hoped. The hypnobirthing techniques you taught me got me through an intense labour. I breathed her head out and delivered her body with one push. Pete caught her in the pool and brought her up to my...
I wanted to say thanks to hypnobirthing I felt so in control of my body and mind in the hours before active labour and even right in the midst of it. For that I will be forever thankful to the wise hippo programme. On Monday morning I woke up and knew I felt different...
As suspected, she did follow in the footsteps of her big brother and make her appearance into the world in record time, I woke to some surges starting at 3.45am, we made it to the hospital at 5.10am and she was here by 6.19am. The speed of her arrival meant we did...
We had another magical home birth in the pool. Had a third sweep on Saturday morning and had booked induction for Wednesday feeling calm and confident that it would still be a positive birth even if we couldn’t have it at home this time. But as it happened surges...
Baz and I had the most incredible experience bringing our lovely little boy (Sacha) into this world. Going back to the beginning first though, my decision to have a home birth was slightly out of character for me. I’ve always been quite conventional sticking to the...